Spiderturtle

2 hours ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

Do you think the big 3 auction houses monitor this board? It makes sense to me that they would.

I know the guys at CC, Clink and HA. I would imagine many of us do. 
 
We are all pretty anonymous here. It’s like Mardi Gras. We are all wearing masks. Do you think the auction houses have a magic decoder list allowing them to know who is saying what?

Again, it makes sense to me they would, so I measure my postings with that awareness in the back of my mind.

does anyone have any intel on this?

If I guy co-signs or buys from them and mentions the books involved.  They know who’s who.   Especially bigger books.  I know from my many interactions with comiclink

Comicconnect should have never changed their website.  Don’t like the current layout.  The old format was 100x better.  Currently their website is worst than heritage and comiclink 

1 hour ago, www.alexgross.com said:

pgx 9.4s usually cross over to purple cgc 5.5-7.0 labels, so perhaps not a deal. 

I agree.  I had that experience.  Pgx missed the color on a 9.0 that I had.  Scrape off the color touch to get an unrestored 7.0

5 minutes ago, Chicago Boy said:

2 equally good options imo.  Voldy does some things more in line with what I think Makes more sense.  CGC is still brand at this point 

Cgc is similar in brand to say Nike vs the other shoe companies.  Once you got that brand in your brain it’s irreversible.  

5 hours ago, Mr bla bla said:

It has gone from cgc 4.0 to cbcs 4.5. Whats next? Pgx 5.0 ?

Pgx 6.0.  Not even joking here based on past personal experience 

9 minutes ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

eBay “Comic-warehouse” may be a boardie since he seems caught up on the “dot, no dot” issue. 
 

people don’t normally go from a CGC holder to one of the other guys. I see a couple different possible explanations 

I have more confidence in Cgc. What if there is a small population that would prefer a cbcs 4.5 over a Cgc 4.0?

On 1/2/2020 at 6:00 PM, Frederic9494 said:

I was on holidays in Orlando this week and then realized "Maybe Joeypost has received my Spirou back from CGC?"

He had just received them so I was able to pick them up in person (Joe is a great guy!). I am very pleased with his work and the grades I got from CGC.

 

 

Nice pile 

On 4/29/2020 at 10:27 AM, Frederic9494 said:

New copy in.. after a two months wait, thanks to COVID-19. French Edition (in dire need of a clean & press)

Even from the pic, you can see the pressable defects

On 3/15/2020 at 2:03 PM, Frederic9494 said:

Recent haul... missing one high grade 1071 that's lost in the mail since early January 

 

 Very nice

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Spirou-1071-1st-Smurfs-Single-Highest-Graded-No-Rust-On-Staples-OW-White-Pages/224009371736?pageci=8cd29395-9194-4133-b888-4da693bbe18b

17 hours ago, DT0428 said:

An AF15 cgc 4.5 just sold on heritage for 66k.  Crazy!  Prices will most likely be looking up hopefully.    https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/superhero/amazing-fantasy-15-marvel-1962-cgc-vg-45-off-white-to-white-pages/a/7229-96169.s?ic2=mytracked-lotspage-lotlinks-12202013&tab=MyTrackedLots-101116

Maybe heritage will never get paid on this book.  Who’s the under bidder? Possible that we have 2 guys up to no good; Underbidder/winner

43 minutes ago, batman_fan said:

You are not the only one scratching your head about that one,

2 involved here.  Who’s the underbidder. What if heritage never gets paid.  Maybe we have 2 guys up to no good

3 minutes ago, Gotham Kid said:

I say it won't

Depends on if sales tax is involved.  Let’s assume the heritage copy required the buyer to pay taxes.  So buyer probably paid close to $200k.  
 

I have no idea where the cc will hammer at but it’ll be 10 percent less if the final bidders needs to pay taxes. For me 10 percent is a huge deal.  I don’t care how rich you are but 10 percent is a huge deal

3 hours ago, dem1138 said:

You paid for the notes and the notes said 16 pages had been trimmed?  Why wasn't that noted on the label?  Because 144K makes sense based on the notes on the label because everything is removable but nowhere is the pages being trimmed noted so bidders likely bid based on the label notes and will probably be in for quite a surprise (unfortunately).

$15 for grader notes seems like $15 well spent.  For me my threshold for grader notes as a requirement is anything $1,000 and more

Recently AT&T had an iPhone 6 for $99 with $45 monthly fee for unlimited usage.  I’m on that plan and the phone is very easy to use

Hefty smurf 
 

On 2/25/2020 at 6:21 PM, Topnotchman said:

When the lone Star Trek 1 9.8 sold for $40k, I see no reason if a lone Scooby #1 surfaces in 9.8 getting the 40-50K range.   

I’m a big scooby doo and smurfs fan.  Growing up in the 80’s those 2 were my 2 must watch cartoons.  Do you ever see a Spirou 1071 (1st smurfs) CGC 9.8 ever reaching $50,000; highest one on the census is a lone 9.6

3 hours ago, Frederic9494 said:

The last ones. As you can imagine, very happy with that first Spirou CGC submission 

2 minutes ago, Frederic9494 said:

And the other four:

 

Nice, very nice

1 hour ago, Frederic9494 said:

Time to show off what I got back from CGC, starting with my two lowest grade books.

Very nice copies but there is some rust on the staples (they came from the same original owner in France)

 

Nice, lowest?  What grades are the other ones

30 minutes ago, vaillant said:

 

This would not make sense. Either the full series or nothing. Why should american collectors be fixated on two single issues of a year run just because they decided they are worth purchasing (leaving all the others behind).
No good. And that’s not even *the* univocal plane by which collecting markets go, either.

I’m surprised that most Americans don’t even that this series existed.  Been around since 1958 and some of the well known American dealers don’t even know if it’s existence

None of the above 

for books less than $10k I use my comic shop to buy and sell 

1. No California tax

2. Fast shipping 

3. Get my money fast

Believe this listing belongs to a boardie