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I haven’t had a claim either. One action I recommend is to make a list of specific instances you can think you might make a claim for, and ask for answers what they will do. Like, you shipped a book and it never got there, by mail, by fedex, etc. you dropped a 20K book and dinged a corner and now it’s worth a lot less. Is is covered? You gave a framer your OA to frame and it was damaged, or lost . We THINK we are “ insured” meaning any losses we insure honestly will be paid back... but they are in this as a business, and have developed their own procedures, some of which are not exactly what we imagined we get back for our premiums. Better safe than sorry by assuming...

I love how you made sure the Bidding Disabled button was clicked! dont want to slip up and make a bid at these numbers... I was on my phone and kept making sure mine was clicked tooo... darn phone makes too many buttt dials, so I dont trust it. also looks like the winning INTERNET bidder's max bid was 1,150,000... because he immediately retook the lead after Heritage Live bid 1,100,000. He was clearly hoping he'd win by surviving the next bid, 1.1M. After that came the 1,200,000; followed by a cut bid, then the final winning bid at 1,250.00. So probably just 2 bidders assuming the cut bid was sandwiched by the winners last 2 bids. Possibly 3 bidders if each was by someone different. A truly memorable lot!

I saw them in the Catskills one... food was lousy. And the portions were so small! ba da boom

Looking at these books as they get auctioned off I just want to say What a marvelous Collection he put together! A job, out of love, well done!

Looks more like an Arthur Adam’s homage to the originals.

I agree with the "concept" that once sold you can never afford them again... but, in reality, you sell the book. they give you money in exchange. Use money to buy book again! The real reason this feels true is after sitting on a big book for 20+ years having paid a fraction of todays prices, its no so much that you CANT but that you WOULDNT buy it again. Same as Its very difficult to buy a stock again using the same metrics. If you ride it to record heights, sell at a big profit, then your'e reluctant to buy in again. Reluctant and a little superstitious. Oh, and you're decades older than when you were young and silly and bought the dammed things in the first place. "you bought what?" This and the fact that we always think we are reaching endgame levels of comics values... So the smart money would be to buy them again... Smarter money is not to sell...

thats a fair guess.... Ive seen it on other early 40s titles like All American 16. cant remember the others...

well, if its lost in the shipping, Heritage insurance would make you whole. The buyer wouldn't have taken possession yet. Anyone ever experience this happening to their auction package?

For the book. Look at the screenshot posted. edit. Ok I looked again and the registered phone bidders was on the auction page and not the Tec 27. Since I was amazed that so many multi millionaires are suddenly interested in buying a comic, I’m relieved that’s it’s not true. Just doesn’t make sense.

Interesting that there are 51 registered phone bidders. I don’t usually look at stuff like that but it sounds like there may be a bunch of bidders waiting to battle it out. Then agin, they my have registered a while ago, because I don’t think any of us believe there are 50 people champing at the bit to bid and spend a million two plus. Are there?

anyone recall what the history is of the stamped "Sample Copy" is? The Tea 58 has the stamp above the logo. Its faint, I only noticed it zooming in on the scan. I think we have discussed this before but cant recall the answer, if it was determined. thanks

I’m not a web designer, so can’t tell them how to achieve fewer clicks. Part of the issue seems like a sales database can never be perfect for everybody’s needs of the data. For instance, they have chosen to begin our view with as few rows as possible. This makes sense. And for popular books, I agree that this should be the default view for each issue. When an issue sells often, all we really need is the rolling averages of sales, right? So for these books it’s as tight as can be and we don’t have to do any tedious drill down clicking. but for the books that don’t sell often, and never sold in many grade levels, that’s when it gets tedious. All I can think of as a solution would be a --script trigger based on the total,number of sales for the book when the page loads, that opens with all grades WITH sales opened down to the actual sales... and a button to collapse all issues. The cost here would be more scrolling cause it all won’t fit on one screen. Maybe this is a compromise solution but any solution will be dependent on out personal use and that is hard to program. Gotta make choices. Individual settings would seem to be the solution, like only show 9.8, or grades above 9.0 for a HG or modern collector. But would that slow the experience even more? I dunno.

