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On 10/8/2018 at 5:05 PM, valiantman said:
Did this already get discussed?
CGC 9.6 TMNT #1 - watchcount.com says the "Best Offer" accepted was $20,000 and GPA has it at $20,000. No signatures inside or out, just a standard CGC 9.6 White Pages blue label.
Didn't see that yet. That's a slight bump up from the average price of late. Seller had this up on Comic Link and ebay at several prices, originally 30K then 25, then 27, then 23.5. So he really tested the higher prices but settled at 20 for this one.
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Ok, finally had a chance to add some data that pubmonkey sent from GPA sales of 9.6 and 9.8's:
- szucchini and Callaway29
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9 hours ago, rich_TMNT said:
Sweet graphs! As a data analyst myself, these posts made my day! Nice work man.
Thanks! Wasn't sure if these would interest anyone else but good to know there's other data nerds here!
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1 hour ago, valiantman said:
Any chance we can see the 9.8 to 9.0 sales on the same chart? The various date ranges at the bottom make it hard to compare across grades.
Ok sure. Excel doesn't like different dates for different chart lines so it lumps them together but I think I can make monthly sales work.
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Here's 9.4 sales:
and 9.2's (sorry the data gets bunched in spots, there's a couple sales for some of the lines, marked with different prices.
and last one 9.0's:
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I track these sales of TMNT #1 9.0 and up. These are confirmed sales on all outlets, ebay, heritage, comiclink, comic connect. Was doing a bunch of Excel work for work and figured I'd churn out a chart or 2 or 3:
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22 hours ago, Turtle said:
Welcome to your first month on ebay!
It really does happen ALL THE TIME, despite being against eBay's Terms of Service. It allows a seller to skirt the selling fees ebay charges even though they used eBay's infrastructure to connect to the buyer. The seller will often make some quick money doing this, but many buyers will block the seller moving forward as they don't want to play games eBay's system.
It does happen all the time and it's a direct result of the ever-increasing fees charged to sellers and the ever-decreasing benifits sellers receive. It's not right but it just is.
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17 hours ago, TMNT said:
Just FYI for any one looking at this book. The seller has previously sold this copy (or has a second one). He mentions no where in his listing title or description that it's a 2014 Insight Edition copy of TMNT 1 that's hes selling. The other sold for $300 this week. I can't help but get the feeling at that price point people might be thinking they are getting a legit raw tmnt 1 2nd print 9.8...or are raw Insights really that valuable and I just wasn't aware? I told him about this during the first sale and he said he didn't have time to change the description.
He says in the title it's a "replica" so I don't see an issue with it. It would only fool a fool I suppose.
Never heard of this particular reprint.
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22 minutes ago, TMNT said:
Hey man! Thanks so much for the kind words. Each and every day I get to see it on the wall and the magic never fades.
Just read the story of your "Grail", great get! So that painting is a one of a kind?
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37 minutes ago, rainmaker said:
I am of the mind that the copies with the original signatures from Kevin and Peter will hold a premium as time goes on. From my limited tracking this doesnt necessarily seem the case but maybe some of the experts have some thoughts? Would the 9.6 have crossed the 20k mark with the original sigs?
Gotta love TMNT 1
Not from what I've seen. I track high-grade sales of this book and people just seem to want the book since its so rare - sig or not.
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16 hours ago, valiantman said:
Yep, final CGC 9.6 price was $19,200 including BP. Looks like it was almost exactly half of the $38,240 for the CGC 9.8 from May 2018.
Good observation, that ratio is common with the CGC grades. Uptick in grades are often doubling of prices.
A good sale though, keeps the trend going. That person who got the 26K for the 9.6 really did well in retrospect.
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On 7/12/2018 at 8:44 AM, GM8 said:
That was quick, now $8,500 w/ Buyer's Premium (BP) : $10,200.00.
For reference, the last two sales of 9.6's I have went for $14.3K on 2/23/18 and $26.3K on 11/17/17, both also Heritage auctions. My best guess is that this one sells for around $18K.
Now $11,000 w/ Buyer's Premium (BP) : $13,200.00. 5 days remain.
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9 hours ago, Wystan said:
Would like to get everyone's opinion:
Do you think I should get a TMNT #1, 1st printing signed on the cover or not? (only Eastman and Laird, of course)
It's such a nice cover and I don't know if it's bad, long term, or better to have the signatures certified by CGC.
Your thoughts are appreciated.
I would skip it entirely or if you must, ask them to sign the interior cover like they used to. The cover is 90% of the appeal of a book and to have some scribbled writing in big thick silver or whatever color is a travesty, imho. I know some people love signatures but I track sales of TMNT #1 1st prints in high grade and, at least for now, they add 0 value to this book.
Looking at AF covers where Stan Lee signs the middle of it I just shake my head. And people value that!
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Saw this freebie on Dealnews:
Amazon offers downloads of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 Kindle/Comixology eBook for free. (It's the same price for iBooks and Google Play Books.)
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On 7/11/2018 at 7:14 AM, GM8 said:
A 9.6 is up for auction on Heritage. Current bid $3,400, w/ Buyer's Premium (BP) : $4,080.00.
That was quick, now $8,500 w/ Buyer's Premium (BP) : $10,200.00.
For reference, the last two sales of 9.6's I have went for $14.3K on 2/23/18 and $26.3K on 11/17/17, both also Heritage auctions. My best guess is that this one sells for around $18K.
