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On 7/29/2022 at 4:59 PM, plady69 said:

Yikes! That was kinda stupid.  😩

Back in the days of RBCC and Stan’s Weekly Express I would send checks up to $200. but that was it.  Sorry you took a bath!

PayPal these days…

got caught up in it all like a kid in a candy store, and got real stupid - but only once, learned a hard lesson !!

Joined eBay about 2003, mainly to try and get back into collecting a Spider-man run. I remember a haul of like 400 books from about #101 to #500 with all keys there for $600 Cdn. Crazy. I eventually got the whole run completed, thanks eBay for the head start!

I remember the ASM#1 around same time for $1999 Cdn, it graded to an o/w 6.5 - still have it. I also remember an AF#15 that I got for about $4K Cdn and another for $3K,  and they ended up grading as a 3.0 and 2.5  tan to o/w and o/w to w respectively -- sold the 3.0 three months ago for a lot more....still have the 2.5.

When I started into GA soon after this, it was a LCS and Metro that I turned to only ........... can't remember why I wouldn't have stuck with eBay, but might have had something to do with  the one time I was fleeced for $1500 by an eBay crook for some book, stupidly sent a bank transfer and was ghosted immediately afterwards. 

Any one out there with other early eBay horror stories of stupidity ?

On 5/26/2022 at 1:10 PM, Colin The Librarian said:

Then you will enjoy the John Peel Wiki. 

Let's say you're looking for available shows and track listings for 1982. Then you take a fancy to checking the 4th May Show. Then you see the full show is available. Click on the relevant Mooo link - 2 hours 5 minutes long (3) and enter: User Name: peel Password: group

And as if by magic, you will have access to that show plus many others available on the Mooo server. There are other file archives available via the Wiki, I only mention that one because it's particularly good. 

Many of my own show recordings are available through the Wiki. Have a look around!

I will ... thank you so much !!

On 7/28/2022 at 10:21 AM, Bronty said:

Never been a huge rush fan, but great illustration on that Fly by Night.    Do we know who the artist is?

...and you and I could NOT be friends ( no Rush, no happy)

On 7/28/2022 at 11:44 AM, Robot Man said:

Very true. People have collected records a lot longer than comics. Music has always been one of the most important things in my life. I was raised in a house with blues, jazz and rock a billy music playing. First time I heard The Rolling Stones, I was hooked.

Since you like music and collecting, you gotta pick up a copy of this book. I guarantee, you won’t be able to put it down until you are finished. 

read this (ibook)  6 months ago based on a recommendation here (probably you R-Man!), it is incredible !! I own several dozen 78's, but the ones talked about in this book are off-the-chart insane !!

On 7/28/2022 at 1:08 AM, Ricksneatstuff said:

For the last year or so I’ve been collecting sealed or very clean first pressings of classic albums. 
 

 

We could definitely be friends !!  

Spidey all day every day. My #1 all-time fave, he's my ground floor for entering comics when I was 11 years old, watched the Tv show religiously. X-men who ?

( I do have two AF#15's, two ASM#1's and one X-Men #1, love them all)

I'd venture to say that the more you do not touch, use, play with an item, the more you are a collector of said item

On 7/13/2022 at 9:18 AM, DT0428 said:

I agree, but at the price I won seems really low for even a 5.0 with interior tape

On 7/13/2022 at 9:18 AM, DT0428 said:

I agree, but at the price I won seems really low for even a 5.0 with interior tape

On 7/13/2022 at 9:18 AM, DT0428 said:

I agree, but at the price I won seems really low for even a 5.0 with interior tape

Hey Congrats !!! If that's the price on GPA, then it is a total steal for a 5.0 !!!!  so there is some interior tape, it is OW-White!  And just a few days ago, another 5.0 apparently sold for $100K ..........  I have a 5.0 ow/w with no marvel chipping and no tape, and I would want closer to 100K then closer to 40K for it if I were to sell (and I would never sell) 

Can't remember an exact book, but certainly it would have either been ROM#1 or an ASM from that era (around issue#175-180) ...... I would have been about 11 years old

On 7/15/2021 at 10:00 AM, Chief1332 said:

Gocollect algorithm... tries to predict values as best they can.  Uses CGC and CBCS sales info?  Whereas GPA CGC reported sales only?  I like to use both sites, as well as eBay, and threads here on the boards.

using multiple sources is absolutely ESSENTIAL to get a handle on values

On 6/25/2022 at 11:58 PM, Cat-Man_America said:

Not really off topic, at least in my case.

