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    Removing Original Art from Board

    in Original Comic Art

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    4 hours ago, cesium_7 said:

    Does anybody have any tips on how to remove OA glued onto a board?  I have a couple of pieces like this, and one of the boards has a lot of water damage, so I’d like to remove it, but don’t know the best way to go about it.

    Thanks!

     

    You need a professional restorer for that.  If you piece is india ink, they can soak it in solvent to remove the board.  It's been awhile but should be at least a couple of hundred for something like that

    Malvin

    A note to all Heritage "Snipers"

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    well, assuming that the objective is to win, I guess people do it thinking some people will indeed back off or get demoralized.  

    Clearly it doesn't work on Mike, he just gets annoyed and maybe even bid stronger!

    What we need to prove the hypothesis is for someone to admit that they back off or get demoralized and not bid when it happens to them!

    Malvin

    A note to all Heritage "Snipers"

    in Original Comic Art

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    11 minutes ago, GreatEscape said:

    The impact is worse for ComicConnect auctions where "Extended Bidding" for 3 minutes can keep repeating while other lots open and close-- theoretically you can have multiple ComicConnect lots with concurrent active bidding .  At least with Heritage, one lot has to close bidding before moving onto the next lot and it's only about 5 seconds between extensions....but I know that seems like torture waiting through extensions unnecessarily (ie, 2 bidders intend to bid much higher but one deliberately lets the "shot clock" wind down before each shot).  Perfectly legal but frustrating to the other side.

    I assume it hasn't changed but the best is Hake's 30 minute rule.  Their increments increase fast (10% of bid price right?) so it won't go on forever.

    As well I didn't know they had this rule where there is a time when all auctions end, regardless of the 30 minute rule.

    Malvin

    The Official November Heritage Auction Thread

    in Original Comic Art

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    3 hours ago, jjonahjameson11 said:

    I think everyone was expecting a big $$$ from UXM 268, but I’d wager very few were expecting $72K for the Ghost Rider cover.  I was hoping to add it to my collection, but it nearly tripled my guestimate!  :sorry:

    Wow, I just went to look when you mentioned it, that price surprised me too (and also doesn't to some degree with the way prices are going)

    Malvin

    Comic Art Live

    in Original Comic Art

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    6 minutes ago, Bill Cox said:

    Hey Guys,

    First off, I'm glad most of you had a good time with Comic Art LIVE. This show, while rushed from Maureen and my side, worked better than the first and we hit all our marks with opening the show and art drops.

    While my business relationships are by no means private, I have no problem giving you all you'd need to know about Collector's Network as a business. As many of you know, in 2008 I opened my mini-golf which set me back over $500k in loans and cost me my entire art collection. Easily one of the worst decisions in my life, and given the stock market crashing that October 2008, both 2009 and 2010 were very desperate times. Mike and I have been friends a long time, and he had invested a small amount in the mini golf to just to be involved with something outside the hobby while he neared retirement. By 2010 I was just about bankrupt on the golf course side and I was siphoning funds from my other businesses to keep it afloat, but I was running out of options. I turned to Mike and we talked about how he could help me out of the jam. I couldn't offer him any more of the mini-golf since it was worthless at that time (thankfully not anymore), and so I sold him a very small % of Collector's Network (not CAF) and I turned around and used that money to pay down the mini-golf loan which helped me get over the hump.

    Before we agreed to do it, I explained how he had to be a silent partner in that business for all the reasons you can imagine, whether it be my work with other dealers or the collecting community. He agreed, and we've never talked about Collector's Network as a business, my work with other dealers, nor what I'm doing with CAF, in 10+ years. Mike has no access to CAF data nor anyone's data I work with, not even his own. Similarly, I have no access to any personal data entered on CAF. There are no views into anyone's personal data whatsoever, and the features KV is referencing were added years ago because collectors wanted to use CAF to manage all their inventory data and it was built based on a couple collector's specs. So there is nothing nefarious here at all guys, and Mike has never profited or earned a single penny for getting me out the mess I put myself into 12 years ago. He doesn't even give me discounts when I buy art from him, which I imagine wont surprise anyone here.

    Regarding early access to Comic Art LIVE... Beside Maureen, I was the only one with that as you'd expect because I am doing to front end programming for Comic Art LIVE. Nelson had ONE piece of "ART" in his booth for many days, so when I'd scroll through the Hall where we showed three random images from inside a booth his nude photograph was always there - the only thing in his booth. I let it slide for a couple days until it was 3 days out and asked if he would please remove it. He didn't, and didn't reply. Then he replaced it with another excuse for humor the day before the show, which I had to ask him again if he'd remove it. Again no reply. Fortunately I didn't have to nuke his booth because when I went to check it an hour before the show opened to premium members he had taken down the image and replaced it with comic art. 

    That's all there is to know about either of these questions. 

    Thank you for the transparent explanation Bill.

    I was just curious when it was mentioned, and I wasn't seeing any issue because I wasn't clear what secret information he could have.

    Malvin

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    Comic Art Live

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    Here are my thoughts, I'll start as an attendee and then as a seller.

    Attendee

    Unlike last time, I actually bought some art this time.  I generally find that there is less and less art that I can buy. I'm sure me no longer reading comics plays a part in that.  Of the 3 pieces I bought, 2 were from books I read and the 3rd was just a great Alan Davis image that I kept on going back to.

    I think most prices for stuff that I collect were reasonable.

    I did like the Sunday art drop, gave you a reason to look again, even though I didn't buy anything.

    I'm not a panel guy so no comments there.  I did have it playing in the background tonight as I was packing the art I sold though :)

    Exhibitor

    I'm generally happy with my sales.  I sold 13 of 34 pieces.  Nothing over 1K though.  Because of the extra slots available, I put stuff up that I wasn't aggressively trying to sell, but wouldn't mind selling if I get my price.  Some of them actually sold.  Some of the pieces that I thought would sell for sure did not.

    I think 48 pieces is too many, although as an attendee I didn't think there was too much art (can there ever be too much art)

    Echoing my comments as an attendee, I like the Sunday art drop idea.

    Malvin