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A 9.6 is up for auction on Heritage. Current bid $3,400, w/ Buyer's Premium (BP) : $4,080.00.
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What does it mean when there are two of the same comics, with the same or similar grade next to each other consecutively? I've run into this a few times now, with the final digits being a "1" and "2". The comics were same book and grade. Is this a reholder or is this just someone sending in multiple copies that happen to grade the same?
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Angela stuff is starting to move again with the news of the "Asgardians of the Galaxy" series on its way with Angela and Valkyrie. I thought Marvel had forgotten about her.
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On 5/10/2018 at 5:02 PM, Bronty said:
looks like TMNT 1 9.8 went for almost 40k at heritage today... yikes
Oh yeah, well I up you clouds and bet you stratosphere....
Asking prices are just that but you've got to hand it to the guy, he's ambitious!
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12 minutes ago, comicwiz said:
Here is exactly the sequence of steps I remarked about above which I encountered while looking-up an item using the keywords "Bowen Mysterio" - after viewing the results page below (step 1), I click the item I've highlighted using a red arrow:
Step 1
After clicking the link, I am taken to what I refer to as a preview page. This is because it provides you with a thumbnail view of the item, the listing title, and price sold. You are also shown the shipping cost. However, to view additional images or the original listing description, you need to click the "original listing" link
Step 2
Ordinarily, clicking the "original listing" link would take you to the full listing page, and you would be done. In this latest edition of feeBay skullduggery, you are now presented with a Step 3, even though you neither want to, or care for the recommendation they are presenting you:
Step 3
So after realizing this isn't the item you've been wanting to look-up, you see a blue banner with "the listing you're looking for is no longer available", and "listing" in the sentence is a link. You click the "listing" link and it takes to you to:
Step 4
So you're back to Step 2, and realize this is just the preview screen. So AGAIN, you click the "original listing" link and...
Step 5
This, the final step (5) should actually have been Step 2. I assure anyone here who might think this is nothing new, or normal, that this only started happening this weekend (Saturday, but possibly as early as Friday evening) and never happened to me with any research I've done using eBay until that time.
I also want to make it clear this doesn't happen every time, but will occur if you are looking up different items, and I'd say it's a random thing that I've noticed happen when looking-up past sales on 6 or more different items.
Ok I see what you're saying. They're adding an extra layer...annoying but they already make you click on extra time to see a sold item's details, this seems like just another layer. Ebay's gonna ebay.
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5 minutes ago, stock_rotation said:
That is not true. When ebay makes an announced change, they change it across all servers at the same time. When they make unannounced tweaks (like this one), they roll it out slowly across their servers-- not everyone sees the change immediately.
This is a new tweak. It's not because of someone's computer, or browser or anything else on the user's end.
FWIW, I'm seeing this change as well. I mostly get the "The listing you’re looking for is no longer available. Check out this similar item we found for you.", maybe 3 out of 10 times I get the " The selected item is no longer available." page.
I keep track of auctions I'm watching by bookmarking the auction into a specific folder, and a few times a week I will load all the bookmarks into separate tabs. This week, most of the auctions ended and I couldn't see any of them without additional clicks. This is one of my "favorite"
new bookmarks. Auction ended on 5/20.
Click the link and you get shunted to a different book. Click the "listing" link in the blue bar, and you see the ended auction, and can see the item was relisted. Click the relisted link, get sent back to the same alternate book, click the listing link and now get sent to the ended relist.
I don't get it. This was relisted and didn't sell. You're saying it sold and the page with the sale price isn't available?
Unless this sold, I don't see anything different here. I use ebay all the time.
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1 hour ago, comicwiz said:
These are being generated from feeBay's own links, not something I've mined external to the site.
In addition, there have been situations where I have performed a search on "sold" items, and when clicking one of the results in the array, it would take me to a "recommended" item or current listing, with the blue banner and link saying the listing is no longer available. When clicking the listing link contained within that blue banner, it takes you to a preview page of that listing.
You click the "original listing" link from the preview page to see the full listing, and feeBay decides to take you to another stupid "recommended" listing instead of the original listing, and you have to cycle through the madness by clicking at least 6 times before you finally get to a past listing that used to take one or two mouse clicks.
There is nothing normal about it, and this is all happening on their site. And I've been working for the past month on an appraisal assignment, researching at least 3 comparables for anywhere from 25-50 items a day in a 600+ piece collection. This has only started happening over the weekend.
Got my subscription to worthpoint. I used to think I was fine researching using feeBay, but this is absolute madness and if feeBay is monitoring these discussion, what you've done here is insulted both sellers and buyers intelligence with this move. You did it to pad views on listings no one would care about clicking or even checking, but because you're forcing people to look at them, you're artificially creating a "views" metric for your buyers to believe your site is driving activity to their listings.
This will catch up with you the same way clickbait scams have caught up with others.
Hmmm not sure what to make of your situation with ebay. I would try other computers & browsers to see if you can get the original view.
I'm not seeing this issue on my end, just checked again to be sure. Usually when ebay changes something they just do it and don't make it sometimes work and then othertimes not.
new bookmarks. Auction ended on 5/20.
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It would be a nice problem to have, no? However, this isn't a record. The Heritage sale on 11/17/17 of $26,920 was a record for a 9.6 (cgc # 1294883001). Still a nice price and ebay takes less of a hit on sale(and buy) than Heritage.