I have a scanner, but snapping pictures is like 1000x faster.
I can snap 8 pictures (front, back, upper/mid/lower spine front and back), rotate them and resize in less time it takes to do a scan front and back.
I also take at angles to reduce glare. If there is a glare on one picture, the area is captured w/o a glare in one the other 7 angles.
I used to take pictures with a fancy Nikon. Now i do everything on my phone. Can create a single listing in about a minute. No AI either.
Need to name that boy Rikki!
My local VStocks and Half Price Books can have terrible stuff priced way too high or amazing stuff priced amazingly low. Thankfully, the latter happened recently for me when my local VStock was restocked by the warehouse as their comic inventory was low. They received a bunch of stuff that was already priced and had been sitting around for who knows how long. There were some things for $3-$5 that are worth $10-$20, but I found some GOLD with the nice little stuff. Last of Us: American Dreams 1 for $4, Savage Dragon 141 for $3, Star Wars: Darth Vader 3 AKA first Doctor Aphra for $4 (that one has cooled, but that is still a killer price). I have some chums eager to get what I acquired from me so it was a good day at the VStock!
I was in Sacramento and visited a Half Price Books there during the tail end of the pandemic. The comics were unpriced with a sign that said prices will be checked at the counter and sold at market value…
My closest Half Price Books has things priced at 2022 prices. The only time I find anything there that I want, it’s new issues in their clearance rack for 50 cents. Found a couple Ghost Machine titles last time. Devour, Rook Exodus, Hyde Street. Nothing that will make me rich, but a few that I’m reading.
Has anyone used chatgpt, as a tool to verify a signature. I gave it a try for a couple of my CGC unwitnessed signatures and the results seem accurate in those few cases.
Reason I hate Facebook Marketplace. I see a listing that just went live. I responded I would take them and could meet up today. He comes back and says he got a higher offer. I told him to shove it.
SMH. Not a cool thing to do. In fact, pretty darn sh*tty.
BTW, can you write him back and let him know whatever it is, I’ll give him $150 
J\K
I pounced on it right away. Sad thing is if there was more of what he was showing I probably would have paid him more.
Do you think someone was actually offering them that or they were just saying that to try to get you to go higher?
I hope the ones listed were what he was selling. If I drove into the city and those books were not there I would have been pissed.
So update, the guy hit me up said he felt bad that he was trying to get out the deal for more money. Said his wife told him he was a total ass. So I drove up and bought the books.
send pics of what was included, when you get them.
Make sure his rating reflects that
Going through them now. It’s 80’s comics. There is a lot of junk. Many quarter bin books or dime bin books. Lots of lower grade books for sure.
Trust me. The rating will be appropriate. Plus. His location was nowhere near where the map showed. I did see the books from the pictures so said screw it and grabbed them without going through all of them. Also picked up 300 bags and boards from a comic shop. Many of which I will not be needing for this collection.
Overbidder guy probably bailed on him… so he called you and pretended to have remorse.
Or my theory that there was never another person and they were just trying to get him to go higher!
Ok. So going through them. I pulled about 100 books. Some to put in my $3 bins. Some to sell on eBay. Sorted them and going to start uploading pictures. Condition tends to be middle low to mid grade. But at 17 cents a comic. You tell me if these are a win.
Not terrible. Probably worth around $50 just to fill runs.
But wait. There’s more.
