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9 minutes ago, spreads said:

I clicked on the link and it brought me to the main page?  Do you work for Amazon and Ebay is copying your business model?

No that wasn't supposed to link; it just created that when I typed out that word.  No.  I'm simply selling comics on Ebay and another person stole my entire description; several paragraphs.  

I can't imagine that there's any recourse but I just thought I'd put it out there.

I'm selling some Thor #337's on Ebay and I clicked on another person's auction and they simply lifted my entire description!  Not similar.  But stole it.  Not a sentence.  But the whole thiing!  Perhaps I should be flattered.  They cut and  paste it and made it their own!

Uggh!  

I've been doing  some Ebay selling and I've been taking photos of the CGC comics on my phone because if I do the scanner they turn out blurry.

I've noticed folks on here scan CGC books with sterling results.

How do y'all do that?

Start with an advanced scanner or ?

Thanks

Star Wars #26 and #104  Both over $700 in 9.8; almost worthless in any other grade.  

3 hours ago, eccomic said:

I waited six weeks to post this that way the seller wouldn’t get inundated or shamed

this obviously was an auction with an option to buy it now at a higher price , which in this case was $2000

Why didn't you buy it?  I would've snapped it up.  

Is this for real?  A 0.5 of  #1 alone goes for $10,500???!!!

Is this for real? 

How much more should a a 9.9 be worth compared to a 9.8 exponentially?

I see on Ebay the rare 9.9 of an in-demand comics sells for multiples of 9.8's; or at least they ask for multiples; currently someone is asking $79,000 for Captain America 100.

As I've seen my own 9.8 Thor 337 damaged by the SCS I'm beginning to question the value of high grades.  One little shake or whatever and the comics loses points.  It seems to happen quite often.

For the GEM MINT 10's I've seen on Ebay they all seem to be the super-deluxe metallic comics that should be a 10 because they're made that way.  

What do y'all think? 

Maybe he was doing some fraud and would not have been able to keep the money so he preemptively returned it to you?  I strongly disagree with doing anything bad to him; don't look a gift horse in the mouth; I'd gladly have someone insult me via email for 2 free slabbed comics. 

Heck I have people curse me out on Ebay for not taking their offers when my auctions say that I don't accept offers. 

I'd send him a great big THANK YOU.  

Just now, thehumantorch said:

You had books pressed for $3 each?

I'm not saying your presser is necessarily bad but at that price I have to wonder if he knows what he's doing and if he spends much time on each book.

Well I got some 9.8's  9.6's, etc. etc.  He took his time.  Last round I gave him 30 books and it took him a  week or so to get all those that could benefit from a pressing pressed.  Do I know how things would've turned out without his press?  No.  

2 minutes ago, William-James88 said:

Alright, well keep that in mind since the different tiers and comic values will come into play when you send in comics that are either worth above $200 or from before the modern era, like your SA spideys and you won't be able to get that same low grading price.

That, and the extra time involved, is the very reason I did not submit any SA Spideys for my last submission.

Just now, William-James88 said:

You have to write the value for each comic and the modern tier (the lowest costing one) only allows comics up to 200$. So are your thor comics only worth 200$ Is that the price that was listed on the submission form sent to CGC?

Yes that would be correct.  I let my LCS owner handle all the details but I believe so.  

9 minutes ago, William-James88 said:

So that means you only put a value of $200 for the Thor 337's ?

I'm not sure of your question?   If you're asking declared value to CGC?  

14 hours ago, William-James88 said:

Your able to grade those SA Spidey Comics, Thor 337 and GSXM 1 comics for 25$ each? That's pretty impressive.

The Thor 337's yes.   The GSXM and Spideys I had graded years ago and sold them years ago.  I HAD those.  But I still have some SA Spideys that I'm holding onto. 

1 hour ago, StreetPreacher said:

The trouble is if your treasured book comes back a 6.0, and you end up selling it on ebay for $23...

You must have an impressive collection to own so many comics that are worthy of being graded/slabbed!

