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4 minutes ago, Callaway29 said:
GPA doesn’t determine value.
They simply record historical sales, provide annual averages, annual highs and lows, 90day average, and last sale. Where r u looking?
Book is smokin, no doubt...so much for my plans to upgrade!
I don't have GPA but the people who I've seen quote GPA have stated last sale, so those other numbers they may have sound great if they're ever used. I'd love to see them, why don't you post them for this book?
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13 hours ago, Jaydogrules said:
Anyone else see this 9.2 sell for $8600?
That's a new GPA high by a whole lot for the grade.
-J.
The previous two 9.2 sales I have were $7900 on 3/23 and $9947 on 3/6. GPA seems to determine value by last sale which is not the best way. You really need a weighted average but with sparse sales like the Turtles #1 first print have, even an average works better. In the case of 9.2's that would be $8815.
12 hours ago, Jaydogrules said:A 9.4 at $10k would strike me as being a relative bargain at this point after this 9.2 sale today.
-J.
That was so March 2018!
Now 9.4's are listing with asking prices of $13-13.5K.
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On 3/4/2018 at 10:09 AM, GM8 said:
Well it does get interestinger and interestinger. The curious case of TMNT #1 9.8 with cert # 0950071001. Now in preview mode on Heritage here:
So, the story goes that back on 4/1/2016 this beauty sold on Comic Connect for $27,222.00, and has been verified with CC. Then on 4/29/16, the ever-present nick_bridger apparently sold the same book on ebay for a final auction value of $24,100.00. To those unfamiliar he has had several 9.8's on ebay that either sell, or kinda-sorta sell or we're not really sure. It is a little odd how the book sells for 27K then he sells the same book for 3K cheaper a month later. Anyhow it's available again this time on HA, bidding starts on 4/20/18. No idea if he's the seller but HA is legit so this should be drama free for the winner.
Just sold for $38,240.00 (includes buyer's premium). A new record.
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On 4/18/2018 at 11:47 AM, GM8 said:
This looks like it just opened bidding. Current bid at $11,000 w/ Buyer's Premium (BP) : $13,145.00Now $20,000 w/ Buyer's Premium (BP) : $23,900.00
Now at $30,000 w/ Buyer's Premium (BP) : $35,850.00
Well that didn't take long. This is now at the exact sale price of the previous 9.8 that sold at HA in late February. Will it go higher? With 19 days left in the auction it sure seems so.
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On 3/4/2018 at 10:09 AM, GM8 said:
Well it does get interestinger and interestinger. The curious case of TMNT #1 9.8 with cert # 0950071001. Now in preview mode on Heritage here:
So, the story goes that back on 4/1/2016 this beauty sold on Comic Connect for $27,222.00, and has been verified with CC. Then on 4/29/16, the ever-present nick_bridger apparently sold the same book on ebay for a final auction value of $24,100.00. To those unfamiliar he has had several 9.8's on ebay that either sell, or kinda-sorta sell or we're not really sure. It is a little odd how the book sells for 27K then he sells the same book for 3K cheaper a month later. Anyhow it's available again this time on HA, bidding starts on 4/20/18. No idea if he's the seller but HA is legit so this should be drama free for the winner.
This looks like it just opened bidding. Current bid at $11,000 w/ Buyer's Premium (BP) : $13,145.00Now $20,000 w/ Buyer's Premium (BP) : $23,900.00
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Great collection. Wow.
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9 hours ago, TheAvenger80 said:
Hey guys, I recently picked up a #2 1st print and I was kind of surprised how not-glossy the cover was. It almost feels like newsprint. Is this normal for #2? I have never handled a #1 1st print but I have a CGC second print and it seems glossier/of heavier stock. I may very well be being paranoid.
This is normal. Copies of #1 have a semi-glossy cover, while #2 had a more matte finish cover. While it is more standard paper-y feel it is a thicker density just like you would expect with a cover. Then #3 and 4 resumed the semi-glossy cover like #1.
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7 hours ago, oseedcltr said:
Do you think there would be a premium put on a cgc 9.4 white pages with the two interior signatures? What would everyone’s guess be on an avg for that caliber of book?
There was some "discussion" about this earlier in this or the other TMNT thread. It seemed more about emotion than the reality. The reality here is that 4 of these 9.4's have traded since 12/1/17. Of those, the OW/W page ones sold for $10.5K, $10.3K and $10.1 K. The 4th one with White pages? Sold for $8225 on 12/17.
The sales prices are almost singularly determined by the grade with this book. It's so rare especially in the higher grades that the page quality is an afterthought for buyers, apparently.
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This 9.4 SS sold for $10,100 approximately. It was flipped from a previous sale back on 11/29/17 for a $2500 profit (not including fees). This new sale price is in line with recent sales of 9.4's.
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That's a crazy story. I believe the best thing you can do is to, as you did, have a supervisor note that this happened. Maybe report this higher up. Without getting into it, any employee who doesn't fear for their job security needs to have mistakes like this noted and on the record.
