Outbid again

I was delighted last week to see five issues of All American Western and All Star Western available on EBAY for auction all CGC graded. They were decently high grade ranging from 7.0 to 8.5 and I intended on getting as many as I could if not all of them. Like the sneaky I am I waited waited waited until the last few moments and pounced on the two All American Western comics managing to get the high bid. In the end it was not meant to be. Whoever my competition was he/she managed to regain both in the last few seconds. My only contribution was to cause this person to pay a little more than he or she would have otherwise. Both comics were acquired at a very nice bargain. Some could call it sour grapes but in the end I?m glad I lost. My decision awhile back had been to focus my efforts on ?Western Comics? and money spent on these other titles would have drained my disposable funds and there are still a handful of 9.0 ?Western Comics? I?m looking to get. The All Star Western auction completes tomorrow but I?m not going to even try for them. I want to focus on one western title rather than break up my efforts. It would have been cool in the sense that I would have instantly had the number one All American Western and All Star Western collections since there are zero All American Western collections currently and only one All Star Western collection with a measly 50 registry points. Still, I think it?s more fun for people to look at one impressive collection rather than a handful of small collections so in the end I really am glad I didn?t win the auction. It also helped ease my sorrow being that the shipping was a very high $16 per issue given that they were being sold from the UK.

On the other hand I won a nice issue of Captain Marvel Adventures (issue 33) at a huge bargain price based on the guide value. Oddly enough the registry points are will under ? the guide price so it didn?t do much to move me towards 4th place among Captain Marvel Adventure collections.