Although not returning to Camelot this year, were I going this knightly square table would be high on my list!

(highlights from 2018 & 2019, including the phenomenal CatMan horde and Jumbo double-cover)...

Alas, your's truly isn't among these iPad daguerrotypes as one of those recording events for posterity!

 

 

Riff Raff !!!

2/17/2022       CLink

Detective 27  ,  7.0,   A5,  white pages         $293.000

I'm losing sleep just thinking about answering this question ..... you all would actually lose sleep as well if I listed everything 

On 5/12/2022 at 8:21 PM, Roger66 said:

I call these sales car-crashes .  Someone shockingly overpays for some varied reasons a) they don't like eBay where you could have easily purchased a much nicer looking 4.5 copy cheaper at that time and still can b) they are flush with bitcoin money and just like spending it uninformed and wildly c) a bit of a & b plus the winner is naïve. or maybe d) shill bidders working in conjunction if not conspiracy.  To quote these very odd sales as anything other than anomalies and to infer or think they are the trend or a precedent of things to come is IMO a disservice to the community, very wrong and just a total misperception of the comic key marketplace. Solid intuition is the partial key to success in this hobby along with a realistic historical sense that if you buy something hot based upon a freak sale(s) - you better be prepared for it to go cold down the road. My 2 cents.   

yup ....put in time and  get educated , then  it's tough to either pay too much if buying or accept too little if selling

On 6/22/2022 at 12:19 PM, DC# said:

9.4 for $4M on MySlabs 

https://myslabs.com/slab/view/756158/

 

 

ok then ......  

On 6/16/2022 at 12:52 PM, D84 said:

As long as there is money laundering, terrorists and drug dealers, crypto will be around.

.......as will big money comic grails !!!!    

On 6/21/2022 at 10:08 AM, Westy Steve said:

I have a question about Superman #4. On the cover it shows Superman wrecking a building or tearing down columns or something like that. Did anything remotely close to that happen in the story?

https://www.qualitycomix.com/comic-price-guide/superman/issue-4

calling Roy, calling Roy! I know he checked out of this thread a while ago (for good reason), but how about a quick "told ya' so" ...... 

market correction in full swing .......

On 6/15/2022 at 8:21 PM, szav said:

They usually add the 15% onto the reported sale price after the auction.  I’m not totally sure but it looks like 500k +15% = 575k is what happened.

that's what I would have thought, but their sight indicates the $575 is before the 15% ...... but it could be an error ......

On 6/10/2022 at 10:22 AM, Timely said:

CAF Update: GRAIL PIECE!

4 words: McFarlane Spider-Man black costume

https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1825624

Oh My ................................... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    

On 6/13/2022 at 6:09 PM, LDarkseid1 said:

No I think that's a fair assessment. It's just the 9.4 could only barely break $400K at auction, and only sold with a bidder throwing in a post auction offer to get to the eventual sale price over $500K. This 8.5 has been trimmed, and I agree with @Funny Books that should solidly affect this potential sale, well one would think since trimming is usually a death sentence. I could just as easily see it doing what you're thinking, but my gut tells me closer to the $200K-$250K mark.

Firstly, the $575 sale is before 15% buyers fee added - so it's like a $660 sale. With restored keys, the difference between 9.4 and 8.5 (given all else the same) is not that much price wise. The 8.5 is an A3  (more desirable than an A5), but the trimming will subsequently bring it down. Sooooo, at the end of the day, my guess would be around 400K minimum. If it wasn't trimmed, I could easily see it up there with the 9.4 sale.

On 6/9/2022 at 7:55 PM, Batmanis#1 said:

Geez 200k for a 5.5 not happening in 2022 maybe 2023. I know white pages and all.

hey, dude is fishing, that's all...... god bless him if he gets a bite     [BTW: Fishbone don't fish]

On 6/9/2022 at 10:35 PM, woowoo said:

6 or 7 years went by