Is it Worth it?

As mentioned in my ?Price Guide? journals, the final price of a book and what it is worth all depends on what you want to pay for it. As I wrote those journals I was notified about the GPA. As it was with CGC, it was the same with GPA. I knew about the site and even used the free trial. This ?free? service is only good on three particular books. If you used the trial then you already know which ones they are.

What got me curious to part with my ten dollars ($9.95) was not to find out what the books are worth to me (I already know that), but to see what they are worth to others. I am simple. If I want a book, I?ll get it. I know I have a budget to abide by (even at the age I am now, my father still reminds me not to spend more than I have) and normally I do not go over my predetermined limit (Daredevil #164 doesn?t count, I lost). GPAnalyis is a tool, much like a price guide, bags and boards, or even 3rd party grading companies. I just don?t know if it is a tool for me.

I wonder if I will use this to help me make more informed bids or will I just continue to wing it? After all the final issues I need for the New Mutants set are minimal (and rare). In fact a few of them on the census have only one in a 9.8. Issue #98, having the highest quantity of graded comics sells very well but I feel this comic book is above what it is worth,. The highest (to date) I placed a bid for this issue # in a 9.8 was $175.00. The lowest this book ever sold for was $40.00. I am not Na?ve enough to ever feel it will go this low again, but I hope it goes a bit lower.

I am using the GPA to try to figure out my hobby a little more. I want to see if it will help me get insurance on my books, (which is a lot harder than I thought). There is one thing that I would like to be able to do with this site and that is to add the books I sent to CGC to get graded. Even though they have no records of sales, I can still add the registry number. Since they don?t have this ability I just hope that they have a record of one that sold with the same grade I have. On some I have added it this way and just appointed the appropriate ?force? value (this was not a Star Wars reference).

After one day of use (as of writing this journal) it seems to me that GPAanalysis.com is an essential tool for a dealer or someone who buys a lot of books. Currently I have 179 books (not including what is on its way) so I don?t even know how useful of a tool it will be for me, but at least I have a month to find out.

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb