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I know they printed tons but snagged 500 copies of Rai 0 from a yard sale still bundled 6 years ago.  Guy said found them in a storage unit.  I left him with other random valiant he had cases of.  3 for $1 wasn't bad. 

Several of the Frank Miller DD books.  163 and 165 come to mind.  Mostly $1 book outside of CGC 9.8 making the $500 plus books.

On 5/15/2020 at 8:12 PM, jbpez said:

ASM 16

CGC 9.0

DD X-Over!!

$1750

Claim via PM

2 hours ago, lizards2 said:

I quit using USPS insurance when it became evident that was pretty near impossible to file a successful claim.

If they lose the box it is really easy.  But damage is a real PIA to recover the money.

18 hours ago, KryptoSpidey said:

I dont live in South Florida which has been shut down for weeks. I was referring to my area, as well as CGC's on the gulf coast coast almost West of me,I think Sarasota Co has 40 cases... Im in Central Florida, East Coast (Brevard Co)on the beach. We have 70+ cases in my entire county that stretches 72 miles of the coast line. So unless you are in DADE/Miami, Broward/Ft laud, Palm Beach co or Orange Co/Orlando, the largest Population areas, or counties that didnt take active measures... your response is like saying I live in New York(City)  if i said New York, as opposed to New York the State, in some small upstate town/County with almost no cases. Do you understand this? 

I surfed all weekend in my backyard, BBQ'd...watched virtual NASCAR this afternoon on FOX and goin to go run my pool service business tomorrow and surf after... ITS all about where you live and who's running the local government there. LIFES A BEACH HERE BUD...

I grew up in Satellite beach and if you replaced pool service with pressure washing I would think you were one of my best friends still living there   Yup life is a beach on the peninsula. 

What is your best off ebay price? 

On ‎12‎/‎15‎/‎2019 at 2:38 PM, Bird said:

can any hunters out there please tell me if there is a rule of thumb concerning bound comics and value? I am talking late GA and SA, trimmed and bound. I do not know about covers/back covers but kinda assume covers yes and no back covers. These are coming up in my area and I might get in the bidding but do not know how de-valued a bound run is. Assume no keys but nice binding and cover. I see some comps but wondered what the popular opinion is if anyone wants to offer any info. 

Avengers 1-35 bound sold on auction side (heritage I think) maybe a year ago now. It went for around 3k.  Sorry details are hazy but they have value.

Now you just need to win the double whammy Paypal claim that is coming.

I would love to have a copy and it is top 3 of books I because

1. It is one of the best comic books drawn and written in the history of comics, if you actually read comics this series is a must.

2. Stan Sakai is a pillar of the comic community and I would love to have this book signed by him.

Also whomever mentioned this would plummet has no idea what they are talking about

I did a bit of a combo because I still like collecting and not just investing.  But I sold off dozens of long boxes and boxes of cheaper slabs and started collecting Marvel Silver age CGC at the same grade. For instance DD1-10 in cgc 9.0 and Hulk 1-6 in CGC 4.0 ect  I now have a nice investment and still enjoy the hunt.  I however took the long approach to selling my comics and sold them in auctions on FB and Ebay 1 at a time.  I still pick up collection occasionally and am prone to impulse buys but I do have about 90% less books overall and they make a nice display and investment. 

47 minutes ago, FSF said:

I personally don't have any desire to sell comics but every time I read these types of threads, for comics or coins or whatever, it seems like the answer is that it's a grind and a lot of work, for what most people in society would not consider that much money.  I'm sure there are exceptions for those who do it very well or are luckier than most. 

 

 

It is absolutely a grind and only something you should do if you enjoy it.  My Primary job is really good I have definitely had the shower conversations inside my head that I should spend this time working on improving my standing in that primary career instead of hunting comics.  My final decision was that I enjoy it.  I enjoy the hunt, the flip and the collecting.  I would never spend the time doing this to just make money because like you said the knowledge and time needed for the return just isn't there.

Advice in 3 steps

Step 1:  Before you make another purchase for profit you need to know comic books.  If you can't look at a collection in person and make a quick judgement on your max price and reasonable expectation on both profit and time to move the books then you are not ready to jump in yet.  You can still give it a go but you will be paying tuition in the form of lost profit.  

Step 2:  Stay away from hot modern books because if they are already hot then by the time you get them and resell them they will be cold.  Some book however are easy to speculate and at worst break even, book like Thor 337.

Step 3: Most of the people making a livable profit are doing one of or both of these.  Finding collections cheap and flipping them by using their knowledge of what they are worth.  Buying bigger books at a discount and already have a large buyer base to sell that book to.  Finding collections is your best bet but honestly with a full time job and lack of knowledge the pros are going to beat you to it.

My own personal beer money and comic upgrade method is buying collection very CHEAP.  I then remove the big books, press and slab ($300 plus value).  I take the $5-$100 books and just run facebook auctions to move them quickly ( I make less money but books move fast).  I take all the drek and either donate it or sell it in large bundles cheap.  I basically just do this to buy overpriced Silver age marvel keys and would never do it to make a living because it is a grind.

Wolverine vs Spiderman. 

They both go to east Germany for their own reasons but Spiderman ends up fighting wolverine before he finds out they are on the same team.  Spiderman then gets a glimpse into the brutality of Wolverines life with a gut shot ending that involves Spiderman being used to commit suicide. 

