Myowncollector

No experience using anything but that dude in no country for old men had no trouble tracking down a missing case. I am sure 40 years later there are lots of great products available.

I dunno. Can't recall seeing enough books with only that top bottom damage to have thought about it. Depends how much. Usually have other defects as well. Look at photos of books you are describing and see what they graded. I give book 5.0

Nothing is 100% guarantee but if you are good, you are good. I have never had a significant lose of value on a comic. (Insert mr peanut here) Can't say the same about stocks but it's not a common occurrence. I am no great visionary, just use common sense and avoid risk. For instance covid in China sounded off a alarm. I didn't panic and sell off everything. Just was something that needed to be watched. Now when it spread and travel ban started and people were stuck on cruise ships then I panicked. Got out of certain stocks, sold comics that made sense too. Some of them I probably sold too early. Silver surfer, ff x-MEN Doom etc could all increase in value when they appear in mcu. I got them cheap enough I wasn't going to lose $ but the price was good enough so I avoided risk and had $ to invest in something else. I dont buy hot books. Not buying af15 or hulk 181 with the idea it will only increase in value each year. Not buying the latest greatest modern book or Variant. Not buying xmen 1 ff1 5 48 etc with the idea that it will blow up when they are introduced into the mcu. Those aren't guarantees. I have plenty of books that have only increased slightly or are the same exact value when I bought them. So a lot of $ is tied up and not working for sure, but plan is they will take off one day. Numerous times I bought something for a quick flip and I can't sell it or soon as I list it the market gets flooded or the new GPA I set killed the value. So had to lose 100 bucks or break even or make $100. But if anyone has lost $ on a comic book they either paid too much or bought at the wrong time. If you don't sell before the movie comes out then yeah you are going to lose $ on a lot of these books. But for someone coming into the game now, yes comics are an investment. Just every year it gets harder and harder. 2012 to 2018 was amazing, the golden and silver age for comic investing. Edit: Just realized I wrote my first novel but that is ok. The people who complain about the long post I don't want reading these. If they get educated who are we going to sell are nm98s and asm300 361s to? Who is going to buy thanos and Ultron? Who are we going to sell our Xfactor 6 and Xmen 221 to? Then who are we going to buy them back from when they lost half their value and the wanna be speculators bailed on them? We need these new speculators as buyers to sell them again! We old timer's need these comic book investors!

They been around for awhile now. 4 years at least. Must of never caught on. If their claims are true they are better like mylar is better than a regular bag. Never used them and not crazy about 80 bucks for a pack of boards. Any cheaper versions out there then would give them a try maybe. Someone on here must have used them.

With the wine do you drink it eventually or resell it? I collect a lot if things so I get it. But to me comics are most exciting. Love the stories. Art. Buying and selling at right time. Speculation. Like with wine, if a bottle of boones creek gets rumored to be a set piece in a movie they don't all the sudden become $100 a bottle. If Disney buys a winery their bottles dont double in value.

Yes. Only those two. Every other dealer is dead on.

It's a 2.0 or better for sure. Your pictures are too harsh for my old eyes but a 3.0 wouldn't surprise me.

4.0

Avengers. 1st Appearance of yellow hulk.

The idw 9 is selling well too it seems.

You guys need to step up your game. It's been hot for longer than 2 days haha. I don't what happened haha

Avengers 10 Dont remember it being mentioned. If no my apologies. Selling crazy everywhere.

Oh they all sell. But but if you give me a dozen of them or a dozen ff48 ff5 hulk 181 guess what ones you will sell out of first.

I sold a lot of restored books then prior to 2006 haha. Clean + press was still a thing I thought?

Good one. What you said is dead on. It has jumped up some but all it takes is a movie. I can never hold onto this book though. Always able to sell it for well over value. Sucks because I love that book. I can't turn down a good profit though.

Pressing is a waste of $ if the book doesn't need it. I press my own books so cost me nothing and I don't press everything. I don't press more books than I do press. Pressing is nothing new. I was pressing in the 80s and someone older than me told me about. Pressing ads were in the overstreet guides. Ok you didn't know about it. Probably wouldn't helped much. On your books the $ difference from a 7.0 to 7.5 8.0 isnt anything to lose sleep on. Grading is easy to learn. Any overstreet guide will teach you. Or just look at a bunch of cgc books. I know a lot of people who never learned and are just find. Either they just buy slabs or they find a few honest dealers and stick to them. Will even message them with their wish lists. Just don't go out buying 4 figure books until you can grade or find some trusted sellers.

