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Modern Slow Track SS from SDCC 7/28/16 - Received 7/29/16 - Credit Card charged 8/22/16 - Verified 8/30/16 - Scheduled for Grading

Modern Slow Track SS from SDCC 7/28/16 - Received 7/29/16 - Credit Card charged 8/22/16 - Verified

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Modern Slow Track SS from SDCC 7/28/16 - Received 7/29/16 - Credit Card charged

These are great

I was in the same boat as you last week. Call or email them and they'll get you squared away if you want the books reholdered. The new holders with inner wells are showing a lot of the newton effect? For me, they didn't have inner wells. Received them a few days after the CGC announcement

I was in the same boat as you last week. Call or email them and they'll get you squared away if you want the books reholdered.

Precisely. I'm at a loss as well as to how it could be effectively counterfeited. How many pages does it have?

An average of two a year come up on eBay. To me they are far overvalued given the content but this of course isn't the appeal.

I can see why it's difficult to authenticate Gobbledygook #1 and 2 given that they were originally photocopied but Thorn is a bit different. It looks to me that it was professionally bound and printed. Are these kinds of books regularly counterfeited? I've been watching auctions of Thorn for quite awhile and I don't think I've ever heard of a fake one.

The last time I spoke with a few individuals from CGC it was relayed to me that they do not grade copies of Thorn due to not being able to authenticate them. This however may change, only time will tell but as of a few months ago they said they have no plans to grade them. Grading a Thorn would be like grading a paperback book would it not? I've gotten the impression that they're small with a lot of pages. Never seen one in person.

Yet another thank you to dscott for my Miller signed TDKR #2. Retained the grade and looks fantastic!

I think it would sit for awhile at that price unless there was movie news.

In the mail and on its way home. whats a good price for one of these nowadays? No one knows

Thank you.

OT: Is there a new way to see Best Offer prices? The "print" link seems to have disappeared.

I think that's a much more accurate reflection of the market as opposed to that $2350 BIN a couple months ago. However, I honestly didn't think it was gonna be below $1.5k.

I agree with this but I think the total would be much closer to $3k than $3.5k based on the rate of new 9.8s popping up (at least 3 newbies in the last four months). As everyone knows, I'm also in the market for one. Three newbies in the past four months is aggressive to say. I could have totally missed the boat, but I see only six 9.8 blue labels (am I the only who who doesnt care for green labels?) Anyway there were 5 blue labels for as long as I could remember and this new sixth one was a recent addition. I would be shocked if a lot more 9.8s popped up. Mschmidt is COMPLETELY right when he said "there's been no indication that there's a large stack of ungraded 9.8s out there either" This book was printed on very cheap, black paper that has shown to become very brittle, easily smudged, and handles VERY poorly when there are pressing attempts. With an original print run of around 3,000 on college paper stock back in 1991 and Jeff Smith defacing over 2000 of them himself to pass out.... we're looking at a tiny market pool to draw mint condition books. Are you saying that Jeff signed 2,000 of the copies prior to selling them? Because, well, that isn't true. Wow, I completely ignored that sentence. BChin22, did you read this somewhere?

I agree with this but I think the total would be much closer to $3k than $3.5k based on the rate of new 9.8s popping up (at least 3 newbies in the last four months). As everyone knows, I'm also in the market for one. Three newbies in the past four months is aggressive to say. I could have totally missed the boat, but I see only six 9.8 blue labels (am I the only who who doesnt care for green labels?) Anyway there were 5 blue labels for as long as I could remember and this new sixth one was a recent addition. I would be shocked if a lot more 9.8s popped up. Mschmidt is COMPLETELY right when he said "there's been no indication that there's a large stack of ungraded 9.8s out there either" This book was printed on very cheap, black paper that has shown to become very brittle, easily smudged, and handles VERY poorly when there are pressing attempts. With an original print run of around 3,000 on college paper stock back in 1991 and Jeff Smith defacing over 2000 of them himself to pass out.... we're looking at a tiny market pool to draw mint condition books. The sixth one is kimik's which he has shown in this thread. DiamondDave's hasn't hit the census yet and I counted the yellow label which is currently sitting on eBay. I know this particular book very well and I never said there were a large stack of 9.8s sitting around. All it takes is a few more examples to double the census numbers and I do believe there are a few more out there.

I agree with this but I think the total would be much closer to $3k than $3.5k based on the rate of new 9.8s popping up (at least 3 newbies in the last four months). As everyone knows, I'm also in the market for one.

Looks to be an anomaly at the moment but, then again, not many have been up for sale recently. If there's another one close to this price in the near future, I may agree with you. I am thinking of putting my 9.8 up at a stupid price ($5000?) to see what happens. Is that a ridiculous price for a 9.8? Last recorded sale on GPA (which I know is not the end all be all of sales and can be manipulated) was $3200 in 2008. Is this book in grade that scarce on the market? There was a clink sale in 2009 for $4,900 - but at the time of both those sales, the CGC census was less than half what it is now. In today's market, I think a Bone #1 in CGC 9.8 is a $3,000-3,500 book ... +1

Looks to be an anomaly at the moment but, then again, not many have been up for sale recently. If there's another one close to this price in the near future, I may agree with you.

Now that is nice. Congrats!

Modern Slow Track (Boston CC, SS) 8/13 - Received 9/30 - Verified 10/6 - Scheduled For Grading 10/7 - Graded 10/27 - Graded/QC 10/29 - Shipped