I’ve been using the new GPA again lately am I’m pleasantly surprised with its look and functionality. I was critical at first, but aside from too many clicks to dig down to the sales, which frankly I can’t think of a solution to that wouldn’t leave too much out in sight all the time... and rollover pop ups wouldn’t stay open to take notes... but, overall it’s doing the job for me. Go collect also has drill down issues, but it has a lot of data and scans too. Which is nice

Guide has gone up so much on the big keys that it lists retail prices now. So selling at multiples of guide condition, or OVER guide is difficult And huge books like this with barely a handful of bidders often do just go limp in the live auction if they have for whatever reason already shot their wad on early bidding. Each increment now is painful and risky. No bargains left. But we shall see.

To reduce the target sig area you want e artists to write in, take an old mylar cut down to the size of the backing board, and cut out the sig window where you want it. and slip it in the yellow holder above the comic. It shouldn’t move around too much and will protect all of the cover except your targeted sig window.

today its the painstaking "best we can do in this era" equivalent of a 5 second instagram/phone filter etc. but nicely done. and its art on paper

OK. I stand corrected... did these shared purchases go smoothly?

Dealers have colluded, I mean teamed up to buy collections often. I’ve never heard of them buying together at auction just to afford it.

surprising the bids are so frequent this early... are they random increases? or bids against an existing 1M bid? meaning are the increases made of 2 bids: a new one plus a 1 increment followup each time?

Black Knight is very hot of late, so you could err on the high side, Since a 5.0 sold recently for 672, I use that as your floor for your 5.5. If there was another 2020 sale in 7.0 or 7.5 for 1000 or 1100 say, you could extrapolate how much more your 5.5 might be above the 5.0, I think its safe to ignore the 6.0 from 2018 completely at this point. The book has taken off. Hot books that are rising are easier to deal with than books that peaked years ago, because its tempting to ignore the newer low sales points and focus on a probably non repeatable older salem kidding yourself that its still worth that much. Which you will be faced with your Black Knight if you place TOO HIGH a value today... when the movie hype dies off and the hot hype books DONT sel for the peak numbers for years, or ever again, you will have to suck it up and lower your value. We all love that comics values keep increasing right? But many dont, and fall , some fall hard.

yes I said that earlier in a deleted post. Its what a book sells for that counts, not what we guess its worth at home or in the vault. What the OP and I are seeking to solve is valuing things as what they are worth NOW, and again from time to time. When you tell a broker to sell a stock, you find out later what you sold at because the ticker is only a snapshot not a sale. But you will be close (if your broker doesn't slice off too much for himself, but that another story). With comics, especially for rarely traded issues, its all guesswork. A sale in 2015 can be half of its current value. But often its twice what it will sell for today. Overstreet? I love the guide but its at best a clue to what a raw copy might be valued at. And it doesn't tell you whether your copy is worth 50% of the Guide, or 2x the Guide price because he cant keep up with changes (like movie speculation which hits quick and hits hard). My system is built on Guide prices. But nearly all have to be massaged by real time sales as on GPA. multiples of condition guide (above and below guide) just reach the right number. Its a book by book thing, and a lot of guesswork. (Unless someone has worked out a foolproof system?? which would help all of us! Sure dealers have the pulse of the market. But try getting one to come over and value 1000s of your comics, for free... once a year (waiting for Bob Storms to give me an amen on that). Im willing to do it myself, just trying to be accurate. so yeah, Im keenly aware of the problems and limitations inherent with each approach. So I look forward to discussing what others here are doing to work this out. Sorry he started this in the wrong thread, bad on him. But where is the discussion now? Comics General? maybe CGC whose been adding a section pretty often could start one for Valuing Comics??

I was posting in the discussion so I know what it was about. For me it was a chance to talk about valuation methodologies given the sources of verified sales. And how difficult it is to reach a FMV for our comics. Id like to continue that discussion. Frankly, quoting anything Chuck has to say about anything is meaningless to me. He ALWAYS claims his business is booming and buying what he considers 750K in comics only means they MAY be worth 200K retail. And he paid 25K for them in hopes he can hang on long enough to sell them, is Chucks MO. just hoping to find out if the posts were moved or deleted completely.

Did the posts about his collection get moved? Or deleted? I did int even notice it was in the wrong section, but it’s an interesting issue...

And never sell anything cause it’s “going nowhere”. The wheel is still in spin.

I was looking at my later boring Pre SA Detectives and was amazed that Tec 300 —- first polka dot man —- is no longer a silly issue from that dead zone in Tec with monster and alien and dopey covers anymore. Well, nothing was more dopey than the lame villains in these issues than Polka dot man himself. ‘Until he got a starring role in a movie that is..