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I guess. But when you see 'Rai 0 $35' for sale while walking by, and then come back to purchase it 30 minutes after asking if it's a first print? That's a casual buyer (speculator or not), it's not someone that was actively looking for the comic and is far less likely to bury it in their collection for an indefinite period of time.

13 posts, Omaha NE, all value-based submissions? Warren Buffet's moving out of companies and into comics!

The demand is definitely not endless, it's cyclical. I've been buying collections actively in my local market (1.5 million) people for over 10 years. There are substantially more buyers out there now than there were 3 years ago, and definitely 5 years ago. It doesn't help that every major asset class on the planet is historically overvalued, and there is a growing market of 'investors' choosing these books over tangible assets like real estate and financial instruments.

There are a ton of speculators/dumb money out there! I can't tell you how many times I've had someone ask me 'is that a first print?', on a book that only had one printing.

j/k Greg! We all love you.

Ya we should all take a screenshot of this....with these TATs why would anyone pay for fast tracking?

The movie really projected the value of X-Factor 6 (and 5 to a lesser extent), but the argument here is that the books were always keys. Everyone knew they were key books but collectors didn't put a ton of value to them because of their oversupply. An important comic, nonetheless....

On huge benefactor of Covid-19 has been the shortening of TATs!

This is very painful to read.

Not what the OP intended with his question....

Those trades are great, I've never seen many of them before....

This is the best comment in the history of these boards! Usually when someone mentions to me about selling to a LCS or not having a store showing any interest I'm pretty upfront about it. They have an effective business model that doesn't include buying bulk comic collections, and that they are probably offered so many collections it's not worth their time or resources to takeaway from resources of a different line of business unless it's something unique that adds value to their shop.

Or perhaps they're criminals, and this is the first step to laundering money....

That's amazing. I can't imagine people would storm out the doors if you take the time to at least look at their books and politely decline. I can't tell you how many collections I bought where the owner did bring them to a LCS and the owner wouldn't even look at them, let alone make/decline an offer!!

Thanks for the insight, this in interesting and I appreciate your candor. Maybe I wasn't clear, when I said bulking out boxes, I didn't mean advertising or putting them out on display. Once you've determined it's a 'trash box', it goes in a closet, or in the cellar (or whatever space is not usable retail space) and then you sell it to a contact that can make it work. There must be dealers in your area if you have so many collections being presented to you. Make an arrangement with a few of them, and once a week you can have 3-5 guys taking 10-25 long boxes of bulk?

I think all of that is not what the OP wants to do: use resources time, employee/labor hours, dollars, take up real estate), etc. and he can't have people into his store! I'm surprised you can't bulk out some of these comics by the longbox? Everything sells, even if you have moldy or very poor quality over-printed Marvel/DC comics they will sell, even if it's $10 a box. Maybe this isn't feasible now, but I cannot see why in the past you'd be trashing comics. I bought a collection of 10k comics last summer, I bulked out about 10 of the 50 longs and I maybe recycled/tossed less than 15 comics. There was some real crud in there, graphic stuff from obscure no name publishers.....but everything does sell - at a price.

What's the deal with the Punisher, just low print run?

Added bonus - boxes in great shape!

I just threw up issues 1,3,4 of Venom vs Carnage on ebay....I can see why there would be demand for this series, but given that the print run was still pretty large I don't know how long sets of $150-200 can last....

Antique stores seem to be the epitome of laziness when it comes to valuing comics. I found a great score of comics at a place that had 4-5 long boxes priced at $1 each (five copies of SSM 64 in there), but when you only have a few comics to value, you'd think you take a minute and put your coffee down to look up the price of a book. Great grab for you!!

There you go! And you have a jacket to wear so you don't have to borrow one that's for sale at a flea market!

Just sold 100 copies of Chromium man, for $10,000! I marketed it as the first appearance of the Chromium Age!

But it's more affected by interest rate movement....I don't think it will go down that low, but if it gets around 65 cents great opportunity for CAD sellers!

Agreed. I was a bit surprised when the CAD dropped a few weeks back to a multi-year low I didn't get more sales from foreign buyers (US buyers account for maybe 33% of my sales)….but if it drops down to 60 cents like some are predicting....BAMMO!

Did you lockdown that 6k sale?! You dawg!