Mycomicshop20890
 I live in RI and Rhode Islanders eat chili with beans.
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| New… Hired Gun at PSA? Hairy Goon at the gym? Horny Guy at the senior center? Happy Gilmore at the golf club? Horrific Gambler at the casino? Holistic Guru at the spiritual center? Hidden Gem at the forums? Hippy Gardener at the farmer’s market? |
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 Masculinity takes a holiday.
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Quote:Originally Posted by flanders Quote: Originally Posted by Scifinator I am a new grader of sorts! I decided back in January that I wanted to finish my working career as a teacher at a local High School. I sold off many of my most valuable books to fund the transition time and eligibility certification program. I started substitute teaching in March, had a summer off (unpaid)and started full time teacher work at the end of July. Kids came back to class Early August and it's been pretty much 70-hour work weeks since then. I'm up at 5 am every day, get to the school at 6 and typically get home after 4. Still working Saturday and Sunday to prepare content and instruction. I will share more details when I feel like I've gotten out of survival mode. Hopefully that should be in a couple weeks when the first quarter ends and we get a weeklong fall break. |
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 I'd like to say I still turned out alright, but that would be a lie.
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| @EbayMafia you should've taught the same subject as @esaravo and taken all his lesson plans. Quote: Originally Posted by esaravo Head Gigolo at the Bordello |
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 Not trying to be an ass since February 12, 2020.
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eMaf Has a Glizzy At the Hip droppin eCom Regs, bumpin bids for that grip.    |
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I live in RI and Rhode Islanders eat chili with beans.
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| @EbayMafia - Good luck! I started a second career as a high school teacher at age 43 in 2003. First two plus years were exactly as you described. Now I’m 64 and retired after 20 years. And I’m still working on sleeping later than 5 am (EST) after so many years of getting up at 4:45 am to leave my house before the school buses hit my neighborhood. | ||
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 I've spent years perfecting my brand of assholery.
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| I ended up submitting 45 graded books to MCS. Found out the New Teen Titans Annual #2 9.8 was a Canadian Price Variant. Who knew? | ||
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 If the viagra is working you should be well over a 9.8.
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| @DrWatson was it not listed on the label? | ||
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I've spent years perfecting my brand of assholery.
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| It was graded back when no one really cared about that sort of thing. | ||
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| Of course it does say $1.25 Canadian in big red and white letters, but I never really noticed that. Im not even sure how I came to own it as I submitted it raw to be graded years ago.  |
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 past performance is no guarantee of future actions.
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| @DrWatson lol....I don't notice Canadian "variants" because no one cares up here!! Maybe the odd comic shop but for the most part CPV are just in the bins with everything else! |
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| Wouldn't you have US price variants if you're in Canada? | ||
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| The number of people who don't pay after their offer has been accepted is surprising. It seems as though this is a form of low rent entertainment for some people. This is by far the biggest downside to consigning with MCS. |
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 I don't believe this....and I know you don't care that I don't believe this.
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| That is the one thing I have no patience for as it's a total waste of time. That is the reason why I only sell to MCS and not consign...I get less but I get it all up front and I don't have to deal with nonsense. |
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| I'll probably change everything to a fixed price and eliminate offers. I think the problem comes from offers through eBay. | ||
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Masculinity takes a holiday.
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson I always assumed it was used more as a “no obligation option-to-buy”. By someone either speculating, trying to flip before committing, or securing an option while still shopping. Or possibly even another seller creating a fake sale and temporarily taking a lower priced book off the market. But I’m probably over-thinking it. I haven’t done much selling lately but for me it was always more of a nuisance than a major concern. |
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past performance is no guarantee of future actions.
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| Hope I don't jinx myself but so far I've never had a non payment from MCS on either auctions or best offers | ||
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 Have I told you about the time I dropped off 3,000 comics at SDCC?
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| Ehh, i have offer available on about 99% of my listings. I have had non-payments, but not an issue to me as it only occurs about once or twice per month, and unlike ebay, I don't have to follow up on it, MCS does that, then penalizes the non-payer with some type of probation (first or infrequent offendor) or banishment (regular/frequent offender). I know about the probations, unfortunately, as I have accidentally missed a couple of offer or auction payments because of being too damn busy to remember or holding off to add several items. In one set of cases, I had made an offer on one CBCS comic, which was accepted several times. But, MCS kept canceling the order as I was combining the order with some raw purchases that I wanted CBCS to temporarily hold in my consignment so I could bundle an order for CBCS. After the third cancellation, the seller of the CBCS comic I wanted put the comic into auction. Dr.Watson, if that was your comic, my sincere apologies. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by KatKomics @KatKomics You're lucky. I wouldn't say it happens often, but I can count on one hand the amount of times someone hasn't paid for something they won from my auctions. |
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 I had no way of knowing that 9.8 graded copies signed by Adam Hughes weren't what you were looking for.
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| @Scifinator Usually I just have everything at fixes price without offers accepted. As I put a lot of money into the books this year I recently added offers accepted to six of my biggest books in an attempt to move them a bit faster as selling one of them would move the needle a bit in terms of funds raised. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Vrishnak I'm staring down the barrel of three times in a given week. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson @DrWatson Ouch man. I tend to get a gut feeling when that one book sits for weeks and hasn't been paid that I'm going to be forced to try again. I know MCS says they ban the folks who do this, but what is to stop the banned from just creating a new username/account and trying again? |
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| Just got the notification that the second book of the three suspect sales has hit the shitter... just waiting on that third. | ||
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I don't believe this....and I know you don't care that I don't believe this.
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| That blows!!! Not a fan of consignment precisely for this reason....sell directly to MCS. | ||
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| And... the third one just dropped. Three cancelled sales in the space of a week. I wonder if that's a record for a single seller? | ||
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| Has to be. Makes you wonder if it was the same buyer. | ||
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