That guy was probably pumped about selling his collection the night before then he mentioned something to his wife and she was instantly a comic value expert. That stinks.

Once the wife gets involved, it’s over.

A guy came in my store and grabbed a bunch of books out of the quarter bin. I was up front pricing books and the guy comes up and im adding his books up and one of the books (a Champions book, I don't remember the issue off the top of my head) I had just priced at $15. It was in beautiful shape and I told the guy 'I just priced a copy of this book at 15 and you are getting it for. 25c today.' I don't play that crap. I dont pull books off the shelf that are selling for higher prices on ebay before they hit the shelf. I  know that awesome feeling of finding gems in quarter and dollar bins and I dont take that experience away from anyone. In fact sometimes if I have a few extra copies of a key or hot book I'll put one in the quarter bin just to give someone that rush. Treating people is just good business. Im sorry that happened to you. And im glad you made this video and I hope it puts people and stores on notice. When you did your worse things about collecting comics video I seriously almost commented that these situations are one.

Even outside of comics, this is such a good life lesson.  A man is only as good as his word.

I had to go take my blood pressure pill after I heard what you went through.  Hang in there, comic karma will prevail! :-)

05:50 :"I'm not going to drive 4 hours for something I can buy online, in my underwear. Eating cheese, ArE YoU oUt oF YoU'rE MiNd?!" I had to quote that

Green Lantern Quarterly 8 is a $50 book in a 9.8. Who would pay $50 for that raw

The absolute nerve of them to jack up the price, both the comic store and the collector. You did the right thing to walk away

As a collector of some 53 years, seven more as a reader, I can say this. When a book falls into your hands as a gift, or as a once in a lifetime bargain, it becomes something you treasure the rest of your life. For my 18th b-day, I was given by a late aunt, a copy in decent shape of the first appetence of thor in journey into mystery 83, she had bought for about a dime at a flea market. On the other side of the issue, when one is both burned and treated in a rude manner by a seller/trader, the memory of how shitty the deal made you feel, is never forgotten, even if the book was a rare key in decent shape.

I can do $50?! Man I would have walked out that LCS and let the owners put back my dollar books. Props to you for not calling out the first guy by name. His wife clearly makes the pants in that family. I hope you hit on some dollar bin gold to make up for all this. Have a great rest of your day!

Edit Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #8 is not the first cameo of Kyle Rayner but the first cameo of him in his GL costume which predates his full costume GL reveal in GL 51. Thanks for the support guys!

The moment the wife stepped in the deal is off you walk.

That is an absolute maddening story, and I can only imagine the difference in your train of thought on the way down vs on the return drive.  I'm not sure what I would have done in your shoes, put I probably would have left the shop without the other books, either.  Someone wants to jerk you around, they don't deserve your patronage!  Keep frosty!

hey same thing happened to me in alabama It's illegal to charge a different price for another price that's why I filed a consumer complaint w/ the Attorney General

I was big into comic collecting back in the 80s, when comic collecting was starting to become very popular.  My friend and I saw an ad in the paper for someone selling a collection.  We go and check it out and they've got some good books, but they were from someone who wasn't a collector (i.e. no bags or backer boards).  So these were in VG - F, nothing better than a 6.5, and we got the same sort of thing, "Yeah, I bought the Comic Book Price Guide and there's some valuable books in here."  He started quoting NM prices and my friend and I burst out into laughter!  We told him that none of these books were worth what he was asking, and then we left.  We didn't even try to negotiate with him because we knew there was no point.  So, yeah, this story reminded me of that.

"Me and my wife..." The second you hear that you know the agreement is out the window. My ex-wife was always "just curious" about the value of my collection but I was never stupid enough to tell her. They're never "just curious" when they smell dollar signs.

that's the state of current comic collecting. A local shop actually did the same thing to me. I found Justice League 50, Blue Beetle #3 and Flash #197 in the 3 dollar bin but the owner decided to price check them and overpriced them to a total of $130 and I just straight gave them back and said no thanks and left

As soon, and I mean AS SOON, as he said "we looked up prices" you should have just turned around (saying nothing), walked back to your car and left. Huge red flag that he was trying to #$&@ you and waste your time.

I can’t believe they didn’t have the courtesy to tell you that the wife wanted to raise the prices before you took time off work and drove four hours. So disrespectful. The dollar bin story is ridiculous too. Yeah prices do change. That’s your job as a shop owner to keep up with. I can’t imagine doing that to someone with a straight face.

As soon as that guy said 50 you should've just turned around and walked out, nothing said.