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I will take it please.

Speaking of issue 1, what is the going rate for a 8.0 now? Have bid on a couple but apparently was not as prepared as others and gpa does not seem to matter.

LOL. I know I should have taken the high road and just ignored when I was quoted in the replies but it did seem a little over the top.

Good to see the train can still go off the rails quickly on Friday nights in the for sale forums.

Exactly. I can't tell you how many times I tried to "time" the stock market to look back and see I was wrong going both ways. Using X-Men 129 or any other Bronze hype books limit the sample size greatly. On those the peak may have been missed but there are a ton of books that just hit a second wind so to speak.

I will most likely go Friday and can update.

Just got finished booking my travel and noticed no threads for this years show. Anyone going? I will try to make sure I take wall pics this time.

On the surface the first one, But the second one looks like it could be cleaned up with a clean and Press. The first one looks like it already had that treatment. Most of the front will not be improved but unless that scan is bad, it looks like the back cover could be improved, so eye appeal may not change much but the number in the top left "may" if you care about those things.

I was referencing how some of my losses were one bid higher than my own. But it is not always one bid higher. HA even explains when they start an in person auction how all bids are gathered. There are rare cases were there is a tie and the same bid is submitted, in that case the first person who bid the amount wins if no one bumps the bid up. An auction cannot close in a tie, therefore, in the event two users have placed the same proxy bid amount, the user who placed the proxy bid first will win the auction.

Agree 100%. Only a Flash book I lost had prior market value established and it was lower than market. The others were first time to market so the market was set on those sales.

Ha I give up, I was watching some copies of 48 the last few months thinking I might could upgrade since they seemed to drop, that must have been a very short window.

Especially on CL you can bump the bid up, all auctions work like that. Since it is a proxy bid you are describing, someone saw the last competing bid at 350, said I will do 400, the auction house basically says I have 400 now 450, since you committed to 500 the next increment goes to you, the bidder would have had to offer more than the next increment to even register the bid. Here is a copy of one I won that the old bid held, if you look it looks like I re bid at at 11:10:44 but that is my old bid holding the next spot, it was also when it ended, so if it was CC or HA I am sure I would have lost. Current Bid My Max Bid Starts Ends Time Left Bid Statu $8,401 $8,711 2/11/2021 3/1/2021 YOU WON 3/1/2021 11:10:44 PM ET $8,401 3/1/2021 11:10:44 PM ET $8,301 3/1/2021 11:10:41 PM ET $8,201 3/1/2021 11:10:30 PM ET $8,111 3/1/2021 11:10:20 PM ET $8,001 3/1/2021 11:07:54 PM ET $7,755 3/1/2021 11:07:54 PM ET $7,466 3/1/2021 11:07:48 PM ET $7,366 3/1/2021 11:07:48 PM ET $7,266

Of all the houses CL for me has been clean, that is due to the hard close/end times. I have won several books with reasonable bids placed days prior as well as those I jumped in late. This year has been more on the high side then in previous years but I have won several books this year with decent room left before it reached my high bid. I have won with "tracking" bids on some random SA books this year still. With HA and CC the bidding continues until someone folds, I have never won a HA auction with an early bid so I just wait now until the final and even still you feel like someone is pushing it to the limit. Bidding on some books this week, I noticed a couple patterns. Until a point you could tell there was 3-4 bidders. I was jumping in when it got to the final call, then I would be outbid by one bid over and over, Out of 16 books, 12 were won one bid higher than mine. The only book I won I got in late and held on.

I did not bid on the Slightly Brittle books, I am sure that held it and a few more back.

9.8's are always head scratchers to me. That one is crazy, maybe the Stan sig is worth the 44K bump? I was more comparing the larger sample sizes, although I did go back and look at some sales for both and they are steady.

Exactly. And higher than the going rate of other actual established "things".

I have not seen FF 48 and 49 still selling at crazy prices lately, I agree they both shot up with the rest, but I don't put them in the same categories as the other spec books. What is ironic is I have a few ASM 361's and ASM 252's I sent to Joey in March to get pressed and graded that at the time were on fire so I thought I would sell off some. They have already dropped dramatically. I tend to log onto the IG live sales of some of the bigger sellers on IG and it amazes me how many people hype up Nova, Eternals and Moon Knight etc but also amazes me as to how many people snag them the minute they are listed with 3-4 others putting in claims behind so there is still that rush of people trying to get the next thing.

I guess I could start another thread but I thought it was interesting the coverless copy had "Steve" written on the first page, with no notes on the label. Issue 33 was the highest priced single book,which I expected it to be up there, but had no idea it would hit $8400. I was in the stands at the UGA game bidding and dug my heals in on the last couple. 27 was one of the ones I had earmarked to go after. https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/the-amazing-spider-man-cgc-graded-group-of-5-steve-ditko-collection-marvel-1964-66-total-5-comic-books-/a/7246-96661.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515#

Sure. In this one. thanks Phillip

I agree and while I was disappointed a couple more went outside of what I planned, I was happy to land at least one. I do wonder how much more they would have went for as the key focus of a single auction.

Heritage, same one as the AF15. The Ditko copies were broken into two segments.Here is the write up from the catalog.

Thanks I wanted a Green Goblin cover so this one fit the bill. I did bid healthy on all of them that did not have brittle pages, but others must have really wanted them as well.

Been upgrading somE Hulk covers lately

Just this one. Had a number in mind to grab a couple and those were quickly blown by.

John Carter Warlord of Mars 1 - 8.5 OW $3 MTU 133 - 8.5 OW $2MTU 129 - 8.0 OW $3MTU 126 - 8.0 OW $2 Take