Myowncollector

Just now, PeterPark said:

I think you misunderstand me. You feel the market price for every book matches what you would like to or expect to pay for it? Nothing has risen faster than you are comfortable shelling out for?

I was just making a lame one liner. Had no thought or meaning to it.

But yeah I feel that way about majority of keys. Went from treating comics as a collector to now more like a market investor. He will probably show up in movie and book will double so not a terrible buy. Don't see it going down.

3 minutes ago, PeterPark said:

I know I want a Silver Surfer 3...my problem is the price per grade point in my head is less than what I see in the market...

Sounds like you need your head examined.

55 minutes ago, 01TheDude said:

I'm a 54 year old kid. I want them.

Have you ever heard the phrase "collect what you like"? There is no need to denigrate this fine thread.

Calling it like I see it. I personally mainly collect gold and silver. But the under 30 crowd? If you sell books or pay attention to them on social media you will see what they want. I got bunions older than books that they call grails.

Qualified roughly half the value. Non effecting is better, easier to sell. 

5 hours ago, OMGitsCornbread said:

You're going to spend money to find out what your book is worth? 

I would suggest putting up a scan in the Buddy Spare a Grade section, and then using the average grade to check completed auctions sales.

 

Somebody should make a book that teaches you how to grade and then give prices for that grade. I think it could work. 

Mind blown. This has been around for a year. I have looked at thousands of books on eBay and have never seen this. In short for those not wanting to read article, for $5 cgc will give you an opinion if book is authentic. For $10 they give you a broad grade range and what color label it will get judging by ebay seller photos. May take 2 days for a reply. I was going to undercut them to provide this service but they will also provide you with coupon voucher so basically service is free if you send them the book within 90 days.

Justice League 50 $20 - $25 with 3 jokers book coming.

In humans 5 up with new black widow news, most probably sold it a year ago.

Paper girls for the fans of $7 to $10 been hot for awhile if you call that hot, didn't feel it was worthy of post but since I am there it is. 

11 hours ago, thor800 said:

Silver Surfer 3 plenty of room to move still sleeper

yeah. it got speced on then forgotten. Better than most other books I seen mentioned. 

Kids don't want these old books, all modern. I think the silver heating up will only get 3 books a year. 

2 hours ago, littledoom said:

sometimes It's just not worth the time or hassle of submitting. Plus some comics heat up over night. Buyers do pay up for raw mid high grade SA BA books

For sure. I sell most things raw over gpa price. Always somebody who will think the book grades higher than it would. 

9.8 needs to be slabbed to get those prices. If someone can sell a raw 9.8 big key for full pop I bow down to them. 

3 minutes ago, valiantman said:

I've tried to make that point on multiple forums/Facebook and people keep wanting to talk about the time they DID get a 9.8 raw as if that's normal.  There's just no way these dealers are leaving hundreds of dollars on the table when they know CGC exists but they don't use it for books that obviously are worth a lot more slabbed.  They know the books are borderline (or worse) and they sell them raw.  But ultimately, buyers either learn the hard way or they leave their books after death to people who know nothing about them and the family gets next-to-nothing vs. what the buyer believed they had all those years.  Lose-lose scenario.

It's possible, just not common. I have sold 9.8s raw, but for enough  $ that it didn't make sense slabbing. If a book sells for $40 raw high nm vs 80 or 90 slabbed then not worth slabbing. I have a couple handful of dealers who grade honest. But yeah 95 to 98 percent of sellers lie from what I see. 

5 hours ago, valiantman said:

There appears to be a section of comic collectors who are inclined to believe seller's claims of 9.8 (and even 9.9) for raw books, and they're happy to "save $100" and buy those books as if they're identical to CGC 9.8.

This Solar #3 is claimed to be 9.8, but it's raw.  A real CGC 9.8 Solar #3 is $150 - $200, so the buyer probably trusts the seller and wants to "save money" as opposed to what looks like overpaying to everyone else.

you will see on the forum few times a week at least someone who bought a book a seller claimed 9.8 and then they get a wake up call. And this forum is a fraction of a percent of comic buyers. Just scroll ebay auctions and you will see most the books getting the price of the claimed grade, click on photo it isn't claimed grade. Majority of comic buyers can't grade. Those books could be legit grades, but even if they aren't the buyer will never know unless the send it to cgc. They probably think they will send it to cgc and make a nice profit, they don't factor in taxes, shipping. Don't think to themselves, how come this guy didn't send the 9.8 into cgc? 

Same as everyone else. 3 new spiderman and Khan. Some think Chavez can do something. Is there anything left to do that is original? What powers havnt been used? Even 1940s comics aren't original. Read gladiator and it heavily inspired superman. Mythology is pretty much super heroes. But last 30 years it's pretty much take a super heroes and change their race gender color or give them a kid. Going forward it will be LGBT. 

