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Mijael.Levy

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    MOVED to Ebay Batman 8 Infinity Cover rare Brazilian from 1941 - Secrets of True Love 1 CGC 5.0 Off White - Another chance to get this hard to find Matt Baker Cover!

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    Posted · Edited by Mijael.Levy

    Hello everyone i am selling a slab today

    I ship from Mexico to USA and Canada via UPS signature required for $35

    Rules

    No shady people and people from the bad lists

    No returns

    Payment must be made via Paypal , i can wait max 2 days

    "i take it" trumps any private negotiation

     

    current turn around rates at CGC

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    On 8/16/2023 at 7:34 AM, Ammar Zaidi said:

    I have a Magazine High Value Order (2 Magazines) received on June 1 that have been stuck in Grading/Quality Control the last couple of weeks.

     

    Also noticed last night the usually 'clickable' Submission Number on my CGC Submission Tracking page for that particular submission isn't clickable anymore. Has anyone dealt with this issue before?

    You should contact them 

    Are prices still climbing or have they eased up a bit???

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    On 8/13/2023 at 10:16 PM, MyNameIsLegion said:

    The market dipped a bit due to the Great Recession, which had a tremendous macro-economic impact on collecting, but pandemic buying and easy money fueled a whole other level of tulip-mania. These things never end well, and when they end, they end with greater finality than just a cyclical turn. this may not be 1982 stamp collecting level Armageddon, in part because the comics are the pop-culture engine. However, what CGC has done to the hobby has it parallels. The manufactured collectibility of a plastic case sporting a label and a number is backed only by the faith and interest of those willing to buy it. Little, if anything printed in the last 50 years is genuinely rare, including the subset that has been slabbed which only goes up, and suddenly your high census copy is average, and priced accordingly. 

    We are also entering the twilight of the boomer impact on pop-culture, the WW2 generation has largely passed. Comics are an artifact of their era. They created it all. Gen-X is the last generation to remember spinner racks, and cheap plastic super-hero Halloween masks at the grocery store.  Just as Radio shows, comic strips, train-sets, pulps, westerns, have faded out, comics too have a finite lifespan. The MCU was the pinnacle of all our boyhood fantasies, to see what we could only dream of leap off the page of newsprint and onto a 4K high def screen. And then, like with most things, it became routine, repetitive, commonplace, and the last several years of movies, despite being cooped up during the pandemic, audience are largely...bored. The bulk of the population under 45 doesn't especially care about comics. They don't buy, read,slab and store them with the same fervor older generations would be inclined to. Sure, some here defy the odds, but you don't change the odds. They will never, ever match what previous generations felt, because their experience was very different growing up. They will gravitate towards those Pokemon cards, or some game system.

    The majority of boomers are in their 70's, their stuff is going to flood all levels of resale and collecting. Much of it, stored away in their McMansions, garages, and storage units will not be absorbed by their children and grandchildren. They don't want it, can't store it, won't use it.  I know this from experience, having spent the last few years winding down my parents, grandparents, and now in-laws houses and estates.  Most of it went in the trash or was donated or given away. You need a set of wedding china? How about 4? The market will ultimately be awash in comics. Supply will exceed demand. that's just the way it is. It's just math, and math don't care about anyone's feelings or opinions or anecdotal experience.  

    Marvel totally ruined the super heroes movies . they paid expensive actors and they spent a lot of money on visual effects but they forgot to get good directors and good writers.

     

    F eBay. Other sales platform suggestions and experiences?

    in Comics General

    Posted · Edited by Mijael.Levy

    - I have my own website but i don´t have money now to promote it 

    - I do comiclink - Its very easy to work with them

    - Facebook groups - I try to post 2 - 3 times a week in niche groups and works well

    - I am trying reels at Instagram but even with almost 5K followers i dont get attention but since my ebay and my instagram accounts have the same logo and name , people from Ebay search at instagram for me to buy stuff outside Ebay

    I have also almost all my stuff with Best Offer option. If someone sends me an offer i try to find his username at instagram to contact them and F... Ebay. I sold a $2300 item last month using this tactic