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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.

On 8/18/2023 at 1:23 PM, wiparker824 said:

“Sitting at” …those auctions haven’t ended, they use the eBay style to allow sniping. Bids go up a lot in the final seconds. 

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.

On 8/13/2023 at 5:27 PM, Nick Furious said:

You are correct for everything from 9.0-9.6.   The supply of ASM 300 in 9.8 is significantly lower than any of the other books that are most commonly graded.  It's about 30% of ASM 361 or Secret Wars 8.  

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

On 8/13/2023 at 12:04 PM, Stefan_W said:

I think ASM 300 is one of the books with a lot of room to drop. Prior to the pandemic I used to regularly buy 9.4 CGC graded copies for less than the hammer price on your 9.2. 

I see ASM 300 as a special case that does not necessarily represent other books from that era. When it came out everyone knew it was going to be an important book and people loaded up on copies. I remember my local comic book shop had order sheets out where people could request whatever number of copies they wanted. People were buying up 5, 10, 20, or whatever copies, and then they read one and put the rest away. There are gads of very high grade copies of this book as a result. 

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…

On 8/12/2023 at 7:02 PM, lou_fine said:

 

Looks like you joined the boards here in 2008.  

Being a longer term collector then, I highly doubt that you would be buying during the crazy Covid and gov't money giveaway time period and more likely selling during this pandemic driven crypto-like time periods for collectibles.  

Then again, with CCS/CGC then being absolutely buried with what might otherwise be worthless books in submissions, your books might have dropped in value by the time your got them back from CGC.  

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. 

On 8/9/2023 at 11:05 AM, Robot Man said:

Seems like most collectors and dealers are hanging on to their books right now. Waiting this out. Less availability translates to higher buying prices on the copies available. Things will stabilize and we will see stuff slowly increase again. Covid was a real shocker to us and wasn’t natural. 

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.

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

On 7/28/2023 at 3:15 AM, tth2 said:

Welcome to the club addiction! 

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?

On 6/22/2023 at 7:20 PM, Bigphatpaulie said:

I'd love to own this book.  I was expecting it to sell for more:

https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/cartoon-character/four-color-series-1-4-donald-duck-dell-1940-cgc-vf-80-off-white-to-white-pages/a/7340-91045.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

Is this the first appearance of Donald in an American Standard Comic Book?  I know he appeared in another comic (Donald Duck #nn) before this but I think that one was more of an oversized book.

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! 

On 6/17/2023 at 10:31 AM, Robot Man said:

I don’t see that happening other than the fact most are getting so un-affordable that the average collector is pretty much priced out. 

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

On 6/16/2023 at 6:13 PM, mjoeyoung said:

Comic genres.  As far as I can tell there have not been any new Disney comics since 2008, and DC publishes Looney Tunes on a quarterly basis.  There was the nostalgic resurgence in the early 90s, but, for the most part, this genre died along with Gold Key in the early 80s.

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. 

On 6/10/2023 at 12:34 AM, Ricksneatstuff said:

Slight upgrade of one of my favorites 

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

On 6/1/2023 at 11:08 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

I just saw Across the Spider-Verse and the movie is freakin' awesome.  We are going to see a lot more of Miles Morales.

To be clear, I absolutely recognize UF #4 as a key.  But it's an ultra-modern key.  I happily paid a whopping $365 for my 9.8, and I'm happy to see how its value has grown.  But this should never be a five-figure book, and I would be very worried for anyone buying in at that kind of price.

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. 

On 5/10/2023 at 12:24 PM, NewWorldOrder said:

I sold my TMNT #1 CGC 9.8 in 2012 or 2013 for 17K.    How did I do?

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…

On 3/20/2023 at 12:31 PM, Robot Man said:

Probably an ad and you could be right. Will have to pull out my copy and check.

I just suspect, it might be a lull harder to find since it was at the end of the run and WDCS #1 was already in the works when this came out. 

Still, the highest I think I have seen for a mid grade later issue of this title. 

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…