The Less Blob

Well, many dealers are on ebay too. so that's how they compete? And folks are willing to pay a premium if they feel comfortable getting what they have purchased rather than hoping grading is up to snuff.

Right. I think my point is whether you (or similarly situated dealers who deal in "good stuff") are buying outright or selling via consignment, the net the owner gets on really good stuff make you very competitive vs. the owner just plopping it on c-link.

Also, on a big $15k type book maybe a dealer is fine clearing 10-15%.maybe less if they have a sure or cash sale. Bob sells that via his website he maybe pays CC fees. You sell it on clink you pay all sorts of fees. You may net as much from a dealer willing to pay 85-90% of FMV. (I'm just saying Bob because I think he says his margin % is not big on high end stuff)

I run into plenty of mid 90s books that don't have bags or boards sitting in boxes that might be 9.8s. If someone bought the ff 5, read it once, tucked it away in a box, why not? There are 9.8s and 9.6ses from 1962. Not many, but they exist.

3 years later I cannot remember if I was attempting sarcasm. Or if I brushed my teeth this morning.

Bar mitzvah and communion money appears st 13. Could be thousands.

Crack heads bring in great stuff! Thing about NYC is nowadays there are very few genuinely "sketch" areas nobody goes. Gentrification and hipsters have found their way everywhere.

Admittedly they were young, but yes, my son (now 14) and his friends did not have a clue re the possibility of haggling last show I took them to. I had to make them understand. If stuff adds up to $22 you ask them to take $20. This is a no brainer.

Just saying, sounds less delusional if you time travel back 43 years

I suppose. With that said sometimes you just hit the price because you don't want to lose it. A 4.5 of a book was sitting at $35. I had been bidding on a 5.5 copy at $36, but it blew up to $136! After that auction ended I grabbed the $35 copy, did not attempt to haggle.

Those books were only 24 years old then. Like running into a 9.8 from 1995 in the wild that was not bagged and boarded.

Good

It seems on eBay any cover with Betty or Veronica in a bathing suit has some a trying to sell it for $30. Worth a shot I guess.

How was the show sales wise?

7x7 would be really hard for a collectible shop. You couldn't even fit 2 6 folding tables. It could be a new comics shop with wall racks and spinners, but who the heck wants that?

Dont you need a license, health inspection, etc? The problem with a shop is manning it if you have another job. So you pay someone $15 an hour unless you can work out a deal for less and they use the space too for a gig.

A shop like that in nyc would do fine at that rent. The shops close at $2-4k rent. A garage space costs less in most of Manhattan.

So I should price my $100 books at $120 to make someone feel good about paying $100? That's not really a discount.

No, print run was around 17k

As RMA's recent post has shown, even fully wrapping with bubble wrap may not save the slab when the USPS really wants to mangle it

So what happened to the books? I assume that dried whale semen you have pictured didn't mess up the books?

I wish.

I never to say never to new comics after I took a chance on Walking Dead #1 way back when and bought 1,000 copies. My retirement is pretty much set as is college for the kids, assuming they go to state schools.

(Responding to posts re: nobody is selling to dealers, not the notion that high end books aren't out there at NYCC). Dealers are clearly out there buying plenty of books, perhaps not the high end better c-linkable books. I was just bidding on a book with jscomics and criminey, they have a ton of multiples of bronze and copper keys..like 5-10 copies of BP #1 in HG, multiples of conan 1, etc. The SA and GA books they tend to only have 1 copy of. maybe they just bought a big collection and not much of it is slabbed. I find it interesting they have such a huge selection the same weekend as NYCC as they usually have a ton of tables, but it tends to be cheaper stuff.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-INCREDIBLE-HULK-377-COMIC-BOOK-PETER-DAVID-BOB-MCLEOD-AUTOGRAPH-SIGNED-/303299407551?hash=item469e0daebf%3Ag%3ATKYAAOSwFMtdjTtF&nma=true&si=k5rBGBi%2BuujbAIA%2FqNJ8cW9pcBQ%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Ouch, those autographs made it go for less than a 1st print. I am no expert, but the Peter David does not look right, but why would anyone bother? I have looked at his sigs and they are all over the place, but this does not look like a "natural" signature. the McLeod does not look too bad, but again, nobody cares. my 8 year old asked me why I didn't put fake stan lee sigs on as bunch of books and make some money. I told him it would be wrong and not fair to the people who bought them. where on earth did he get this idea? youtube? he also asked me why I am dragging him to sunday school rather than letting him sleep, because it is a waste of time (his words) and he loves to sleep. I had no answer other than "ask your mother." he's definitely going to pull the plug on me the 1st chance he gets, bless his heart.