It's a marvel world though. I think DC Gave up on making new characters 70 years ago. Maybe 40, they did try to give us booster gold. MCU can make anyone a hit so any marvel character no matter how obscure or lame can be a star. Just make a black wolverine and people will pay $50 for it on eBay for sure. Will sell 200k copies at a minimum. That is the next big character. Already have it wrote. Young black mutant with healing abilities is wrongly arrested. Looking at life in prison unless he volunteers for weapon x program. Bam new wolverine. 

7 hours ago, Black Captain said:

I guess we will see if everyone is waiting till the end, waiting till the next auction, or if the financial environment is having an impact. 

Most likely waiting till the end is my guess. But I wasn't too impressed with the offerings. Still found about a dozen books that I was either interested in or others that I would be buying for. Difference in grading criteria for sure. Removed the remaining 2 from my list and skipping this auction. 

You can do this yourself before submitting. Why pay a company to take photos or scan the book. Or simply don't slab it if you like reading it so much. Or like others said reader copy, reprint, digital. 

2 hours ago, evolpe79 said:

The book I submitted did have a noticable and significant flaw on the bottom corner of the spine. I think the downgrade is more likely due to grader opinion on that defect than a new defect occurred during signing. 

Here's a link to the book if you happen to be interested in seeing it prior to signatures.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/1YYQRsRUAtax6nwK6

Sometimes you have a 9.7 Since there is no 9.7 you have to go one way or the other. That's probably it. But you would think cgc and artist would be more careful with books, if you keep getting 9.8s lowered are you going to keep paying to get them signed. 

What William said. For $100 bucks you could have bought a 9.4 already slabbed. Sell your 8.0 and add $50 and get that 9.2 9.4

After you press, ship, tax, slab you are looking at enough $ to buy a 8.5 

I would rather have 2 8.0s or a 9.4 than a 9.0 at best. 

Rid each book one by one of bugs. Bag and board and put in new books. Put cedar chips in new box. Leave somewhere outside for a month that you don't care if silverfish get to, and make sure the are all gone and don't come back. Then you can bring books in house. 

12 hours ago, IbukiLord said:

Thor #5 is still on fire it seems, I really thought with all the attention this series is getting plenty people would have put it on their pull lists but the regular cover is selling for up to $38 and the 1:25 last sale was $149.95

It was a $15 $20 book, then some websites tied it into the mcu and bam. 

I don't have any, if I did I would probably sell. Although a lot of times I sell too soon, but rather do that then be late. 

Would have to be able to get a surefire 5.0 at least to be worth it to me. 

I have friends who bought that or similar. I like that style better than the ones you have to swing over. I was able to successfully press books on it and taught them as well. I know about these, yet I own 4 presses that are not these. You get what you pay for. They feel cheap. Not sure how long they last but for a couple hundred bucks not a big deal. If you buy one maybe spend another $100 so you can press 2 books at once or at least have plenty of space. Dunno if those Chinese presses will have the same temperature at the edges as they do in center. Get a thermometer because the LCD reading will probably be wrong. Save up some more $ to be able to jump on a commercial grade press when a deal emerges. 

40 minutes ago, fastballspecial said:

That's not really the issue here. I would think my time as a shop owner would be valuable.
You already said you have no interest in buying them so you are wasting his time.

I see no reason to do this. Either negotiate with him or don't come back to vote with your wallet.
 

I am just a hole who is easily amused. I will find some spec books that I know he will price at 2 or 3 bucks. But I am not going to stand around waiting for him to look them up. That is wasting my time so I will find 20 or 30 books that got hot and put them in my stack as well. If he likes looking things up and wasting my time he can look those up as well.  I will go eat or run some errands, come back in a couple hours and pay for my $2 books. I am doing him a favor alerting him of books of value. Except he doesn't sell online so the books go back into the long boxes until I come back again. 

3 hours ago, fastballspecial said:

So you waste his time because you don't agree with how he prices? Its his store I would imagine he can price how he wants.

For sure he can price how he wants. Just because he took the time to look up and decide what to charge for the book doesn't mean I am obligated to buy it. I would actually buy something if it was priced fair. I can't imagine standing around for a half hour and waiting for prices and then willing pay the highest buy it now asking prices he found on ebay. I guess plenty of others do though? Or maybe he doesn't consider it a waste of time and worth it for clueless people who come along. 

Yeah takes 2 bidders to raise an amount so someone would need 2 accounts.

And even if 2 people did what you suggest it wouldn't have much effect on the final result as the bidders retracted bids hours before auction end. Most serious buyers don't even bother looking at the auction until the final few minutes and won't bid until final 5 seconds. 

4 minutes ago, littledoom said:

Sales are still strong in other words, especially if you have a lot listed 

I don't. Just the same over priced slabs that been listed for the past decade. But that is soon to change. I am going digging in a mega honey hole this weekend. My garage. 

On 6/30/2020 at 6:45 PM, comicdonna said:

any remaining defects will not be further treated

What? If the quick press includes the removal of the same defects as regular press why would there be remaining defects?