Books under $20 I don't deal with. I see them selling in crazy numbers but not for great $ or anything. I think the market is flooded with shops and dealers fighting to survive. Cant sell in shop or at cons so online everybody went. Depends what you are selling, green lantern or arrow 27 or even full run isn't all the sudden going to be a hot seller. But star wars bronze modern dark house Vader is selling great. Good stuff is selling better than ever. Like someone else said if you got the goods it sells. If you dont have in demand stuff you aren't seeing any difference than normal.

If you get tons of low ball offers you are priced too high or over grading or don't have a luke warm book let alone a hot one. Keys are selling great. Good in demand keys. Old news like rocket Groot starlord thanos cap 100 etc aren't flying off the shelf.

Do their books go for fmv and premium on top of that? Or sell for 20% less? I never bought from them. I browse and the books I see are already too much for me with 10 min of 2 hours or whatever left. I am looking for a steal though. Fmv gpa or 10 20 % less isn't gonna cut it. I wouldn't sell on them either. In my mind my book will go for 20% less. Will get 2 bidders who factor in the premium.

I don't have a store. I am not a big dealer or anything. Just a collector that also enjoys the speculation and selling part. Ebay is a last resort for me. I don't want to give away 13% of my $. I have built up clientele. Craig's list. Facebook. Instagram. I browse Ebay every night and any in demand key is selling easy and for more money than in 2019 for the most part. My sales have slowed big time but because all the good stuff has been sold. Market is still awesome. I just don't have any good stuff left. Probably do some digging this weekend see what I have that I forgot about. If you can't sell then you aren't priced right or dont have any good books. Good sellers are any x-MEN or ff keys. Avg ann 10. Ms marvel. She hulk. Miles. J Campbell. Spawn. Venom. Carnage. Asm keys. I sent out my emails and gone in hours if not minutes.

9.2 Boardies nailed it. Only grade nm98 if it is a 9.8 Little known historical fact. They knew this 30 years ago, that's why they waited until issue 98 to introduce him.

1.0

0.5 for sure. Decided to pop in this thread after just replying to another member about grading. So a rare appearance from me in here so you should feel extremely blessed. Totally kidding. But when a book is missing a page it is a .5 no matter what it looks like. Now if it was a higher grade it would be a cgc qualified 6.0 8.5 whatever based on what the book would be if it wasn't missing a page. If this book had centerfold it would be a 2.5 maybe?

Would have to see the books in person to know for sure. Pics would help but before slabbed would be better. No biggie cause I don't like looking at pics of a book unless I am buying it. Won't see me too often in spare a grade thread. Based on graders notes I would of pressed and don't forget cleaned both. "Light" is a graders note I like. "Bends" is even better. Majority of comic buyers can't grade. Look at how many please grade my there are. How many wrong answers. Seen one that cgc gave a 9.6 and people told the guy it was a 8.0 8.5 7.5 Dealers are in this group as well. A lot more can grade but not all. More importantly they know people cant grade so they will grade high. I will guess you bought your books from a mega dealer out of NY. 2nd guess would be Colorado. If not dealer might have graded right. He assumed you would be part if the 96% of people that press their books before having them graded.

Best sellers market I have ever seen by far. Not even close. I thought there was a chance to see some noticeable decline but that stimulus package was unreal. Will there be another? Crazy. A recent history of the comic book market. For the younger ones or late night ers. I have been selling comics for 30 years. Always been a sellers market though. For sure since 2012. Probably since early 2000s. Late 90s might have been a buyers market. Shops closing, nice chunk of people stopped collecting. I dunno I have always sold well but can always find a deal as well but that time was probably best in last 30 years for buying. 80s were great for buying, not sure about selling. Then cgc came out and for 5 years at least you could get unreal $ for anything slabbed. That died down. But until last few years anything cgc would get surprisingly too much $. Now it's hard to move slabbed drek it seems. 2012 everything relevant jumped up 30 40 percent. Speculation became mainstream and brought in created and still is and will continue to grow comic book speculators flippers whatever you call them. Basically anyone buying books after 2012 is paying double. A lot of old timers sold, seemed to be a good time at the time but turns out too soon on a lot of stuff. I never seen anything like this though. Used to be something was announced book went up big time. Then all it would take is a rumor. Now people just jump on stuff without even a fake rumor. I think some site names the book to spec on. Some other sites people copy and do the same. Spreads on social media and bam book blows up. Future of market. Right now people are home with free $. Until that stops the record sales will continue. Another stimulus would even make things crazier. Even after all this. How many people got bored, discovered comic collecting it returned to it? How many seen spec sites or videos and decided to give this a try. Unless the unemployment runs out and there is still well into double digit unemployment, we won't see a buyers market. But it is always a buyers market or a sellers market depending on the book. I buy tons. But if you have been waiting for a buyers market on tec 27 af15 action 1 you have been waiting for a long time.