Glad I grabbed a bundle from Villain Gaming!
Mutant Beaver sent out an email with 1st appearance alerts for Defenders, Batman and Miles 29. They’re not typically throwing false alerts out from my experience.
I know we’ve got a new Robin and Galactus’ mother, but does anyone know anything about the Miles appearance yet?
I saw somewhere it’s the new costume with Miles?
As you can tell from my post count I’m new here and new to comics, but I have a fair bit of experience with sports cards and I can say unequivocally people will shill bid on ebay. A lot of times its throw away accounts specifically used for pumping so they don’t care about the non-payment strike.
You can sometimes do a bit of digging to see how much feedback the “wining” bidder has (usually its 0 if its a shill account) or see how often that winning account bids/buys from that seller (if its a high %, its probably a shill account).
Shill bid yes to drive up prices… bidding to protect others from buying something that is deceptive? Doubtful. Welcome to the forums!
That foil fortnite Batman day that was on foc a couple days ago is a 1:500 the black and white version is a 1:100 they were listed as a 1:20 and 1:4
Ahh, my mistake, misunderstood the bid activity you were describing
The 1:20 and 1:4 ratios are for the bundles. Each bundle has 25 comics.
The 1:4 - retailer buys 4 bundles. So essentially a 1:100 variant based on single issue logic.
The 1:20 - retailers buys 20 bundles. So essentially a 1:500 variant based on single issue logic.
Does this mean that I could be looking at a significant price increase or cancellation if I ordered pre-FOC on TFAW ?
The magic phase is “Send to CGC”. There is one guy with like 10 different auctions at the same time Send to CGC. He has one neutral feedback because someone returned the comic but he keeps listing them.
Maybe he’s laundering money then. Have auctions easily found by a specific phrase, bid them up a ton and launder the money.
Isn’t that what comics are made for
It is a simple, accidental oversight on all 10 auctions. They just simply forgot to put facsimile in the Title field.
And it’s going to be the buyers fault.
It’s all quite crystal clear 
If it were someone not familiar with comics the date means nothing.
Sometimes I wonder when you see a auction or an item sell for a crazy amount.
The other thing that baffles me is if these people are searching for this book and filtering for a low price aren’t they going to see like 10 listings of the facsimile and naturally be curious to what that is and then do a about 30 seconds of research into the differences between the two?
SMH….
You’re someone not familiar with comics bidding hundreds of dollars on one?
Okay then.
Did I say that? No, I didn’t. I said someone not familiar or new to comics. Not someone who has been reading and collecting comics for 4 decades. We have differing opinions and can agree to disagree.