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Ebay auction closed at $24,100.00.  Under my predicted range of $25-30K but not far off.  We'll see if sale sticks.  Bad timing on seller's part since the Heritage auction of same exact book is happening now also.

Heritage is at $16K (19K with buyer's premium).

11 hours ago, Icculus308win said:

 

What "last ones have sold for $32,000+"?

 

 

Unknown.  Several have traded through private sales apparently, but no published and verifiable prices.

Ebay's auction up to $19.1K

Heritage still at 11K (13K with buyer's premium).

That gap is interesting.  Shouldn't last though.

38 minutes ago, Lethal_Collector said:

Woah, the dude has two 9.8s?  There, are no words.....

 

Jerome

I guess you are being sarcastic.  They're not the same seller.

It's been removed.  

2 minutes ago, Lethal_Collector said:

Oooh same seller at both, eh?  Dats shady AF 

 

Jerome

They're different.  HA CGC # is 1268030001, Ebay appears to be 0202540001.

6 minutes ago, stock_rotation said:

Don't sweat it, it's me. I'm curious if the seller will try and do an off-ebay deal.

I know some on here get really heated by any selling off ebay, but to me selling a counterfeit item as "possibly real" is much more severe.

31 minutes ago, Duffman_Comics said:

The copy for sale lacks the (red) silhouetted buildings that the original has, bottom left hand corner (front cover, obviously).

Famous First Edition reprints have that detail. No idea what this is - except that it is not the real deal.

You're right.  The red tower in the left bottom corner is missing.  I'm reporting this now.

8 hours ago, Lethal_Collector said:

TMNT #1 9.8 on fleabay is over $14K already.  At one point this book was considered a modern age book, right?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/352037128335?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Tempting, but can't part with my stash....

 

Jerome

Heritage auction same issue is a STEAL at 11K (13K w/ buyers premium)!  Does anyone know how the seller premium works at Heritage?  Do they waive the seller's fee above a certain value?  19% is such a cash grab and that's just the buyer's premium.

The question is why would nick bridger list his at the same time as the other one?   Not a good move in my opinion.  There's only so many people out there with $25-30K who want to buy this comic.

7 hours ago, kav said:

that is odd.  maybe they really have the book, just want to deal outside ebay.

No idea if the book is legit but after he sent me the photos already in the auction, he sent me new pics with his ebay name on it.   So he has whatever is in the pictures.

4 hours ago, kav said:

no description, never sold comics before, key book, Germany

Yeah, I messaged him.  First thing is he wants to chat on whatsapp, told him no way, ebay only with buyer protections.  Then he offered other pictures of the book.  Ok, so he sends me the same last 3 photos from the auction.  Says he got the book "for his birthday".   Well la de fricken da.  Sure.

worked great for me!  Had a book in my basket I was waiting on something like this for!  nice.

52 minutes ago, Barth said:

Looks suspicious. Probably receive a German newspaper instead 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/262954679017?redirect=mobile

How does it look suspicious?  Not disagreeing or agreeing, I have no idea about these books.

Also, don't forget people that Heritage also has a TMNT #1 1st print 9.8 WP up for auction, currently around $2,000.  It's not mine but wish it were!

https://comics.ha.com/itm/modern-age-1980-present-/alternative-underground/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1-mirage-studios-1984-cgc-nm-mt-98-white-pages/a/7163-91017.s?ic4

The Pawn Stars guys are good at this.  The old adage "99% of comics are worthless" and a skeptical delivery set the tone with their customers.  Now they are selling many different items so they don't have to be comics cheerleaders like a LCS does.  Maybe rephrasing it to "99% of old comics are not worth very much and to resell these I need to be able to make money."  That's what I would say.  Then every thing the person says after that I would respond "I'm sorry there's nothing I can do".  Buh bye!

2 hours ago, fastballspecial said:

I am not sure I could get that many in, but that is the cheapest route that will get it to you pretty safe. You can pack comics in bricks of cardboard.

Media mail is an option, but again that's risky.

I ship comics media mail often and never have a problem.  If you pack safely you can ship anything.  Technically comics have ads so they don't qualify for media mail but I've only had one box of comics returned over the years for this reason (It was damaged and of course it was to Florida, but that's another story).

I've read data on user activity on Ebay and Saturday-Monday are the most active times.  Friday is next best.  Thurs, Wed and Tuesday as least active but I forget the order.  Many professional ebayers end their auctions on late Sunday night, 9-10 pm eastern (ebay uses PST so 3+ hours to whatever they quote on the site).  In my experience Sunday nights are the best I've found for eyeballs and activity, with Mondays next and Saturdays my third choice.  

