dikran

Auctioned off about 10k worth of books in their last 2 auctions, no issues getting paid last time. Also no issues with communication, Thomas replies pretty quickly to direct emails.

So I ended up doing ok on Collector Comics. Didn't set any GPA records (high or low) but well within reason for the batch of ''not great'' books I had sent them to liquidate. Their site & search engine definitely needs some work though.

I certainly hope so... my books are nowhere near where they ''should'' be and it's worrying.

If you think ComicLink results are bad, you guys should check out Collectors Comics' latest auction... bloodbath, especially in the sub 100$ books. Lots of good stuff sitting at 50% of last GPA.

Newsstand or CPV is the way to go for those books.

Not every comic book buyer of today was alive or collecting in 1988… it’s a book with very high demand and is very liquid regardless of how many are out there. It’s one of the books newcomers target when entering and tend to buy multiples of. But of course we need newcomers…

I get the COVID thing. What I don’t get is why a lot of prices are over correcting so far in the opposite direction to below pre pandemic prices in some cases… This just seems “different” than the previous dips and crashes to me. Like fundamentally different Bragging about getting books below GPA lows, why would the next guy want to pay more?… Anyway hope I’m wrong, my collector self is happy filling gaps but my investor self is getting cold sweats seeing money flush down the toilet.

But these horrendous auction results keep putting downward pressure on prices and that puts BIN prices on eBay & marketplaces further and further from ''reality'' so the impatient take the auction route and the cycle continues...

For non speculators, there is something disheartening about buying a book for GPA low or close to it and all subsequent sales keep going 5-10% lower... it's rare when it's not a good time to be a seller or a buyer, something's got to give at some point.

Can’t wait

Thought I’d be cherry picking a bunch of cheap Spidey newsstands and CPVs tonight but alas…

Definitely a good time to be upgrading long term held books. Most of the stuff i bought in the 90s-00s is still up 8-10x... Though woulda been better to sell when it was up 20x

Fixed that for you

I’m in finally!

Is there a place to buy the big padded boxes CGC uses to ship 25 slabs? Or something similar at say Uline?

I assume you mean the bubble pipe cover? It’s magazine sized like the Large Feature ones. Pain in the butt to store but still love them!

I don't think he meant ''to go'' but rather ''to go after'' after superheroes. PCH is here to stay.

There’s also the fact that Carl Barks actually made GOOD books, Scrooge, Gyro, Beagle Boys were all originally from comics before becoming TV mainstays. I didn’t buy a GA book before I was 45 and I was born in 1974 so the 80s was my jam. Now I have a fantastic Duck collection I cherish a lot more than the GI Joe and Transformers books I grew up on. Dells and Gold keys may be plentiful but really high grades are tough to come by and usually cause feeding frenzy bidding.

Major IPs like Disney (Mickey & Ducks) and Looney Tunes are far from dead and should be in demand long after we're gone, in my opinion.

Had my eye on that one as well after striking out on the 9.0 from ComicLink. Congrats!

Is there debate over it being a key?…

I did quite well on Collectors Comics auction over the weekend, well in line with recent GPA results. Plus no fees. Sold a bunch of nice mid to high grade undercopies of SA BA keys. Very happy with them.

Depends what you did with the 17k...

Sometimes the venue matters… This sold on PWCC last night, it’s primarily a sports card marketplace. Being the seemingly only under bidder, I’m assuming it would have gone for about 1000$ less if not for me…

There was a nice one on Heritage a couple months ago, went for a song and I shoulda bought it woulda been a nice upgrade from my 6.5. Hawaiian Holiday is my favorite Disney short…