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WoWitHurts

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    The book I am referencing was raw just to clarify. I do expect dealers at cons to at least be priced in the same ballpark. I will pay a little higher for a book I get to inspect right in front of me and I would prefer to purchase from dealers I like. I keep very detailed information on what I buy and from who and for how much. I like going back to those people I get fair deals with. Online or at cons.
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    And I bought a 9.6/9.8 99 online for $9. Why would I go to a con if this has been my experience? C2E2 will probably be my only buying con. I will go to WW St. louis because my son likes going but I doubt it lasts past this year and it is a horrible buying con.
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    I feel like you are attacking me a bit. You are implying that I expect high grade books to be sold half guide. Which is not the case. I will pay what I believe is fair pricing. I will give you a example. Dealer had IM 99 with a sticker of $60. Guide is $15 for a 9.2 so what is this dealer representing with that price? I can tell you it wasn't a 9.8 candidate. With discount dealer wanted $52. If you think that is a good deal I have a lot of comics to sell to you. IM is notoriously unloved and I can pick up great books under guide all day long online. One of the reasons I like IM is its affordability.
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    Silver and Bronze age Iron man. I am not going to name anyone because they are members here.
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    Perhaps but I can usually find what I want online. It may take some patience but the books I want seem to come around. Especially raw books. Last C2E2 I went to, the nice raw books were like 30% over guide or more.
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    I imagine Wizard will be done in a year or 18 months. I have never liked Wizard. I never liked their magazine or what they have done to cons. when their done someone will scoop up the shows worth anything and the rest will disappear. I will go to WW St. Louis because it is practically in my back yard but it isn't a good show for comics. I prefer to buy my books at a con as I like to go through boxes but in reality I buy mostly over the internet so it wouldn't be surprising that dealers sales may be down at these shows. I imagine a lot of people buy that way.
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    What do you use to insure?
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    Someone 20 years from now will come after me for sexually harassing the market no doubt.
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    I think 7.0-7.5 is mid grade but there is a difference to me buying a 7.5 ASM 432 and a ASM 33. One I don't want and the other I would be ecstatic to own. Grade is secondary.
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    Why do you think it is about greed? Charging what the market will bare is good business. vis-a-vis The market usually sets the price, too high no one is buying and too low you go out of business or in this case get a hand injury from signing too many sigs. for someone making 200k+ annually that $120 seems less of a big deal. Some people miss out because they are priced out of the market. I would love to see my favorite baseball team right behind home plate but it isn't ever going to happen because either I can't afford it or I am unwilling to pay that kind of money for it.
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    I think CGC has more recently weaponized their grades to make the other company's grades look sub par. I think a 9.8 can have one faint stress mark. After all a 9.8 isn't a perfect book. When buying raw I prefer to buy books with no spine stress lines whether they are 9.8 or 9.0 because they bug me.
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    Tony Moore would not be charging that if no one was biting. Clearly there is a demand or he hates his work on TWD and doesn't want to sign any of it so he puts a crazy high price on it but the former is more likely imo.
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    Don't get me wrong. I have a few sigs like on the pic below of my invite to the marvel holiday party and I do own one SS CGC book. I just don't think its a problem if someone wants x dollars for it. My daughter paid for a signed picture of one of the original wonka kids and asked if she could take a picture of them. The woman said "well wouldn't you want to be in it?" and came out and handed the camera to Mike TV and took a great pic of them both. Now I would say in that instance the autograph price was worth it because my daughter remembers the interaction which is what most people want with autographs. IMO.
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    That is the crux of it I think. People should not expect something that has intrinsic value like a Frank miller sig on DK 1 for free. IF Frank Miller believes his sig is worth $125 and some people can't afford that then who's problem is that? I saw Gene Simmons of KISS at a Chicago con and he was charging over $100 for an autograph. Now, I don't understand how this was worth his time as he is estimated to have over 100 million but he wants to make some more so I don't begrudge him asking whatever he wanted and plenty of people were lined up.
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    Precisely why no one should have a problem of someone charging for their sigs.
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    What does creators being paid to be at con have to do with it? People want something from them that is unique to them. I am sure there are times they give it away for free. I bet If I bumped into someone outside a con and asked them to sign a napkin or whatever they would. I don't understand what the appeal is to having someone's signature on a witnessed slab. If you are there and you witness it why do you need another person to "verify" it? Just so a company will put a yellow label on it?
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    Whatever the market will bare. If I am trying to make my living as a working artist and people dig something I worked on why not? especially for something that can be flipped for profit even if your not. Personally I will never pay for someone's signature...well I did pay David Prowse $5 for one in the early 90's because I felt bad no one was asking for his but the pornstar in the booth next to him was 30 deep.
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    I think it is overvalued. Few people cared about it until the word dropped of there being a TV show. Yeah, Marvels first Black character created by two white guys. Wait a sec so was Black Panther. At least Black Lightning was co-created by a non Caucasian. Those early Black heroes were just goofy IMO. It wasn't until Dwayne McDuffie and company created Milestone did the stories get more authentic again IMO. I think the black cover and few high grade copies helped create a supply/demand imbalance. It is a cool cover that looks great in high grade. I think the very high grade copies will stay somewhat high but if you paid 24k for a 9.8 your not going to make a profit on it.
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    Mysteries of the universe. 5.Who really shot JFK 4.Who built the Sphinx 3.Where is Jimmy Hoffa buried 2.Is there a supreme deity 1.How are comic books pressed
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    I'll Take it
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    I'll Take it
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    I have been waiting for an ASM 101 9.6 white pages for a long time.
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    After I decided to rebuild my ASM I decided to start with ASM keys above 100. Amongst that I wanted to complete a 9.6 white page run from 120-130. I am almost done with that but for keys ASM 100 and 101 remain elusive. My current ASM keys are 121,122,129,194x2, 300 @ 9.6W and 238,250,252x2,293,294,298,299,316,360,362 @9.8W. I try and get 9.8 above 200 and 9.6 from 100-200 and I haven't started going back any farther. It is going to be awhile before I go below issue 100 but I was thinking that I would try for NM back to issue 70 and 8.5 down to issue 20 and then best copy I can afford. I would keep the X-Men 1 and your giant size. I don't think an AF 15 is worth it to me because I would never be able to afford the grade I would be happy with (probably 7.5)
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    Thank you to those offering their thoughts. I am going to order 1000 mylites2 and full backs tomorrow. I use collection drawer boxes so I will probably order some more also because of the thickness. I don't like packing them tight so I have 5 short drawer boxes currently that hold my IM books.
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    Yeah, most of my OO books that survived my basement taking on water that I get graded come back white pages. So 1-3 years is maybe too aggressive AND expensive. But 35 years I am SURE is too long!