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On 12/15/2023 at 12:51 PM, Happy Noodle Boy said:

Thanks so much for the advice! Seriously, you guys are great. One quick question: I'm considering taking back the Marvel Family 38, as I really like the book, but the water damage notation gives me pause. Is there any way to access "graders notes" of some sort so I know where exactly the water damage is and how bad it is?

Unfortunately, no. The only graders notes we record are any defects that are mentioned in the public item notes you can already view--and those notes are usually limited to things that are A) not readily apparent from the cover scan or B) especially problematic for some buyers even when acceptable within the assigned grade. Nobody is paying us $20+ to grade and slab their comic, so we aren't able to put as much detail into describing grade issues as CGC sometimes does.

Buccaneers 21 raw 5.5- we sold a much lower graded copy, FR/GD, for $65 Nov 27. Your $189 asking price isn't unreasonable, but you've only had the book listed since Dec 5, only lowered the price to $189 earlier today, and last GPA for a CGC 5.5 was $169 in October. I would drop the price another 10-15% or so in 5% increments over a span of maybe 2-3 months before I would put it into auction, unless you just want to be done with it.

Marvel Family 38 raw 4.0, price lowered today to $64. I think your price is fine, could sell there to the right person, or might need to drop to the $50ish range. Just depends how quickly you want to move it. Like with the Buccaneers I'd give it another 2-3 months and another few 5% drops down to around $50 or so before I'd auction it.

We have Heroes and Baltimore on our schedule again for 2024, and would be nice to add a Chicago area convention. Any recommendations or requests about shows in the Chicago/upper midwest area we should consider? C2E2, Chicago Fan Expo, Motor City?

Priorities for us are accessibility of load in/load out both for us and for consignors wanting to bring boxes to us to drop off, and the show having a large enough presence of comics people and comic dealers and not just pop culture stuff.

On 12/13/2023 at 8:23 PM, Nick Furious said:

@mycomicshop Conan, two of my books from a recent submission were sent to CGC for reholdering.  I didn't request this, but I understand it is something MCS does if the cases are in bad enough shape.  One of the books had a charge of $20 but the other had a grading charge of over $125.  Is this a mistake on the part of CGC, or is this something that happens from time to time for specific reasons?  It has the same grade now as it did before reholdering.  

A grading charge of $125 for something that was supposed to be a reholder sounds like a mistake somewhere along the way but without knowing the account details I can't provide a concrete answer.

If you PM me the email address on your account and the book in question I can ask about it, or you can email consign@mycomicshop.com and they should be able to look into it and let you know what's going on and fix it if something was done in error.

I'm here, but yes, emailing service@mycomicshop.com is what you should do first if you have a problem with your order. 
 

@stormflora if you DM me the email address on your account I can check on the status of your inquiry. 

On 11/3/2023 at 6:32 PM, FigaroToe said:

I'm considering sending in some slabs for consignment...I'm just wondering how well modern (i.e. in the last 5 or so years) books do? I have a good amount of rare variants to modern books (like All-New Wolverine 19 here) that are 9.8 slabs. Just wondering if it's worth it to send them in.

I'm biased but I think it's accurate to say there's no better venue than us for books like that. We have the largest audience for them, across the MCS website plus cross listing to ebay, so getting 100-110-120% of market via BIN is pretty easy and often sells pretty quick if priced at or close to market. The stuff that lingers and doesn't move is usually priced well above market. 
 

Variants can also do well in auction, especially if they're rare enough there isn't a clearly established market price. We have sufficient qty of people watching and interested in modern variants to drive them to good prices. As always there's more variability with auctions than BIN--you can have a rare item go for 150-200% of what you expected, or it can go for less than what you could have got with a fair BIN asking price. 

The consignor pricing his own books is the default, but we are happy to price books for the consignor if they prefer.

