blazingbob

If you have a great product and great service you really don't need to worry about another company, especially one that isn't better then yours. When you have to suppress the competition there is obviously something you are worried about. CGC does a great job of causing its own problems, they don't need a competitor to bring that out.

I'll take Archie #54

The X-Men #1 4.0 on my website is consignor listed. There are X-Men #1's in 3.5 - 4.5 in the 20K-$25K range on ebay.

LOL - I like that because the price would have been more then I negotiated it to

As dry as it gets

Auction results naturally reflect the "real market" because as you know those prices aren't manipulated.

Obviously to you very

Remember, the Church of Comics has a new GOD in place. Greedy Old Dealer. Saving the comic masses with words of hope, hype and leading you to the promised land of profit.

Again, buyer was presenting a auction result that literally just finished a day earlier. I have no idea if it was a all time high. I had priced my book on Thursday, the auction result was on friday.

No

Again, missing the point. If the buyer in front of me was bidding in the auction it would have ended higher.

I am referencing a situation where the auction result was literally a day earlier. Pops up the auction result on the phone and presents it to me.

If a book is in auction and it finishes at $12K what would it have taken to buy the book if the buyer in front of you were bidding? If the increments were $250, then maybe it would be $12,250. Could have been more if the winner had a higher maximum bid. Last Auction sale buyers have taken the risk out of bidding on the book. They go to a fixed price seller and request them meet the auction sale or Last sale GPA result. Which is why some sellers have told some buyers to buy the book from the GPA store.

I'm really not concerned about the "pricing police" My issue is that buyers want the "auction result" without bidding on the book that was in that auction. And not realizing that their bidding would influence the outcome of that auction.

More then a few.

I would buy the pedigree book that explains all the pedigree's that are out there. Oh wait, still waiting for that book that I paid advertising for over xx years ago.

I would like to ask that if you are this type of buyer to please remember one thing. Somebody else paid that price to buy the book, you did not. If you were bidding in the auction you would have paid the next bid increment or more depending on what the high bidders top bid was. I am not an auction house, I price a book and then negotiate from it. The price doesn't change in my hands as we are negotiating which is what it could be doing if you were bidding on it. I am not extending your offer every 3 minutes every time an offer is made. The only risk you have is that somebody else bids higher on my website or buys it outright. If I am over the auction house sale price then I am not obligated to sell the book at that price. It is a reference for you to use but please remember "You didn't win the book that just sold".

"Similar to dealers who pay to advertise their banners/logos on the front page of this site". Based on the new fees for those ads they are now referred to as "BOB's" Bend over Banners.

Some information is better then none but be open to the possibility that there are other sources out there to consider.

Actually I thought the poster was invoking some interesting "Feel". A little Paul Volker/Alan Greenspan, Martin Luther King, maybe even a little Jamie Dimon from this morning's earning report. Frankly I would have gone and said - The Church of Comics is coming! Greedy Old Dealers will save you all. The end of Hope You Paid Enough is here!

Is this the Humpty-Dumpty had a big fall projection? What exactly are you getting Free from?

I wish people actively tracking the comic market like the stock market would take a step back and look at the big picture and landscape change over the last 6-9 months. With covid lockdowns there were no conventions. No conventions and buyers buying online on venues that track and report GPA sales results in more data reporting. Almost NO convention sales are reported to GPA. As more conventions open, less data makes it way to GPA. Therefore your primary GPA sales data is basically Comiconnect, Heritage, Ebay and a few reporters. In addition to a more limited data input there are more and more "Streaming sales". Whatsnot sales data? Instagram sellers? Any of those being reported to GPA? Not that I know of. In addition, Free stimulus money. Free money to a comic collector results in free money to buy books. That party ended last year. Now it's back to looking in the wallet and seeing what is available to spend. Good books, good eye appeal, universal character appeal instead of just your own opinion will always provide liquidity to your ability to buy and sell something. If you want to know how hot your book is test the dealer reaction if you try to sell them it or use it in a trade.

You should have listed it on rallyd so you could have kept a piece of the action.

I'll take the Det #359 CGC 7.0

This is frankly a situation where a label notation that carries a "user defined entry" would be necessary to have it appear on the label since ideally you want standard label notations. If they don't want it on the label that it should have been entered in the notes. Again, the standard selection of defects should have a user defined entry field available for something unique like this. I'm still trying to find out who the "prominent" people in the hobby that CGC talked to. I don't think I'm on the list yet.