I ship daily through my PO and rarely have problems.
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47 minutes ago, Turtle said:
What range do these sell for? I am a Turtle fan but really have no idea about these.
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1 hour ago, pubmonkey said:
I’m a bit confused by this slab:
is this an error? I thought the street collectors edition was a mini comic included in the fan club kit from 1988...
looks like an error, you are right.
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38 minutes ago, btaing said:
Full press is taking forever at the moment. Has anybody ever used their quick press service and if so how were the results?
I used it for some books and couldn't be happier, a signed book with ball-point grooves as well as some ncb creases came out a 9.6 for example.
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Someone bite the bullet and buy a book and give her neg feedback. Not it.
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7 hours ago, cmzare said:
My recent acquisition ...
Very nice. And in retrospect I believe you got a very good price. Having both those auctions at the same time really split the bids I believe. Two 9.4's just sold recently for around $10.5K each, and asking prices on current ones are higher.
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Wouldn't it be fair to assume that once JC and Stan rid themselves of the parasites, that he will still have a steady income from Marvel royalties and ventures? I think it's awful that people take advantage, but I would think there's more coming to him/them over time.
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On 2/23/2018 at 9:49 AM, loboagain said:
Based on the two recent sales of TMNT #1, what range does a 9.2 & 9.4 fall into?
A 9.2 just sold on ebay for $9,947. This was a set of 2, 3, and 4 also...but you can take maybe $200-300 out for those and get a value of the 9.2.
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1 hour ago, FN-2199 said:
Requesting immediate payment is one option to avoid non-paying buyers. Everyone who does this just has to remember that now you can't send invoices to buyers who want to purchase multiple listings for combined shipping. There is no "request total from seller" option if immediate payment is required. This won't affect a lot slab sales but guys filling runs of raw comics like to combine shipping.
Is this new? Or was it possible if you select an option about combining shipping?
I combine but always just refund people after the fact. It may reduce some sales but I am not bothered by it all that much.
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I'd echo the switching listings to BIN w/ immediate payment required sentiment. If you have a lot of non-paying bidders, just save yourself the pain and put your best price out there. I've had a couple non-payers but overall they're a small minority. I don't hound people once an auction ends, I let ebay tell them to pay. If they haven't in a couple days I will send an invoice. Best thing I can say I've done is when an auction ends just don't assume it's a done deal, and relisting is easy. That way there's no disappointment.
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Well it does get interestinger and interestinger. The curious case of TMNT #1 9.8 with cert # 0950071001. Now in preview mode on Heritage here:
So, the story goes that back on 4/1/2016 this beauty sold on Comic Connect for $27,222.00, and has been verified with CC. Then on 4/29/16, the ever-present nick_bridger apparently sold the same book on ebay for a final auction value of $24,100.00. To those unfamiliar he has had several 9.8's on ebay that either sell, or kinda-sorta sell or we're not really sure. It is a little odd how the book sells for 27K then he sells the same book for 3K cheaper a month later. Anyhow it's available again this time on HA, bidding starts on 4/20/18. No idea if he's the seller but HA is legit so this should be drama free for the winner.
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4 hours ago, OrangeCrush said:
The place we drop off our recycling has 4 huge dumpsters in the very back that is just for garbage. That's where we dump the stuff that is literally garbage. We also have a Salvation Army a couple miles down the road, which unfortunately just closed down, and we would drop a lot of lesser valued items there that weren't junk, but you would have a VERY hard time selling. They would take just about anything there as long as it wasn't garbage. And I'm not sure if you have ever heard of the TV show called Hardcore Pawn? Its a reality tv show based on the pawn shop "American Jewelry and Loan", which ls located in Detroit. That store is only around 20 minutes away from us and we have moved quite a bit of stuff through them over the years. You don't get a lot of money for the stuff, but it definitely helps move some of the lesser quality stuff that you don't want to keep and would have a hard time moving otherwise. The whole idea behind storage bins is getting the good stuff while getting rid of the rest of it. The Salvation Army and American Jewelry and Loan have definitely been 2 of our go to places for getting rid of most of that lesser quality stuff. Not sure what we will do now that the Salvation Army has shut down. Need to see if there is another one that isn't too far away.
And supposedly 4/5 people make money off of storage bin auctions, with the 1/5 either breaking even or losing money.
"“Four out of 5 people make money and 1 out of 5 breaks even or loses money in this business,” he said. “I know more than 100 people who make over $100,000 a year doing this.”
https://www.sparefoot.com/self-storage/blog/13143-how-to-make-money-at-storage-auctions/
We have won around 20 bins over the years and there are only 2 I can think of that we wound up losing money on, and neither were huge losses. One wound up being a bin that literally had about 30 medium size plastic storage containers that were literally full of cheap flip flops, lol. We dumped that entire bin on the salvation army and amazingly, they took all of them as even tho they were cheap flip flops, they were all brand new so they still took them. They just send them to the main distribution center and they then get sent to different Salvation Army stores in that region.
