The Collector Connection

Last day, closing begins at 10pm Eastern Time tonight. You must have bids in on any item you are interested in BEFORE 10pm to be eligible to bid on that item in extended bidding. http://www.birminghamauctioneers.com Good luck!

Only a few days left and TONS of bargains still. Lots of Silver Age Superman and Batman Titles for $1 a book. Tons of Bronze age lots and modern lots as low as 5¢ per book. The auction goes into extended bidding at 10pm Sunday night August 9th. Any item that has no bids or only 1 bid closes immediately at 10pm. Any item with 2 or more bids is extended 15 minutes. Every time a bid is place on that item it extends 15 minutes. This continues until the item has no bids for 15 minutes. To be eligible to place a bid on an item in the extended bidding period you must have bid on that item prior to 10pm Sunday August 9th. So if you ware watching a bunch of items hoping to make a last minute bid make sure you leave yourself enough time to get them all in before 10pm! There are dozens of lots with no opening bid, as low as $1 and NO RESERVES!!!

Someone just asked about shipping vs pick up. Shipping is actual postage plus $5, and we normally take a small loss on it. Pick up is always an option and can give you a great competitive edge if bidding on a large quantity of books or on some of the bulk lots. Good Luck!

It's all good Lou. I honestly like when people ask questions publicly because someone else might be sitting there with the same question and not ask it. Also saying our grading is overly strict certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from checking us out!

Hi Sweet Lou. Once you went through the registration process (which is pretty involved, but in this day and age I feel account security is a good thing) you shouldn't have any problems signing in. The "24 Hour Approval" is just so someone doesn't register at 3am and expect to get in immediately. I do have to sleep some time, and approval is manual, in your case you actually registered before the above post, and indeed before the auction opened which may have been why you couldn't see anything, the auction isn't viewable until the opening time. However, when you go to www.birminghamauctioneers.com click on the "auction" link and you can browse all our auctions past and present without singing up or signing in. I am always on the page, unsigned in, so I can see what the customer is seeing. You can also use this link: https://birminghamauctioneersbid.com/Lots/Gallery if you are somehow still having problems. But I stress you do NOT have to register to view our auctions. Kind of surprised that your mad at a company for undergrading their books. I know a big pet peeve of mine is getting stuff that is WORSE than the assigned grade. However our images must be fairly good for you to judge our grading so harshly. Most lots have multiple images, all of which can be enlarged. when you click on an item there is a left to right scroll to view the individual images. You can search by any term you like in our search feature, but the auction starts off with all the graded books in front so searching by raw or graded didn't seem that crucial. When you enter a term, it will return results for listings that use the term. For instance "CGC" would return all the graded books. "Batman" would return all the books with Batman. You can chose to search just title or title and description. I'm sorry you had such difficulty using the site. It is a platform used by several major auction houses (much bigger than me) and I am pretty happy with how it functions. It's not perfect, and there are features I would like to see as well, but I do have thousands of users who seem to get around in it pretty well. Thanks for the feedback, and chance to address your concerns. Hopefully some of my tips help.

Over 1000 lots, all graded books are CGC. Hundreds of raw Silver age Batman, Superman etc. NO RESERVES and low starting bids. Auction ends August 9th! http://www.birminghamauctioneers.com Post any questions you might have and I will be happy to answer them! Scott Russell Birmingham Auctioneers

Details to follow but the auction starts off with a nice selection of mainly Silver and Bronze Age CGC graded books. All graded books in the auction are CGC. Auction runs 7/22 - 8/9 You can visit our site to view previous auctions, register for this upcoming one and check out how the auction operates. Feel free to post any questions you may have. SOmeone else might be wondering the same thing! Scott Russell Birmingham Auctioneers 717.327.8915