I used to bid a lot on low end art at Clink untill the summer. I don’t anymore because they doubled overseas shipping from usd100 to usd200. I am not willing to pay that, since I know FedEx costs aprox usd80 from My ComicConnect wins.
if they lost more overseas bidders because of the shipping costa, well results might be lower!
About what Sean says about auction loss vs original rep sales peices, I agree.
I see a lot of new art offered from modern artists on reps sites that imho are too high.
For example, this year at clink I won a 1988 FF page by Pollard (no FF on the page) for a little more as usd300 and a 1979 Cap page by Sal (not in costume) for aprox usd450.
and reps post new art where there are new modern similar talking head pages offered in the same price ranges.
It just doesn’t make sense to me!
another example, I like the art on an Image Comics book. Looked it up online and the rep listed pages in the usd300-400 (no action pages). Last year one page showed up on c-link and I won it for Usd155.