This isn't true at all. Most of the people that I have seen at storage bin auctions look just like average middle class Americans. And I'm not sure what kind of environment you would expect. It takes place right at the storage facilities so its exactly what one should expect. Many of the facilities are actually very nice places, in very nice cities. I'm certainly not going to any of the storage places that are located in slums. This is just a complete misconception of what its really like.
A lot of the time, that is where you find some of the most interesting stuff. That antique camera collection I spoke about earlier, that entire collection was stored in plain brown unmarked boxes. The reason I purchased that bin was because it had a nice gas style pressure washer. The camera collection was literally impossible to see. And that's why storage bin auctions are basically gambling. Your not allowed to go into the bin to look around so you can only see a few things with most bins and you have to make an educated guess from there as to what else might be in there.
How organized and clean a bin is can be one of the key's to the quality of the items in it. And having a general knowledge for various markets like antiques definitely comes in handy. For example, one of the bins we won, my wife immediately recognized a few pieces in the bin that were depression glass. I have no experience with that and thus would have never recognized it. It wound up there were like 10 boxes in that bin that were full of depression glass and its pretty easy to move that stuff on eBay.
I have seen Hard Core Pawn and always liked their rawness as compared to Pawn Stars. The customers they get in that store are enough to scare anyone out of the pawn business....just argumentative about everything and many are just trying to hustle every second. They seem to do well despite it so kudos to them.
If 4/5 people make bucks and many make $100K I'd be surprised honestly. That quote is from an auctioneer so he has every reason to exaggerate. He makes more money the more competitive it is.
That's too bad about your Salvation Army closing. Try Goodwill, they will take almost anything clean and useful too. I use the Givebackbox all the time and it's free to ship them donations. http://www.givebackbox.com/
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16 hours ago, W16227 said:
Darrel actually found a real score back in the 1990s - I do not count any of the SW shows as real.
They are real with some BS thrown in. They subsidize the "stars" buys hence they appear at all these far-and-away places where they wouldn't normally go. Then you will see some random item they need to get an expert's opinion but that item is totally out of character for the unit. Those are often planted items to keep the show interesting.
16 hours ago, W16227 said:14 hours ago, OrangeCrush said:There have been a few big comic finds over the years with storage bins. I'm actually surprised more people in here aren't active on this front given that fact as they really are a lot of fun. My wife and I have been going to storage bin auctions for at least 6-7 years now. Unfortunately, they have gotten more and more popular over the years and that rise in popularity has definitely raised the average price many of the bins wind up selling for. When we first started going to storage bin auctions, there would only be a small group of people in most instances. Now many of them can have pretty large groups of people and again, its definitely raised the average price many of the bins wind up selling for. One of the things they really don't show on the TV shows is just how worthless, dirty and smelly many of them are. The TV shows tend to only show the quality bins that wind up having decent stuff in them. Definitely make sure you bring a quality pair of working gloves if you ever decide to start attending and bidding on bins. And its a LOT of work and requires at least a truck or van to move many of the items. You usually have 24-48 hours to clean the bin out after the auction is over.
We have definitely won some great bins over the years. I found a substantial antique camera collection when we first started attending storage bin auctions. It was just the 2nd bin we had ever won and that find really got me hooked on storage bin auctions. Another big bin we won had a TON of older Coca-Cola memorabilia and a bunch of misc fountain shop equipment. We wound up making around $6,000 on that bin. And we just won one a couple weeks back that had these really cool blue storage type lockers that wound up being perfect for storing art books. It also wound up having a really nice Milwaukee tool chest, which had a large set of Snap-On tools, like 8 full boxes of quality hardcover books, a digital dart board, and a couple of cool lamps and end tables. Unfortunately, I have only found comics once in the roughly 20 storage bin auctions we have won over the years. There were 6 short boxes full of mostly silver age comics, but the condition was only around 5.0 on average so while it was still a nice find, it just wasn't anything earth shattering. One of the boxes was like 75% full of silver age Wonder Woman comics and most of those still have a decent value to them.
A word of warning tho, storage bin auctions can get addicting. Its really no different from any other kind of gambling.
I often wondered what do you do with all the trash you ultimately get from any of these units? The storage facility I use has no dumpsters or garbage bins so you have to haul everything away. Seems like unless you really know what you're doing and you're lucky its a break-even or lose big-time, time-waster.
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CBG was a great resource back in the pre-internet days. It was ebay and comic news for the entire country. I got my Turtles #1 through an ad in the back! Can't beat that!
They simply record historical sales, provide annual averages, annual highs and lows, 90day average, and last sale. Where r u looking?
Now 9.4's are listing with asking prices of $13-13.5K.
eBay's latest stupidity
in Comics General
Posted · Edited by GM8
There are two different ebay pages for each listing, and this is not new. The first one from above is normal, desktop listing information.
The second is a special version of the page that I get only when googling an item and opening that item through google search results. It is less informative and disorienting since I'm so used to seeing the "normal" desktop version.
I would say make sure you are searching ebay through ebay, and not in a google search bar.