Ed Hanes

On 6/2/2023 at 8:39 AM, The humble Watcher lurking said:

I was kind of shocked last night seeing golden age Superman and Batman comics,plus silver age Spiderman comic books that are between 60 to 80 years old averaging around $1500 which is less than a modern price of an oz of gold right now. 

Clearly it looks like FOMO for comic book movie hype is over. A great time to be a collector now. I expect it will get better. 

I think fears of a recession are still lingering for many as well as people just wanting to put their money into traveling (yes, this seems contradictory) ..but prices dont seem to be falling below pre pandemic ...that would be a really bad sign 

I sold an ASM 2 2.0 two months ago at MCS for 1674...just won an ASM 2 3.0 for 1430 on comic link...so after fees and sales tax, I spent 130 to upgrade ..that was well worth the gamble I took but the price drop is a little concerning for auctions I have going up in July...might hold off on those

I have noticed that other first appearances ASM 4, ASM 9 took a significant hit this week ..so good time to buy those

also, ASM annual 1 might be taking a big dip also

ASM 50 seems to be holding steady, as well as ASM 14

notice the N

but maybe his N just got lazy as he got older

Here's another I had but sold recently

CGC SS from 10/18

Yeah, I have my doubts about the offers he got,  Also. The only other thing that I can think that he may be doing… Is that he got only a lowball offer from someone who wanted to basically turn it back into a RAW, and asked if he could disassemble it for them…. And then he just made up this charade to have an interesting YouTube show…. And he has no intention of sending it to CGC.

On 5/30/2023 at 11:22 AM, manetteska said:

Dude's got a bustlin' YouTube channel where he slings knowledge and comics -- sometimes a little of both! Don't question him.

 

are you being sarcastic? I wouldnt exactly use the word 'bustling' for his youtube channel (compared to other high volume youtubers)..not even close

I dont understand his math...he was offered 45 to 50 k but wants to repurpose it and get a 3 to 4 , which from recent sales , suggests he would lose a lot of money ...am I missing something here? 

They look like manufacturing defects which would probably knock it down to a 9 or 9.2 (from my own experience) .. the tear is gonna knock it down, obviously, even more..my guess is 7 to 8 depending on the grader

On 4/24/2023 at 10:59 AM, camera73 said:

I'm almost certain that this was true. The big question is: in 2023 have we come any closer to tracking stolen CGC books as they enter the market?

I dont think so..unfortunately, you will pretty much have to do all the leg work

On 4/24/2023 at 9:45 AM, camera73 said:

Hi  - Picking up an old thread.

Last month, my car was broken into in the middle of the night.

The most unfortunate loss was my PC, a laptop that was used to back up family pictures and personal creative work which is irreplaceable.

 

But most pertinent to this thread, was a comic that I had just sold on ebay for $350 and was packed to be shipped (Omega Men #3 CGC graded 9.8).

 

Does anyone know the best way to be on the look out for the serial # for this book?

 

most likely this was a drug addict and that they will try to unload it at a comic retail store 

I've been selling on mycomicshop for past couple years..people not paying for their winning bid at auctions has increased in frequency but not so bad that it has become an issue. 

On 4/18/2023 at 11:44 AM, awakeintheashes said:

With the elimination of the minimum for pre-screens, you’d think it would be welcome among the 9.8 or bust crowd. Granted, the reject price went up to $9 which is almost double what it was not too long ago.

what I would like to see for prescreen is give some estimated grade on rejects

why do elements of Picard season 3 remind me of some recent Venom? maybe the writers also read venom

On 12/16/2022 at 5:48 PM, CGC Mike said:

If it is not entered into the system by Wednesday, send me a PM and I will check with the receiving manager to see if they can find your package.  I expect they are just overwhelmed with packages, and the people entering submissions into the system are running behind.

Ok thanks!

So my ME slab (for misprinted Mcfarlane banner) was delivered/accepted to CGC on Dec 5th but still no official submission. Is there a reason (other than they just haven't opened it yet) why this is taking so long to be opened and submitted? I placed the ME initials all over the box

original submission number 4127057

@CGC Mike

On 11/17/2022 at 10:20 AM, Miguelb said:

That's good turnaround, mine was received on the 10/5 and nothing yet.

I am guessing he was there on oct 5 to sign (for those who get in real early) and wont be back again till this week

My Todd Mcfarlane signing just shipped today ..happy with grade too

my guess is that they are tears on interior page corners, tears that resulted in corner pieces falling off over time

On 11/14/2022 at 11:06 AM, ExNihilo said:

If I send an offer that seems low compared to their BIN, I'll usually send the most recent sales to justify my offer.  They can accept or reject, but at least I avoid leaving the impression of not giving a serious offer as can sometimes be the case when the offer price is much lower than their expected sale price.

Yeah, I do the same ..using GPA/Go Collect/MCS auctions

On 11/13/2022 at 5:16 PM, MR. Pontoon said:

so this is interesting...the 'dont allow offers' disappears with auction and Buy it now..when I posted my auction the other day, without a buy it now..there was no button for 'dont allow offers' just like in the middle...so maybe just a glitch with Ebay..either way, I just decided to take my offerings off Ebay...too much inconsistency

On 11/13/2022 at 5:56 AM, MR. Pontoon said:

Sure it does. None of my listings use the "Make Offer" feature. Somewhere on the listing page, which ebay seems to be eternally and infernally monkeying with, is a check box.

I figured but i couldnt find it

On 11/13/2022 at 7:32 AM, jimbo_7071 said:

You may be listing books with reasonable prices, but many sellers do not. It isn't unusual for eBay sellers to list books for many times what they are worth. That's especially true for raw books for which there is really no demand at all. I routinely see books that I would expect to see in the $3 bin at my local LCS priced at $50 or $100 on eBay.

I don't usually bother offering less that 50%. If a seller is asking more than twice what I think a book is worth, I just figure the seller is delusional or not really motivated to sell.

Even with pricier books, it isn't unusual to see absurd asking prices. I've seen $5,000 books priced at $50,000; I've seen PLODs or GLOD priced just like they were blue-label books, etc. Maybe there are inexperienced buyers out there who will pull the trigger on books like that, but most of the time the books just sit there for years.

Speaking of best offers, one thing to note is that when a book has a make-offer feature enabled and the seller accepts the offer, the book will show up in GPA as having sold for the asking price. So if a book is listed at $2,000 OBO and sells at $1,000, it will show up in GPA as a $2,000 sale. That's why you have to take GPA sales from eBay with a grain of salt.

If you are pricing your books based on GPA, make sure that you aren't relying on GPA eBay sales, because some of those may not even be real sales. Aside from the best-offer issue, some eBay dealers use different shenanigans to try to get fake sales into GPA.

these were auctions, not "buy it nows"

is this a thing on Ebay and do people actually make it work?

Over my last few Ebay auctions, people have offered me extreme low ball offers ...like 25 on a book worth around 200 or 300 on a book worth 1200...I decline , then they make another offer for ten dollars more than last time. So annoying I have just started  setting automatic limits. (Ebay doesnt seem to 'not allow 'offers) . I wonder if people actually accept these low ball offers enough to make it worthwhile for those offering low ball offers...where they do it over and over. 

MCS is scheduled to have an auction for a 9.8 on jan 2...maybe bid on that one

But my guess is that it will level out around 1600..Personally, I am happy with my signed 9.4