blazingbob

I would check out www.highgradecharitycomics.com. Set this up to help out the needy comic collector. My paperwork is filed, personal references can be supplied upon request.

I tell collectors if a book has left their collecting budget to find the best copy of a lower grade with the best eye appeal. We all have seen examples of even 4.0/4.5's that look way better then the grade because of a defect that may be on the back cover. Even when I was a high grade collector I always found the best value was in the 9.0 grade. I could get great copies with great eye appeal at affordable prices. I left the label chasers and multiples of guide that could easily compress to the other guys. If a higher grade presented itself at a good price I'd buy it and sell the 9.0

Lou, to be fair I had 4 wall displays at this show. I dedicated an entire wall to raw pre-code horror and Atlas. 1 full rack of CGC keys covering all genres/price points, another CGC rack of other issues, Eternals and Nova's in 9.8 made the wall this year. 1 full wall display of raw marvel/DC and some Golden Age. I brought 16 boxes of CGC books, if a person asked it was possible I might have what they were looking for. However, if the quest was Werewolf by Night #32 then the answer would have been no. There were many cases where a customer asked to see if I had a copy of a particular key. 4 copies will be presented and I get "I was looking for a 8.5" and I had a 8.0, 9.0, 9.2 and 9.4.

I appreciate the support of how I price but frankly customers don't have to come to shows if they don't want to. Order from the website and save me time/money and expense. If you have come to shows and saw my raw grading you either like it or you don't. If that doesn't give you insight how the rest of my inventory looks then I'm not sure how me being at a show is going to make you buy books. CGC books are strictly dollar and cents transactions. Waving Dollar bills at me or assuming CASH is king and will result in me selling the book at your price frankly doesn't work with me. The idea that I can quickly assess what pricing model YOU use is not very easy to do. There are those that have easy "Tells", there are others that frankly could use some "teaching" and there are others who just feel that I'm a "Fill in the blank" insufficiently_thoughtful_person and am just in business to rip off as many people as possible. I know a few "Warm and fuzzy" guys who love to be undertakers.

What issue range were you looking for? NY Comic con has a very good cross section of comic dealers. Baltimore will have more that cover a wider price range scope. Not exactly sure if the dealer base will have high grade batman's since those are books that generally will sell very well off my website. I'm also assuming if you were looking that you looked at my website and if I had any put them on hold so I could bring them?

? Convention pricing wasn't around before the internet? People couldn't start a convention at a show to negotiate before the internet? Don't be the GPA guy was the "I don't pay over guide before the internet" Walking away "Sore" was around before the internet Posting on the forum boards was accomplished with phone calls, you know the ones that used to be attached to the wall.

I would not say that the Silver age key market is drying up. If you are fair in what you are paying books will be offered to you. If you have the ability to sell books for consignors you will get material. Business reputations are VERY IMPORTANT. Lying to a seller may work for you to get a book a few times but I can assure you what goes around comes around. You really don't want to be on the wrong side of a thread on the CGC forum boards.

I have to be honest because frankly I am not sure what "Convention Pricing is" I do NOT have the time or want to make the effort to reprice material for a show. The same price at the show is the same price on my website unless I forgot to change the sticker in the back when I repriced it. If you can't start a negotiation with me when I price a CGC graded book at 1.1X last GPA there is something wrong. Prior to CGC raw high grade was regularly priced at 3, 4, 5 times multiple of OSPG. I did lots of negotiating and bought lots of books that way. "Don't be the GPA is the only price I'll pay guy" and try to be a little open minded to how things get priced and sold and how business relationships work which is what we are all doing when we buy and sell with each other. Walking away "sore" may give you some short term comfort but cost you in the long run. Posting on CGC forum boards screaming to the internet wind that there is nothing to buy gives us no insight into what your budget is or where you are coming from sometimes. I want to buy books at my prices all the time, doesn't mean the seller has to accommodate me.

I second or third that status's on previous invoices were reset back to received.

Do you have the magic Ebay descrambling key?

Call Ebay and see if they will give you the information you are requesting.

You left off Me: I'm kind of looking for an appraisal in case I priced it too low which is why I'm asking what your offer is. Pro: It is your item, if it were mine I would be the one pricing it.

Or you are really good at knowing what I will discount books to.

