William-James88

First time I go back to my local comic shop in months.

That's the worst part. It's not even them who sent it to CGC in the first place so I have no clue how CGC could make things right. Well, what I see is the original owner telling CGC they made a mistake, then CGC compensating them for the price of the slabbing and then the orginal owner passing on that compensation to the OP. But even then, while that's convoluted enough, your still stuck with the fact that anyone can say the book is not the same one CGC graded since it's been removed. Even us, how can we know for sure that the OP didn't remove the book from the slab, take the centerfold and then make this post? Not accusing anyone and not saying this is what happened at all, just that this can't even be verified, making recourse super hard. And added to that is the notion on the label that pieces are missing.

It's a printing defect, like a miscut or anything else. It won't be judged more harshly by CGC.

Fantastic Four 5, 100% That will be one of those practically unattainable comics later. Marvel Family 1 is cool too and rarest of the bunch, but I feel it's a really high price already with not as much room to explode as FF 5. Second appearance are actually lowering in value (or not growing in value as fast) in general so I would avoid those.

Never.

You can send it to them still slabbed.

dude, I wish I kept my golden age mid grade Detective Comics and Batman comics from ten years ago.

25 cents per book for moderns is 5 times higher than the usual price all the wholesale buyers I know buy such collections at for their comic book stores.

No, not sure what the duscussion has turned into though. I was just replying. And as for other auction houses and major sellers, I do not think that they remove slabs to sell at a higher grade. At least I havent seen it nor heard of it as I do with metropolis comics and now polished gem comics.

Man, I would have never considered that run of DD to be "vintage", more akin to a modern book instead. But the other day, someone was selling them and stating that they held their value in the past 40 years and I was like 40 YEARS!!?!?!

Another great achievement of his is being part of the renaissance at Marvel in the 80s, as an editor. Were it not for him and others (like his boss Shooter), Marvel would probably not exist today.

Metropolis Comics does not do that.

Man, this is all eye opening, I was under the impression that the whole e-bay feedback feature stood for something.

Something else I wanted to add, the different sites attract different fans/customers due to the different kinds of books they will have. With heritage, it's big ticket items. So lots of Golden age or big keys from other eras. Very little modern by comparison. They usually only accept to consign for something worth 5000$ total and work a lot with estates (like when a collector dies and the family wants to liquidate assests to get their inheritance) so what you'll see are more expensive or more classical items. Mycomicshop is at the total end of the spectrum. There you'll find the cheaper stuff, lots of moderns, and slabs that could even sell for less than 20$. That's where you'll find the 0.5 reader copies for golden age books. Comicconect and Comiclink are in the middle. They will have a bit of everything. They are usually where I'll go for silver and bronze age books that are less than $1000, for instance. Heritage will maybe have a couple of copies of Detective Comics 400 go up a year, while that and all other keys from the Neal Adams batman run can be found at those two auction houses all year round.

How do you remove feedback?

It's still all nonsense though since that totally disregards the whole concept of renting, which is what lots of people do. You could choose to rent a small place and use the rest of your disposable income on comics if you think that will go up higher than owning a home. You don't own the place you live in, so it's worth monetary wise is inconsequential and you are comparing something you don,t own to something you own which makes no sense.

Um what? https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/39875/high-graded-amazing-fantasy-15-sold-auction-record-sum That book sold for more than most of what the residences in my city are worth.

The book is rare enough that it will go up in value regardless, at its own rate. And I am confident that a 9.4 with resto would be worth more than a 7.5 blue label (which is what this could get if you remove that kind of resto on a copper age book).

huh, odd. I had not realized (I use my credit card with them). What also added to my assumption was their recommendation of Paypal as the fastest way for logging into their site, but yeah it's not necessarily related. Thanks for the info!

