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15 hours ago, the blob said:

The attitude that everything is going up 30% next week pervades everything. I am looking at a 9 8 that had sold for $260-270 the last 3 auctions and BINs over the last 1-3 weeks. Every current BIN is prices $90-140+++ more than that. So I make offers at a little above the sales results. Most of the BINs auto reject. One guy does counter.  But he was the highest already and just countered with what the lowest BIN out there was. I don't think offering a little above the 3 sales results (one SS) was unreasonable. But folks want 30% more. 

If your best offer is auto rejected, send the seller a message letting him know what your offer was and to contact you if he's interested.

I've been told this is against ebay rules but I've been very successful with this approach. Just be super polite.

A lot of times these sellers don't check the offers that have been rejected but when they actually see it, they sometimes change their minds.

Also...ebay adds a "reply with offer" option after the seller reads your message.

6 hours ago, Diaolos said:

Not sure what you would call this but believe it or not both 9.8

 

That's a perfect example of what I'm asking.

It was more a general question and not about a specific book I own.

So...take a ding that size, move it to a corner on the other side of the book and call it a bend because it would affect every page.

Just now, Dr. Dank said:

No

So...VF?

1 minute ago, Dr. Dank said:

I'd call it whatever I want

 

What CGC or other 3rd party graders think is something else

Okay.

If you're buying a raw book that is described as NM and it ends up having a small corner bend...would you be cool with that?

Thanks for reading.

If the book looks otherwise perfect but the bottom corner of the binding side is dinged... would that be considered NM?

the color isn't affected in any way...just a small bend to the corner.

On 3/31/2021 at 11:53 AM, Namtak said:

So everybody hates liefelds artwork,noted

I'm a big fan!

I was one of the fortunate ones who got back into comics right before the boom...May/June 2020.

I've been tracking the books I bought and most did get a huge bump but have stayed steady since said bump.

ASM 300, 316 and 361 got their bumps earlier than 252.

I was able to get the first 3 back in 2020 without going broke but could not afford to buy them today.

I passed on a bunch of 252s in the past 10 months but wish I hadn't because now it's too expensive. 9.6 jumped from 230 to 525 out of nowhere and they're selling for 700 on Ebay.

I won't buy one now because it had its bump now and I don't see it going above 1000 anytime soon...i missed it.

What I'm trying to say is don't chase the dragon. These books had their bumps and will probably stay where they are or go down slightly.

If you can get a book for FMV, go for it but don't go over paying expecting another huge bump.

Well...are they supposed to?

I cracked a Maxx #30 out of its case and there was nothing.

Thanks

I'm new here but let me see if I'm getting the hang of this...

CGC says it's a 9.8 so it's a 9.8.

Otherwise it would be a 9.9 or 10.

I don't really understand how cleaning and pressing are cool but this is not.

Who decided what is ethical and what is not?

It's all restoration.

On 5/1/2021 at 9:17 AM, oakman29 said:

I bought your books for cover price 2hen they came out. How's that for hindsight?😏

Yeah I did too...I sold my collection when I had my first kid but they weren't worth much then. I usually bought 3 copies of everything back then.

My heart breaks for the generation before mine.

I knew a dude when I was a kid, I was no older than 12. This was around 1988. He had every issue of every title from #1 through.

 FF, Hulk, Avengers, Xmen Spider Man...it was UNREAL. He was the original owner of every book. They were all perfect.

He would let me flip through them but never read them.

Long story short, he sold that collection for $10,000.

I still think about those books and get upset and they weren't even mine.

On 4/30/2021 at 5:24 PM, valiantman said:

Be very, very careful.  30 slabs in less than a year can quickly turn into...

Oh damn.

9 minutes ago, bc said:

Oh goody  

Yet another thread proclaiming all the unrealized gains based on some web sites list of sales.

-bc

 

Should I use recent sales on Ebay instead?

Because they are all higher than comicsgocollect.

