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Drummy

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  1. I've put in my seven bids early...have six auctions of my own going as well.  My rule of thumb is seeing everything at least at 50% of market halfway through the auction to predict a pretty much market results.

    Art, however, can go through the roof in the final 30 seconds; comics are more predictable.  Really hoping I win a couple pieces I'm watching, although I've noticed (anecdotally) in the past that Feb results are usually strong across the board.

    Dan

  2. I still like Comiclink for buying and selling (mostly buying these days), as Jon Signorelli has been a superb contact for many years.  Also, white-paged keys tend to do well there, so I've had no complaints with sales thus far.

    That said, this summer I did two sales threads here on the boards and everything sold.  Price it right and you can save all the commissions by doing the work here, especially for $1-$5000 books.  Really big stuff probably demands an auction house.

    Dan

  3. Hey all --

    Thanks to the OP for this thread and for all the responses...so fun to hear how everyone organizes their collections.

    I have focused in on about 22 of the Marvel SA keys for my permanent collection, which means that I can't go HG on most of them.  So I ignore the number in the corner and look instead for three things:  white pages, clean covers, and quality of production (centering, registration, brightness, staple placement, etc.).  So my collection ranges from 4.0 to 9.4 right now with a lot of 6.0's and the like in between.  A few examples are below.

    Thanks again and good luck figuring out what works for you!

    Dan

     

    AF 15 4.0 wp.jpg

    TOS 39 6.0 wp.jpeg

    X-Men 4 9.2 wp.jpg