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On 2/6/2024 at 6:21 PM, mustang33guy said:

Truthful Love #2

Continuation from Youthful Love #1

Only issue

Scarce Romance

Tragic car accident story in interiors 

(5.5)

$85.00

On 2/3/2024 at 3:08 PM, alexgross.com said:

hope everyone has a great time and looking forward to seeing pics. unfortunately not able to attend this year, and will miss the comics and the people-

The Comic Swap is in the books, and I had a great time!  I sold four times as much as I was hoping.  I can't wait until tomorrow.

On 2/3/2024 at 3:30 PM, dover said:

Where is Greggy?? 

He sat across my wife at dinner Saturday night.  She really enjoyed his company!

On 2/1/2024 at 1:17 PM, blazingbob said:

While I agree there are always going to be people inside and outside the business that will try to scam the system.  

Clearly there is a breakdown or lack of security follow ups on employees that sell books.  Now while they may have gotten permission to sell books it is obvious that what they are selling is not checked by the company.  I'm assuming that going forward that will not be the case because frankly these two employees are ruining CGC's business reputation on integrity.       

For me I've had issue with "Consultants" who come in and grade and also sell books.    

I think this "consultants" thing is just as big an issue, if not more so.  I have a bad feeling right now.

On 1/16/2024 at 10:39 PM, Dr. Love said:

MCS auction, graded as Fine went for  $430

not what I would call shocking, but instead things that make you go...wait, what?

 

For me, I would call the auction result shocking.  I didn't even feel this book was worth tracking, let alone bidding on it!  I know I bought a vast majority of my Romance books when they were cheap, and now the prices have moved up, even sharply up.  But I have to shake my head and wonder at some of the prices these books bring. 

Maybe I'm a dinosaur.  

On 1/11/2024 at 7:47 AM, shadroch said:

The last time I dealt with Comic Link, I was told my check was on Josh's desk, waiting to be signed. He must have gone on safari or something, as the check arrived almost a month and three phone calls later.

Unfortunately, this did not happen to just you.  I'm still waiting...for Josh to come back from safari...so he can sign the check...and maybe, I will get it before the end of January.  

On 1/9/2024 at 3:00 PM, clarkkentdds said:

I don't understand how "color touch removal" is anything less than just tearing or scraping the color out? How can CGC be ok with this? I understand how pressing can be given a pass, but this is next level...

I mentioned this a few months ago, when the Sup#1 3.0 was sold at HA, but I've seen other blue chip books since then that have suffered the same fate.

I don't understand how buyers aren't noticing this? It is obvious and ludicrous. I hope the market recognizes this.

 

It is not necessarily a bad thing.  A while back, I bought a Golden Age romance book that was graded 9.2, with slight color touch.  I got it real cheap.  Obviously, the seller just wanted to get rid of this monstrosity.  I could not spot the color touch through the slab, so I sent it in for color touch removal and re-grading.  It came back 9.0.  A real nice looking book!  I can't see where the color touch was "scrapped" off.  

This book will stay in my collection for a very long time, even though it is worth at least ten times what I have in it.

On 12/16/2023 at 1:41 PM, MrBedrock said:

Speaking of condition being a factor - how nutty is this? I had been seeing some of the prices that some auction sites have been getting for VHS. A long time customer recently passed away and his apartment was loaded with vintage VHS, all high grade and all in the original shrink wrap. He had meticulously sliced the bottom of the wrap to access and view the tapes, then replaced them in the box and put them on shelves five or six deep in closets. I had contracted with the executor of the estate to dispose of everything so I contacted one of the auction houses to see if they were interested. After viewing some photos they said sure, and seemed very excited. We boxed everything up, well over 5000 high grade VHS tapes, and dropped them off. I had nothing invested in these so I just asked the auction rep to go through them and work out what they thought would work best for all parties. A week later I got this response - "After reviewing the first half I found only about 10 fully sealed movies out of all of the tapes and nothing of value. The rest were all open on the bottom and of no real value." These were near mint factory boxes with the original tape inside, most from the 80s, and with the original shrink wrap still on. So basically, because the shrink wrap was split at the bottom the tapes were worthless. Now given the fact that most VHS tape has degraded significantly over the last 40 years and is probably unviewable I can certainly understand why sealed is so sought after. I am just amazed that markets like this can be established and folks can be so gullible.

I subscribe to a couple of antique publications and every so often they mention how VHS tapes go for very strong money at auction.

I try never to tell people how to spend their money or what comic age they should collect or what food they should eat or what color they should paint their house.  But when it comes to collecting VHS tapes, I just don't get it. 

The Romance genre has long been considered a second-tier collectible compared to others.  But within this genre, photo covers rank even lower.  There are a few photo covers that command strong money, but the vast majority are blah.  Here is one that really is boring, even for the diehard Romance collector.

On 12/5/2023 at 2:20 PM, comicjack said:

That title is tough 

 No kidding.  I had never seen this issue before, so I jumped at the chance to get it.  I paid a little more than I wanted, but it is in nice shape.  

On 11/21/2023 at 1:56 PM, MrBedrock said:

Usual rules apply -

• 3) All forms of payment - cash, checks, credit cards, Paypal, barter - will be considered!

Do you consider "El Pollo Loco" coupons to be barter?  

I bought my ticket for the Comic Swap and the convention.  I am really looking forward to this!