blazingbob

Assuming that dealers have databases that can generate extracts of sales which I am guessing many don't they would not be calling me. Also some of you assume that some of the biggest dealers are tracking their sales. You would be surprised at how many don't. It would take me less then 5 mins to put together a daily/weekly or monthly extract of CGC sales. But as Roy stated in a earlier post I am NOT in business to make you money (You is not you Chris). I am not sure if people see that dealers need to buy copies of books that they are selling. If you are raising the sale price of the book you are also raising your cost. And with more and more "weekend warriors" needing to squeeze every dollar out of a book that job gets harder every day. Add on top the expense of finding those books and I ask myself why am I helping my competitors price their inventory on my hard work. Because I'm a nice guy? This is business and I run it like a business. And some of you think that "But bob, if you report your sales you can get more on the next copy". Not when the GPA buyer mentality is that I don't want to set a GPA record, I want a GPA discount. I call that the Slow bowl pricing flush. Watch the GPA price slowly swirl lower. Eventually they want you to buy at Retail and sell at Wholesale. How do I know this? Years of conversations with buyers using 12 month average, 90 day average, last sale. Anything to get the "Look what I just got this for Convention stroll". All this comes from the years of the Dealer/collector battle. You see it all the time. Did I get over on him? Did he get over on me? What, I got screwed? Yeah man, I'm going to sell this on ebay for $500 and I paid $25, high fives for everyone.

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Whenever a buyer is buying a book from me I tell them to look at it like you were selling it. What is your eye drawn to first? What is your first impression? Because generally what jumps out at you will will jump out at others. The real challenge for sellers is if the book has a defect that basically overwhelms the grade or appeal of the book. So yes you do have to look at the grade but also take into account the eye appeal of the copy in front of you.

And yes the 5.0 that sold for $57K is now up for sale on my website. Was a real sale, real buyer and a real book.

It would not be unreasonable to have them uploading publicly reported sales. However since I don't see George posting lately I wouldn't know how to ask him why he isn't.

How do you force someone to report data? The stress of not knowing just comes pouring out of threads when books are hot. If you sell a book and made a nice profit on it do you need GPA to substantiate that you did ok?

The 5.0 for $75000 was taken off the market, was not sold. I did sell a 7.0 yesterday.

Long Beach show was the same weekend as this show.

I didn't think Hulk 181's had overhangs that could be trimmed.

I'll take the TOD #10 9.4

Absolutely. Let somebody else do all the hard work and then you should share that information out for free because you are such a nice guy. This thread reminds me of the emails I get from potential customers who will only buy a book if it is upgradeable. Hmmmm. Let me get this straight. You want a discount on a book that if I got upgraded myself I could make more money on? Yup, here they are. And when posts are made to a forum board does anybody besides me think that after reading years and years of Overstreet dealer market reports that maybe those "forum experts" might be a little biased in what they recommend? Sorry, I always question the guys throwing out value when I know they own copies.

So Comiclink is your choice for a reflection of the comic market? Hmmmm.

Maybe you are looking on the wrong website

72nd Pct detective squad is investigating. If folks see anything, they should call 718 965 6336

Here is a video https://highgradecomics.com/thief_video.mp4

The books were stolen from a customer of mine in Brooklyn NY on 8/28.

Working on posting the video also.

Here is a picture of the X-Men #1 1.8

Here is a picture of the AS #1 6.5

Again, these are coming from my customer so I'm sorry for not posting pictures sooner. Here are some pictures of the person that opened the FEDEX box and took the books captured from the neighbor's camera.

Ioannis purchased two high end books from me that he picked up from me at the London Super con. Very good customer.

Not trying to pick on you but I went on the website and I don't know who "I" in Brooklyn NY is. Unless your name is Xomic?

Me neither and I sold one recently

The AF #15 9.2 sign that CGC has at every show was a copy that I personally owned as a collector. Hurts every time I see it.

I will post scans of the books when I get back. There is also video but I'm not sure if I can post that.