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You are probably right. I'll let it drop and just decline his counter offer to avoid any issues.

Been getting a ton of low ball offers this week so I'm going to start looking at books people have for sale and start low balling the low ballers. Guy low balled me on a Spidey 300 so I low balled him on his X-Men 266 CGC 9.6. Let's see where this leads.

I talked to my wives coworker who sells character hugging prints and she said it went horrible this year in Philly. Last year they sold so much they went out of their way to set up again and it was a snooze fest. She literally had to beg people to buy something where as people last year were using the bulk buy discounts to buy 4-5 prints. They probably will not book again for next year and they have renewed every Con they have been at for awhile due to great sales.

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In the Cleveland area I'd describe it as over-saturated with flippers but a lot of hard core collectors which makes for a tough mix in terms of finding collections. At every Con there are the same 15-20 guys (me included) who pretty much give each other the nod as we scope out the new meat and quickly leave. There has to be 20 guys who post up WTB posts on Craigslist and Facebook each and every day hoping to find any new blood in the market. But we also have 5,000 people show up to a Rick and Morty event and basically start a riot when give-aways and mech runs out after people waited 3 hours in line. People are pretty tight with money so prying a collection from most peoples hands is tough but of course there are deals to be made. I tend to sell a lot more to California and New York buyers then I do people in my back yard but I think that just has to do with the higher cost of living and more available cash.

Are those the last of the 10 centers and 12 cent books? You don't see those in the cheap boxes very often due to relative scarcity but I've seen DC beaters in the $5 boxes all the time. The problem with even those books is the problem with quickly finding a buyer. You could buy a collection at a quarter of asking price but it may take a year to find someone wanting to buy a particular issue. $1 a book sounds good until you are stuck with 5 long boxes of books that just are not selling even for $3.

I hear people all the time saying comics are more expensive and the pricing people out of the market. Those people have not gone to a show and hit up the $1 bins since I find beater Silver-Age books in the $1 bins all the time. They tend to be DCs or off brands like later TAA or TOS but they are there. When you can walk away from a Con with a stack of 50 year old comic goodness for $30 I just can't see how people can say the market is inflated. Keys are inflated but everything else is very cheap.

Which is why people don't do auctions anymore. Thanks Kav

This seems like not a big deal but it trickles down to everyone in the industry. If big name sellers can only get $5 for a low/mid grade Silver-Age book then they can only pay $2 for it so whole collections are reduced to only a couple hundred dollars if the keys are gone. And these are books people have sometimes paid $10 a piece to buy not that long ago and are in no way drek. We are talking about 50 year old comic books being delegated to the $2-$3 category which sounds crazy to me.

Just got back and really liked it. Wife thought it was great and she cried at the end. It's definitely the type of success D.C. needed to keep the hits coming.

I bought an earlier DKIII variant from gojira and it came back a CGC 9.8 without a press. He definitely gets some very nice copies.

Back cover bottom left corner crease or is it wear?

Just finished catching up last night and it really was not that good an ending. Unless it picks up next season I'll drop it from the list . Just too many good shows to keep watching this boring show.

And we wonder why Starlin hates us and wants to keep us out of his line. I'd hate to see how much you guys would argue over something we could actually change.

It's not just new people either. My dealer friend (who has been selling for years) passed up on a FN copy of House of Secrets 61 which was priced at $45 but was bragging about a beater first two-face (Batman 234) that he had grabbed for $50 from the guy. The tunnel vision of everyone has got people looking for a few select books which makes it really tough to find those select books but the lesser known books get passed over.

So your long game was last year? Things really have exploded if people are lamenting not buying books at last year prices.

At this point, I think Starlin hates the way this thread is going more then CGC.

Strange I had him pegged for a red cover collector.

Most a person can do is try to make things right so it looks like the matter should be closed.

Glad you are going that route. The money is so small in the grand scheme of things that it's just not worth it to go any other route. Don't get into a debate with the buyer - just send a note saying "please send $20 to x paypal and I'll send the book out quickly". No one remembers the minor hick ups - it's the full blown battles that seem to stick around for awhile.

I also find the amount of $$ available has gone way up over the last couple years. It use to be you could flash $1,000 in hundreds and most dealers would bend over backwards to get that $1,000. Now it seems like everyone has a huge bank roll and it takes a huge collection (+$50k) before the number of buyers shrinks considerably.

I was more in the 6.0/6.5 range but it's definitely not above 7.0.

The top edge looks pretty tattered so I'd think it would do more damage than good to press it up and more visible. I'm thinking 3.5 / 4.0 which is still a sweet book.

Cpannell - just sell him the book for $20. It obviously was not a $200 book - heck there are multiple nice copies on E-Bay right now for $30 - $50. Your initial response is what people will go by and is the $20 in lost money really worth the hassle and damage? A couple months ago we all would have been happy with $20 for a ASM 265. Now if you would have had $2 on the book then I could see you arguing it was a typo. Sell and ship the book and move on