GreatCaesarsGhost

Hard to know. Only thing I can say for sure is one of us would have wound up paying more

Ok, so I did buy the grader notes. They say: light, multiple crease full bottom of back coverlight, multiple crease left top of back covermoderate miscut full right of whole bookmultiple bindary chip out spineprinter's vein center of front coversmall, multiple tear full top of back cover These are the kinds of defects that could range from high to low in terms of eye appeal, so no help there

I can understand the Clink employees working from home. Heck, most of us are. So I get it they don't want to go physically find the book. But there's no reason they can't email the consignor and ask for one. How many of us have books worth 5 figures that don't have scans out the wazoo? I've got scans, front and back, on my home computer and all my mobile devices. I look at em at the oddest times. It's the collector nerd in me.

it will tonight

I sent a request for a back cover scan on March 14th, and when I got no response, I sent another request March 20th. This is for a book that will hammer for north of 5 figures. So I just now called, and got told that, sorry, due to the quarantine, no back cover scans. When I pointed out the quarantine didn't start until 2 weeks after my first request, I got told, well we were told to just stop giving out back cover scans. Wait, what? If you're going to do this, at least give me the courtesy of a response to me email requests. Someone else can have this book now. I'm done with Clink.

Really? That’s disappointing to hear.

Truer words were never spoken

What is going on is you consider getting out of some of the stock before the river runs red

Those are all good points, but I do think the stock market adversely affects the sale of $10k and over books. The higher priced the book, the more adverse the affect. Few people had their money just sitting naked in a checking account. Those people who did defied custom. Those who did not, which is most people, mostly had it in . . . wait for it . . . the stock market. And nobody wants to sell out stock at the loss they would have to bear. Right now, with the 3rd straight day of gains, the stock market it still down 20%. And IMO, these gains are only in fleeting response to the stimulus package, and will soon go back about its business of tanking. I’m not going to sell stock at the losses I would have to take to pick up new books. ergo, books over $10 k have been adversely affected by the stock market. But this is just my opinion.

Chris Pedrin Fortresses!

You’d almost think the people in charge are used to running up the debt and then filing for bankruptcy in order to scrape all the bad decisions off the bottom of their shoe and leaving someone else holding the bag

You have just put your finger on it

That was fast

I thought that likely myself; the spines are nice and fat, still.

Why is it the only old label books in my collection happen to be the only 2 Planets I own??!!

The NBA, MLB and March Madness people would not leave well over a billion dollars on the table if this was just an overreaction. When businessmen make a sober money decision such as this, well in advance of mandated quarantine, they must feel fairly certain that this is a real deal, despite the naysayers https://apple.news/AV62unw5tQQib4aAbpRV-4g

I’ve not seen any discussion, apart from people wondering what possible defect could bring it down to a 3.5. It presented much higher. I don’t think anyone bought the grader notes. We were stumped. This discussion all took place before the final hammer. i thought it went for a very strong price and attributed it to its outstanding eye appeal

With all due respect, pshaw. Still down a ton

Wow. Good find. Somebody copied somebody here . . . I know it gets lonely at sea . . . But what does the prince want to see Harry in his cabin for?

Possible but I think unlikely. Who has $450k in a bank account. And who would liquidate stock at current prices. This is just not the time for big books.

That’s an astute observation. And it has a ring to it. But a less foreboding possibility(to the hobby in general) is CC is simply still trying to dig out after the prolonged site upgrade. That would explain them leaving it out on the table like this. as for the seller, I agree with Primetime’s theory immediately above and yes, I too hope it all works out for the seller. This is not a good time to throw a big book out there

Anyone in the market for $50 k books and up, I guarantee you they have a market position. I believe this is why the $50k and up books are doing poorly. They did poorly in both Clink and Heritage. At this point the current events are such a blur I can’t really remember if coronavirus was a thing during the clink auction. I know for darned sure it was during the Heritage auction. But in the Heritage auction, the $10 k and under books did very well. The fact that Poka above got such good deals in last nights Hakes auction suggests to me that now the $10 k and under books are weakening. just batten down the hatches and hold on to what you got. Cherish the books you have(love the one you’re with, right?). This storm shall pass.

Wow. $450k. That is a reasonable price, truly. This looks like a coronavirus fire sale. I don’t like how dark that paper looks under that chip(it might tend to drive my OCD a bit crazy), but If this had been around 6 mos ago, it would have tormented my dreams. Still will, probably