What is the real difference?

I tried winning a Rocky Mountain Pedigree (oooh look at the sticker) in the latest ComicLink auction. I made sure to bid on a book I wanted rather than just to have an actual pedigree book. I limited myself to a $150 and after firmly setting myself to bid no higher, my final bid was $200. I didn?t win and the final tally was $220 the comic book I lost out on was Daredevil #164 with white pages (I know you were probably thinking it was Ro #1. It was probably a good thing I lost.

Would I have bid that much if it wasn?t a pedigree and with 3rd party grading does a pedigree hold any merit? Currently there are 29 Daredevil #164 in a 9.8 (47 in a 9.6) on the census. There is no way to diversify between a pedigree 9.8 and a universal 9.8 (unless you check out GPanalysis) even though CGC has acknowledged the book as a Rocky Mountain Pedigree there is no notation on the census. If CGC feels it is not important to give it its own classification (like a Signature Series) what makes us, as collectors, decide the book is so much more desirable than a non-pedigree.

At one point of time getting a pedigree meant having one of the best looking books out there. With third party grading doesn?t having a pedigree become obsolete, especially since buying a 98 is most likely the best you could possibly get. There are stories about pedigrees which probably add to the pedigree prestige. The ?Curator? collection comes to mind, whether it is true or not I don?t know. I did want the book I placed the bid on but I can?t figure out why I would bid so much higher than I normally would have.

World Wide comics shows they sold the same issue in the same condition for a $150.00 (the GPA marked it as sold for $130.00) this was the golden state copy (and that is not a pedigree, just overstock. If you decide to check they also have a raw Near Mint copy selling for $40 (a western Penn copy) Will more and more collections be considered pedigrees with 3rd party grading or wile Pedigrees be limited to the eighties and earlier? Anyone can send in books with a prescreen prerequisite of a 9.8 allowing the collector to have the main desirable aspect for a pedigree, the condition.

What would you prefer to own, a 9.6 pedigree or a 9.8 non pedigree and then which one would you pay more for? And if you have these answers could you tell m why I was willing to bid so high on this books (or maybe subconsciously I knew I was going to be outbid like when I placed the bid on Daredevil #1?.oh wait I won that one, and it wasn?t even a pedigree.

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb