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Maskedvigilante

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    Danielle/NerdyGirlComics/Filter81 Scamming People with Market Manipulation?

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    Posted · Edited by Mj Ahmed

    Hi fellow comic book collectors,

    I hope you guys are safe and sound.

    I am a total newbie in the comic book industry and I don't know about the in and outs. I don't post here as I have recently discovered this community. I am still learning and I think this community is for the big guys. But recently I observed something very very strange and I think I needed to alert the comic book community of this injustice. I was checking some sold prices and came across something absolutely astounding. It's involving this seller Filter81, google search says her name is Danielle aka Nerdy Girl Comics.
     
     
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    This price seemed very high and strange. I don't know a lot about comic book prices but this seemed insane and more insane then the prices these days for main key issues....
     
    I logged on to GPA analysis, an 8.5 (highest graded copy) sold for $1320 at Heritage in their Signature Auction (June 19 2021) only 6 days after the Danielle Sale (June 13 2021)
     
     
    Here's data of the top 2 bidders
     
    as of July 31s 2021 when I started investigating this
     
    Winning Bidder, 0 bids with seller, 2 bids in VHS tapes.....(VHS tapes really? a little weird)
     
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    Underbidder, 2 other bids in the last 30 days, 100% bid activity, on video games basically the only thing Nerdy Girl was selling at the time on auction...(very sketchy). 
     
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    Consider the following:
     
    The largest comic book auction house i.e. HERITAGE got less than 1/3 of her book that's half a point lower and NOT the highest graded copy in the signature auction that has a print color catalog. Sometimes there is some spread on auction prices but not by multiples...
     
    Heritage screwed up by a multiplier AND both of those bids were legitimate....?
     
    OR
     
    Danielle shill bid the book like crazy to manipulate the market given all the evidence presented (My opinion)
     
    There's a LOT of coincidences for her to be given the benefit of the doubt, and I look forward to seeing what you all think and what we can do about this. 
     
    And in the end please guide me if its a common thing as I am new and still learning and protecting myself from scams. 
     
    Hope you all will understand, 
    Thankyou :)