Feel free to ignore me

22 minutes ago, Tnexus said:

I always value my comics at 15% less than the "Sold" value. Assume the worst if you try to flip them and you're paying 13% in Ebay/Paypal fees. Then I always tack on 2% for packing costs, transportation, etc. It gives me a much more realistic number if it's something worth investing in. Even if you sell something for $100, you'll never actually get $100 unless it's straight cash.

Also technically you need to pay taxes on anything you sold too, so that can be another 28%(?).

Hopefully I'll never have to sell them.

I'd like to pass them down to my daughter...shes 13 and is really beginning to enjoy reading my comics.

I'm not looking to cash out...im just happy to get what I did before the prices went nuts.

10 minutes ago, William-James88 said:

but it's only the 3 biggest books in his collection, so the rest of the 30 books make up the rest to get to 10 000

 

Bingo

8 minutes ago, NewWorldOrder said:

You do you realize that 99% of the hobby color lifts books 24/7 right?

Every time you remove a ASM 300 from a bag and board back cover lift happens if you aren't careful.

What you think those black scuffing marks on the white back boards are? 

I bought books flea markets where you can make out the back cover completely on the board but I always figured that was from storing them in a basement or whatever.

I only have around a thousand raw books and I change the bags/boards every 2 years or so...so no, I've not seen that with my books.

23 minutes ago, awakeintheashes said:

WTTB

https://comics.gpanalysis.com 
 

Ive never seen that...THANKS.

...and I have no clue what running the numbers and GPA mean.

I dropped out in 11th grade...

2 hours ago, jsilverjanet said:

I don't know how reliable gocollect is but I've had it quoted to me in the past when trying to buy a collection. their $ are usually way off so for fun i ran GPA on your books

those 3 books are currently $4500 total combined on GPA

 

Those three books have not moved much in the last 4 weeks.

TMNT fell from $1400 to $1250

NM 98 went up from $775 to $875

TWD 1 has been $1450 for months

I use comicsgocollect for the FMV

Last summer I started collecting graded copies of books from my childhood.

I have 30 now and I've been tracking the FMV of this collection for the past 4 weeks on a week by week basis. I thought I'd post the results. 

It's 90% modern with a few BA.

I won't disclose what's in this collection unless asked to but I will list the 3 most expensive.

Walking Dead 1 9.6

TMNT 7 2nd print 9.8

NM 98 9.6

_________

4/8/21 = $9,820

4/14/21 = $10,205

4/21/21 = $10,410

4/28/21 = $10,597

-----------------

Up $777.00 in 1 month

Thanks for reading.

Long story short...its getting pressed and graded.

It was received on 12/3/20 and has been in "received" since then.

Now the date has changed to today's date but still only as received.

Does this mean it's been pressed and re-received for grading?

3 hours ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

Color lift?   Wtf?

Yeah...dont like the sound of that.

I thought the propose of stabbing books was to freeze them in their current state.

Cracking slabs isn't hard at all so I'm not sure how one would get damaged when handled by a pro.

Wont surprise me when Marvel starts shipping new releases directly to CGC.

I mean, when you pick up a new release at the shop, you're always under the impression it's a 9.8.

How long is Marvel or the other comic/card companies gonna stand around and watch these potential new profits go to little guys on the net.

Chit...maybe we will soon see the MGC...Marvel Grading Company.

What I would do if I'm CGC is split into two services. Keep what they have now for books that are at least 5 years old. Start a new slab only service for books that came out in the past 5 years.

In other words, refuse to grade books until theyre 5 years old but offer to slab them at a reduced price.

This way they can dramatically improve TATs for everyone involved and you can still get your Negan Lives #1 into a nice shiny CGC case with everything but a grade.

You can have it graded for a reduced price in 2025.

Yeah...great...maybe if people didn't send in 200 books, that came out last week, to get graded...this chit wouldn't be happening.

It's us that got greedy and swamped this little company with worthless books just to try and make a few bucks on Ebay

Then we complain about TAT?

Then we complain when they raise prices?