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On 3/11/2024 at 10:04 PM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said:

Oh I'm sorry you didn't know but Rich passed away last year. Here is the tribute thread if you would like to read it.

RIP Rich Olson

So sorry to hear about his passing... he got me hooked on GA Disney and was a fountain of information in the short time I corresponded with him on the boards.

Has anyone from CGC made any acknowledgment about this situation? Haven’t had the patience to go through all 125 pages…

G.I. Joe and Transformers were probably the hottest selling toys and comics of my youth eclipsing all that stood in their way. The cartoons and comics were essentially the driving force to sell the toys, it was a brilliant strategy. Multi media cross promotion. 

On 12/3/2023 at 5:04 PM, VintageComics said:

Anyone that has been following the hobby for more than 10 years will remember the "flaming wreckage" post 2007-08 when stock markets tanked, liquidity tightened up around the world and ENTIRE COUNTRIES were going bankrupt.

We found at least 3 major Pedigrees during that time as people were liquidating their collections. Billy Wright, Sucha News and one other (can't remember which one right now).

People still made money in that market while others were losing, and it was quite literally a "flaming wreckage" at the time, relatively speaking of course, since higher prices and more volatility will create larger price swings, but 2009-2012 were no laughing matter and a lot of people here thought the end was nigh. 

Rocky Mountain, I think. 

On 11/30/2023 at 9:55 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Is it that it didn't do well last night, or that it had absolutely no business ever selling for $26,400 in the first place?

But it did… and a 9.2 for 10k. 

Here’s a pretty uncommon SA key that did not do well at all last night… 

On 11/7/2023 at 3:01 PM, NewWorldOrder said:

Sure, but again what does that have to do with selling your books to a dealer or a reseller? I had a guy a couple months back want to sell me his X-Men 94-143 run.  Books were in heavily read condition, and his asking price was 3 times higher then what I could re-sell them for.    He said these comics were his 7/11 store bought comics from when he was a kid so if he sells them he wants more.  Needless to say I quickly passed on the run and left feeling that he wasted my time. 

I have some emotional attachment to my personal collection, but not to my regular inventory.  Just remember we are all just curators of our comics till we die.  Once I realized that in my late 20's I just stopped being so attached to anything, especially since most comics are not rare and are easily replaced.  I think its very normal to have some kind of emotional attachment to your personal comics, but if you have to sell them you cant expect me to share in that emotional attachment and pay you more money because of it.

I think it's more that the entire comic industry is based on emotion, not just individuals and their own books but the characters and creators that evoke those emotions. Collectors get emotional when they get the key they've wanted forever, run fillers when they finish a series, speculators when they flip for a profit, investors when a book increases over time... Without that emotion, the hobby crumbles.

They are the absolute worst to Canadians. I avoid them like the plague.

Some of the more modern Archie keys are also seeing renewed interest in my area especially early Cheryl Blossom appearances.

On 9/6/2023 at 9:44 AM, Cat said:

 

*I should add this is not my photo, I got it courtesy of a poster on Reddit. 

I only buy comics that spiked 99% so I should be good

On 9/10/2023 at 11:43 AM, Robot Man said:

Aren’t they pretty common? Anything you can find at any given day or once a month on the bay, even in “high grade” is just a choice of how much you want to pay? I bought all my BA off the racks, read once and just stored so I don’t pay much attention to them anymore. 

Not all of us were born then to be buying Hulk 181s and GSX 1s off the rack 

On 9/10/2023 at 10:29 AM, Robot Man said:

What would be a “hard to find” Bronze book? 

30¢ & 35¢ price variants?

On 9/3/2023 at 12:20 AM, jimbo_7071 said:

Did you put in multiple bids in the last ten seconds, or was there a third person sniping, too? I'm just curious.

Might have been a 3rd, I maxed out at 755$

On 9/2/2023 at 8:54 PM, jimbo_7071 said:

I picked this one up on CLink last night. I only have one Christmas cover in my entire GA collection, so I've been wanting to add another for a while, and I figured this one was as good as any.

Congrats, I was the underbidder

Also where are all these plentiful common raw 9.8 candidate SA BA books you guys keep harping about? Certainly not in any comic shops in Montreal Quebec Canada

If by stratified you guys mean the vintage 9.Xs selling for bajillions and everything else being dollar bin trash then yes, the market is stratified...

I think we’re comparing apples and oranges… The SA 9.X market is doing just fine and fetching multi thousands of dollars as evidenced by ComicLink results of the past week. Alas not all of us can play in such rarified air. The collapse is happening in the lower grades, where we plebes reside. Also modern spec books of the new characters are down massively from the highs and continue to go down with every subsequent sale. It really puts a damper on finally winning that first Shuri for a 3 year low price only for it go even lower the following day on MCS or Heritage or whatever. The people buying those first Riris and Kamalas today will hopefully be buying our Thor 126 9.6s in 15-20 years but not if they’re constantly getting hosed by market irrationality and never come back. 

On 8/30/2023 at 12:55 PM, Ryan. said:

Curious if their submissions go down.

If you could bundle lesser graded books into one listing, might still be worth it over eBay. But I don't know if they do multi slab listings (they do for raws...)

Looks like next auction is 5% selling fee (5$ minimum) and no buyer premium... fun while it lasted... guess i gotta find a new outlet for blowing out my 8.0 modern slabs

Apologies, it’s the Monday 2 weeks after the end of the auction, so that should be next Monday not today. 

On 8/25/2023 at 11:34 AM, Ryan. said:

How quickly do they normally pay?

The first payments go out 2 mondays after the end of the auction, so this upcoming monday (if all buyers paid on time...) if not they pay every monday once payment is received.