chromium

When you log in you now get this message For Comics & Comic Art: Effective September 1st, Heritage Auctions is required by state law to charge applicable sales tax on any items in this category delivered to addresses in the following states: Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Washington. Exemptions include dealers with valid sales tax numbers who are purchasing for resale and who furnish us with a properly completed resale certificate, for the states listed

Happy Bechara Maalouf was set up this year after two years of missing the show. He always brings the goods. Last few years there wasn’t that much OA in the room.

Fast, friendly and flexible seller. Recommended.

No. But Heritage have a European branch in Holland as well and when you bid on those auctions and you live in the EU, then you pay whatever VAT your country charges. Buying from Heritage in the US requires one to jump through hoops as well, I don't have to pay taxes if I have the item shipped to my home address, but do have to pay 32% import duty on value and shipping, so anything you win over $5K makes it cheaper to fly out to the US and pick it up in person and fly back. Good thing I have a US address as well... in an (as of now) non-taxed state.

Well it did hurt the Heritage European auction, 25% commission + 21% tax meant that a 10K piece would end up costing you close to 15K. Especially the high end pieces suffered. There were a a lot of post-auction BINs and the Tin-Tin page that had an estimation of 720k - 960k sold for 425K.

I use both, have been using CAF for almost ten years, and about 3 months ago I signed up for 2DG. CAF is still THE place for US original art, but 2DG made more sense to me from a seller's standpoint. I really don't use CAF that much, have never sold anything, bought one or two pieces and visit it maybe once a week. I'm not really bothered by comments or likes, so a large part of my stuff isn't even "up" There is a language barrier using 2DG, but this year I decided to start selling some of my art, since quite a few pages are those HUGE EC pages, I really don't want to ship those to the US. So I made an account on 2DG and put of 5 or 6 pages to test the waters and sold 5 pieces within a few days (including two pages I hadn't put up). They might have sold on CAF as well, maybe for a higher dollar amount as 2DG is 80% (?) European-art, but it would have involved all the logistics and agita. The only time I ever sell art in the US is in August, as I'm in Florida and Chicago for almost a month each year, in fact this year I'm already bringing 4 pages with me, one to send from within the US and three for buyers at Chicago con. I've toyed with the idea of getting a premium account on CAF as well, but I think I would scare off most buyers with my caveat that I have such a small window to sell

I sold about 12,000 of the +- 15,000 comics that were in my collection between 2012 and 2015. Put all the money into original art and only kept the 100 first issues of all the Marvel Silver Age titles (and all keys from all ages) Very happy I did this and just in time, I have about 2500-3000 comics left, which I'm not planning to sell any time soon and am actually in the middle of selling off part of my OA collection to buy even more (higher end OA). I would rather retire someday with ten 20K+ pages than with 200 $1000 pages or 10,000 $20 comics.

Even when bought and paid in Europe ?

It's there in the auction details on the Heritage website ? 21% is the sales tax in Europe. You wouldn't pay any tax at all as you are in Los Angeles.

I travelled 4200 miles to meet the Greggy-9000 and it was more than worth it. And then I travelled almost 6000 miles to meet the original one. I'll travel to the moon and back to meet the Greggy Funko Pop.

You only pay 5.5% customs fee ? Wow, we pay 31%. Most of the times I win something on Heritage, it's cheaper for me to fly to the US and take it back with me on the plane than it is to have it shipped.

Not sure you'll get charged the 21% tax since you are in the US. I was going to go hard for the Wood - Spirit in Space page, but if ends at $10K, I end up paying $15000+ for it, no thanks.

Sweet pickup, congrats...really nice Peanuts strip

25% buyer's premium + 21% tax on top of that...looks like I'll be sitting this one out.

Good point, never thought of that.

The current Heritage auction not being my first rodeo I've seen all kinds of crazy and unexpected prices... but this one has me stumped. I have a smallish EC art collection and woke up this morning to two PMs on CAF enquiring about one of my Wally Wood pages, normally when something like this happens I know there's been a disturbance in the (price) force. Now the Wally Wood page that sold last night want way after my bedtime so I didn't see it, nor was I really interested in it as I don't think it's that great. But of course (and happily) taste is subjective.. I know Wally wood EC sci-fi pages are not coming up for sale any more..but can anyone explain to me why this page sold for over $10,750 Sure, it's a first page...but there's just a tiny bit of Wood machinery in one panel and that's it... or did it sell on atmosphere alone ? Not trying to knock who bought it but I honestly don't see it and would appreciate if someone could enlighten me.

And another piece with "aftermarket" stats and paste-ons

About once a month I get an offer on the stuff I've bought on Heritage, have never accepted one, but I probably wouldn't be able to get the item to Heritage in under two weeks.

No it's you. These boards have killed your attention span.

Didn't he mention he bought the piece from Romitaman ? Should be easy to either return it or have Mike come on here and vouch for the authenticity of the piece.

Sorry, that's my best guess and it's all I got.

Maybe Bruce Friedman . He was an editor under Martin Goodman and a friend co-worker of Stan Lee. Worked in the same building for at least a decade until at least the mid 60's. His sons are involved in comics as well.

I forgot about that I was very happy to sell it to you. Did I tell you that I was basically offered almost double for it the day after I had struck a deal with you from a French "Demon" collector (who knew something like that existed ?) and he did hound me to sell it to him instead. But he already had similar examples and you really loved it. I lucked out on buying it at a low price so there was no need to squeeze the lemon, it's not always about the money. There was another ex-boardie that asked me to buy a NFS piece from my collection, he seemed like a true collector on the boards, came across like a nice guy so I sold it to him, for maybe 10% more than I paid for it...Two months later he flips it on CAF. I confronted him about it and he told me "hey I never told you I was buying it for myself". Ok fool me once. A few months later I put a few new pieces on my CAF and there he was again asking how much I wanted for all three pieces. I didn't even bother to reply any more.

I can't be the only one to have gotten an offer where the buyer actually did the "math" and "market research" and told me how much I should sell my page for (in detail) ? Too bad I never kept the email, but it went something like : "A similar page sold for $5000 on Heritage recently, but it was nicer than yours, so yours would be $3500, but Heritage takes almost 25% of the final price, so you would be left with $2625. Also you would have to wait at least a month to get paid, I'm willing to send you $2625 right away' That was one for the ages Oh and it was marked NFS.