KirbyCollector

I've found you can negotiate car repair, furniture, any kind of home repair etc. You just have to try. I even negotiated successfully with Bechara once... though he now denies he ever did such a thing.

You'd be shocked at the effect a portfolio with 100K worth of art can have on someone young

That is not what I said or meant, at all. People enter this hobby every day via indirect paths... My daughter's boyfriend is a gamer, one day he was at the house when I had a portfolio out. He (20 y.o.) had zero idea comic art existed, but thought it was incredibly cool, so much so he started asking about prices and considered entering the hobby. Should I have dissuaded him because he isn't a "pure" fan, according to some holier than thou standard? No. So why should we care who HA markets and sells to? In the end, it is simply money.

But that's just it -- not everyone who buys OA lives and breathes the hobby on a daily basis, there are many who buy it simply because it is another option for their disposable income. Fans of comics, comic related films, gaming of all kinds, Star Wars, D&D, on and on and on, they all contain people who on the spur of the moment might buy OA without any knowledge of the hobby (I was a comics fan who bought my first page before I knew comicart-l or OA shows or fans even existed, heck I had no idea of OA values at the time). HA recognizes this and uses a tool which helps cuts through the noise to reach that wider client base. CL, on the other hand, is content to exist in the comics/OA-only sphere, catering to hardcore fans -- which goes a long way to explaining why their auction results often fall short.

The purpose of an auction house is to get bidders to put in their highest bid prior to the auction and/or actively remind bidders to participate in the live auction. I know many here think nothing of spending 4 hours on a Sunday watching live auction results, but not all of us have the time or inclination or feel like entering 15 auctions and their ending times into a calendar app. If you are a consignor, what's your take here? I don't want "lazy" bidders who need reminders? Or I want as much money as the auction house can get for me using modern tools?

1929 comes to mind

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Shhhh... you'll make the new owner feel bad

Bailed out or helped along the journey is one thing... defeating the film's Big Bad at the end is another. Wolvie didn't do that in either of his solo outings.

I don't understand what you are saying. All seller fees at every OA auction house are negotiable; the more you consign, the lower the fee.

I pay 7.5%

But that's just it -- NO collectible is that important. It's not family or work or food or fuel or shelter... it's disposable income you can spend in any number of directions. The easier a business makes it for me to spend that disposable income, the more likely I am to spend it with them.

Wolverine's character was successfully modified to fit our current culture, i.e., he was depowered in his last two solo features to emphasize the female leads. For all his abilities, Wolverine has women bailing him out and audiences are OK with that. I just can't see how Conan works in that paradigm.

Exactly. Their job to to get a higher bid from you and their system does the job perfectly by putting you right in the final bid window. Is that lazy for me to rely on them? Maybe. But it's inexcusable why such a cheap and effective auction tool is not the industry standard.

No, it not the regular email... just a simple reminder mail about auctions I am bidding on, like Heritage does. Life gets busy, I travel and those little emails Heritage sends does the trick every time.

Once again, another CL auction ends without me realizing... congrats to whoever won the two pages I was interested in, you saved at least $3000 (and the consignors lost at least $3000), thanks to the "we don't need to send auction reminder emails" insufficiently_thoughtful_persons in charge. Maybe it is something in the water in Maine which makes them this dense...

You can't take it to the grave, might as well enjoy what it can provide -- or your kids will

Wouldnt touch it, they are all copies of some kind. I find them worthless and don't understand the market for them.

Schulz wrote and drew the strip by himself (with the aid of some computer lettering at the very end) for almost 50 years. You may consider some of Schulz's strips tired at the end, and the lines scratchy, but they were his -- not some faceless committee's.

40+ years of ghost strips... wow

For Garfield fans, do you make a distinction between the strips Davis fully drew and those completed by his team? Also, aside from the very early strips before Garfield took on his more permanent "look," how do you know which strips were 100% Jim? Is there a specific cut-off year when he started the team strips? Asking b/c I collect Pogo, but don't collect Pogo post-1969 b/c Kelly wasn't fully drawing the strips due to illness... just wondering if Davis fans feel the same way.

That's the joke -- we ARE all on the same side. If you live outside of the US for any extended period of time, you figure that out quickly.

During the protests and riots of 2020, some local yokel near my sister did some silly political yard display. My sister and others took to the internet, found out where he worked, then pressured the company (FedEx) to fire him -- which they did. I was stunned. I barely speak to her today, and avoid any and all companies which openly advocate for one side or another. I just don't want to be part of anything which leads to a person losing his livelihood over a joke. It's not my idea of America.