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On 8/9/2022 at 12:21 PM, SkOw said:

 

She deleted this statement.  I like Adam and while I don't know Danielle real well (only met her once back in probably like 2018 at one of the Chicago shows) and she struck me a a very nice person, but it is weird she would delete it.  My guess is that a lot of people that bought them did NOT know it was just a facsimile with another homemade cover stapled on.  Now you are in the situation where you have 10-15 copies of essentially a bootleg comic you are sitting on. 

My advice would be to: 

1) Recycle them and take a stand against bootleg comics; or

2) Sell them at sticker price to the people who wanted them (or at a slight premium) and donate the proceeds to a charity.

Being associated with something like this in a tight knit community like ours isn't a good idea.  I'm no influencer dealer or whatever, but I wouldn't want my name any where near this whole thing.

When she made that post the plan was always to archive it after several days.  The main reason behind the post was to apologize to anyone at C2E2 who didn't get a copy.  The idea was to leave the post up long enough to give people enough time to read/react and we also attempted/failed to correct some of the misinformation floating around on social media.

When Danielle left the booth it looked like there were more than enough copies left for everyone in line.  When she got home and we started reading that some people in line didn't get one she felt really bad and we felt the right thing to do was apologize since she left the booth with a bunch of copies.  On the plus side, that post allowed us to connect with more people that we were able to give copies to that didn't get one at the show.  I know the boards have largely moved on from there but that's why the post went up/came down and that's what we felt we owed an apology to people for.  

Of the 15 copies Danielle bought to sell, she's given some away for free and some at her purchase price to people that couldn't get one at the show.  The rest were auctioned and there is one left that she's giving away for her birthday.  

As far as the book being bootlegged/unauthorized, we are reading about that in real time same as everybody else.  I would like to give everyone involved the full benefit of the doubt and wait to hear from all parties before commenting about the situation with Marvel.  I will say Danielle has been receiving plenty of DMs on social media from people who think we are sitting on a stack of these looking for the "unauthorized" UF4 in the last 24-48 hours, I think at this point the controversy is making more people want the book not less.

With that said, between Filter Comics / NerdyGirlComics we have been selling for more than 20 years.  We have always accepted returns on books we sell going back to the very beginning and this book is no exception.  If anyone in light of new information no longer wants this book or decides in the future they no longer want this book of course it can be returned at any time for a full refund.  If one or more people actually do decide they want to return the book, I really like your idea of selling them at sticker price and donating to charity.  The charities we've donated to most recently are Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA, The Gary Sinise Foundation, and Honor Animal Rescue, so probably one of those.  Really appreciate that suggestion!  

On 7/16/2022 at 11:49 AM, Pantodude said:

Overall, prices have certainly eased up a bit across the Ages (GA, SA, BA, CA, etc) since the beginning of the year, although it's harder to tell with GA books due to both the paucity of recent data and few data points in general.  And despite overall trends, there are pockets in each Age that outperform.  But someone  (ehem )  pooh-poohed Marvel SA super-hero keys as longer-term investments based on a relative-scarcity argument.  The argument might be intuitively appealing (if you ignore the demand side of things), so I thought it would be worth exploring. 

All the ages have their gems, some less common than others.  The top GA keys tended to have higher FMVs than the top Marvel SA keys (and that is unlikely to change any time soon!).  But since we need to distinguish FMV from the appreciation that FMV has undergone, let's look at the appreciation of the top 12 GA keys (as ranked by Overstreet 2019-2020) relative to their top 12 SA Marvel keys from about 2016 to 2022.  

I didn't want to copy/paste the whole thing but this was a great post!  I prefer GA over SA all day every day because they are so scarce and the covers are so much better, but on average in my experience they have underperformed silver age keys for years now.  Maybe because they don't trade hands as often giving less opportunities for prices to go up from the previous sale?  Or maybe because they started from a point where they were already more expensive?  

 Dylan, I thought I heard you were taking a break from comics and were pursuing a new career as a love guru…. Is that not going well? 

We are however heavily manipulating the market on Blackhawk 267 because why not ……. 🤷🏼‍♀️🙄

-nerdy 

PS hey guys! 
 

Hey everyone,

Sorry for the double post & sorry to the mods!  My last one got *bamf*ed because I did not list a return policy.  

I know I haven't posted here in a while so if anyone needs references please don't hesitate to ask!  One book for sale today..

X-men 1 CGC 8.5 VF+ $135,000

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Incredible Hulk 1 CGC 5.0 VG/F $22,000