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The funny part was she almost apologized because it wasn’t Superman or Batman. I think she was happy to be rid if it... She was probably just ecstatic that you didn't charged her a service fee for taking away her waste disposal.

Cool find Rm! Of all the publishers to only to have had only 'one' random comic book of.. Yes indeed! You would have expected a much more common publisher like DC, Fawcett, or even Timely. You certainly would not have expected a HTF copy from what would be a much scarcer publisher like Centaur.

Although the part which I highlighted above in bold might fit the financial definition of a market maker, it sounds much more like a dealer if you are talking about the comic book marketplace. From my point of view, a market maker in the comic book marketplace is so much more than just ensuring liquidity in the marketplace and hoping to make a profit on the spread between the buy and sell. The true market maker in the comic book marketplace is one who has the ability to raise the valuation bar for key comic books at critical points of time, and as a result, is able to move the entire comic book marketplace to higher levels over an extended period of time. No disrespect for your selection, but I sincerely do not believe that MCS "sets or creates the market" for everybody else to follow. At least not from the true vintage comic book collectible side of the marketplace.

So, I imagine you are not a participant in CC's auction format because the 3-minute extended bidding time periods is where all the fun and games begin?

I highly doubt the comic shop owner would know this unless Harley had told this to him. Somehow, I get the feeling that the owner never knew or met Harley at all until this situation came up.

How sure are you that the seller didn't have a snipe program himself with a buy price of say $1,000 (or whatever) in order to draw out the highest bid and then simply offer the book back to the "real" highest bidder at his max price?

Does this figure include their original artwork or is this just the figure for their comic books sales only? From their auction catalogues, it would appear that Heritage probably generates more from their OA sales, as opposed to their comic book sales.

I think it really depends upon the book and most of all, whether you have luck on your side from getting the right set of eyeballs on your book. I would imagine that the more common and easy to find books will tend to do better on eBay since it draws a larger audience, while the more scarcer and HTF books will do better on the major auction sites which the vintage comic book collector tends to focus more of their attention. For example, if you take a look at Iron Man 55, it would appear that the results in the most recent CL and CC auctions were certainly nothing to write home about. And this takes into account the fact that the Avengers 4 movie is due to open up in the next couple of weeks from now. Of course, it could also be due to the possibility that this long standing move hyped book has cooled off over the years.

This kind of gives you a pretty good idea of how much the general comic book collector outside these boards follows the CGC slabbed market when they don't even know generalities like the differentiation between the various label colors. Especially when this is a comic shop owner that we are talking about. I got the same impression when I was in NYC earlier this year and I was talking to the owner or the person in charge of submitting books to CGC for grading. Depth of detailed knowledge is definitely lacking while many of us here on the boards angst over intricate technicalities like pressing, cleaning, resubs, etc.

This was exactly what was going through my mind as I was watching the video. If I was the shop owner here, I wouldn't be laughing off the whole situation as much as he was doing on the video.

Exactly right!

Well, as long as the purchaser is willing to pay the full cost of postage for shipping in a box along with the cost for all of the related packing materials, the seller should not have an issue with this. But does it really make sense to to be spending more on the cost of shipping relative to the cost of the book, especially in the case of common everyday drek books?

For what it's worth, even though I might get spanked by the Mods here, this is my better half's take on the extended auction bidding format that is used by CC after she watched it in play. If you are a bidder going after a book, every time the bid is raised during the extended bidding time period, it's almost like another punch in the gut. And if you are a seller in an extended auction format, every time the bid gets raised during the extended time period, it's just like another orgasm and as any female will tell you, who doesn't like multiple orgasms as opposed to just a single orgasm. Especially if it goes on for an extended period of time which is often the case with CC.

Well, I believe Allan just might have violated the school's prime directive if he had indeed brought these books to the show with him: In particular, I am referring to those 2 dirty and sinful romance books to the right which will do nothing but serve to corrupt the young and innocent minds of the students by putting lascivious and wanton lustful thoughts into their heads.

As far as I am aware, the overwhelming majority of CC's auction results are actually captured by GPA and it is only the odd ones that are not, for whatever reason there might be. Well, if you exclude BIN's, the only problem here is that you would most likely end up not capturing the large majority of eBay auction results. After all, almost everybody is now using the BIN auction format to try to sell their books, as opposed to the old traditional open auction format for fear of selling their books at a loss. This is exactly why I feel that GPA numbers are skewed to the upside as most books are sitting out there for weeks on end before somebody finally hits the odd BIN, while there are skads of other copies of the same book in equivalent grade that sits there unsold at the same BIN price, or in some cases, even at a slightly lower price point.

I much prefer CC's auction format here as I know EXACTLY what I am bidding in order to get an item. Much better than the eBay or CL auction format which almost always forces you to throw in a "blind" bid if you want to win an item just in case there are snipe bids coming in at the end. Hence, the reason why I don't even bother with eBay or CL auctions. But, it's really to each their own as to whatever auction format and strategy they are comfortable with.

online and it sold for way under what it was worth. Now, that's an auction site that probably nobody here has ever heard of when it comes to comic book or other related collectibles. Not so sure that you was robbed by the auction house. Looks more like a case that you robbed yourself by not doing your due diligence in terms of selecting the proper auction venue to sell your signed copy of Playboy.

Not sure why we are limiting this question to just only the MCU related titles, when this similar pricing pattern can be found in all of the movie and TV hype related books?

Yes, I remember paying something like $60 for an HG copy of this magazine way back in the day all those long decades ago. Needless to say, it has significantly under performed as compared to many other books which I could have used that money to acquire at the time. Thank goodness that I should at least be able to break even when it comes time for me to find and turf this dud (financial wise that is) of a book out from my collection. Other than that, it's actually a pretty nice book to have since I believe I might possibly even have the rest of the early run up to issue #6 or thereabouts.

Well, unfortunately with these types of books, it's almost always about movie hype and speculation. This basically means that unless you had the books to start with, it's really a matter of timing the market as these books will in virtually all cases, move back down over time. The only positive is that they usually will always still settle back down above their original starting price point before the movie hype. As a long term collector, I am much more interested in vintage collectible comic books whereby it's more a matter of time in the market, as the valuations of vintage books usually tends to trend up over an extended period of time.

Same with the once much dreaded PLOD's, especially in the case of HTF or classic cover GA books where they can now even fetch multiples of condition guide in some cases. Although I am not so sure about all of these much more common post GA books.

Well, I guess somebody must like the color Green? Especially since GoCollect indicates the going rate for a CGC 9.6 blue label copy of Ms. Marvel #1 is only $475, as opposed to this Qualified 9.6 graded copy with a current high bid of $1,050 with still another 14 days to go in the auction.

What a bummer since that's the only book in the whole lot that I would be interested in. Seriously though, definitely good news as Harley is definitely one of the hardest working guys out there and a nice person to boot. I hope the culprits are getting their just desserts now and having the book thrown at them.

Try telling that to the guy who paid well over $80K for a copy of FF 52, or even the person who paid over $65K for their copy of FF 52 months later.

Was you able to confirmed with him that his books had already been recovered and that he is currently in the process of getting them all back?