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Ummm Amazon's stock crumbled 90% in the dot com crash, you mean early 2000s?

Here’s hoping!! I just received in the mail my second prints of #75! Now do I care enough about #8 editorial to complete the run....?

Sounds like an Easter egg hunt through IMDB, doesn’t sound efficient at all. by the time you figure all that out the collection might be sold to a dealer, lol. I don’t know how that’s better than combining: skimming briefly over the last 100 pages in the modern heating thread, using the key collector app that someone suggested days ago, or by going on any of the other spec sites that have been suggested. Even searching through atomic avenue with tell you what books of a series have value, they don’t necessarily need to be hot. I’m going through a 10k comic collection as we speak; I’ve spent 90 minutes sorting through a few more longs tonight after I put my tenth month old daughter to sleep. Really 2k comics shouldn’t take that long, especially since it’s fair to say these are already sorted.

Didn’t you read his post in the other thread? We were unable to tell him the exact ‘hot’ books, so this thread is over! Ironically the list of books is pretty solid, and if I were close to his son I’d probably buy the lot for the $1200 he’s looking for.

The reason you haven't received an exact response- despite the bold font which is clearly important here - is because it's impossible to answer this poorly phrased question. What's hot, this week, today, last month? In the modern age sooo many of these 90s books can be hot one day, then next week cool off. Modern books the window might be 24 hours or less...really it seems like you don't want to put in any type of work at all and want to have everyone spoon fed you answers.

And to be frank it's a bit lazy on his part, he has a collection of a few longs and can't be bothered to go through with it to see what he has or is 'hot'. There is not a lot of comics here, you don't know what will 'immediately' sell, just because a book might be suddenly hot now because a bunch of spec guys are pumping it doesn't mean it will sell quicker than what that isn't considered 'hot' but is more important book/key.

You have a list of the books and you've looked on ebay sales, then who cares if it's hot or not - you have their sold prices which I'm guessing he will use as a guide in listing the books. Really, there isn't a whole lot there that's 'hot' than what's probably obvious to you, him and everyone in this thread. But if you're really concerned about missing out on a hot book, there's hundreds of pages and thousands of posts for you to dissect in the 'heating up' threads.

I think the list is more or less straightforward, but if he has a price of $1200 in mind then why does he care at this point what books are suddenly hot? Not knowing their condition, $1200 seems like a realistic price for the lot. If he doesn't like the offers my advice for you to relay to him would be to break the books by character/title and sell as a run only. Do not try parsing them out!

Last point for the guys giving some dealers flak! Maybe not so much nowadays, but more so in the past when there weren't as many flippers but I've bought collections where I was the only person there! Or I was the only person that was offering a bid on something! It was my bid or the person wasn't selling and they were happy I was there to provide that market for them to dispose of a collection at a fair price, in one shot. What is their alternative?

Also, Since you have an offer of $800 and your son is looking for $1200, why not just post an ad on craigslist with a firm $1200 price? Eventually someone will see it and buy it.....give dealers more time, not everyone can drop their hat at a moment's notice to look at collections, but if they can think about it for awhile some of the non responses might eventually come around....

Do not underestimate how long it will take to sell books......one thing ebay does not tell you is how long an item has been sitting for sale before it sold! I've put lots of key books out for sale (on both ebay and locally at shows I was setup at) right at FMV thinking they should sell within 24 hours and they took weeks to months. How do you plan on selling $5 and $10 books where the buyer base is that much smaller? You really, really do not want to be posting books on kijiji/craigslist over small $5/10 books scheduling dozens of meetups over hundreds of emails. Garage sale? Sure that can work, but you need to put books out cheap! People go to garage sales looking for bargains, so you better price these books at 50% of retail! And put up a sign - make me an offer on everything! At the end of the day, if you have modern filler stuff and have left off the popular title filler books and flushed out all the keys you will get next to nothing for the books - might as well just leave them at the curb.

Oh man, what a nightmare....fingers crossed the grade doesn't drop....

What was the fee on that book if you don't mind me asking....

My reholders received on the 20th were shipped on the 8th. I guess not many people are reholdering books, even with all that person_without_enough_empathying about the newton rings!

Perhaps, or they will hire more graders. In a way, having very long TATs for the value tier discourages people from sending those books in. There's a lot of not valuable bronze/silver age stuff that probably shouldn't be getting graded in the first place....

Yesterday wasn't even 15 business days, it was the 14th business day.....I think we all need to learn to be a bit more patient and not take the posted guidelines as gospel.

Maybe when people get their books back they can talk about any newton rings!

It's one thing to have a pile of drek you think you can push for a few hundred dollars....it's another thing to think, hey maybe I can find a sucker to sell a book for 7k. Because people looking to spend 7k on a comic don't usually know what they're looking at, or have some idea of its intrinsic value. Anytime I see a price of something more than 10 times its value I don't bother communicating anymore, the next message from me is, 'how did you come up with this price? Good luck with the sale'

My book has been graded and I'll receive it by Tuesday! Very happy with the grade too, bammo!

Have you tried calling them? I wouldn't be using any other company to grade than CGC, it's pretty clear that the market has determined what graded books are worth more. Everyone says, well I have no intention to sell - but the truth is everyone (or their beneficiaries) will have to sell at some point.

Fair enough. I'm curious why you don't just send them in one batch together? Shipping from Canada to and especially from CGC is atrocious (costly), so I pile them all in one shipment together....

If there's one takeaway from this thread.....avoid the value service whenever possible!

What book? I sent a book to CGC/CCS, received on the 19th. The book was pressed at CCS and CGC received the book on the 30th. Today (or yesterday) the CGC status changed from received to SFG, so it looks like the time it took to be graded express will be (or a little more) the 5 days listed on the site....i'll keep you posted.

Eh, could be worst...I see a bunch of spawns, this might not be all terrible. And any image newwsies? There's a couple of auction houses around here that advertise comics, at most of them it's drek, and they always sell for at least a buck a piece. Like your uncle, everyone attending these auctions is thinking the same thing, hey this comic has to be worth at least a buck!? But we all know better.... :P

Nice grab. I just picked up two 75 second prints!