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Thank you, Matt. That helps. V/R, Mike

Thank you for the quick response, Matt. Happy 2024! V/R, Mike

Can I have CGC ship my graded submission to a different address? I am going to submit some comics that I plan to sell via a dealer. Can I set up the return address going to an authorized delaer? Thank you. V/R, Mike

I have a couple hundred comics to submit. Most are Moderns which will require pressing and grading. What's the best number of comics to submit in one submission? Is it faster to submit 25 at a time, or 100 in one submission? I couldn't find anything relating to shipment size. Thank you! V/R, Mike

Thank you for you inputs, Dale. I do appreciate it. I will just sell off my collection more slowly and try to wring out a few more dollars here and there. Fortunately, I am not in a rush. Have a great 2024! I have a great deal of respect for anyone who runs a business.

Yes...I've purchased a number of comics from Dale over the years. He has plenty of raw ASMs on his website, and they are not listed for $3-5. I will stop responding now as it's of no value to get hammered by people who think I'm trying to sell VF dreck off as over priced and over graded . I will simply get the good stuff graded, and I will sell it for GPA... Happy 2024 and good luck with your collecting!

No offense, but no one sells 200-300 range NM ASMs for $3-5. You may be able to find random NMs in a $1 box, the vast majority of those books would not be true NM. They would be VF- or worse with major dings and multiple binder creases. No seller on these threads sells them for $3-5. If they do, please show me a link. True enough, when a collector sells off large numbers of dreck, they will sell for pennies on the dollar. As I mentioned, I'm not in a hurry, so I don't need to unload them for pennies.

Sounds good. I sort of worked myself into building a raw NM run through 700, to include most of the variants. I was getting raws for the common books, and getting CGC'd for the keys and lower numbers (especially below 100). I had an "amazing" collection by my standards. Not so by some of the BSDs on here. It was easy to sell the CGC ASMs from 10 on up. Seems like the market has been cooling... Hard to resist the lower ASMs...

Yep... I know there are some out there trying to build CGC 9.8 W sets of later ASMs. Just too much space to store them all. And of course, the time and expense to get them submitted. That said, I have submitted some books specifically because it's so hard to sell them unless they are graded. If I tell someone a comic is 9.6 and ask for $30, someone might offer $10-15. If I pay $40 to get it graded and shipped to MyComics, someone might pay $65. So, I can make $25 versus $10-15. The math doesn't add when it's a lower dollar books, obviously...

Same page... Just meant that you can find them but it's a lot of work and time and money. When I was still buying, I loved finding a collector with top-notch books who could help me fill in tricky books, even if they are "common." It's WAY easier to find a hundred ASM 300s in 9.6/9.8 than one truly NM Barbie 36.

Born in early '60s...

Not sure where you're getting your price point from. I never offered this grouping of comics. Even at true NM, $3K is way overpriced for raws in this range (400-499). Agreed re being out of wack from time to time on pricing.

More fun... Maybe I'm just an honest and life-long collector who's trying to get something reasonable for truly high-grade comics. I collected Spider-Man comics and comics with Spidey on the cover, generally no later than 1990 for the cover appearances. Some of those you may consider drek, but it's not easy to find Marvel Barbie 36 and Alf 47 (or Avengers #11!) in tight NM condition. Maybe try and not assume the worst in people like myself, who have been on these boards since before some of you were born. Maybe... Or just assume I'm a jerk and maybe miss out on some great books. Regardless, have a great day and happy collecting!

Funny... Not me... I've been on the boards since near the beginning. I never had a kudos page, but plenty of folks here can vouch for me. I've made many purchases over the years. Sold a ton through Bob Storms. Bought and sold via eBay as "mlovest"... 100% feedback. Also, love to see you get true NM copies for $3-5 on Craigslist or eBay. Many will be junk with spine dings and worse. Many likely not even bagged and boarded. Buy 100 and keep a handful...

Depends upon how the collection was put together. My collection was put together over several decades. Meticulous searching of boxes (at stores and shows), eBay, forum buys, Storms, Reece, Sulipa, others. I only purchase high-grade comics, except for some not NM key Marvels, which I no longer have. One of the reasons I stopped collecting is how expensive early ASMs were getting. I simply can't justify $Ks for key comics with a wife and three kids. I generally only read re-print book versions of older comics (Marvel Masterworks or simialr), and my NM purchases went right into Mylite-2s with half- or full-backs. Books I've sent in for CGC grading have generally done very well, with average grades of my NMs closer to 9.5 (ave). Always a miss here or there, but also a good number of home runs in the 9.8 range. Never had a 9.9... My two best were two eBay purchases...ASM 42 shipped in a manila envelope and came back 9.6 W, and an ASM Annual 4, back 9.8 W. Both auction wins as NM copies...long time ago.