Bringing attention to it is the point.
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Story time…
I strike out often on Facebook, but on enough occasions, it works out that I am always checking the Marketplace. Yesterday saw a post for six boxes (some short boxes, some just literal small-ish boxes) of comics. Not a ton of pictures, but I could see it was almost all in bags and boards and slightly organized by publisher. A mix of stuff from the post-2000s, lots of publishers. It was a lady and guy who are making space so they just had a bunch of stuff to unload. I did a dive into their Facebook accounts as I do before meeting people to ensure it isn’t some new spam account or dangerous/crazy, and it appears they are getting married, so that could definitely result in needing to make space if you’re going from two living spaces to one.
She said he was messy and basically read stuff before throwing it with little care for organization in a box so she’d been trying to kind of fix it for whoever bought the lot. They were a good 45 minutes from me and wanted $400. I saw some promise in the handful of pictures and always say if you can make your money back selling everything in a collection for a dollar, then it is worth a shot. The listing said about 650 comics, so I asked if $300 would work and if they could meet me a little closer at a mall halfway between us. They said that would work and could meet tomorrow (which is now today). The plan was concocted and I was excited as the listing had been up for some hours but I was the first to message and make a concerete plan.
I took Clarkson, my older son, to the aforementioned mall with me as he loves any malls thanks to elevators and escalators being among his favorite stuff. He will watch Youtube videos of folks riding elevators and escaltors! We walked the mall and rode some elevators and escalators as we purposely arrived a bit early for him to do that. The lady and guy then messaged they were pulling in. We went back out, they loaded the six boxes in my trunk and one in the front seat, and I paid them.
Went home with Clarkson, and I’d say it was a good purchase! The Marvel stuff isn’t anything too remarkable, the biggest book from that publisher is a Spider-Gwen 1, first print. Otherwise, some Skottie Young varaints that are more common and a bunch of Superior Spider-Man issues which have some diehard lovers. There is barely any DC, but some of those movie variant covers are present including the Batgirl Purple Rain variant. There is a dollop of Image and Dark Horse, nothing too crazy, however. A Lazarus first issue, Paper Girls debut issue, and We Stand on Guard full run. The IDW items, that’s where the value is.
I’ve got some Godzilla in Hell sub variants, some rare X-Files variants that go for decent money, a bunch of the 2011 and on TMNT series with some sub variants that are sought after, it is a snazzy mix. I would say I definitely got my money’s worth and more from the IDW alone, with everything else being a little bit of extra metaphorical gravy. The, “Meat,” is the shortbox worth of IDW, though. I didn’t get thousand-dollar comics for pennies on the dollar or anything, but I did have a productive purchase!
That’s my story for today, hope it was fun to read.
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I am going on a Facebook marketplace meet up tomorrow. I am buying a cherry master slot machine for my game room for $50. I couldn’t pass this up. Back in my 20-30’s I played the crap out of them in bars. I have a bunch of comic listings saved to go check out including one with 350 comics for $100. .33 an issue I think I can pull my money back easily.
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Post pics of all your acquisitions!
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I ended up lucking out. The woman had the slot machine on her porch and I was unable to test it. Kind of a sketchy neighborhood so didn’t want to leave an envelope of cash and just take it. Did find a flea market and bought some comics.
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I just bought a questionable marketplace lot. About 70 books. Fairly beat up from the very little I could see, but it’s got some cool older books, and it was $25. Felt like a low-risk gamble.
I know these two are in there, but these are stock images.
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I have a nice collection of Psycho magazines.
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love the charlton flinstones!
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Those CGC egg Counsil creeps must have gotten to eBay too…
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Speaking of marketplace, I’ve been super annoyed. Don’t laugh but I’ve never been able to actually create a Facebook account. I’m somewhat rather tech savvy but for the life of me I don’t know why this keeps happening to me.
So your guy’s posts on marketplace collection pickups got me looking around for garage/yard sales and marketplace ads this weekend on Sunday. Saw a marketplace post for a collection of books local to me for a very reasonable price. Came out to 40 cents a book for 400+ books. Lots of Spawn low printed keys and some silver age keys that the owner is trying to get rid of.
So made an account at Facebook and just kept looking at the marketplace post. There were also a lot of junk in there and it was late so I figured I’ll contact him the next day to go pick up. The next day comes and Facebook tells me to do this bot verification puzzle test. Fine, log in to look at the pics. To this point I haven’t made a single post yet or contacted the customer yet. The only thing I’ve looked at were other marketplace posts in my area.
Then after a few hours Facebook asks me to send in a selfie video to verify that I’m human. I don’t have a cam on my desktop computer so I had to download the facebook app on my phone. I send in the selfie video following the instructions and had to wait a few hours to get the review approved. Few hours passed and I get this when I log in:
So I googled what this means and apparently it’s pretty common with the Meta AI. It is permanent unlike a suspension and I cannot request a review. You can get the account back but you have to go through the process of contacting Meta and speak to a supervisor. Their customer support is outsourced and won’t be able to help you so you have to talk to someone from Meta and talk to a real person. I’m not going to go through all that.
Still can’t figure out what I did to get this. I don’t know how you all create accounts so easily. So I did try to create a Facebook account a few years ago to follow my LCS group because they were going out of business and I wanted to follow their postings. A few days later I got the same thing that my account was disabled by not meeting community standards.
Have no idea what I did. I haven’t made a single post yet or contacted anyone and the only thing I’ve ever looked at was my LCS page and marketplace posts. I’m wondering if it’s because I haven’t uploaded a profile right away and my browsing habits are suspicious enough to trigger bot detection. Have no idea.
It’s quite annoying. I’ve told some friends about it and they say it’s a good thing lol, social media can be a brain rot, however I do want to look at some marketplace posts. FFs.
That is annoying!
Picked up the buy today. About 75 books, almost all really beat to pieces. Some literally. But, I knew that going in.
There are enough 1970-73 books in ok condition to make it worthwhile.
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What did it cost you?
$25 for the entire lot. I’m keeping/selling 18 books. Probably 50 that are worthless and ripped to pieces. I may just recycle those.
I kept about 100 of the 300 I got for $50
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You bothering to repackage the 200 you’re going to ditch? My mother is having a garage sale in 2 weeks. I might just throw them all in a box and put $5 on them
No. The 200 are trash. I may do a quarter sale at the next flea market I do. Usually do well with $3 bagged and boarded comics. Hot stuff doesn’t sell well there. Had Ultimate Spiderman #1 there for less than eBay and no one looked at them.
So, I felt good about the $25 spent on this buy, but here’s one I didn’t know had any value, as I’m not a Turtles guy. With a press, it’ll be in pretty great condition. Looks like this sells north of $125.
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Archie turtles and Sonic’s. Don’t pass them up if they’re cheap.
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