Keys_Collector

I am basing this comment off reading your initial post and a few other comments but admittedly did not read every single post through all 15 pages.

With that being said, I get what you are saying but I'm not sure there's anything to be done.  I can even say that I had 1 post removed by questioning a for sale thread where someone said the book was much higher grade then it really was.  I chimed in with saying that its a nice book but not XX condition the seller stated.  I thought it was my place to say something but alas, it is up to the seller and interested parties to negotiate and my post was rightly removed.  Sellers have the right to list their books how they please as in anywhere else whether its at a con or on another selling avenue like eBay, Instagram or Mercari.  

Let overpriced books sit there or let an interested buyer convince the seller to come down on the price.  Most sales threads and sellers here are very fair and more then reasonable to work with and that's where i'll spend my focus on rather then caring about any threads that may seem overpriced.  I don't care for every sales thread but that's my choice to interact, attempt to purchase or work with a seller.  Some of the feeding frenzys on sales threads are wild to me and in a sense mimic what I see in other ways like overpriced books on Instagram auctions or Comiclink auctions ending way above FMV.  My assumption for the future of this forum is that it will become more and more like other avenues of selling where there will be more of an overlap and similarities in pricing and structure then actual differences.

On 6/26/2020 at 8:37 PM, camera73 said:

2) Can't we all say "I don't get it" about 99% of the stuff that other people get excited about? And I'd guess the percentage of people who would say "I own none, I don’t get it" about comics would be greater than 99%. So it's all a matter of 'to each their own.'

On 6/29/2020 at 7:13 PM, lighthouse said:

The huge difference between Funkos and Beanies is the licensing.

Beanies only ever had value to people who wanted to collect Beanies (or wanted to sell to other Beanie collectors). Beyond that, you were limited to selling a Gobbles to folks who happened to collect turkeys (not exactly a huge market).

The licensing aspect is enormous. There are Elvis Presley collectors that will buy darn near anything that is a licensed Elvis collectible. They’re not going to suddenly stop wanting the 50s and 70s Elvis Funkos just because Funkos in general fade out of fashion. They don’t suddenly dump their Elvis Funkos because they decided Funkos are dumb. The same is true for Disney and LOTR and GOT and HP and DBZ and R&M and all the other licensed stuff.

The original post here was trying to compare superhero Funkos to Beanies, but superheroes are a small, small portion of Funko collecting. They may be the biggest overlap with these boards but I doubt they are 25% of what a Funko makes.

On Tuesday I had a collection of 130 Funkos dropped off at my shop, some superhero but over 2/3 was Disney. Many were common pieces, but a good chunk were $20-40 in the Funko app. The most expensive was $55 retail. I paid $650 for the collection on Friday afternoon. I spent three hours processing a chunk of them Saturday morning before we opened. By close of business Sunday I’d done $690 in sales from the collection.

Would I want to buy and hold one of the $7000 vaulted Dumbo figures? Not a chance. But do I think years from now, folks will still be willing to pay around $8-10 each for Pops of Pikachu, Hulk, Buffy, Legolas, Ariel, Negan, Goku, Pickle Rick, Goofy, or Hermione, even if the “fad” ends. Yeah. I do. And I doubt you’ll see those 50s or 70s Elvis Pops drop below $150 before the end of time.

Here’s a Beanie Baby of a turkey.

Here’s a Funko Pop of your favorite character ever. 

Quite a difference in appeal there.

What he said, just email/call CGC and have them take care of it.  Shouldn't cost you a dime to get a correct label.

On 7/1/2020 at 9:10 PM, The Lions Den said:

I apologize for any confusion, but since at least two of the main graders for "Can't Buy Can't Sell" used to grade for CGC, I find it somewhat ironic when folks point out the difference in grading between the two companies...

I didn't say anything about the grading being much different and actually said  "I've found their grading more times then not to be on par with CGC".  I agree with your statement.

On 7/4/2020 at 8:04 AM, Glassman10 said:

I like that notion of spending 5K on dollar books. If nothing else you'll have tons of stuff to read.

Or you'll be stuck with books that aren't actually worth a dollar and actually worth 25 cents 

Personally for me, I can't stand actors signatures on any books unless that specific actor is on the cover.  What happens if you get Chris Evans or any other actor to sign a comic and then there's another actor that embodies that character even more?  There's typically multiple actors who play a character over the course of our generation.  

But as others have already said, collect and do what you want.  At the end of the day, you are the one who looks at your collection and the one that has to determine when and what to sell.  

Storm

Stop driving up the prices way before the auction ends!  Comiclink is smart about it since there is no watch list and you have to bid to place the item on a sort of watch list but I do think collectors play into it and shoot themselves in the foot by driving up the prices before they should.

2 hours ago, waaaghboss said:

If it seems to good to be true...

I think you mean, if it seems to good to be true, it has to be!

20 minutes ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

What was the final hammer price for this nightmare?

I like them and I get the price point to a certain extent but for me I wouldn't spend that much for it.  Even if I was to pony up the money, I prefer having the floor space in my collectibles room and id rather have my comics raw or slabbed on the walls if they are being displayed. 

Probably legit, I mean the price is right and anytime you see  "absolutely the best possible", you should just know that its absolutely the best possible.

Possibly @Jennifer F. but I wouldn't hold my breath.  It seems that the common piece of advice is to include a sticky note on the book indicating the significance that should be on the label.  Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't.  

1 hour ago, Hey Kids, Comics! said:

What kind of garage sale has 6 copies of Action 9?!?

Don't you mean 9 copies? 

Look at sold listings through eBay, Heritage, Comiclink or use resources like GoCollect/GPA to gauge a ballpark figure.  Sometimes you can get an idea when you look at similar type issues and what they have sold for recently.  For more obscure items, reach out to collectors who are more in the know on value associated with more niche items.  At the end of the day, values change and sometimes there will be outliers dependent on how badly collectors fighting over an auction want the book or its rarity.

Send it back in for a regrade 

Bought a bundle of raw books from Dave and everything arrived quickly and safely.  Would definitely buy from again.  Thanks!

Tear and should be a 5.0

A very nice presenting 2.0 with a bit of staining/marvel chipping and spine splitting.

1 hour ago, The Lions Den said:

Not sure I understand...

I'm not a big variant collector but I have used the mycomicshop website to see variants associated with an issue number.  For example, A-Force 1: 

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?q=A-Force+1&pubid=&PubRng=?AffID=874007P01

7 minutes ago, kimik said:

Based on books I have seen/briefly owned, CBCS is almost as bad in the 9.6 and higher grades. There is a reason that CBCS books sell for a discount relative to CGC..........

IMO the reason is because of CGC having more of a foothold in the hobby at an earlier stage rather then consistency related to grading.  I'm not a CBCS person myself but I've found their grading more times then not to be on par with CGC.

Definitely not a 9.8, more like a 9.9 or Gem Mint 10!