The-Collector

Also: What are you best sellers from sa/ga/ba? Cheers Jake

I am only up to page 43 of this thread so forgive me if these questions have already been asked: 1. How did you get started as a comic dealer? 2. Did you progressively build inventory/business over a long period or did you happen upon a mammoth find that made your business? Thanks in advance Sincerely Jake

Two great books to be the best in the collection. Especially the Spirit 22!!!!

Minty

Love the Feds 'n' Heads

Shoosh it is supposed to be a secret. I think 9.4 is the ceiling on this bad boy and that might be pushing it.

That's a pretty 9.0 Grader notes say it is wavy, and has some dirt and a corner ding on the back. But two of those three can be remedied!

WTTB. Great start!!!

I was looking at those wolverine errors last night. They are pretty cool.

+1

I lost interest after book two. I find the characters so one dimensional. It reminds me of high school politics but with sex and dragons. All the bad guys are always bad and the good guys good.

This. But I am not sure. Try dice's production flaw thread. The man is a paper production Savant.

We're these all the one submission?

'The Road to Serfdom' by F. A. Hayek It is a great read about the misconceptions people hold regarding socialist ideology and its effects.

Action Comics #1 in 1996. Do you mind tell us how much for and condition?

I would miss that too. What a book!

A single instance doesn't make a trend.

Can anyone else see some weakness in the market?

+1 On the Crumb Spiegleman sig. Also the reason why my model bears little resemblance to the Cgc actual model is because it isnt describing reality it is describing perception.

Mitigating resistance. That model. That was the meal-ticket that created a market with very little if any resistance to CGC. Just because there isn't any at the moment, doesn't mean it won't ever occur. Yeah. I am talking about market pricing right now. Not in the future. I don't think that current practices are good. I am simply trying to give a model of how the market prices right now. Which has very little to do with the actual process. It is perception of the process that counts.

Also your sentence below is circular and has no content. If we remove the parentheses it reads: "That model is what makes the present certification model both accepted and coherent." Can't use the term you are seeking to define in the definition.

CGC 'guarantees' nothing other than your book was viewed by three people. They don't even guarantee that a book in a Universal label is unrestored. Just that it was viewed by three people. Semantics. They provide a risk mitigating service, whether by guaranty or inspection by professionals the effect is the same, increased disclosure/certainty/knowledge. And I would counter that an honest, ethical, knowledgeable dealer can give just as good a service. In fact, with certain honest, ethical, knowledgeable dealers, you might well get increased disclosure. Cgc offers a risk mitigation service. Whenever I read a study, the first thing I do is find out who funded the research. That will pretty much get you the nitty gritty merits of the study without spending a second of wasted time reading how theory/science is used in a predetermined way to achieve a desired outcome. When you apply this to the certification model in the comic hobby, look at what CGC did to mitigate resistance. That model (which was hugely successful because of the people involved) is what makes the present certification model both accepted and coherent. It is a model that doesn't bear any resemblance to what you are describing, and the only way I see it is a business evolving with a plan (developed by the multi-faceted operation with investment in multiple categories) to mitigate the kind of harmful resistance which might effect its viability. What? So you don't think that individuals pay premiums for Cgc books because they feel that they know with a higher degree of certainty what the book is? Because that is my argument.

CGC 'guarantees' nothing other than your book was viewed by three people. They don't even guarantee that a book in a Universal label is unrestored. Just that it was viewed by three people. Semantics. They provide a risk mitigating service, whether by guaranty or inspection by professionals the effect is the same, increased disclosure/certainty/knowledge. Define professional. I knew that would cause problems. I would say it is someone with a level of expertise in the field. For the purposes of market pricing, it wouldn't matter whether they actually had expertise, just that the market thought they did.

CGC 'guarantees' nothing other than your book was viewed by three people. They don't even guarantee that a book in a Universal label is unrestored. Just that it was viewed by three people. Semantics. They provide a risk mitigating service, whether by guaranty or inspection by professionals the effect is the same, increased disclosure/certainty/knowledge. And I would counter that an honest, ethical, knowledgeable dealer can give just as good a service. In fact, with certain honest, ethical, knowledgeable dealers, you might well get increased disclosure. I am mot advocating that cgc=good I am just tring to provide a model of how the market prices graded books. So your point is valid. You may get better service with a good dealer. But my model still stands. Cgc offers a risk mitigation service. Which minimizes risk and hence why higher prices are paid. If I knew dealers that could offer the same service at a reduced price to Cgc open market books I would buy from them.