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On 8/21/2023 at 6:46 PM, blazingbob said:

"Dealers just want your money. Period"

Listen,  everybody in the room, the dealers,  the promoter running it and the concession stands selling food at a show want your money.

The only reason I'm there is to make a living,  I'm not paying to setup and chit chat all day.  

What I'm not there to do is lie to get your money or bury you so deep you never buy from me again.

But rest assured I am there to make sales.  

On 5/26/2024 at 9:46 PM, Brock said:

Some books, I watch to buy. Other books, I watch to… erm, watch.

In so many ways, the behaviour of people on the CGC boards is not reflective of the hobby as a whole. We are the voyeurs of the hobby, in that we like to watch. I am confident that our little fetish is not widespread.

When I sell books on eBay, they sometimes sell when there are no watchers or views. But when I have books with many watchers and many views, they are far more likely to sell. The correlation between watchers and sales is strong in my experience, and @whetteon’s data speaks to this correlation.

When I plan to bid on a regular auction I never watch it. I set my snipe and keep track of it on the snipe service dashboard. Manual bidding and watching is so 2002, was not aware so many folks still do that...

Has the market and this thread paradigm shifted to what is most watched rather than what is selling well?

On 5/26/2024 at 4:20 PM, whetteon said:

I have a website that notices the comics on eBay with the most bids, most watchers, and the most expensive. If you see a comic with a big group of watchers, many people are interested in buying that particular issue. When I filter by the Copper Age most watched CGC comics on eBay, I find it interesting to see comics I don't hear often climbing up on that list. It's like a Wizard top 15 list. Usually, I will find out what's "trending" before most.

Thanks for explaining. 

I do not agree that watchers is = buyers. I'm sure there are many like me who do it out of curiosity as we already own the item. No longer will I click on "Add To Watchlist" and have deleted my current watched comics due to what you have mentioned.

On 5/26/2024 at 9:31 AM, whetteon said:

And the fact that 9.8 copies are getting so many watchers can only mean it will go down from here.

Please explain your reasons for mentioning watchers in your posts as I do not understand (seriously no malice intended) how that correlates into sale/hammer price nor what it means in terms of "hot".

P.S. if it is a factor then I'll stop being someone who clicks on Watch Item for Comics on eBay to avoid being part of some larger market manipulation machination.

 

On 5/25/2024 at 3:52 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

If you put in the fine print "reheating up!" 😂 maybe?

 

Or "Thawing"

On 5/25/2024 at 8:17 AM, whetteon said:

Marvel Comics Presents # 72 CGC 9.8 NM/MT WP Key Origin of Wolverine, Weapon X | eBay

 

It is still a low price but 34 watches. I've been noticing a lot of 72s getting more attention lately. It's also down from its 2021 high. Shocker I know.

When it was around $450 I submitted my copies, although they all received a 9.8 given current FMV i should not have bothered.   Same with other books like Venom Lethal Protector 1, ASM 328,361,365,375.  As and I'm proud to admit i don't sell Comics (or trading cards), I should have simply left them all in their Mylars.

Yep, I totally wasted my money submitting high population glut or glut adjacent stuff. It could have been much worse however as I could have been one of the Moe Ron's buying them at those 2020-2022 prices

P.S. I now include Booster Gold 1 and Spectre 54 as books I should not have submitted. As a NON-seller finally at this juncture I've learned the lesson of never submitting a book when it's hot

On 5/24/2024 at 12:37 PM, ygogolak said:

Ended at $405. 12 month is down. Was selling in the $600 range. Still an impressive book and sales prices.

So cooling, not hot

then again cooling not cold may very well be the new hot...

Fast cash grab at the expense of Brand perception, reputation, and future business.

The only folks who should be happy about the deal are the Execs using it to pad their bonus before skedaddling and PSA who is overjoyed that CGC is no longer even a viable threat of any kind...

On 5/20/2024 at 5:15 AM, DaveBowen said:

This is an odd seller. All of the recent sales are Private Listing. Even though I've sold on eBay forever I've never used Private Listing and am not even sure what the use case is. The sellers live listings seem to be mostly for Mylars or super common modern slabs at a floor price of about $85. Strange indeed.

Then uses 2 of their likely many eBay accounts to get this to show up - "2 people have this in their cart".

To quote Forest Gump; "Dee Bahg is as Dee Bahg does"

not an error just running a bit low on the Yellow ink

eBay likely (and only) pulled due to image in the auction offering an off-ebay deal. 

Folks ensure to use strong passwords (or long pass phrases) for your eBay accounts!
https://www.cisa.gov/secure-our-world/use-strong-passwords

On 5/18/2024 at 10:39 PM, Lightning55 said:

That said, given a choice of buying 2 otherwise identical books, one with a large printer's crease and one without, I would think most people would choose the one without. So there may be a value difference. 

Exactly! 

On 5/18/2024 at 12:29 PM, scburdet said:

I want to know who is bidding on it. Part of the scam driving up the price, or are buyers really that gullible?

IME many Comic and Trading collectors are that gullible. If it was offered as a BIN way below FMV then add dealers into that mix from an angle of greed.

The primary incentive for not using the folks in Newport Beach, whose slabs have significantly higher resale value, was CGC's fast turn-around. With now glacial turn-around and line cutting might as well crank up Zepp's "Goin' to California"

Huge thanks!!!  While I'm probably the only one who ever views the set type, I'll now be able to do so without scratching my head 😀

^ we do overlap at 150

Loved his inking on Sal B's Cap pencils... Good family man and great father mentioned by his daughter on FB.  May he RIP.

IMHO $90-$150 at auction.  Late 80s-early 90s DC "filler" pages by non-name brand artists were never high but now they are in free-fall...

Hi jstam,

Hoping you will consider my request

"DC 100 Page Digests"  https://comics.www.collectors-society.com/registry/comics/SetTypeDetail.aspx?SetTypeID=2846

Set Contains Tarzan Digest 1

Reasons Tarzan Digest 1 does not belong:
1) Tarzan Digest 1 is 164 pages not 100  - https://www.comics.org/issue/25770/
2) Tarzan Digest 1 is from 1972, all other 144 digest comics in the set type are from the 1979-1986 DC Digest era. All of which except for the special double-sized issues are 100 pages.

I am interested in seeing this corrected from a purely the book does not qualify for the set type standpoint. I am not attempting any kind of "sneaky maneuver" to move up in the registry. I say that as I am fortunate+proud to have the #1 set by an extremely large margin and given the census pops an insurmountable lead (apologies for my lack of modesty). In addition no Owner in the set type has a copy of Tarzan Digest 1

Many Thanks for all your time and efforts !!!

Nice looking Dr Solar's

9.2 or 9.4 on both

Curious, GA Batman or 2011?

Makes sense as most who are not at least approaching 50 primarily care only about 1st this or 1st that, and not interested in bronze or copper run issues

On 5/8/2024 at 4:51 PM, Q.N.S. said:

Anyway, by and large, we're still exploring the bottom.. and I believe it will stay like this or slightly worse until the election at least.

or right now is still shallow with the Mariana Trench getting closer?

On 5/13/2024 at 12:15 PM, Hepcat said:

So CGC's grading is just about as good as Vinny's I guess. How do CGC's rates for grading compare to Vinny's then?

That was Vinny circa 1998. His standards IMHO are significantly more lenient since then on books for sale, to the point its Mile High territory.

IMHO it's like School on the 4th of July or Christmas