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The main question is how much time are you willing to commit. To “maximize value” - which seems like every person who asks this ever says - you need to set aside A LOT of time. You need to learn how to grade to at least a rudimentary level, identify what’s truly valuable (worth more than $50) from filler, and learn how to pack and ship comics. If you’re lucky you might find a half dozen or so books worth submitting so worry about that then. Beyond that, you’ll either have to spend hours and hours photographing your books, listing them for sale across multiple platforms and shipping them over days/weeks/months - or find a bulk buyer who will take the entire collection off your hands for a flat 1/3 estimated value. Either way, best of luck.
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The combined shipping issue I understand and sympathize with. But otherwise I applaud this change. They just stole the idea from Whatnot, where tons of people sell cards and comics now because buyers have to have a card on file and it gets immediately charged when they buy something. To me, if your an honest buyer intending to follow thru on your purchase I don’t see how there’s any problem with the change - other than the shipping thing.
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Who did you use would be helpful info. If you used a 3rd party, sometimes they use their own CGC account and you never receive any info ever until one day your books just show up. If you submitted them through CGC themselves, after a big huge con your submission doesn’t get logged into the system for several weeks
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I think it’s entirely reasonable to ignore what people have been actually paying for the past 3-6-12 months and instead price things based on what your crystal ball predicts they’ll be selling for in 2035
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I love when people create “Well…DUH!” content and it’s like people are shocked to learn water is wet. Dealers at cons are there to take advantage of impulse buyers and filthy casuals who don’t know any better. If you’re an experienced con-ner or collector, you figured this out after your first con or two. If not, the handwritten “Don’t quote GPA to me” signs on their booths should be your first tip off
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the pursuit of nostalgia vs. living in the present
Cman429 replied to factory sealed's topic in Comics General
Or, as brilliantly yet succinctly stated in the best comic movie ever, The Crow, “Victims, aren’t we all?” -
Golden Age Comics For Sale (Rare and Esoteric) (CLOSED)
Cman429 replied to Et-Es-Go's topic in Golden/Silver/Bronze Age Only
This thread is awesome! I have a Green Turtle figure in the style of the old Secret Wars line someone did as set of public domain Golden Age heroes on Kickstarter. Never knew much about him let alone saw his comic (and artist!). Sorry for the intrusion, just wanted to say thanks for the info and amazing informative presentation. GLWTS! -
Are prices still climbing or have they eased up a bit???
Cman429 replied to InfantTerrible's topic in Comics General
Disney inspires me with little confidence. Nor does WB’s “leadership.” If/when the comic movie craze fully collapses - and if Gunn doesn’t succeed I think that’s the end - you’re gonna see “investment” sell offs the likes of which we haven’t seen -
I’d consider a 20 a perfect score - obviously 0 is perfect but given the subjective nature of grading, being consistently a half grade off seems like as perfect as realistically perfect gets. So I’m pretty happy with a slightly above average finish. If I throw out one or both of the trick books in RD2 this is by far my best showing ever.
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2023 CGC Grading Contest Summer Edition (#7) Round 4
Cman429 replied to CGC Mike's topic in Hey buddy, can you spare a grade?
Man, I was cruising along with a 🎯 or half grade off on every book - which given the subjective nature is basically a win to me - then came the Avengers. Missed that by two full grades. My monitor calibration must be way way off bc I didn’t see the “front center tear” at all. -
F eBay. Other sales platform suggestions and experiences?
Cman429 replied to D2's topic in Comics General
I can’t stand eBay but it’s the only platform I get any traction on. I tried selling on here and get crickets (or ridiculous offers). I belong to a half dozen FB groups and also crickets - plus I’m reluctant to sell high value items there when people use the G&S trick. I was a beta users on short box and have never gotten an offer ever. I recently started trying Instagram but the only way that really works is if you list with a big comic selling page - and pay their consignment fee. It’s a like half of ebay tho so that’s promising but you do have to price aggressively. -
2023 CGC Grading Contest Summer Edition (#7) Round 4
Cman429 replied to CGC Mike's topic in Hey buddy, can you spare a grade?
I got the popcorn emoji as well which filled me with a feeling of impending doom. Mike’s use of emojis is an excellent use of psychological torture. -
This isn’t the right forum for this. You should post in Ask CGC. I always get prompt customer service there
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2023 CGC Grading Contest Summer Edition (#7) Round 3
Cman429 replied to CGC Mike's topic in Hey buddy, can you spare a grade?
2 🎯 and 3 a half grade off for my best ever round of 3 POINTS!! Clearly the key to my doing well is to do atrociously the first two rounds, get eliminated from contention, then excel when there’s no incentive to succeed -
Just to group your questions together, everything in one order must be the same. So if you have 4 books and want custom labels, it has to be custom on ALL 4 or none. Same with screening. Same with pressing/CCS. Either all books are pressed or none are. If you have 4 moderns and want 2 pressed and 2 not, either order it for all 4 or submit two separate orders. Now the good news is you can send all your submissions together. So if you have 2 vintage, 2 modern and 3 prescreen, you can ship them all in the same box, just make sure everything is organized & paperwork is in order. You’ll just get 3 separate shipments back from CGC (and pay shipping 3x).
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To be fair, ebay takes a decent chunk out of your sale plus our wonderful Congress passed that law taxing small time ebayers so we can build windmills in Utah or whatever so I understand ebayers pricing stuff above GPA. In their calculus, they’ll be clearing around GPA after all the fees are deducted so it’s fair. Now the ones on there who still price stuff like it’s 2020 or guys at Cons asking 20% above GPA when you’re dealing in cash money, those people have no excuse.
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I’ve only been banned once, from a Rob Liefeld fan forum on FB that Rob posts to. This happened back when he was touring comic shops in support of Major X. He appeared at a comic shop in either TX or CA, I forget which, but they made it VERY clear he was there for MX. He would meet fans, sign MX1 for free, take pics, etc. but if you wanted something else like your NM87 signed he was gonna charge his regular fees. Anyway the comic gossip sites picked up an angry post from some “fan” who posted/emailed that he loved Rob, waited in line for 2 hours, then got told he couldn’t meet Rob bc he had no money. Rob posted links to these articles as examples of how the comic media smears him. I looked at the articles and it was very clear the “fan” in question was a native Spanish speaker who had a limited grasp of English and the whole thing came down to a language barrier. I posted as such to which Rob replied (paraphrasing): “Don’t make excuses for comic sites! Everyone there knew how the event worked! The comic press is always out to smear me!” The reply was like 5 minutes old. When I hit refresh to respond, I saw I was banned. Thr great irony of all this is I was always a big Liefeld fan to the point Peter David actually wrote about me as a “diehard Rob fan” in one of his CBG columns back in 1994. Oh well…
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It’s not a green label. The CGC President guy announced that books signed INSIDE on first page will get blue labels going forward
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Looks like small corner bumps and maybe a couple very very light spine ticks. I was at 9.2-9.4 as well.