The Less Blob

I think 98 started climbing before 2008, but as like as a $10 book. I remember discussions on the ebay boards and I was off of them by 2005/6. Or maybe it was just slabbed 9.8, but I definitely remember it going on my radar.

When did they add that? Criminey, I notice that now right below! And you can stick 50 images in a thread like that? I haven't done a sales thread for a year +, so I guess that explains my cluelessness.

I am confused, the website offers a $4something a month service for 2500 photos? Why $399? My account, which I have not used for over a year, is still alive. It says I have space for another 1500 or so images? I have 700+ on there, most I should delete, but it is soooo slow. It takes forever to delete an image.

Seems they would be less pushy with ebay not requiring outside hosting anymore. It would basically be hosting for here for me.

Doesn't Venom's arm appear in Web of Spiderman or something?

"as well as dozens of comic books — from "The Incredible Hulk" and "Mister Miracle" to "Star Trek" and "The Uncanny X-Men." They have DOZENS of comic books for sale! Sounds like a sure fire way to generate enough sales to pay for $12,500 a month in taxes (not to mention whatever the rent and/or mortgage might be, insurance, electricity....) OK,OK, I found it: https://www.yelp.com/biz/rego-park-market-queens It is being run as a more general indoor flea market, not some collectors paradise. At least until they knock down the building and put up some condos.

Taxes alone on the property are $150,000 a year. Someone is going to have to sell a lot of comics and cards!

https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20171030/rego-park/comic-book-collectibles-comic-cons-rego-park-99-01-63rd-rd/ Announced after the NYCC kerfuffle. Why they pictured those comics, I have no idea. Don't see any internet listing on it. The property itself seems to be in some sort of legal situation. I always liked Carbo's dad. But Rego Park is kind of a PITA to get to. Can't imagine there being a lot of foot traffic if you're renting a table there. But a supermarket is big enough to hold a show every month.

300 never really hit those heights of despair. That was a massive F-up by the store. If that wasn't a $10-15 book then, what was? That wasn't the one where the owner got arrested and the shop closed overnight, was it?

Thanks. Given my location, none of those seem preferable to mailing them insured to florida. Handing over my books to some guy running a shop or a website seems odd if I don't know them. I understand, Heritage probably doesn't want a bunch of grimey comic dudes coming in to their shmancy gallery at all hours.

I am assuming the answer is no, but I am asking anyway. I figure it has no association with cgc despite mutual ownership.

I sold preacher 1, 2 copies of 2, various issues under 10, and I dunno 30 or so assorted issues -- basically all the 1st apps -- here for something like $100 right after the announcement. But raw is raw and the 1 was a nm-. I felt like I was making out like a bandit.

Fair enough. AMC announced on November 16, 2013. Not a shocker the price popped. I was thinking about before the period when it was being discussed as a tv show (rumors had swirled for a while before AMC announced). It wasn't $200-400 on comic merits alone I think. I remember passing on a sharp $5 copy like an insufficiently_thoughtful_person in the early 2000s.

Sure, but a generalist looks at examples and compares. I understand, a grading service could put together 6 or 7 people who really know comic sigs, but verifying the third tier guys they see less will be tough.

Like the guys Pawn Stars bring in who compare signatures and say "looks authentic to me"? As if someone can't practice a signature to make it look right?

Preacher 1 was a $200-$400 book before then? I'll take your word for it. Sounds high, but I wasn't tracking it as none of my raws were slab candidates.

Rermember all the 99 cent auctions with $1 extra per item shipping? (Neatstuff!) Buy 15 crappy books, get an invoice for $18 or $19 shipping + $14.85 for the books.

Folks stopped bidding except on hot items because everyone started listing stuff. While I do remember most things getting bids and being able to put a lot of up and it selling back in 2000, etc., I don't remember necessarily getting such strong prices. Usually a fraction, under half, of guide. Obviously some exceptions. Indeed, from 2000-2002/3 or so, on the buying front. I actually put together a pretty nice collection of GA slabs, some SA keys in slabs too, making sure to never bid more than 50% of overstreet for them. Did I lose tons of auctions? Sure. I bid on a lot of "VF" "NM" SA books without scans or with terrible ones, but making sure never to bid more than OPG G/VG - VG. Most came back in nice shape.

A solution, albeit probably an entirely unworkable one, would be to limit sellers to the amount of times they can relist an item without a sale. This can be easily sidestepped, but it is an idea. ------------- Putting aside the 50 free listings, if someone is paying, via a store or otherwise, to relist over and over, why is ebay getting involved?

Yup, ebay is a shoot. How many times have you listed a book with, let's say, a $24.99 starting price to protect yourself. No bids. Stick it in your store at $45 and in a month or two it sells for $35. Ebay needs to get out of this micromanaging, particularly if you are paying for a frigging store!

Bearcatcoach...please let this poor soul see what it looks like after you've organized it

From an antitrust perspective, maybe they can't flat out ban competitor's certified books, thus they sell the cbcs books, but perhaps they won't sell PGX because they honestly believe it is a far inferior product and they don't want to associate their auctions and sales with them if someone comes back with a restored book, etc.

Good question. Maybe they don't think CBCS is as sketchy? It's owned by Becket, it's kind of real. PGX is in someone's basement, no?

OK: "After being a hot book in the 90s, in the 1998 - 2002 period, when interest in McFarlane had cooled considerably, this wasn't really a bottom of the corner of the wall book even for a small time dealer. Indeed, it was selling for much less than it had previously been. It did, however, pick up again afterward."

That book has sold at auctions for $242, $221, $257 this month. Maybe the seller F-ed up? We are still watching the show. The last few episodes were pretty wild.