I think that's the same for most. As indicated above, thats where prices are highest due to ease of payments, cheap shipping, and best grading. So you have books that people think may be worth more and more people looking, making for much higher prices. I thought I got lucky with a big key book once (since I got it for way below guide) but then I realized the guide price was double the GPA so I didn't get a deal after all. But another thing about MCS is that while the grading is very fair, not everything is undergraded and yet it seems some fans are assuming it is. Like a 7.0 being assumed to be an 8.0. But if you look at the comic closely (thanks to their very good scans), you see that while it may look really good, it does have defects that make the odds of it being above a 7.0 really low (like a staple tear or a spine split). But yet, because of the assumption that it could be higher, the price ends up higher. So your 7.0 raw that would end up 7.0 slabbed will cost you more than purchasing that same book already slabbed at 7.0.

They accept Paypal

Just wondering, how can you get so many feedback removals if on the site it says you can only do 5 a year? "You can only request a revision for feedback that is less than 30 days old, and can make 5 feedback revision requests per calendar year." https://www.ebay.ca/help/selling/leaving-feedback-buyers/disputing-feedback-received?id=4102&st=3&pos=1&query=Disputing feedback you received&intent=remove negtive feedback&lucenceai=lucenceai

TMNT first print was the kind of book that didn't even have prices set in the price guide for a while due to the price constantly fluctuating. It`s the kind of book that sets a new market value everytime the hammer falls, so I think you;r best bet if you were to sell it would be to do an auction.

Honestly, my favourite auction place is mycomicshop.com. Their shipping rates to Canada are excellent and their grading is superb. However, there seems to be a lot of people looking at these auctions and prices usually end up being higher than whatever the GPA is and they don't have great inventory compared to other places. I also buy from comiclink but the prices to canada for shipping are really high and the site is from the 90s. There are no scans of the back of the books and you can't even add something to a watch list. You can't even combine orders unless you do the workaround of finishing a transaction online by stating that you will then call them to finish the transaction. But great inventory and final prices are usually on the lower end (compared to mycomicshop). Comicconnect is ok for slabbed books. They also dont post the back cover and their site aint all that great. Shipping is the same as comiclink. They have probably the best inventory of the bunch. But their grading for raw books is atrocious and they have a habit of not disclosing restoration. So that's why I stick to slabbed books. They are usually a last resort though. Aparently, they get away with it because they have really good customer service where they will take the books back if you are not satisfied. But that only applies to the raw books, so I have no experience with that. Then you have Heritage, which I have a love/hate relationship with. I tend to get the best deals there because of their lot format. They are probably the biggest auction house for comic books and thus tend to group stuff together to turn their lots into higher value lots. Like seven $50 books sold as a lot valued at $350. So you end up buying more in bulk and with that comes bulk discounts. Like a lot valued at $800 would sell for $600. That's fun when you have none of the books in the lot and I really like that they sell lots of raw books, so I can read the golden age issues before I chose whether or not I want them slabbed/pressed. They tend to put one more wanted book among others less wanted to sell everything since with them, its all about volume. And that's where the Hate part comes in for my relationship with them. Since to them its all about going through things as quickly as possible, they will take shortcuts that suck as a collector. For instance, with low value books (like less than 100$), they will grade judging by the cover without opening the book to check if anything is missing. Their grading of the cover is usually spot on but there are a bunch of stories of them missing coupons being cut and such, rendering the book you bought almost worthless. That happened to me a lot. So, you then get the books and go through them yourself to check if anything's amiss. Then you contact customer service and arrange how you want to proceed with the return. If your book is part of a lot, you usually have to send back the entire lot (unless negotiated otherwise during the customer service back and forth). As for inventory, they have some really good stuff sometimes, that's the place you'll find pedigree books being auctionned off, for instance, but you'll be waiting longer to find that book you want there than at comiclink or comicconnect. Shipping is the same. All these three use Fed Ex. So there you go. As for the question of the bid amount being the price I pay, it's all the same to me. Technically since none of them include shipping, your bid will never be the final cost of your book, so I just take it all into account regardless. Comes to the same though once again, I do like what Heritage does where they list the buyer premiums at the point of bid. I hope this helps.

Oh man so true, Marvel Family 1 is now in the unatainable range for me.