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I think the cover is of #8

75. Someone with better search skills than me can find it. Maybe it was as long as 5 years ago, not sure, but I remember distinctly thinking how little people appreciate SS and that the availability of this book must just be too great.

I love Surfer and love this book but its supply is huge; the recent prices on this book boggle the mind. A few years ago (3?) I remember a raw legitimate VG FF48 lingering for weeks here on the boards for $75. That reflected its supply.

From: NGC Statement <accounting@ngccoin.com> To: xxx message content: Attached is a copy of your statement. Please review and if you have any questions or concerns, please contact us using the information in the attachment. It looks legit and running mouse cursor over the address still says accounting@ngccoin.com Except I have never done anything with NGC and there's no reason for them to send me a statement. Hopefully this is not a conscious decision by our hosts to email us, or hopefully not a result of a hack.

Received this email with an attachment today. I wonder if the scammers got my email addy from this site. Anyone else get this? There seems to be a history of this specific phishing.

Poor choice to sell a book like that on eBay. Fees, potential for chargeback, book gets lost/damaged. Buyers factor in the risk in their bid as well.

Found this in a buried box. None in census. Although a recent sale on eBay.

Not clear whether Church was a bad dude, more likely he wasn’t the ideal family man because he favored his work, for whatever reason. Not uncommon. Chuck, in the other hand, fleeced the Church family. At least that’s my understanding (I’d love to be wrong). If I encountered a collection a tenth that size, I’d have to give the family something more than…essentially nothing. I never understood why so many say the find is such a great story when at its core it’s a naive seller getting fleeced by comic book guy. Interesting, but not great.

If this book is raw, and is an expensive book, it brings up the question of whether it is “worth it” to get it slabbed. CGC is charging what- 3% of FMV?- to slab expensive books. I imagine that is a deterrent to getting some books slabbed. I really don’t get that pricing policy; it’s not as if it costs them extra to grade an expensive book.

I think he’s saying it doesn’t qualify for the new pedigree label. To me, if you know the grade, the extent of conservation, and the that it’s a pedigree, the new label or even if it’s slabbed wouldn’t matter much.

Be surprised if someone said they wouldn't. For most books I'm after, would pay somewhere between the purple and blue FMV. And it takes a lot for me to buy most purple labels.

Is this a trick question?

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Probably for most. For me, the only trimmed book I would ever buy would be a very low grade GA book that I would really want and hard to come by, like a CDNP 24. Even then I’d probably pay about half of what I’d pay if the resto was CT or small piece added, meaning several others would likely pay more.

I thought those CGC 9.8 services were used mostly by those looking to sell them. At least I assumed that was the logic behind the business. I imagine there are a lot of collectors who want their collection copies of relatively new books to be CGC 9.8 slabs. And there is an obvious appeal to this, in addition to making the entire collection very liquid when it’s time to get out.But everything (new) I have bought for my collection since the late seventies is sitting raw in a box. Most are 9.8s. I love the the idea of not having spent thousands (more like tens of thousands)on slabbing, and can store 5 times as many books in the same amount of space. And of course read them if I like. another thing is I hate the idea of buying a book for my collection that may have been pressed. I don’t think anyone knows for sure what the long term effect a press has on a book (the proper experiment has yet to be done or has concluded) but it’s a horrifying thought that pressed books will start to show press-induced flaws over time.

If no water damage or foxing I’ll take

$1000. i think you mean Jumbo 133. And IMO that still seems too much given the history of all sales of Jumbo/Jungle/Fight etc. But who knows, 2 bidders might get into it over a HG FH GA GGA with nice pages. Nice book, a keeper.

My first Promise. Put in a lowball bid and went to bed an hour before auction ended. To me the 2021 price on this was a bit bonkers. Love HG Boy Comics.

What the impact of various missing whatever is on value (being what you can sell it for) seems to be a question few have a good handle on. Sometimes I see what appears to be ridiculously low or high sales prices (and asks) for various incomplete books or parts. Probably because not enough data out there. Coverless books account for most of the data, so the market seems to have the best idea with these. i personally think many books take too big a hit (realized sales price) for a missing centerfold, page or piece, and IMO adding a repro replacement part to complete the book should often bring it to a value greater than 0.5, with an obvious qualitative qualifier. And books with married parts attract me; a books that presents as 4.0 with a married piece is often more desirable to me that a lot of 2.0’s with certain defects.

idk but I like these facsimiles. What is best place to pick up these (GA) facsimiles? prefer raw I see no point in submitting these.

Not an expert in GA Cap pricing but a special book like this even in low grade seems like it should command more than 10K especially a pedigree that presents well for the grade (a rare thing to say about a Promise). However, once you factor in buyer fee for original purchase, then seller fee for this sale, what is the actual net?

Going to make this a 24 h sale. So will close 10 AM EST tomorrow (Thursday),