26 minutes ago, 1Cool said:

That is the strangest thing about the current market.  We went thru a near crash already in the 90s.  We saw what large scale speculation and unrealistic growth in prices for no reason other then a book being coined the hot book of the month (either by Wizard in the 90s or Bleedingcool now).  We saw how that played out and it just seems to be repeating again and nobody seems to be caring one bit.  I'm starting to do a lot more speculating in stocks then I do in comics just because I see a better long term outcome.

As a reader of comics the books in the 90s also were mostly terrible and everybody was pushing out products which may have also lead to the collapse.

Personally I have always believed that if the only people to buy comics were true collectors and those that enjoy reading comics this industry would have collapsed long ago.  The perceived and actual long term value of comics and the somewhat stable nature of their growth has brought in money that would have otherwise been spent elsewhere.  I am a long time collector myself and I would never spend 4 to 5 figures on a comic book if there wasn't a long term growth value.  I rarely read floppies as I prefer collected editions and prefer CGC slabs for collecting which some would say goes against nature of collecting comics (you know because I can't smell the book now lol)  but I say live and let live but please spend money so the hobby stays alive.

In short any money in the hobby is a positive, there are far more people willing to buy stuff if they think that stuff with go up in price.  I welcome all speculators, collectors, readers or casual fan of a character.  The money is all good for the hobby.

On ‎4‎/‎24‎/‎2019 at 2:43 PM, Ricksneatstuff said:

Showcase 17- CGC 2.5- $290  $275!!

1st Adam Strange!

 

Claim, Take all that good stuff.  Thank you

22 hours ago, dupont2005 said:

I worked at a local hardware store. They paid less than Lowe’s, offered no benefits, and employed the kind of that couldn’t get hired at Lowe’s. The owners wife and kids bankrupted the store by collecting large salaries and only showing up to work to shop on the company account.

Only reason I can see for supporting local Mom and Pop stores is if you want your town to be different then the thousands of towns around you.  I grew up in a small beach town in Florida and loved when it was only Mom and Pops with very few chains.  This changed of course because people didn't support them for obvious reasons Price and convenience.  Now it is just another Wal-Mart/Home Depot cookie cutter town.  Now when I visit family all people do is complain how the place has lost its charm lol.   I agree on Most Comic book shops being sub par but if you like having a comic shop in town support them.  If you don't care save money and buy online.

Looks like a Class Action for some lawyer to get rich. Paypal has the ability to force returns and then keep a fee on top of it.  They are no longer a "Neutral" party in disputs (as if they ever were) and doesn't seem to pass the sniff test to me.   

With that said can someone educate me on the new tax law?

On ‎3‎/‎7‎/‎2019 at 12:42 PM, Aslpride8 said:

Fantastic Four 36 CGC 4.5 Off-White to White Pages 1st Appearance of Medusa $100

I will take it

5 hours ago, Mr bla bla said:

What it go fer?

10900 this time.  Beleive 500 more than last time.  I waited till end to put every penny I had in.  But I was sneaking away real fast to bid on my phone so left too much time.

Only placed one bid and hit submit too early.  Twice now outbid by $100 on the Daredevil 1 CGC 9.0

15 hours ago, lighthouse said:

Ultimately we kept them on sale at cover price until noon on Friday then pulled the plug. I think at one point we had 10 or 12 customers in a row who walked in, bought one copy, complained that we wouldn't sell them a second one for their "friend", bought absolutely nothing else, and left.

I'm sure all those people will come back, right? Right?

Still have a few dozen copies left. Including two original shrinkwrapped bundles of cover A. It's funny because we received at least 80 calls about the book on Thursday, told all those people that we still had copies, but very few made the trip. So now the extras sit until we can put them back out without risking bad reviews.

Ah well, back to the monthly order...

I personally would have pulled them COB Wednesday.  You want a full shelf on Wednesday if possible, but after that it is fair game.  I personally would move the rest of the stock online for the next week to avoid the customers that think you are ripping them off.  Just my 2 cents.

Hope you make a few dollars off these as I hate seeing local shops lose out because they get stock with extra stock and then don't maximize when they do hit with a good book.

4 hours ago, Omaha-CGC-Comics said:

Fantastic Four 52 Cgc 3.5 - $260
Sold to me as unrestored by a d-bag who told me it is "buyer beware." Looks like the black has been touched up along the left where the crease is visible above the Torch.

Flash Comics 103 - $290

 

Had some pull this with me on FF1.  But I used PayPal and put unrestored came back from CGC restored paypal refunded most of money and I kept book.  Sorry seller beware.

10 hours ago, 01TheDude said:

Ugh -- just listed something new and they forced me to make it a best offer or charge me a fee to list. That is not offering a free listing-- that is forcing me to sell the way that suits them. I am concerned that at some point they may just start charging me for all the older listings I have that do not have any offer option. I did not want to accept offers at all. So I had to raise my price and make the accept offer price slightly lower than my original planned price.

This is nonsense. Who is the clown at ebay who thinks this is a great idea? Oh-- and to add insult to injury-- they try to also force you to lower your price every X number of days until it reaches a certain number. You have to unclick that default AND then deny it when adding the listing. If they start to force that on me, that is it-- I am out. I'm not terribly happy about this forcing a best offer on me either.

I imagine same person that told me yesterday that email confirmation that a submitted a form they say never arrived isn't valid because it could be doctored WTF.  And out $200 because seller just tossed my items in box to return them.

Ebay does auto best offer without asking.  I don't feel like changing it all the time so i just set my price and auto reject offer that are not close to my asking.