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I would also say that the difference between getting “top dollar” and a clearly overpriced book isn’t a slam dunk. What is a fair price for a raw 9.6/9.8 candidate? People tend to look at the price of a slabbed book and back out the fees, but there are plenty of buyers who don’t value the plastic cases at all, especially ones who dislike the pressing/cleaning games that you can pretty much assume have been played with a slabbed book these days.

I’ll guess the Gulf Coast Girl is the most expensive.

I really don’t see the value of thread-crapping on anyone’s pricing regardless of how out of line it is. It drops out of site faster if you just ignore it. Regardless, it is poor form and is not going to serve a useful purpose. I go to conventions and there are a couple of dealers that are just not competitive on pricing. Would it be useful for me to tell them that? I doubt that they are going to suddenly going to re-price their books based on my criticism. If they want to spend their time hauling books around to not sell, that is their business. Ironically, since the last few years have had prices on a strong upward trend, they do eventually sell some books as the market catches up to their prices. My LCS has terrible pricing. Should I let them know? They are still in business, so they must occasionally be selling stuff. Allowing people to comment on pricing in threads here would end up being a disaster, IMO.

He did a bunch of the New Mutants covers from that time period. I was pulling them out of 50 cent boxes before this lockdown ( I wasn’t seeing this one at that price, obviously). They are pretty awesome covers, IMO. The insides of the books are so-so, but for 50 cents I’ll buy them just to look at the cover.

So did you take it down? 😀 Strong price for a rare and awesome book!

I’m fine with sellers charging whatever they want. I’m just saying that the lack of buyers at their silly asking prices isn’t an indication that the market for anything is dying. There are plenty of people willing to buy a huge variety of vintage comics at more realistic prices. Almost everything I am interested in sells at higher prices than I am willing to pay when it goes to auction. Sellers looking to get top dollar ( or more ) will need a lot of patience.

I think the lack of movement often reflects unrealistic price expectations more than anything else. If people put things into auctions, they sell, and they sell for what look like pretty decent prices to me most of the time. There are a ton of books where there are several copies sitting out at X dollars when the actual market value is half of X.

I just did a search on beanie babies on EBay, and there are still thousand dollar sales for some of those beanie babies. Of course, there are also $1 sales with free shipping for some of them, and a lot of sales in between.

Ah, the title of the thread misled me.

I’m assuming you mean 121-122 right? I’m kind of surprised that you are the first one to mention them.

I agree that the new comic market and recent back issues market does not look healthy. It doesn’t provide much bang for the buck entertainment-wise, and it does not seem to be attracting all that many people to it as a result. I would say that the vintage comic market looks pretty darn robust though, if people have realistic expectations of what it should look like. Most Marvel and DC keys are obviously doing extremely well. They are doing so well that I’m generally just too cheap to buy them. A lot of prices are down some from last year, but are still much higher than they were five years ago. I’d also say that the non-key market is very robust if people have rational expectations. Think about how many tens of millions of comics are out there. It is amazing to me that it all finds somewhere to go, often at pretty decent money for stuff with collecting interest. I’m finding less junk SA in the $1-2 boxes these days. Books I used to see for $5 are now $10. Even the early 90s drek is moving for the people who sell it at the 50/$20 price point. Frankly, I really do wonder where it all goes sometimes. Are there really a million people willing to pay $10+ to own a Spawn 1? Or are there 200k of them, and bunch of guys with long boxes of them trying to sell them for $10+ ?

I think there is a difference between pricing books correctly to account of MCS’s often extreme under-grading and the overpricing that leaves books sitting on the site for years. I think most buyers at MCS have learned to look at the scans and pay up when the book is clearly under-graded. I see a lot of issues on their site that have 10-20 copies of a book consigned where almost none of them are priced at market. It happens a lot with spec books that got hot and then cooled off. None of the owners will auction the books because they know that the market is half what the have them priced at. How long should MCS be willing to store for free all of the Thor 134 failed flip attempts? 😀 Or the books where MCS has a dozen copies of the book in comparable grade to the consigned book that is priced at twice the MCS price? I’m a seller on the site as well, so I’m not looking for anything that will force down prices below market. I have to think that storing and insuring a massive number of books that aren’t likely to ever sell is not sustainable though. It’s not like they’ve introduced crushing fees. 0.25% per month is not going to force prices down for seller that believes the book will sell at that price. It will clear out the riff raff listings of people looking for a sucker though.

Sweet! Thanks!

I didn’t see any information on comic lots. Once things get back to normal, will you resume allowing groups of books to be auctioned? Will there be any change to those fees ( 25% with a $12 minimum ) ?

I’ve gotten several batches of magazines from Steve. Always great grading and bulletproof packaging.

Awesome book! Congrats to the buyer and the seller.

New Ebay book. Not as pretty as Steve’s books, but not bad for the price. Better than my filler copy -

New books from Steve just arrived, very pretty-

I seem to remember the 238 original art got sold thru a Comiclink auction at some point a number of years back. Neat to see it again.

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