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Still unsure about Toronto. :-)

@G.A.tor @adamstrange I had heard that a significant collection was lost completely during 9/11 but was never able to substantiate. I also can't really say who told me except that they were involved in the hobby back in the 80's and 90's. Apologies if it was incorrect. I'm also still getting caught up on this thread. I've been on the road quite a bit and haven't been in the GA forum since the new Forum was started.

Has this been answered? I heard that these were destroying when the World Trade Towers went down 9/11

X-men #1 CGC 7.0 has now SOLD!

Schmell fetched $4MIL He did have an X-men #1 9.8 go for $492K so that was a big chunk. Still too hard to tell how big Berk's collection is.

Awesome.

The prices they got last quarter for raw, 'buyer inspect/all sales final' GA books were absolutely zany (to the point where Filter among others wondered aloud why he even bothered to slab and sell books through the usual auction houses). So they do have a good recent track record. That said, agreed, it's the last venue I'd use for an Action #7 of all books. Weiss's auction house has been auctioning collectibles and comics for 3 decades. Longer than any of the other auction houses. They've probably got a pretty deep following of buyers and the prices they fetch seem to be decent.

Love all the hate being poured into that Facebook post. Frigging children.

Yup. Many years ago sold some comics on eBay to a guy who lived across the road from me.

CGC used to treat some defects differently depending on the issue / publisher / how tough that book was. Whether they still do or not I don't know.

I would say the $66K sale was the outlier as that was 9.1 price. The problem with using immediate data is that everyone is quick to make assumptions gut they don't look at the big picture. And two prices don't make a trend.

It does not happen on my desktop. I'm currently using Mozilla on a PC. I used the copy/quote feature. Maybe I copied / quoted too much? Yup, looks like I broke it. Back to the old forum. You're welcome, gang!

The recession was a 'perfect storm' for buyers in many ways. People will affected income sold their books. New Pedigrees and collections came to market as people cashed out. Prices dropped for many common books as demand shrank and supply increased. Over all they did reasonably OK but for a while there, there was a bit of a glut. Keys continued to rise.

You know the answer. CGC allows Marvel chipping in varying degrees based on the grade. GA DC's don't have this chipping. But the DC books do both contain tape, something that CGC will downgrade for now.

How do you figure? I'd estimated that book to end at $50-60K and it ended at $56K A 9.2 was just on eBay for $80K I think it sold exactly where it should have sold.

Agree.

I can barely see the quote borders to the point that at first I thought they weren't there. If I hover over them with the cursor the boxes turn a darker blue. I have read a few posts with multiple quotes within them and have found it difficult to see who said what within them. So anything which differentiates new text from quoted text will help - be it boxing in / colouring / differing the background colour. One thing that is neat is that you can collapse / spoiler the quotes. just spit balling but what might be a neat feature is to have the spoiler be the default setting and people can 'unspoiler' them if they want to read them. That removes the messiness that previously nested quotes brought.

Agree.

Agree.

It's really meaningless. And it's visually the most prominent thing in the entire quote box area. This is like an attempt at Facebook junior, which really isn't a good thing. The Like button notifies your Facebook friends of a post. In this format does it do anything? I can see CGC keeping it if they are looking to monetize it somehow. Not sure how they'd do that at this point though.

Take 5% off remaining books (Amazing Spider-man #129 CGC 9.8, Fantastic Four #10 CGC 9.0 and X-men #1 CGC 7.0)

You're calling it a faling knife because one book fell through the cracks? That sounds alarmist to me as the book has been selling well in other grades. What ruins a market (any market) is fear. The over-analyzing and over-compensating of the current market based on real time data is what is the negative side of the information age. I have buyers looking for 9.4 and 9.6 copies of this book. That doesn't sound like a falling knife to me.

I'm at the point where I have gotten used to most of the functionality of the chat forum. I still think it's not very easy to navigate. I used to pop in from time to time and whip through and get caught up when I was busy. Now I actually avoid it altogether because I feel overwhelmed once I get on and don't want the headache. I don't know if it will ever be as comfortable as the old set up. Even with lots of experience. Ergonomics and ease if us / interfac beats bells and whistles everytime IMO. Unless you're young (as in teenager). Then you don't realize what you're missing when you lean towards bells and whistles. I can say that because I own six teenagers.

You know, the more I think about this the more you are right. I helped recover a stolen MMC #10 a few years ago for Bill Thade / Fearless Readers Guy stole it at C2E2 and then a few months later tried to sell it at WW Chicago. I've also heard of other stories.

I was leaving the Seattle show (3 hour time difference) when I say the result. If I'd seen it going that cheap I'd have bid. Sometimes things just slip through the cracks. You know that book is going to be up for sale with a $130-150K price tag soon.