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1st time bidding with Collectors comics. Picked up some more upgrades. Four of these I'll be cracking out. 20 cent Spidey's are my favorite
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Shortboxed was a disappoint for me. Better than Wondercon at least. But that bar is now barely above the floor. SB had some very good dealers(Worldwide and Bedrock being my favorites by far), but nothing of great interest book wise to me. Plenty of "generously" priced books overall unfortunately. I spent more eating at the Hyatt than I did at the event. I instead spent my event money at both of tonight's HA and CC auctions picking up more upgrades! Cons have pretty much become nothing more than an expensive table browsing occurrence. Maybe Torpedocon will change my mind. Probably not.
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More HA wins. The great thing about upgrading my ASM collection is that the only impedance is my own cash flow as every auction house always has opportunities to improve it.
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HA wins.
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Latest HA wins. Both are solid upgrades.
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On 3/12/2024 at 2:34 PM, Ride the Tiger said:
I got it. The error is you forgetting to take the lense cover off the camera.
No, the picture wouldn’t upload from my phone library correctly.
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On 3/12/2024 at 6:25 PM, Ride the Tiger said:
So what do you think the grade should have been?
8.5-9.0
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Just received this book back from CGC 5 minutes ago. Besides the grade, which I disagree with, can you spot the error?
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Another upgrade win.
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On 11/5/2023 at 7:56 AM, VintageComics said:
I can't stress enough how bad things are now post 'this thing'. It's like humans devolved a 100 years and nothing works in a straight forward manner anymore.
Me and my buddy Dave talk most about driving because we're avid drivers. It's like everyone's IQ dropped 20 points and now everyone functions at partial capacity.
I'm ready to move to a secluded Island and leave it all behind, it's been so bad.
People haven't changed, you're just more aware now.
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An upgrade and a cool cover.
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On 10/21/2023 at 9:32 PM, Lightning55 said:
I'm not going to provide specific info, for a number of reasons, especially since it's not an issue that applies to me (yet). I'm just providing data from my own experiences, and I'm sure mine are not so unique.
A general example would be an item that you have a max bid of $120 sitting at $60. Then right in the last seconds, a single bidder leaves the herd and bids $117, triggering your max bid. You win the auction, and you're glad you were brave enough to bid $120, or you would have lost.
That scenario can be legit, but it doesn't happen that way very often. Like I said, quite rarely, only 1 or 2 % of the time, by my experience. At least half the time I get outbid, sometimes 90% of the time. The rest that I win are not so tight.
To have the majority of my wins hit the max would be a huge red flag for me. Instead of thinking I was lucky to win a close auction, a bunch of them occurring would give me the opposite feeling. Something's up.
It can be easy to approximate someone else's max bid once you've figured out how each auction house's incremental bidding works, the rough value of the book(s), and account for human behavior. I have won plenty of auctions from Ebay, CC, CL and HA. As an example, during a recent auction, I won three books. I won the first two (non-keys) with my max bid. The third (major modern key) was $200 below my max bid. Lucky to be sure. I'm sure my experiences aren't unique either. Coincidences until proven otherwise.
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On 10/21/2023 at 1:59 PM, Lightning55 said:
I bid on about 25 auctions every week on MCS and eBay. Almost never does it end on my maximum bid, maybe 1 or 2 per 100 bids. It ends a few increments below my max, or at least 1 increment above.
So regardless of the bidding pattern, if I had a group of bids all end at my max, like the OP did, I would know I had been shilled.
Not suspect, know.
If I had a bunch of auctions just edge out my max, that, unfortunately, is more common the case. At least, in legit auctions.
Will you provide a sample of the books you won, and the amount you paid?
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On 10/21/2023 at 1:38 PM, Phicks said:
By my count, there are now 3 of us in this thread that have reported we were bidding on CC, and the final price miraculously ended up being EXACTLY our maximum bid.
Connect the dots people.
Commissioner Gordon : “ Detectives aren’t allowed to believe in coincidences.”
Plain, simple, Mr Garak: “Of course I believe in coincidences, coincidences happen every day. I just don’t trust coincidences.”
Which comic and final price?
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Latest CC wins. All upgrades.
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Latest CC wins just arrived. ASM 119 is one of my favorite covers of the entire run.
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Pretty pleased with the upgrades in the latest CC auction.
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Latest CL wins. Upgrades are coming along nicely.
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Latest CC wins. Got the fever for B.A. books. A pesky S.A. tossed in for good luck.
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I feel very fortunate to have won the MTU. I don't pay attention to that title quite like ASM, but I feel like I don't see a nice enough looking book like this one too often. Same with the 151, seems a bit underappreciated price wise in 9.6 or 9.8.