Bob Sacamano

On 5/1/2023 at 3:37 PM, troy.division said:

Good idea!

Quick question for anyone 'in the know' -
Would this method be valid for CIS appraisal estimates on rarely sold comics?
I ask because CIS recommends Comic Connect, but I have emailed CC multiple times with my hard to figure out appraisal list of 5 items with no responses.

You’d have to ask them but I bet it wouldn’t fly due to the possibility of gaming the system.

I’m a Cankor and Matt Allison fan but I’m not aware of any sales that have occurred since I’ve been interested in it. I’m sure that would sell for $500 but for $1000?  Maybe not… but maybe, who knows.

These were all 5% off.

You might just list a handful here and see if the buyer appears and tell them you have many more.

These were about 10% off.  I’ve been on the look out for any Destroyer Ducks.

On 9/9/2022 at 9:42 PM, awakeintheashes said:

The Over the Garden Wall cartoon was great and is Autumn perfection. That seems to have really translated into people wanting more content since it was only a limited series show. I know the early TPBs go for good money. 

Yeah the first miniseries is worth good money.  That retailer incentive isn’t bad. There is a limited edition art book out there’s that’s worth about $1000 and the regular edition is about $200 I think.  The second series I picked up most covers A & B but isn’t worth a whole lot.  It did make me watch the trailer and I’ll probably watch the series with my older kid.

On 9/5/2022 at 8:34 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

I'm glad to see that motor girl get some love. I remember upon release there were options for signature series that I opted out of, but it was early when I got back in and I remember people speaking good things about it

 

 

I like Terry Moore but I haven’t looked at that one yet.  He had some more of them I could pick up but I don’t know if I’ll get around to looking at those.

These were around 10% off.

these were 25% off.

I think this is the last of it.  These were $2 each for the bagged books and $1 for the unbagged.

These were around 10% off.  Worked out on the 2nd print Power Rangers 9, around $70 book.  Happy to have 300 I’ve been meaning to pick it up for a while.

These were all 25% off.  The first Lobo appeared to be perfect when I was there but then when I got home saw a flaw on the bottom left corner so probably not higher than 9.4 too bad I was in a hurry.

These were all just over 10% off.  To be honest I should have left all the A-Force except one or two of them.

Here are some more I picked up.  The Over the Garden Wall were a very good deal, the Steven Universe not bad but the Regular Show I should have left. These were all 25% off.

I picked up a lot of books this weekend.  I got a lot of these 2016 Power Rangers virgin variant covers.  It took me a while to figure out what they were.  I checked out what he had then went back for the ones I wanted.  These were all 25% off.

I wonder if any YouTuber is sending in comics with checker traps and seeing if they notice it.  Seems like a good way to get tons of views on a video.

On 8/23/2022 at 8:23 PM, THE_BEYONDER said:

I should send it to CCS first for a quick press.  See if they notice the staples before putting it in the press.

CGC is trying to churn through so many comics and cards now, they won’t notice anything.

On 8/23/2022 at 4:30 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Ah I get it now, I should have posted my 1st post in response to @Beyonder123 as a question.

I took it as a double cover grade at first, but that isn't specifically stated either so it is confusing until we see results. No worries. 

I took it as they'd grade the acetate, grade the book, and come up with a label, but that to me has always even terminology for double covers. I'd tag cgc Mike, but

Either it's not clear or wait and see? 

 

Since it should be a given that they grade the interior of the book in addition to the cover I took this part of the new guidance as a way of alluding to the inflated grades without actually mentioning it and to try to give a plausible explanation, like we didn’t pay enough attention to the interior of the book.

but now I don’t know.

On 8/23/2022 at 9:15 AM, AmazingComics413 said:

My LCS no longer buys or sells CGC slabbed books after this 

Are they giving away their stock?  Can I have their number. 

Do you guys use those special bigger short boxes for CGC books.  I don’t have many but was thinking about getting one.  I haven’t seen them around though.

I picked these up at the same flea market but a different collection.  They were all half off.

i also picked these up from the original collection I’ve been raiding.  These were all 25% off.

This one appears to be made from the omnibus or Milestone edition.  I think the best way here is the dot matrix printing of old Vs what you see there.  Also the interior cover appears to be from a copy of the actual comic which has faded and uneven ink while presumably the rest of the comic doesn’t.

My Mom had dementia and was swindled for more than $10k so I hate even the idea of these things.

I see they located the staples way off the fold too.  If someone went to a lot of trouble they could replace the staples or just move them to the right place but the holes should still be there.