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This is a thread discussing the current comic book market place and I think his video is basically spot on for 99% of people who are selling books. Is there 100s of threads about how great a particular book or series or age is? I think it’s perfectly ok to moan about the complete collapse in value in a lot of books if that is what is going especially since this thread was created specifically for that purpose.

I think he describes the typical habit over the last decade or so which makes me believe there was a lot of fairly quick flipping intended for even high end books like the Promise Collection. It’s been pretty standard that you could post up a book for a decent profit and just wait 3-9 months for the market to catch up to your new price and cash out. The quickness of the flip (for a big loss in this case) was because the owner was probably fearful of it going down further if they waited. The scary thing is fear is a long way up compared to despair on the chart just posted. But a guy being forced to sell off personal collection books (and others closing up shop) could be seen as despair so maybe the bottom is near!

If you had the sale in Cleveland you would have an identical picture down to the clothes and backward hats. Cleveland = Buffalo

I agree with all of these and I will add the annoying lack of automatically continuing on to the next episode that is so standard with a lot of other streaming services. I like Survivor and got Paramount+ to watch a lot of the seasons that I missed and it was so difficult to just binge the show. Sometimes I would get out of an episode with maybe a third of the episode left and it would start from the beginning which would be a pain since I can't fast forward through the commercials. I've been prone to just mute the commercials and I never really noticed the loud volume but maybe that is why I started that practice. They have quite a few shows I like but the platform is by far the most annoying.

I slowly chugging my way through season 2 but it just seems to bounce around way too much. I like the individual story lines but the multiple ones makes it a tough watch unless I'm really looking for that type of show that evening.

Nice book. I'll go out on a limb and say 9.4 since it presents so well

Crowd was very sparse today but it did get people coming in waves. Didn’t have a huge buyer make my show this time but did get a handful of nice buyers which made it a good show for me. Very, very little new stuff in the room and I probably spent $100 of the $1,000 I brought to spend. Nobody blowing out books even though I heard a bunch of grumbling about sales.

But even if ComicLink was the people producing the CVA stickers (not saying they are) then is it really a conflict of intertest? The stickers are really just an opinion that a book presents very well and is not giving the books a boost in grades or even value if you don't agree with the sticker. I don't really see the value in getting the sticker but I don't think the producers of the stickers need to be a stand alone company.

Are you implying CLink is affiliated with the sticker company?

That book must be so plentiful that people don’t want it if it doesn’t have the add on tattooz, don’t want it unless it’s newsstand and now don’t want it unless it’s the Canadian printing. CPV is new to me. I thought it was that stupid company that will put a sticker on books that present really well.

Wait - isn't there a ASM 238 CGC with Tattooz up for sale right now on E-Bay for $1,850??

I've always thought of 15 cent books as Silver-Age but I guess this book could be just on the barrier between Silver and Bronze. 1971 books were definitely prior to the increase in print runs so I can believe 9.8s are not common (CGC 9.4 is the highest I see on E-Bay).

I didn't see the outcome of the auctions but I'm thinking they are saying hard to find and meaning Gold / SIlver-Age books. Even the ASM 238 CGC 9.8 is plentiful compared to some of the unicorns that they must be talking about. Bronze and Copper and Modern still are tanking pretty much across the board compared to the peaks in 2021 / 2022. A drop from $8,500 to $5,100 in 3 months is quite the haircut

In terms of the theatrical release I see this being a disaster. Who really is clambering for and willing to shell out $10 - $15 to see this in a theater? I liked the Depp version but even that one felt a bit pushed in terms of being must watch tv.

I hate to say it but I completely agree. I tried to watch the new special last night and I got about 10 minutes in and had to change it to something else. I was so excited to watch some new Dr Who but it just was so boring and just not what I expect from one of my favorite shows. I never got around to finishing the last season and with this absolute turd muffin I just feel like the entire franchise is coming to a close.

There seemed to have been quite a few of these late in 2023 but I'm setting up at this one after a late cancellation got me a table. There were quite a few new guys at the last one so hopefully we will see some new books that are being blown out at the end of the year. I'm bringing my e-bay stock with a 25% discount across the board and a handful of long boxes full of high grade Bronze / Copper books. Stop by and say hi! Jeff Harper Productions (harpercomics.com)

Always a fun event! I'll go with my typical mystery box which will be tailored to the taste of the picker.

Price?

Good points but selling here on the boards is probably your best bet since most buyers on E-Bay will not really care if the books at 9.0 / 9.2 or 9.4 / 9.6 when it comes to the prices they will pay. There is so much drek in that set of WoS that most dealers wouldn't touch a set for probably more than $150 even if they were absolute perfect. A high grade comic buyer on the boards could get closer to the full $300 - $400 value if they are 9.4 / 9.6 with mylites (if they need all 126 issues) but most e-bay buyers just are not that choosy and you have to account for the dealer typically wants to at least double the price they paid. It usually comes down to how much work you want to put into it before you blow out the common sets (especially if you are selling the keys separately).

Here is a good exercise in terms of setting your expectation to a reasonable level. You have a near complete set of Web of Spiderman which retail for about $300 for the set. Look at what price the app puts on the set to see how inflated the app is compared to real world. You will also have to take a big hair cut if you want to sell your collection to a dealer (especially the non key books). So if the Web of Spiderman set is $300 in retail then you will probably get offers of $150 for that set if they are very nice high grade books. If the app gave you a price of $1,000 for the set then you know you will have to divide the price by 6 (or about $7,000 for the collection) to come close to a realistic price. Based on your list you posted I don't see $7,000 worth of books in that type of collection but you may be able to generate that kind of money if you do a lot of the leg work and sell directly to people. Good luck with the sale and let us know how it goes since it's always eye opening when trying to sell books compared to buying them.

Sad news RIP Bird!

What constitutes a pickle lover?? Is there a scale we can use to weed out the pickle liker’s from the lovers?

True, true. We discussed this at lengths in 2020/2021 when prices were going crazy. This thread is about the crash after the explosion.

E-Bay sellers are crazy is what you are telling me? But if you bought the ASM 1 CGC 4.0 way back in 2019 you basically break even if you sell it now once you take out fees.

I think the data reflects your intuition since the number of books sold would also be way up if people were successful in making a sale (especially if the number of books available is up 75%). The fact that the number of books sold is holding steady means some people are finding books at the price point they want to buy at but there is a large jump in the number of books which are a priced too high to make a sale (either new to the market or hold overs from 2020 - 2021). The 1.5 million sold books probably are books that got a nice haircut in price and it will be interesting to see if people have to eventually drop their prices to push that sold number up or if people will just put their books back in the attic and wait things out (even if that takes a decade).