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Can I short sell their shares? No? Then this isn't a real equity item.

It is basically the same as ebay fixed price listing. You can make all the offers you want but the seller doesn't have to do anything until they accept the offer. The bid just shows you what the highest offer has been so far, but the listing never ends like an auction would.

Don't try to bring logic into this. I know for the venom variant reprints prices are purely based on panic speculation buying of the Knull character. The only ones buying it for $800 are the people trying to flip it for $1000. People buying it for $1000 are hoping to flip it for $1200, it will keep going and going until someone is left holding the bag and prices crash. Everyone has the fear of missing out on it like this character is going to take over the future universe of all venom stories. You're better off trying to day-trade Tesla stock if you want to pretend to be a genius equities speculator buying that book.

What is the time frame for this too-tight grading? What about May 2020? Found this on ebay looks to have at least 3 non color breaker spine ticks and maybe 2 of them even break color? Could argue it is light reflection but doesn't appear that way. All on a black cover no less and still it got a 9.8 anyway.

I agree with you, but they just wanted to copy the model they borrowed from NGC / coin collecting. If you thought .2 was bad, the top 10 grades are all 1 point apart from 60-70. https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-grading/grading-scale/

Is this $20k amount only counting "payments received" in paypal? What if you receive $15k and spend/pay out $10k, is that $25k gross or do they only care about the received number?

Thanks! interesting 2018 average.. As the hobby moves more and more towards 1st appearances being the only thing that matters these are the kind of books that come down a bit. I wanted this to replace my X-Men #9 which is pricier across all grades and nearly double in 8.5; despite the FF being 6 months older and the two books both being popular for the same reasons. (1st crossovers). I think I like the Kirby art on this one a tad more too, the colors pop better off the white background.

I'm curious, do you charge the buyer for shipping? There has been times where I mistakenly put priority mail and shipped media mail instead because it was a hardcover reprint book not a graded comic, and I've never seen anything like this before. They might be trying to solve some problem with people who over-charge for shipping despite the fact they already nail you for fees on the total shipping amount anyway. Sounds like another reason to just go with free shipping on all your items and adjust the starting price for it. As for the FVF at 12% i didn't notice that yet, but I do remember reading through their fees list a few months ago and remember being shocked that New shoes over $100 selling price get 0% fees and anything less has a fee. They must be in a marketplace war with some other shoe collector website and are trying to take control of the market. Free market works great when you're on the right side of it. https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/selling-fees?id=4364#section2

I guess it "worked out" for me after all. I proxy bid $533 on this and only got bid up to $504.. First book I've bought from HA in a year or so. Anyone care to look up GPA averages for me? I see 9.0 selling for $1000 and 9.2 selling for $1500 so I figured 8.5 and $500 was a good price despite the gocollect average at $425.

Here's another one raising my eyebrows at. I feel real foolish now for putting a winning proxy bid in before the auction started.

Err I'm confused how this happened.

This is likely covid-related.. the hardcover group I'm in has been in a panic frenzy since the release date on 6/17. The majority of all the major online retailers all sold out that day, most people who weren't able to log on and buy it that day didn't get a copy. Supposedly there are more copies at diamond so it is not a completely out of stock yet.

There's a small monthly one in Livonia at Knight's Hall, their facebook says they are doing the July 19th show. Even pre-covid that hall was always packed with people and it is single aisles with dealers on both sides. It's honestly a terrible setup considering covid-times so I am surprised they have not cancelled all of them indefinitely. I read their facebook more closely and it says they are changing the layout to be one-way but even still that does nothing to prevent people from standing 6 inches away from you breathing on your neck.. I wouldn't recommend going to any show regardless of showroom size right now to be honest https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Event/Knights-Hall-Comic-And-Toy-Show-1648730695179968/ How about we just start a thread here for local michigan people to trade. I think there's already a sub-forum for it anyway.

Skipping 193?

Glad he still sells them, looks like he continued to make a bunch more characters over the years. Too bad won't be seeing him at a Con any time soon.

Volume 3 - $380 shipped. SOLD

Have two silver age ASM omnibus up for sale today., still sealed in original shrinkwrap. Paypal, check, or money order only. No returns. Volume 2 - $215 shipped. SOLD

I had about 20 pops at one point and decided to sell them off before an eventual crash. So far that hasn't happened and anything I've sold is worth more now than it was a few years ago . Just like comics not all of them will ever be worth more than retail price. Usually certain lines will be discontinued and those become highly demanded. There's also the variant cover equivalents which is basically like 20 different versions of the same figure with minor changes and an exclusive sticker.

They go out of print pretty quickly since marvel treats them just like floppies on the newsstands - the store puts an order in and once they can't be ordered from diamond any longer they're gone. I have to stay on top of the previews catalog to know when everything gets a release date, here's the easiest way to do it online. https://previewsworld.com/Search?mode=A&q=amazing spider-man omnibus

Reading? That's what these are for. Haven't gotten very far

The price of the book is clearly stated. You are spinning for the discount. It's called math. Example: Book listed for $100.00 Spin wheel. Discount 20 percent. you now owe $135 Dammit! I never was very good at math!🤔😡🤡🗣😷🐒 hold on ....book $100, discount 20 percent...double not ciphering carry the not add two, multiply...hold on... Uhhh....$123?? Hmmm..🙈🙈🍼🐇 I'm well aware of how to calculate a discount based on a percentage. You didn't address at all if the book needs to be purchased first in order to "see" the discount.

The inner well never does look big enough to me. They should take a hint from the card community and make it so the corners are avoided entirely by the case like this.

Let me make sure I'm understanding this, you HAVE TO purchase the book without knowing the price? Not a lawyer but I'm sure that's against several retail customer disclosure/gambling rules.

Miles will be a huge character going forward and while he may never completely replace Peter Parker he's only going to get more and more coverage. Sony just released him as the lead character in the next PS5 Spider-Man game and Into the Spider-Verse 2 movie is already announced. The thing that boggles my mind is people are driving up prices on these modern/current books like they are some rare golden age book. A quick look on the census shows over 1800 9.8's for ultimate fallout 4. Most sales are being driven by speculators, the thing to be fearful about is when will the speculation dry up. Super Hero Movies are in what I would consider a golden age right now and Disney/Marvel Studios doesn't appear to show any slowing down there but nothing truly lasts forever.

Does this not just come down to the fact that GPA can't automate the data? They could potentially solve this problem by paying a data entry person to manually copy paste over the book title and sale price to their database. I'm sure it's more complicated than that but if they can create an automated price pulling database they can certainly add someone to do things manually. People have been complaining about this for years and neither side seems willing to resolve the issue so the industry will continue to suffer a lack of transparency. This is an entirely separate problem from GPA just collecting the data and making it available. Buyers and sellers both need to use their own judgement in how to price a book that is stagnant, going cold, or going hot. As buyers we can all relate to being priced out of a book just because one person paid a high price and now every dealer in the country points to that price and expects the same sale figure. Of course it goes without saying that every seller wants to get more than the last seller. GPA only needs to present all this sales data and hopefully reasonable minds can figure out a reasonable compromise. This is partly why I put little value on "last sale" compared to 90 day or 1 year averages. If a movie announcement is made overnight then of course that changes things.