You are in the minority since I'm in the camp that "Everybody wants a deal" whether the book is priced fairly or not. The guess on my part is what type of "shopper" am I dealing with. Dollar Store, TJ Maxx, Walmart, Target or Nordstrom.

What is a IC3 online fraud report?

There are a lot of different scenario's for a response to this question 1). Is the buyer an upgrader? I normally know this and frankly my discounts reflect that. 2). Long term collector/customer of mine. Really depends on the size of the purchase, how they pay. CC/paypal is another 3% off on top of the discount. If I can work with them I will. 3). The Stack guy who feels more deserves a bigger discount. What you call a stack and my expectation of a stack are VERY different. $100-$300 of my high grade isn't floating my boat for the bigger discount. 4). Another dealer. Your discount from me will frankly reflect the type of discount I get from you when I'm buying. If you are giving me a low discount don't come over asking for 20% off. Works both ways. 5). The "Do you wanna move it" guy. I "wanna move all my books" if the offer is fair. I don't wanna "move em" if you want to buy them for 1/2 of what I paid for them. 6). The OSPG buyer with the guide in his hand. I am not really pricing way over guide on raw unless it is a key or movie book so I'm not exactly sure when this type of buyer comes to the booth what they are "expecting" pricing/discount wise. Some snap the book shut before even talking. Some are willing to talk, others seem ok with my pricing/discount. If I have a book graded NM and the OSPG buyer is quoting 9.2 I need some interaction on what he/she thinks the price should be. 7). The GPA CGC buyer. Again, expectations of what the buyer is expecting goes a long way with "how low will I go". If I have room and the deal is fair we get it done. If you want to play games with 90, 1 year or last sale to get to "your" number we may have a problem. If you are open to more data from me then just GPA then a deal might be done. If we exhausted all avenues of negotiation that GPA buyer can always buy it from the GPA store.

I'm sorry, unless another person buys one close to this price in this grade it is all a mystery.

No those crooks are generally from Montreal.

Sorry, spoke without checking. I have 1 customer in china, 2 in Hong kong. Multiple sales to the customer in China from 2012-2018.

I have 0 sales to China

Keystone

Show date conflicts with Reed/Keystone show next year. Oh well

What I have found with any of the keys is that copies with good eye appeal will sell for a strong number and copies with the latest in "Consumer distastes - Marvel chipping, tape, cream/offwhite pages" will sell for less. Honestly I don't know why consignor's don't force Comiclink to post back cover scans. The CGC/CBCS pricing tools are all dropping the ball by not capturing the scan of the books for visual comparisons to similar copies. Now while thedude says the presentable 4.0 sold for cheap I would argue that if it did have cream/offwhite pages some buyers won't bid on it. And if the auction house is charging sales tax, buyers in those sales tax states are not going to bid on "borderline books". As with any disposable income purchase when you figure out the sale tax hit the buyer talks themselves out of the purchase or bid. I'm having no problems selling keys with great eye appeal for over GPA numbers.

Oh yeah, I'm loaded on this one

Announcements by MCU basically give collector's/speculator's something new to do since it quickly gets old after one movie announcement to find something to make money on. No offense but the MCU movie announcement game has been going on since the Blade movie first got announced. Today you get a new pop because of a relaunch. Silver Surfer has already appeared in a FF movie yet the idea that he does again now causes FF #48/SS #1 to spike? Didn't Electro already appear in a movie, yet I'm still getting asked about that book. How many Spider-man versions are there? Is it all just the movie's or is it the idea that when the characters are on the big screen it reinforces the emotional attachment we had to the books and gets us remembering the good ole days. Movie books inject life into titles that frankly a lot of collectors didn't care about. When SME #15 goes crazy I suddenly start getting orders for the villains, and then some run collector's start buying again. It gives smaller dealers more wall books. Look at a wall display today and ask yourself would half of those books been on the wall 10 years ago? The other thing to ask yourself is "Am I drinking the kool-aid". Try to take the emotional attachment of $$$$ in your eyes and really look at the book that suddenly spiked 100%. Great story? Great art? Great stories and Great art would have been known since the book came out. Moon Knight doesn't exactly light it up for me but hey if you want to chase WWBN #32 because he is hot go for it. What great villain does he battle? Besides the costume and battling Werewolf by night who else is going to keep your eyes glued to a movie screen if one gets made? I can see Silver Surfer capturing my attention but some of these other guys are good for cameo's.