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Kershaw

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    Authenticating the value of a graded book.

    in Newbie Comic Collecting Questions

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    6 hours ago, CKinTO said:

    For graded books, especially those that transact a lot, Ebay sold auctions tend to be a pretty accurate gauge on the current "fair" market value for a book. With Ebay, you can use the advanced search to find sold auction listings, and it goes back 3 months. Again for highly-liquid books that transact many times per week, this is an easy, free way to get pretty close to what reasonable prices are.

    A cheaper alternative than GPA is Go Collect - it only uses Ebay listings, but allows you to get the actual paid prices for Ebay Offers that were negotiated on BINs, but goes back up to 2 years so you have a bit more sense for history than the 3 months you can get for free via Ebay. 

    In general though, if a comic is listed with a BIN price (or very high min-bid price in an auction), and hasn't been bought fairly quickly, it's because it's generally above the fair market value.

    Thank you.

    Authenticating the value of a graded book.

    in Newbie Comic Collecting Questions

    Posted

    6 hours ago, CKinTO said:

    For graded books, especially those that transact a lot, Ebay sold auctions tend to be a pretty accurate gauge on the current "fair" market value for a book. With Ebay, you can use the advanced search to find sold auction listings, and it goes back 3 months. Again for highly-liquid books that transact many times per week, this is an easy, free way to get pretty close to what reasonable prices are.

    A cheaper alternative than GPA is Go Collect - it only uses Ebay listings, but allows you to get the actual paid prices for Ebay Offers that were negotiated on BINs, but goes back up to 2 years so you have a bit more sense for history than the 3 months you can get for free via Ebay. 

    In general though, if a comic is listed with a BIN price (or very high min-bid price in an auction), and hasn't been bought fairly quickly, it's because it's generally above the fair market value.

    Thank you.

    Authenticating the value of a graded book.

    in Newbie Comic Collecting Questions

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    I buy a lot of comic books on eBay and sometimes when I make my purchases I can't help but wonder that I might have paid too much. No I don't mind paying a little extra for a book that really want but at the same time I don't want to get ripped off. Is there any way for me to authenticate the value of the cgc graded book aside from me going by other sellers auctions on eBay? For example I'm trying to get Omega Men #3 graded at 9.8 white pages the seller wants $250. At the moment I'm negotiating the price with the seller but I don't know what is a fair offer and what isn't. Can I get a little help please?