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On 4/24/2023 at 2:08 PM, buttock said:
I've never noticed that before, but now it really stands out. That's pretty awful.
Sorry bro, I was massive sarc. Hoffman is the devil.
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On 4/24/2023 at 2:01 PM, Bronty said:
Vodou will say 40 I'm sure.
I don’t find notable presence on a wall under 48” tall.
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Totally quit on the foreground ☹️ …Hoffman wouldn’t have.
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On 4/15/2023 at 11:41 AM, Bill C said:
Comiclink should have a section on their main page promoting their business, consisting of several quotes from past buyers. "...see what satisfied customers are saying!" It would be so killer if quotes like these were what filled the section up.
Or…someone could grab the CominlinkRulez.com url and then just fill it with quotes attributed to original sources and jam it up with Google Adsense clickbait 😉
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On 4/4/2023 at 10:36 AM, tth2 said:
Depends on if you're asking a holier than thou boardie with a stick up his bum.
Nah, I just need to be better than you, low bar 'n all
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On 4/4/2023 at 9:15 AM, batman_fan said:
Let’s say for the sake of argument I had a friend. Now said said friend and I were talking about the upcoming HA auction and said friend mentions a piece they really want. I was thinking of bidding on it but not with the same passion level as my friend. I would pass on bidding on the piece. Is that collusion?
Not if it’s just in your mind and you don’t discuss…
Edit: BTW I’m in this situation near daily with several friends. They do what they do but I’m always upfront about where my natural bid caps (letting them know they would need to be ready to go higher, np), if at all, or remain silent and bid my honest intention, same difference. They all know this about me, that my words and bids are always upfront and honest, that I don’t and won’t step aside or add bids to help a consignment or add pain to rivals, that I will bid up to my number though in anything of interest: all understood, no big deal, no messy divorces 😘
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On 4/4/2023 at 8:29 AM, delekkerste said:
Indeed, but also against Board rules (all boards actually, except Dark Web 😉) to solicit likely illegal activity…
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On 4/4/2023 at 7:06 AM, Michael Browning said:
I don’t think anyone is saying they would step aside or withhold bids to hurt or help an auction, but I do believe they are saying they would let a friend go after a piece if they wanted it badly.
Keep lying to yourself 😂
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On 4/4/2023 at 12:15 AM, Michael Browning said:
I can honestly say no one collector or group of collectors has ever backed off of an auction for me.
On 4/4/2023 at 12:19 AM, tth2 said:Have you ever asked them to?
On 4/4/2023 at 12:39 AM, Unstoppablejayd said:Michael- if there is ever something you need and it falls in my wheelhouse feel free to reach out … we can always have a convo about me stepping aside!
Sorry to throw cold water on all this budding camaraderie but collusion rings can be illegal and most would agree are immoral…when others do it to them 😉
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On 4/2/2023 at 8:27 PM, KirbyCollector said:
trending toward deflation
Nope.
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On 4/2/2023 at 10:03 AM, KirbyCollector said:
Curse you for making me see this
Fixed?
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Unforgivable swipe.
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On 3/26/2023 at 11:18 AM, Funnyslover said:
He once mentioned that he took out a remortgage when a large amount of Kirby art came on the market.
The way I heard it was that he liquidated his retirement account to take down a large part of the Tony Christoper Collection.
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On 3/23/2023 at 11:52 AM, All-Star Squadman said:
first Sal Buscema page in my collection. At same time I picked up a small handful of other Sal Cap Pages but the 230 was first one I selected. Back then they were a bit pricey at $125-$175 a page.
They sure were. A few years before Conrad won a bill lot of Sal, 150 or more pieces -incl covers/splashes from Sotheby’s for around $1200 iirc. That’s what we were overpaying for 3 years later.
The market knew, that stuff sat for years at his prices, even with me picking up 3-5 every Boston con!
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Thanks for posting this Gene.
Conrad was a character, for sure, but always and certainly - honest, fair, and willing to dicker favorably to all on prices if you wanted to get several at once. His word was his bond, and I never had a single issue with him or his business practices; there are very few others I can write that about.
Even though only 1% of my collection by piece count came to me through him, they probably represents 25% of my overall gross value today…and that’s because he had art I wanted at a price I could pay and he never changed the rules after the fact or reneged, meaning I never had to cut him off - from my future business. He was a great guy and a real credit to “dealers” who mostly, and deservedly, have a relatively weak reputation.
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On 3/19/2023 at 8:35 AM, Rob Frey said:
how long before we see that piece either on a dealer's website or in the flip of the day discussion?
Never. Everybody knows that “tape” is the unforgivable sin 😉
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On 3/18/2023 at 5:22 PM, Brian Peck said:
Then a collector came along and bought most of it.
That collector did very well on it too!
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On 3/18/2023 at 9:07 AM, KirbyCollector said:
Walt decided to show the dealer some of his art, so he went to get it from the closet where it was kept. The art was not in portfolios, mind you, but simply stacked in a giant pile from floor to ceiling. I was horrified to hear this, thinking of the all the ways it could be easily damaged in such a setting (bugs, humidity, water, fire etc). The dealer thought it was no big deal, which confused me -- until I visited the dealer at his house and saw he stored art the exact same way
On 3/18/2023 at 11:19 AM, Ecclectica said:I would have reacted the same way. I don't understand the concept of stacks of art, without a protection of any kind, at dealers' tables or anywhere else.
On 3/18/2023 at 11:19 AM, Ecclectica said:At dealers' tables, it almost a horrible vision to discover prices in "K" in stacks like these...
Er, like this?
Or this?
That’s two. I can keep going, quite a few more and that’s just what’s on board and/or unframed…if there’s interest 😉
On 3/18/2023 at 11:34 AM, tth2 said:And condition actually matters in comic collecting.
And is nearly immaterial in art collecting if priced correctly 🥰
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On 3/16/2023 at 10:46 PM, lobrac said:
Nice win
You should just keep it. Too nice to flip.
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On 3/16/2023 at 5:55 PM, JC25427N said:
What if there's a person who would have been one of the top two bidders but decides to not bid at all because of it.
You’re describing three bidders, and the top bowed out. It and his opinion matters, obviously. What of it?
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On 3/16/2023 at 4:36 PM, jjonahjameson11 said:
I don’t see how folks can say that it won’t impact the value of the page when clearly there are folks like me who stay away from pages with masking tape
It only matters if it matters to the top two bidders, all the rest, and their opinions are immaterial. On top material, of course.
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