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That session hasn't occurred yet. GoCo probably won't have FMV on gold books anyway, not enough trade volume.

Hard to say without complete results, but if it's indicative of the entire auction, which is certainly plausible, then ya, probably quite a few people not crazy about it. Do they go ahead with the Featured Auction coming up or delay it? I guess you just have to roll on, keep the dollars moving.

Keys, bigger dollar books, books that trade often. No conserved or restored. Common books won't have FMV on GoCo that I can find. Plus, I'm not going to frantically try to collect results from each auction. I'm playing games and tabbing back and forth.

Up and running. Here's the link, but it's in my initial post, too. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14jkkDxV_f3dn0-2hUcW5zY2UX59Tmxih2sB2O6DKl_A/edit#gid=0

Just drink water and eat dirt. And congrats.

I actually was thinking about this, wondering if it's the most homaged cover of all comic history.

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After this week's books, distributed to LCS's yesterday, Diamond is stopping distribution. So you won't be getting any new titles for a time. Or am I misunderstanding your question? I will try to support my LCS by continuing to purchase what I can. I will ask them to hold items so that I can pick them up later, after paying by PayPal.

There will be some fascinating case studies and books in the next five to ten years about this. But any intellectual interest in how this games out collapses pretty hard in the reality of the situation at the moment.

I'm in digital gaming, so we're seeing a bump like most other gaming outfits are. At least the ones operating profitable titles. We have one of the highest rated games with millions of downloads in its category on the Play Store. If not for that, I might be crapped out myself. My concern is that a lot of gamers are young, not working high-income jobs, and not working at all right now. How long their cash and credit holds out, we'll see.

Good luck @JollyComics! My one win so far. $40 bucks so I'm happy.

Oof, yeah, good luck. I'm glad my last ones at auction hit in February.

Do I really need to go full RMA and start quoting you to show you where you are wrong? Just find another thread, yo. I've got enough to worry about. I'm not that interested in arguing with a cranky yankee.

My wife's income is hit hard right now, so I'm not free to look for bargains on pricier books. I am hoping to do a bit of bottom-feeding on a small number of books that would normally run from $50 to $100. I'd love a large data set so we could draw meaningful conclusions. I would love to look for patterns at certain dollar thresholds, books that are weeks or months out from related cinematic releases, books that are usually evergreens such as GSX 1, and so on.

It's rather incomplete. I'd love a bot to scrape the entire results over the course of a year. Not sure about the legalities of such things though.

Great, you're back. Maybe this isn't the thread for you? Are you going to continue with the threats?

I get it. Clarity of expression is not for everyone. No harm, no foul.

Call me crazy, but "you know" contains the pronoun "you". Should I read all your pronoun usage as vague generality?

Did I miss the part where I drew conclusions? It's a snapshot. I assume most people here can make an intelligent read of the data.

Curious? Here's a look at select auction results. Knowing me, I won't keep this up, but hey, not like I have much else to do right now. Except work. And parent. I no longer use GPA, so my comparison for FMV is from GoCollect. Generally, I selected books that were likely to land over $1,000, were exceptional copies, or which trade frequently. If someone wants to add GPA data, DM me. I'd be curious to see that column added. For the Gold lots in ComicLink, GoCo won't have much information, but I may record the hammers anyhow. Anyhow: the data. UPDATE (04 Apr 2020): I doubt that I will capture any more data from the current ComicLink auction. Here are captured results through last night. The remaining night of comics lots includes "assorted." There are always some keys and such there, usually lower grade copies of ones offered on the preceding days, but it's mostly less desirable stuff. Here are some observations and thoughts after watching this. This is obviously a very limited dataset. It's not the complete auction. It's only one auction. It's an auction during a period of high economic uncertainty. And the data I captured was loosely defined. I looked for frequently traded books, only blue label books, high dollar books, and books generally accepted as keys or having some other collector significance. Since I was using GoCollect for a FMV comparison, I did not capture results from the Golden Age nights since GoCo seldom has a FMV determination for these comics. I watched most of these results live, and the folks who complain about sniping on CLink have reason to complain. Almost all of them had bids in the closing seconds. For high quantity books (think a book where you'll see a 9.8, 9.6, 9.4, and possibly additional lower grade copies for sale), the bargains were often on the 9.4. I am defining bargain here as the copy that was percentage-wise the most below GoCollect's FMV. The average % change was about -12%. That number was very consistent throughout. Only last night did it actually drop under 12%, to 11.88%. Prices seemed obviously depressed but not bottomed out. Of the 331 lots, 61 hammered at or above FMV.

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Any Francavilla? Or Allred?

I will take this one, too.