chrissmillie wrote: The seller can easily back himself up in a court of law. The seller is using the correct procedure for grading and selling. He has multiple standard books, websites, experts etc to back him up.
I won't rattle on about this further beyond this reply, Chris, unless I have a thought of cosmic significance (which is very possible), but he wouldn't win. The description would be taken as self-contained. Firstly, the majority of sellers on Ebay won't be using those guides so it won't be considered a norm. Also, the seller hasn't alluded to which - or any - guide he's using and there are several, which will differ in their gradings, anyway. The fact that there are websites or self-appointed experts has about as much legal validity as saying "look, it says so on Wikipedia!"
Can you imagine? "Yes, m'lud, I did put good condition, but any buyer of old comics should know that good condition actually means very bad condition ... look, there's this book. Well, no, you can only get it in specialist comic shops in the big cities ..."
But really a good seller shouldn't try to obfuscate at all. I think the worst thing sellers can do is 'grade up' in their descriptions. I find they're the ones you don't go back to. Clarity is so important in these matters.
Hadn't noticed you were in Egypt! Have you managed to find any old Egyptian Leopard from Lime Street comics in any of the markets there? Well, they *might* have existed ...
. It is a nice series though. I like the way in which fallen meteors tend to litter the landscape looking strangely like giant 'Iron Eaters', and it's curious how the group member Butch might almost be mistaken for Tom Thug's big brother - even though this was written years before anyone had even heard of 'skinheads'. Incidentally, do you have the final installment? I never did find out how the story ended.