On 10/26/2023 at 7:44 PM, Math Teacher said:

OK. So I see how this applies to Amazon and Ebay. But does MyComicShop and ComicConnect really do $100K of business in a state like Iowa, which is where I live?

https://www.salestaxinstitute.com/resources/economic-nexus-state-guide

Yes, we are over the threshold to have sales tax nexus in Iowa as well as most other states. As of Jan 2024 we'll be collecting sales tax for all states except the following:

• no sales tax: DE, MT, NH, OR 
• has sales tax but we're below the threshold: MA, MS, ND. In Massachusetts, both new release comics and old/collectible comics are not subject to tax, and with those categories excluded our sales are below the threshold.

On 9/24/2023 at 1:14 AM, lou_fine said:

I don't believe any of the Big 3 regular comic book auction houses charge any kind of handling fee at all to send your books in grading.  

My understanding is:

ComicLink does charge per book handling fees for sending books to grading, although I'm sure there are various agreements offered to specific consignors depending on the nature and quantity of what's involved.

Heritage may not charge per book handling fees for grading submission, but their seller and buyer fees add up to 30%+ whereas ours are generally 8-10% (our 3% BP is easily avoidable) so don't see how that's a plus. I could easily absorb the cost of sending books to CGC free of charge if we charged as much as Heritage does.

Don't know specifics at ComicConnect.

If you give any of us several long boxes of high grade bronze and modern books you want to get graded, nobody's going to eat that cost (handling, shipping to CGC and back from CGC, CGC invoice fees, etc). It will either be an explicit charge per book, or if there's no charge it's likely because you're paying more to the auction house in seller commission/buyer's premium.

On 10/4/2023 at 5:58 PM, comicstock said:

Sounds like they grade a lot closer to Overstreet standards...

You might be on to something  

On our grading page:

On 10/4/2023 at 3:01 PM, 1Cool said:

Now that is kind of stupid in my book.  Unless there was some extreme slab shaking going on a CGC 9.4 shouldn't get a 7.5 from anyone.  I know - I know . . it all work out in the end since people just expect the books to be under graded but that level of difference is just confusing to everyone involved.  They can grade how ever the please but it just seems dumb to be that strict that 9.4 books are being graded 7.5 / 8.0 (not once but over and over again).

I can't speak to any specific books in the abstract, have to have an actual book in hand for us to look at and review why we arrived at our grade, but in our internal testing comparing our grading vs CGC's across a larger sample of test books, the most common area that produces larger differences in grade are internal flaws, such as a partially detached centerfold, and in some cases spine issues. Things that are either completely invisible once a book is encapsulated (interior flaws), or at least harder to see (some spine stuff).

In some cases, we think CGC just missed the interior flaws, and in other cases, they didn't necessarily miss them but don't account for them as strongly as we do because again, once encapsulated, the flaw isn't visible. Raw books purchased from us are easily opened up and our buyers do see those flaws.

I have no idea whether that's relevant to this book or not, and not saying it is--just pointing out that in my experience those interior and sometimes spine defects are often responsible for the largest difference of opinion between us and CGC.

Will be good to see you and Bob there!

Looking forward to Collectors Summit coming back! If you get in Friday night or arrive early enough Saturday, you can join us for lunch and a tour of the MyComicShop office and warehouse on Saturday afternoon:

And here's a preview of some of the comics we'll be bringing: https://www.mycomicshop.com/temp/collectorsummitpreview All these books we'll be offering for the first time at the Summit.

We'll be there--Buddy and our buying team will be there all weekend, and I'll be there Friday evening til Saturday afternoon. We'll be buying and accepting consignments but won't have any books with us to sell.

We're glad to be back at Baltimore this year! We're in booth 504.

We'll be a boring booth with no books to sell, but available for consignment drop-offs, and also buying. Anybody with questions about that can PM me, or contact our Seller Services department: 817-670-8115 or sellerservices@mycomicshop.com.

You can bring books to us at our booth, or for larger quantities we can arrange to meet you at your vehicle, or even drive to your house/storage unit after the show. We'll go anywhere within a few hours of Baltimore or generally along our path from Baltimore back to Texas, and the more you have, the further out of our way we'll drive to pick up from you. We already have several pickups on our schedule and would be happy to add more, space remaining in our truck permitting.