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Post by badwolf on May 17, 2021 16:03:56 GMT -5
I read Preacher for thirty-some issues and enjoyed it for a while, but the grotesquerie got to be too much for me and I dropped. I did borrow a friend's a few years later and read through the "meat man" storyline and...ugh. I like his comics but sometimes he can be a bit too much. I just (re)read the Hellblazer omnibus and it's great but the storyline where this elite toff digs up corpses for ballistics testing made me a bit sick.
I liked Y the Last Man and bought the whole series. I think most if not all of what I bought in the 90s was Vertigo.
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Post by tonebone on May 18, 2021 13:17:55 GMT -5
There's a big difference between asking and getting. I see this a lot in the Amazon Marketplace particularly with comic strip volumes that go out of print. Somebody will list them at enormous prices, $1000 for a hardcover book. And they sit there. And nobody buys them. And if the book comes back into print then the prices come down and are reasonable until they go out of print again. The books aren't selling. But it's not costing the seller anything to have them listed. And who knows...maybe somebody comes along and pays that ridiculous price. Most of the time, that's Amazon's algorithm that is causing the crazy prices on out of print, scarce items. Sadly, the seller usually has MANY items for sale, and by allowing the algorithm adjust the prices, unmonitored, it ends up pricing tons of items out of reach of any sane person. But, the variable price is just too lucrative for many sellers, when it works correctly. For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 19, 2021 4:43:59 GMT -5
There's a big difference between asking and getting. I see this a lot in the Amazon Marketplace particularly with comic strip volumes that go out of print. Somebody will list them at enormous prices, $1000 for a hardcover book. And they sit there. And nobody buys them. And if the book comes back into print then the prices come down and are reasonable until they go out of print again. The books aren't selling. But it's not costing the seller anything to have them listed. And who knows...maybe somebody comes along and pays that ridiculous price. Most of the time, that's Amazon's algorithm that is causing the crazy prices on out of print, scarce items. Sadly, the seller usually has MANY items for sale, and by allowing the algorithm adjust the prices, unmonitored, it ends up pricing tons of items out of reach of any sane person. But, the variable price is just too lucrative for many sellers, when it works correctly. For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. One theory about the seemingly outrageous prices on the Amazon Marketplace for, say, OUP comic book reprint books or old but not necessarily collectable trashy paperbacks from the 1960s/70s I've come across is that it's some kind of money-laundering scheme. Not the craziest theory, I have to say.
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Post by tonebone on May 20, 2021 10:20:36 GMT -5
Most of the time, that's Amazon's algorithm that is causing the crazy prices on out of print, scarce items. Sadly, the seller usually has MANY items for sale, and by allowing the algorithm adjust the prices, unmonitored, it ends up pricing tons of items out of reach of any sane person. But, the variable price is just too lucrative for many sellers, when it works correctly. For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. One theory about the seemingly outrageous prices on the Amazon Marketplace for, say, OUP comic book reprint books or old but not necessarily collectable trashy paperbacks from the 1960s/70s I've come across is that it's some kind of money-laundering scheme. Not the craziest theory, I have to say. Wow! That's a fantastic theory! I see Amazon in a whole different light, now! I wonder if there's a way to see if anyone has paid those crazy prices?
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Post by profh0011 on Jun 1, 2021 21:12:36 GMT -5
I used to use Amazon Marketplace stores a lot. They always organized them by price, from cheapest to priciest. What i could NEVER fathom was... WHY would anyone price something MORE than what Amazon itself was selling it for on the SAME site? Sometimes, MUCH, MUCH more? It never made any sense.
Of course, lately, I try to avoid Amazon entirely except in rare cases where I simply cannot find an item anywhere else. Several times, I've actually paid a bit MORE elsewhere... just to NOT use Amazon.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 2, 2021 6:48:21 GMT -5
I used to use Amazon Marketplace stores a lot. They always organized them by price, from cheapest to priciest. What i could NEVER fathom was... WHY would anyone price something MORE than what Amazon itself was selling it for on the SAME site? Sometimes, MUCH, MUCH more? It never made any sense. Often, amazon uses marketplace as a means of pricing their own items and then sell their items beneath what the marketplace sellers are asking. They have a long history of undercutting their own vendors. A book was recently published about this.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2021 7:51:53 GMT -5
Even coverless keys are selling for inflated prices these days, posted by a comic shop (not my lcs) we follow on FB... coverless. $1800... yeah. -M
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jun 2, 2021 9:29:20 GMT -5
Even coverless keys are selling for inflated prices these days, posted by a comic shop (not my lcs) we follow on FB... coverless. $1800... yeah. -M I mean the market says that’s on par. A CGC graded 1.0 with tape all over and looking ridiculous sold for $3800 in March. Makes some sense that a coverless copy could fetch half that...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2022 22:13:11 GMT -5
So this copy of Giant Comics Edition #12 featuring a Matt Baker cover in GD 1.8 raw just went for nearly $4k in the Lonestar auction ($3906). When I was first discovering Baker art, this was one of the covers that really stood out to me and I thought, if I ever found an affordable copy...well I know that will never be the case is a 1.8 is bringing in that kind of price... -M
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