TheOldCollector

Some of mine.

I am new here to the forums but not new to collecting comics. I am just a collector not a seller. I collect impulsively meaning I buy way too much and then feel guilty about it and take some time off and then go back to buying more lol.

4 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Taaaape but complete!

It irks me that incomplete doesnt get green!

Cause most 0.5s are incomplete oye !

That's crazy, then why do people have green labels with marks for cover being detached not just slap some tape on it and get a blue?

That is pretty nice looking to be a 7.5. You sure there was something else wrong on the inside? Show us the back.

See even old ones like myself learn something new everyday.

4 minutes ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

Does tape alone get a purple label?

I guess not. I assumed it did but this is what comes up when I searched for it:

"While tape could be considered restoration because it is usually used to repair defects, its prevalence on comic books has led collectors to accept tape as a defect rather than restoration. As such, CGC does not recognize tape as restoration, rather downgrading a comic book accordingly if it is present."

It also says tape on interior cover.

Wait, you sent in a book to be graded not knowing there was tape on the inside cover?

That's from 2002. Man I wish I could go back in time lol.

20 minutes ago, lostboys said:

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.

I've never tried this always just gave up. I'm going to try this next time and see what happens. Thanks for the info!!

Comparing sports cards to comics is a big jump. There are a lot more people out there into sports than there are comics. Had the comic market grown this high by itself overtime then I would trust it. But when you double the prices and sometimes even more on comics that aren't even keys, partial keys or have any actual reason to go up that high and then add in the keys that triple, quadruple as well all within the last year, you have what any other market would defiantly call a bubble. As much as I don't want to see the values go back down it's most defiantly going to happen. When everyone starts spending their entertainment funds on other things they use to do pre-COVID. I don't think the prices are going to plummet they will still be above what they were pre-COVID but you don't have to be a master of markets to see a correction will come. Look at the gradual increase on ASM 300 from (2010-Right Before COVID) it's a nice steady climb then COVID hit and it straight sky rockets through the roof. People keep bringing up these sports collectors and these new rich people jumping in the game but where were all of these people pre-COVID just sitting around pretending the comic book world didn't exist, they just decided while no new movies were being released that they were going to just flood the comic book world all of a sudden? Nope, don't buy it. Give it a year tops once everyone is back to taking vacations and spending their hard earned dollars at the bar or on strippers, us collectors will be back to a relatively normal market and complaining about how we should have sold more of our books during the COVID times maybe not the keys but these random books selling for high dollars just because they're older. I have some Dazzlers, Smurfs, Sonic the Hedgehogs and What Ifs for sale just in case any of you (sports collectors / new money) peeps are reading this I mean come on you have books that were in the dollar bins pre-COVID going for ridiculous prices and you don't think a correction is coming?

Just now, valiantman said:

Ebay always wants more money.

Ebay knows we always want to know Best Offer prices.

Ebay charges for them now.

Good answer!