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    Collector (or Speculator) Fatigue

    in Comics General

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    On 6/21/2023 at 6:52 AM, Bookery said:

    The most alarming collapse of all has to be the rare/used book market.  There were collectors for rare and out-of-print books almost since the invention of the printing press.  It was a huge viable market for 500 years!  Then in a quick 20 year span it all collapsed.  Sure... as has been stated, there are plenty of nosebleed rarities purchased by elites... but many of these are just valuable for being valuable.  Nobody has been reading Fitzgerald or Hemingway or Steinbeck for a couple of generations, and the only reason some of those prices remain high is because they always have been.  More precipitous is simply the fall of the general used book.  You think $1 comic bins are a tumble from $5 retail price?  Try buying $25 hardbacks that are tough sell at $1 a year later.  There is some increasing interest in vintage paperbacks, as there has been with pulps... but that's more to do with cover art than the content within.  I love rare books and still carry some in my shop... but that's out of my own nostalgia rather than a sound business decision.  Rare books, stamps, coins... these were traditionally the gold standard of collectibles.  "Pop culture" collectibles have always been even more ephemeral... with most being popular for only a few years (Beanie Babies) to a few decades (Big Little Books, Hummels, Coca-Cola tie-ins, all-things western) before ultimately having no interest for a new generation.

    What about newer books like 1st edition Harry Potter? There must be some demand for those?   :tumbleweed:

    Heritage make an offer program.

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 6/21/2023 at 11:54 AM, Yorick said:

    All of my purchases were automatically relisted when the program was adopted.  I had to switch it off after someone made an offer on one of my books.  I wouldn't have even known if not for the offer.

    Same. I had no idea Heritage was listing books I had won at auction as "available for sale" until I received an offer for an X-Men #4 that was long gone from my collection.

    Point Five's 4th Annual Grading Contest: SIGNUP THREAD! Signups are closed!

    in Hey buddy, can you spare a grade?

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    I'll throw my hat into the ring.

    Norm Macdonald on Twitter: "Wait. How on earth do you have one. I created that cap and there is only one in existence. Is that mine? https://t.co/kVWFul7TY2" / Twitter

     

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