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You should thank me for allowing you to have it!! Now where is my book?

I'm the best!

He should have had Divad send it in.

I love that cover! Great pick-up!

Now you should sit down and read the run from from start to finish. One of the best series ever. I am so upset at what they have done with the Spectre. They dont know what to do with him. They need a real writer.

Great cover!

That is sweet! You selling that? Thats one of my favorite covers.

Is that 58 really that white? That's sweet!

I just sold a ton of Batman books a few months ago on Comiclink. Some went way under GPA and some went way over but most went near the average GPA price. I offered my sales data to GPA but they didnt want it.

example! Paid OVER $1500 for a JIM #89 in 8.5. Foolkiller picked it up for me from Harry last year at the Javitts when last GP was about $600+ Sorry. make that 2.5 times GPA. OK, close enough to 3 times GPA. R. and you want one in 9.0 or better good example. I dont think anyone is talking about a J.I.M. 89 or a Hulk 1. they are talking about the common stuff. Books that routinely sell for 50-60.00 on Ebay that are priced at 125.00. The JIM 89 is a prime example of what someone is willing to pay for a specific book that is rare and thats where sites like comiclink,Pedigree, Highgrade and Metro come into play. No one complains about that. You know you are going to pay more for those books. Now if that JIM 89 was on Ebay he may have paid less because as I recall the next highest bid was several hundred lower than Roys.

Well let me pose this question. Would you pay $250.00 for an Avengers 32 in 9.4 after seeing these statistics? (18) 149.03 average for all sales (3) 181.13 12 month average (1) 160.00 90 day average 160.00 last sale 225/45 high/ low Dec 2006 last sale date I know i wouldnt want to pay $70.00 more than the 12 month average. If a book is rare or a key thats a different story. I think 18 sales is a good indication of value on a book. And that high 225 sale throws it all out of whack. The average price should be near the all sales average. GPA deals with a broader spectrum of buyers and to me is the true guide for pricing. Marvel collectors should agree with this.

To the majority of the books you have tracked since 2002.

At this stage the plan is to include the serial number where available. With the relase of GPA for Coins, we will be redevloping GPA for Comics, with the addition of serial numbers on the list. Excellent. Just out of curiosity do you have all of these tracked auctions on file with all of that info?

Hi Sterling, for the record I don't think we've ever pushed our service as a guide on what people should or must pay for CGC books, nor what the upper limit should be - I'm not saying you are suggesting this is the case - what you're most likely saying is that some collectors who use our service may like to quote prices and hold these up as gospel. Frankly I haven't come across anyone who would use GPA in this way - instead, and this is how I was using GPA before it was ever made public, they look at GPA as a historical snap shot of prices paid, and in the more recent sales (and more often traded books) pretty much an indicator of price movement. (BTW, my comments here have no bearing on ComicLink or any other buying/selling venue, nor do I (or my staff) pass judgement on where collectors should buy or sell their books.) There are many factors that will influence one collector's price entry over another's. And there are as many factors as to why some collectors/dealers start a book's asking price at above or below GPA. Many of those reasons are hotly debated: page quality, QP, short-term/long-term influences, emotional factors, etc. At the end of the day though, I would be hard-pressed to understand why some people would pay well over a median price-point on a regularly traded, and often easily available book. And this is the main reason why GPA came about - to assist in determining a FMV for books and hopefully set some idea of a price boundary. For example, let's look at Incredible Hulk #181 in CGC 9.6. A regularly traded book, often comes up at least once per month and sometimes 2-3 times. Looking at the last 12 months, this book has traded as low as $3350 and as high as $4800 - a pretty decent spread. White Pages and good QP abound at both price extremes, but let's for argument sake suggest that the $4500+ sales were due to white pagers with great overall eye-appeal. Another comes up for auction with an asking price of $6000+. Could you see an argument as a dealer that this is a fair price? What about as a collector, would you consider that buy price as reasonable in the wake of historical data at hand? As a collector I always knew that selling was a necessary part of the collecting mix. For so many reasons, at some point in time, both short term and long term, you might need to sell a book. No one likes to cop a 20%+ loss. It is here where GPA helps most, and it's what I hear time and time again from our subscribers. They use GPA to determine a FMV spread, take the current market into consideration, and their own personal position, and then make a final, calculated, individual decision on what they are prepared to spend. Likewise, many dealers who are members use it in much the same way when buying and selling. Are you going to include page quality at some point? That would be a tremendous help and will also expalin the price fluctuations as well as centering.

Congrats on a sweet book. One of my all time favorites.

That is one sweet book! You keepin it?

Kudos to Pirate for some nice books. Those Hulks are great reading. I need 66 to current now. Do you have them?

Kudos to GA Collectibles my daughter loves the colorforms. FT88 for tons of the runs!! I am back to the basics with comics thanks to you. There is nothing like being able to actually read the books! Thor was one of the best runs ever! Blowout for some beautiful Iron Fist books! Byrne at his best! Buckeye Chaos for some minty Batman books!

Kudos to Lighthouse for some quick shipping and some great trades!! Also doing it without payment!