That said, I never end auctions during the daytime when people have a lot of other stuff to do.  Any commuting times on weekdays are the worst.

didnt work for me.

11 hours ago, oakman29 said:

Actually TMNT 1's 2nd prints had a print run of 6000, not 15K as reported in OS.

That's correct.  My mistake.

3 hours ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Interesting, glad it worked out. I have one of my earliest experiences with comics also with TMNT 1. I was born in 1981. I remember going by the local supermarket and seeing turtle comics and wanting one or two. I believe I saw the #1 somewhere in there but it must have been a later printing because I remember being old enough to read. The reason I remember is my brother was to come soon and I wanted to impress him with turtles comics 'cause they looked like fun  I also remember my mom saying no that baby's can't read  and the cover looked a little forboding for a young kid. I didn't mind at the time because there was only one left on the rack and it was beat up and had tears.

4 hours ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

I appreciate it very much  now I have some information to refer back to!! Thanks Again

You got it.  These are the books that got me into comics so I have great memories of going to my LCS and trying to track them down.   There was such a fever about the #1 1st printing and so much information back then was just word of mouth that it had a aura surrounding it.  When I finally tracked down a copy it was flipping counterfeit!  Someone took a 3rd printing and white-out the "THIRD" from "THIRD PRINTING" and put in "FIRST".  Luckily I was skeptical enough to realize I was had and returned it to the store I bought it from.  

3 hours ago, comiconxion said:

Don't forget Raphael #1 (which came out after issue #3) was also over-sized.   And if you count Fugitoid #1, that was full magazine sized. Also, for the 6th printing of #1, they went back and created a magazine sized version. 

Right however he asked about the TMNT numbered issues.  The 6th print I've never known about but thanks for the info.  

On 3/25/2017 at 10:48 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Hi everyone I'm late to the party, and evidently first prints are something else, to be tallied as such!  As first prints are expensive, are 2nd prints worth their salt for TMNT #1? I've just started to research and could use some simple advice, if it is simple. I see at the LCS TMNT's #3 in VF for about $40 and they're sized differently than modern comics. Are they Magazines? or is that what you Sub them under? at what number do they stop being this size #5? LCS also had a #4 for cheap, and of course it's the type of LCS that I don't know what print they are ie 1st 2nd 4th. Also of 1-4 which have multiple prints... idk this is a lot to ask and I understand it's probably common knowledge around here, so if anyone feels the need to pm me rather than take up space here I understand  I just hope that I could rap my head around it....and get some knowledge  

TMNT #1 2nd print does have a decent value but nowhere near the 1st of course.  The first print had around 3000-3250 print run, whereas the second was 15,000 if I remember correctly (3rd was around 35,000).  The only magazine size issues were #1 (1st, 2nd & 3rd prints), #2 (1st & 2nd prints), #3 & 4 (1st prints only). These must be submitted as magazine size to CGC.   Then #5 began the regular comic size as you noted.  For values look at Ebay sold listings sorted most recent sales first, that's the best and easiest way to find true market value.

2 hours ago, 1Cool said:

There will always be high price examples even in "dead" collectibles (ie rare upside down stamps, ultra rare beanie babies, a few ultra rare sports cards) but as a whole all of those markets are dead as a door nail.   A few variants would have been greatly accepted by most collectors but the sheer number of them is just overwhelming to almost anyone.  How many Star Wars 1 variants where there that people bought in force and how many are worth more then cover price now?  Not many from what I see.  The examples of variants (some 1:100 copies) that are worth $5 are endless whereas there is only a handful of variants that continue to hold their value let alone continue to appreciate.

The Star Wars 1 example is good.  That was way overdone and now 90% of them sit around for cover price.  The 1:100 or higher in the key issues can command a higher price still and that's the only ones I look for.  Any 1:100 is not interesting to me.  Key issue?  Then sure it can be.  Otherwise its just destined for the $1 bin.  I think in the long run that idea will stay true, if its not a key issue the rarity won't matter.

8 hours ago, ComicConnoisseur said:

Yep,Instagram and now Pinterest have really changed the game of selling. They kind of make Ebay seem so 1999. 

I know people sell through other venues like this, and ones like FB and these boards as well.  But my question is that how does it work selling lots of books without an ebay as arbiter in between?