Vince G

I can certainly see a press fixing that spine roll. Not a bad copy at all.

At this point, with all this new money coming in, I can certainly see this happening. How many newbies with tons of money as the result of the crypto/gamestop/robinhood bonanza are really out there, just trying to buy every key as quickly as they can? I have no idea but wouldn't be surprised if it was more than a handful.

By the way, you wouldn't happen to have a high grade copy that you'd be interested in selling, would you? I'm looking for HG as well

I've been debating. it's on my watch list..

Hey, it'a not my money Have at it bidders

I must have gotten lucky because I barely notice a jagged edge on mine, maybe just a tiny, tiny section of the cover.

Guess it was graded at 5pm on a Friday Do people have any idea what they are doing when they spend this type of money? I can see flippers not caring because, after all, it is in a 9.8 holder, but collectors? Heck if I know whose buying these books.

Sometimes 9.8s aren't really 9.8s

I'll be curious to see how this sale affects the other 9.8s (directs) that are currently available in the wild.

Was it the fact it was a newsstand that factored into your bid?

What's really confusing for me is that many of these books have doubled, tripled, even quadrupled in a very short period of time, much much shorter than what we've seen historically. As one who came back to the hobby in 2011, and with that additional 10 years of buying, selling, swapping, watching prices, etc., under my belt, I can't justify paying 2-4x more for a book than what it sold for 2 months ago, particularly those books that were formerly realizing a slow but steady increase in that 1k-2k range. It just makes me wonder who is buying those books? Case in point, from my own personal experience - xmen 94 in 9.2. I bought my copy about a year ago for a shade over 1k. Would I buy the same grade now at current price considering you could get one at the beginning of the year for 1500? Not a chance.

Exactly. The money just poured in and prices went through the roof. I'm thinking about those average comic collectors and am wondering how they are spending and what they are spending on. 6-8k is a lot to invest, particularly in a book with over 1000 9.8s on the census.

Thanks. I’m tracking it.

Agreed. Honestly, in my opinion, is a 5-6k book. The market just got crazy over the past couple of months. Don’t get me wrong, if it hits 10k, I’m selling my copy. You can do a lot with 10k.

I thought next week was the long weekend? Last couple of eBay sales before this one were in that 7800-8300 range. I doubt it’s going to 10k any time soon. Honestly think it’s past the high water mark.

Just ended - $6800. Could we have hit the high water mark already? Fingered id put mine up for sale if they hit 10k but looks like it’ll be sitting in the box for a while. thoughts? https://www.ebay.com/itm/133761894441

People get caught up in bidding and sometimes don’t scan the site for other copies that are available as bin, that have been listed following the auction listing.

If it hits 10, i'll throw mine into the pool.

What's the high-water mark, you think?

Well, seller is a long time member with 100% positive feedback so I would doubt he's running a scam.

Not sure if we've hit a leveling off point for the book or not. I'm guessing we may have. The run up on this one was very fast so I don't think that can continue.

Definitely a solid copy! Congrats!!

Ok, thanks. Lots of pages to go through but i'll work my way backwards.

Oy, yeah. Saw that. Ok, so who's plunking down the amount you can put down on a new car for an ASM 300?

I'm all for expanding on the discussion. I'm trying to make sense of this run-up so anything you can provide would help me out greatly.