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Having "won" a BIN on HA in the past I can tell you they certainly will let the buyer know he did not in fact win. In may case they told me the seller said they wanted more than the listed BIN and they would try to get with the seller to make sure he keeps his items updated.

Had someone on Instagram really pushing me to sell this copy. After an offer I could not refuse I went upstairs and dug it out to count pages and make sure everything was ok. Was sold as a 5.5 no issues. To my surprise there is a page missing. It looks like a perfect factory cut. Is this out of the realm of possibility or has anyone seen any of here books where she removed pages? Coupons?

I certainly do not have the time or desire, but it would be cool if CL had a running total of sorts to see how much has been spent in a given auction, with possibly Average $$ per book as well and even a total of unique bidders (or unique by book).I am sure they use this data themselves to attract more copies of certain books but having something the end user could see would create more sense of urgency. Two bidders running up a book to the moon is one thing, 15 unique bidders doing it is all together different. I know other houses have a running total, but CL looks to have the edge on offerings YTD this year.

That one is a perfect example of two people going at it, if you look the third player was out @8500 So if all the same players are in the room next time except for the "fortunate" winner of this copy, I doubt we see the same result.

All Nice Copies, I agree on MC, also always want OW/W but had to make a sacrifice. Had mine out this week for a family photo with some FF books.

GI Joe 32 shooting up in price in 24 hours. Speculators go...

I certainly do not put much weight in it at all, just pointing out how outsiders would view it. They see the trend and jump in both feet. To go even further, I know there are times were I am the under bidder and have ran up say 500 between the bidder under myself and the winner. I find it interesting when that auction is used by sellers (I see one boardie doing it regularly on FB) to try and sell like copies. I know there is fluff in those as I was the fluff in that auction, and mind you not trying to manipulate it or shill but a few books I bid with intent to upgrade or grab an undercopy at the right price. If those top two players are out, does the next auction run up that high? Maybe.

I have been blown out of the water on CL the last two auctions and was paying 20-30% over market so I feel you. I also agree on extended format, before the insane run up, I did very well in CC auctions because I could match the bids toe to toe, since I had lost a few I was positioned stronger in the ones I really wanted. In hindsight I should have tried to buy everything leading to December that I actually wanted. Just last night I ran up 4 auctions myself that are highlighted in other threads as shockers that I was willing to grab at higher prices, each one was sniped, but I imagine even if we could bid it out, the final bidder was locked in and I would have just cost him more money.

Looking at my etrade account over the past week (lovely red highlights all over) and was not a comic collector I would have some FOMO on good returns in the short term that comics are providing.

Ha we have been there. When I started on ebay in 99 I used to buy and sell IH180 and GSX1. I sold close to 15 copies of IH181 over a 3 year period and less than 10 copies GSX1. The good old days.

I know, there was another boardie with a message sent before both , I guess I was trying to say this was going to be a done deal out in the open. Time to strike was when you saw it.

Has to be close, I debated in the Xmen 1 (it has also been on a crazy pace as well) Thread that those of us who came up in the 80's viewed this as "the" book to have as an Xmen collector, Love X1 but this was our team, the 60's Xmen was like the NBA of the 60's to me and my friends.

Agree, messaging was futile in this case. Clear cut take

Hope it works out that is a great looking copy and super fair priced, unlike some of the people offering these at twice market.

Was listed briefly on here for 17K

Take all

Do hope for the best, I will state last night I had a PM typed up with an offer then recalled the ebay listing and checked the post count/cities and deleted the offer.

To be fair I showed the Curator copy at 510 right before it ended but looking at the bid history something certainly is happening. I was trying to get that 9.0 Albedo 2 and thought I hit the bid late enough to land it but somehow there was two bids after me, Here is the bid history on the Curator AF15 and the Albedo I was in on below it. 2/23/2021 8:34:53 PM ET $566,000 2/23/2021 8:34:53 PM ET $536,000 2/23/2021 8:34:19 PM ET $490,000 2/23/2021 8:30:55 PM ET $510,000 Albedo Bids Three bids at 14 second mark. 2/23/2021 8:22:14 PM ET $7,100 2/23/2021 8:22:14 PM ET $7,022 2/23/2021 8:22:14 PM ET $6,612

Take all the FF in thread so far

I had a sniper bid on another book that did not update, I showed as winner at 1 second on my screen but bids showed I lost by two bids so it seems there was a lag tonight.

Why not, take this one

I will take this one also

All of them. Corner the market.

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