Well it's all relative.  I see some of the  books people have on here and I'm small potatoes.   But for stuff from the 80's and key X-Men I had a lot.  I had GSX-Men #1, #94 etc.   Two months after Thor 337 came out I bought 25 or so copies of it for, I believe, $3 each; so those are all worthy of grading.  PLUS A lot of keys from the 80's, X-Men, Teen Titans, Micronauts whatever was hot back then, etc. etc.  I've sold a lot of them already.  Plus some early Spideys; I remember I was at a convention where a guy had a stack of Amazing Spiderman #19's for$ 5 each; I bought 3 of them.   I basically had all of them sitting in a basement, maybe 1000 or so, bagged up for about 30+ years for a rainy day and I figured this was my rainy day. 

1 hour ago, William-James88 said:

Just to answer the question in a straightforward manner. $25 is a very good price if you aren't paying extra in terms of membership fees and spacing out your submissions, basically as good as it gets. And yes, a 100% gross margin is the average several are ok with when selling on e-bay (so selling something that cost $25-30 for $50-60). Especially if shipping isn't included.

Thanks for all the info. 

27 minutes ago, Deadpoolica said:

Immediately imo...I would never go thru someone else

https://www.cgccomics.com/account/membership/

 

Thanks.  What ends up being your final cost per book on say Bronze books?    Does  the price vary greatly with how many you submit?  

In the past few months I've submitted about 40 comics through my LCS to go to CGC.  A number of them I also had pressed for $3.00 a comic.  For my last batch of 30 I was into each comic for roughly $25.00 each.

I have many more in my personal collection that I probably will get graded.

I see plenty of folks have CGC 9.8's selling here and on Ebay for $50 or less of certain non-important issues.

Two questions:

At what point does it make more sense to submit them myself?

What is the lowest price-point that others get their comics graded at?   I know I won't qualify for it but it's more out of curiosity.

Thanks!

Micronauts.  Although 2 issues have some value in 9.8, the rest are not.  This was the series that got me hooked into comics.  The first 12 issues were one epic story; I was kind-of disappointed when they came to earth early on; I thought adventures in the Microverse were super-cool.

I then got into the heyday of X-Men and Michael Golden left Micronauts and the magic was gone.

26 minutes ago, Oskywalker said:

It happen to me once. I contacted CGC and they reholded for free and pay shipping from and to Switzerland.

QC sometimes is not good. 

 

Really?  So this is not a one-time thing?  

I was just noticing on one of my Thor 337 9.4's that I got back from CGC there is a hair in the case!  I double-checked that it's actually under the plastic so I see no possible way it could have come from me.  I don't know if anyone else will notice it; it's currently on Ebay.  Quality control? 

comicbooksplus.  I have 23 or so auctions at the moment; Thor 337,  Moon Knight, some X-Men, Wolverine, Star Wars, Tales of the Teen Titans.

6 minutes ago, revat said:

I think at most stores if you were the first buyer into the shop Wednesday morning and got to pick any comic that sells at least twenty issues monthly you’d find at least one or two, as many as 4-5 if the store is pretty careful.  Of course if your local shop doesn’t stock 20 of that issue or you’re not the first one in, things could get tough.  
 

 

Thanks.  Wow I'm surprised you think there could actually be 4 -5 if they're careful.  

I submitted 18 copies of Thor 337 and got 2 9.8s, 3 9.6s, 1 9.4, not a single 9,2, a bunch of 9.0s and a single 8.5

I bought these comics all together about two months after the issue came out and kept them stored pretty well.

Would this percentage just be a normal percentage of ANY comic?  

Maybe out of let's say, 20 random "new' comics, maybe 1 or 2 would be a 9.8?

The world of 9,8 or nothing is fairly new to me.

Thanks!

5 minutes ago, William-James88 said:

Oh I see now, I reread your first post and I get it. Sorry about my comment then, I thought there were 23 books where 9.8 was expected, my bad. Another question, did you opt to press any of the books? Because for those more subtle grades, pressing can help.

I had the LCS owner press a majority of them.  

6 minutes ago, Chazgee said:

TT Annual #2, signed by Wolfman. It came back a 7.0 . I knew there was no way I was that far off. 

A couple of years later, I had them crack it for Perez at a convention. Came back a 9.0.

 

Wow.  Goes to show; the grader could be having a bad day or who knows?