oldbsturgeon

Yeah. The quote from the shop owner is in this thread actually

Yeah. The quote from the shop owner is in this thread actually

I live in Hurricane WV so thought this was about something here! But nothing happens here...

phase 2 is now complete: with 428 purchased, I have 404-713 done. I started this mid April so it has happened fairly fast.
The next part will be getting the missing books from 300-399, which is currently sitting at 73 books to do that.
My plan was to have that done by the end of the year, though it may be longer than that.
 
 

so with this pickup over the weekend 1 book to go! just need 428 now, and hopefully that will be happening really soon!
 

As others have said, I wouldn't swear you can still find these for $5 in nice enough condition, but these are 3 of my low-cost favorites that I happened to have scans handy:
Sword of Sorcery #5.  DC's attempt to compete with Marvel's Conan the Barbarian, here adapting Fritz Leiber's sword & sorcery stories featuring Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser.  The primary draw here is early interior artwork by Walt Simonson and Jim Starlin, from when they were just starting out (1973).

Mister Miracle #9.  Kirby's "The Pact" from New Gods #7 gets most of the attention, but this follow-up flashback story of Scott (Mister Miracle) Free's early days is equally good.  "Himon" owes a lot to Dickens' Oliver Twist, for what it's worth.

Batman #393.  Believe this is Paul Gulacy's first Batman work, both on the interiors and on this should-be classic cover image.  If only more of Doug Moench's first Batman run had been drawn by Gulacy!

 

Next con I’m slipping all the dealer booths this note. I’ll report back what I get to settle this once and for all.
 

That copy looks beautiful! Congratulations!

with 426 and 429 now in, I only have 2 books to have 390-713 done. I need the other two death in the family books.

I just picked this up a few minutes ago, for what I thought was a pretty good price

I'm not sure if you're referring to the price you see in CLZ, but, if so, make sure in CLZ the price you see isn't for another grade.  Sometimes if you have a 4.5 in your collection, it will show the price for an 8.5 or something because that's the last recent sale for that grade (not sure of the exact algorithm), but they do show that the price is for an 8.5, so you don't get confused.  You can also enter your own price in there if you want.
Also, no one pricing site is going to be "perfect" for everything, but for slabs, I probably trust GPA over anybody else.  For example, Thor #134 in CGC 7.0.  On the GPA, they list 2 sales in June and July.  They don't list anything past around May on CovrPrice.  But they do show that the price is over 90 days old on the site.  The problem with using that data is that whatever algorithm they use to arrive at FMV shows the FMV to be $344 for a slabbed 7.0, which is somewhat ridiculous based upon what they're actually selling for this year. lol.  But then you have to also consider people paying crazy prices for different grades and price compression across lower grades would cause some weird numbers and averages for prices to pop up across grades.  You can see some of this in their FMV for a 6.5 currently, which is $119 and the FMV for a 6.0 is $206.  The $206 data is stale.  So there's no reason not to assume in some cases their data for raw comics is incomplete or stale, as well.
For stuff like GA comics, it's not that great since many GA comics don't change hands a lot unless there's a popular comic with a fairly decent-sized census count.  I have a CovrPrice account simply because I like the integration with CLZ, and it usually gives me an idea of what my comics are doing outside of, like I said, GA comics, but when it comes auction time for GA-to-BA, I'm going to be looking at the recent sales for slabs from GPA or something, since I'm still not too trusting of buying many raw comics online.  The pricing doesn't really bother me that much since I don't plan on selling my comics anytime soon.
Each service has their advantages and disadvantages.  GPA has no pics but probably has the best data for CGC, but has no CBCS.  GoCollect also sometimes suffers from incomplete sales coverage but shows pics of the actual comics that sold.  CovrPrice has sometimes incomplete CBCS and CGC data and tries to come up with an FMV for raw comics that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.  I have all 3, but for auctions, I use GPA since I really only deal in slabs on auctions (well, for 99% of purchases).

Interestingly enough, when I use their pricing for auctions, I get beat EVERY SINGLE TIME, telling me for the books I look at, their values are LOW, not HIGH (notice I emphasized the books I look at since I can't possibly be the arbiter of all books for your collections).
There is a pretty popular Ebay Auction seller based out of NY with hundreds of listings every week (I'm sure a lot of you use them or know of them). When I see something I like, I tabulate EVERY book in those runs. Use the FMV, and then bid based on that. 99% of the time, I LOSE, by over 25-40% (sometimes much more)
Only when I have a special "emotional value" that I add to the lots I want, then I get closer, but still usually loose. I often have to bid the "are you f'ing crazy" price to win.
However, on the flip side, when I price my stuff to SELL, I do tend to LOWER my price compared to them, because I look at the recent sales (which are always missing a TON, many of my own) and make my own judgment call to move a book quickly or sit on it until I get what I want.
So, it's a great resource, love the interface, and the new upgrade is "OK". I email them regularly asking for features or changes (or for bug reports), and they are usually very open to hear me and listen to my points.
I recommend them, and like everything else, pros and cons...
gain experience with them before you jump into anything based on their reports. 
 
*** EDITS ***
Just to clarify my experiences... It's the Raw FMVs that I think are lower and the SLABS that I think are Higher (and inconsistent if no data is found) as most alluded to...So, I still recommend them even full-well-knowing this little tidbit of stuff being "off". Your mileage may vary.

I use it as I like the collection data system, but I do find the valuation to be off. It seems pretty high on raw books. For instance I am working on a batman run currenty. I have 388-713 and then between 300-399 missing 30 books. Now there are some decent books in that run, but I don't know if their value is actually the 3600 the report is showing based on the grades I entered.
I think the books which are the keys are pretty accurate but the random issues that show it to be 11  in a particular grade for example when its more like 3-4, and there are lots of those, inflate the value pretty high.

I went to a local show here in WV over the weekend. I picked up 36 books in the 300s for my batman run. 
I have 31 books left to get in that number block.

I went to a local show here in WV over the weekend. I picked up 36 books in the 300s for my batman run. 
I have 31 books left to get in that number block.

I went to a local show here in WV over the weekend. I picked up 36 books in the 300s for my batman run. 
I have 31 books left to get in that number block.

This book really doesn't see many sales. I have always liked the cover. My plan is to send it for a press to get that modern book waviness out so it should look super good then. I paid $26 after some rewards so a good pick up I feel

I like JOCK covers, so when I saw this graded cover he did of tec 1000, I thought it would be cool as something to hang on the wall.
I got it while on vacation this week in SC

phase 2 is now complete: with 428 purchased, I have 404-713 done. I started this mid April so it has happened fairly fast.
The next part will be getting the missing books from 300-399, which is currently sitting at 73 books to do that.
My plan was to have that done by the end of the year, though it may be longer than that.
 
 

this guy is local to me and I'll be at the show he was talking about in the video. I've never met him in person, but know several of the people he has talked about in previous videos. He says it like he sees it for sure

so with this pickup over the weekend 1 book to go! just need 428 now, and hopefully that will be happening really soon!
 

This book really doesn't see many sales. I have always liked the cover. My plan is to send it for a press to get that modern book waviness out so it should look super good then. I paid $26 after some rewards so a good pick up I feel

This book really doesn't see many sales. I have always liked the cover. My plan is to send it for a press to get that modern book waviness out so it should look super good then. I paid $26 after some rewards so a good pick up I feel