Seller offering me a Tec 27 and Batman 1.. What to do!?!?!?

[The Black Hand ®]

[piper]

[thecollectron]

Good luck - but ask for measurements. I still think something doesn't look right about them. Anyway, if they're legit and you have to choose one of them, get the Det. 27. It's a bigger grail and harder to get.

[Primetime]

Brian---request that measurements be made and get the seller to send it to CGC on your dime---assuming you are committing to the book--regardless of the level of resto. The seller should have no problem with that since this is a large purchase---unless they are on a time crunch...and remember, at the end of the day, it's just some old, smelly paper with metal staples in it You have your health and family! (just keeping it real)

 

PT

 

PS...if you do it, I'm in line for ur Tec 29

[kimik]

Good luck!

 

I would also offer to broker a deal on the Batman #1 for a 10% commission. Tell him you know several people who are interested in it and then just sell it here on the boards. You should be able to raise a couple of grand to offset the Tec #27 purchase.

[Socratic Wonder]

Good luck buddy

 

....and if you do unfortunately have to sell some of those pre hero Tecs to fund a deal then you know I will be interested in them

[mr.schomburg]

Seller offering me a Tec 27 and Batman 1.. What to do!?!?!?

 

I have thought long and hard about your querry, and after hours of deliberation I have come the only fair and reasonable answer to this question of questions.

 

Buy both, and give them to Schommy! So I can sell them and buy a Marvel Comics #1 and a few other gems!

....Yup I think that is the right course of action.

Paul

[Socratic Wonder]

Seller offering me a Tec 27 and Batman 1.. What to do!?!?!?

 

I have thought long and hard about your querry, and after hours of deliberation I have come the only fair and reasonable answer to this question of questions.

 

Buy both, and give them to Schommy! So I can sell them and buy a Marvel Comics #1 and a few other gems!

....Yup I think that is the right course of action.

Paul

 

lol

 

That’s very altruistic of you Paul!

 

[mr.schomburg]

Seller offering me a Tec 27 and Batman 1.. What to do!?!?!?

 

I have thought long and hard about your querry, and after hours of deliberation I have come the only fair and reasonable answer to this question of questions.

 

Buy both, and give them to Schommy! So I can sell them and buy a Marvel Comics #1 and a few other gems!

....Yup I think that is the right course of action.

Paul

 

lol

 

That’s very altruistic of you Paul!

 

[Ivanko]

Seller offering me a Tec 27 and Batman 1.. What to do!?!?!?

 

I have thought long and hard about your querry, and after hours of deliberation I have come the only fair and reasonable answer to this question of questions.

 

Buy both, and give them to Schommy! So I can sell them and buy a Marvel Comics #1 and a few other gems!

....Yup I think that is the right course of action.

Paul

 

But if he has to sell off his collection to get them, he won't have any books

 

Now maybe if you gave him a book as good faith, like a certain #1 of something....

 

 

 

[Dark Knight]

Well, I just found out that the 2 Batman books I was looking at are now on Heritage.. Glad I didn't make a strong offer as both books were CGC'ed and came out to be trimmed and graded as having amateur restoration 3.0

[aardvark88]

Thank goodness for Cgc and their ability to catch micro-trimming. I am sure if they were chopped 1/4 inch you would have caught that. KIss of death.

[Dark Knight]

Yep, and I thought about selling my entire pre-robin Tecs to acquire that book too.. Thank goodness I didn't pull through with it

[pennynike1]

Glad to hear you didn't get ripped off Dark Knight. I went through the same thing when a seemingly high grade copy of Phantom Lady #18 came up on ebay. The seller had 0 feedback, and I just couldn't trust spending over $1,000 on a mystery book.

[Crowzilla]

Glad I didn't make a strong offer as both books were CGC'ed and came out to be trimmed and graded as having amateur restoration 3.0

 

With all that wear along the edge, it would be very easy to be fooled by that one.

Really makes you wonder even more about the PA copy from a couple months ago.

 

[rob_allan]

I was just reading this thread and it made for some great spectator reading. I'm glad you didn't spend the money and I'm glad we got to see the story unfold as this is one of those "adventures in collecting" that happens a couple of times in a collecting lifetime.

 

Kudos to gator. You really nailed that right away. Very, very impressive.

[G.A.tor]

I was just reading this thread and it made for some great spectator reading. I'm glad you didn't spend the money and I'm glad we got to see the story unfold as this is one of those "adventures in collecting" that happens a couple of times in a collecting lifetime.

 

Kudos to gator. You really nailed that right away. Very, very impressive.

I love a happy ending almost as much as I love Tec 27's

[fishbone]

I was just reading this thread and it made for some great spectator reading. I'm glad you didn't spend the money and I'm glad we got to see the story unfold as this is one of those "adventures in collecting" that happens a couple of times in a collecting lifetime.

 

Kudos to gator. You really nailed that right away. Very, very impressive.

I love a happy ending almost as much as I love Tec 27's

 

It's good news that he didn't pay a slight R VG+ price for a slight R trimmed G/VG book , but I still feel horribly bad for DK that he is still without his Tec27 -- didn't the seller offer it to you once he got it back from CGC??? Are you going to pursue it via Heritage ?? Gator, now that your suspicion has been confirmed, does the trimming bring the price below 30K or does the theory of "No TEC27 below 30K " hold??

[Dark Knight]

I was just reading this thread and it made for some great spectator reading. I'm glad you didn't spend the money and I'm glad we got to see the story unfold as this is one of those "adventures in collecting" that happens a couple of times in a collecting lifetime.

 

Kudos to gator. You really nailed that right away. Very, very impressive.

I love a happy ending almost as much as I love Tec 27's

 

It's good news that he didn't pay a slight R VG+ price for a slight R trimmed G/VG book , but I still feel horribly bad for DK that he is still without his Tec27 -- didn't the seller offer it to you once he got it back from CGC??? Are you going to pursue it via Heritage ?? Gator, now that your suspicion has been confirmed, does the trimming bring the price below 30K or does the theory of "No TEC27 below 30K " hold??

 

Hey Fishbone.. To answer your question, a Tec 27 is my grail and will always be in my sight, but when reality sets in, I don't think I can afford it at the moment. The seller didn't want to sell the books to me after word got out that I was talking abou this book on the boards. I really don't know what the big deal was, but it was his decision. I was surprised to see that it was at Heritage. It hit my mind that the Tec 27 looked very familiar and as I saw the scans I saved from the seller, it matched perfectly together with the Bat 1. I will be tracking the Tec 27 on Heritage and see what kind of a price it will garner. I still doubt that it will be far from my price range. I'm selling my tec 31 in hopes that I can buy something else.. You know who you are .

 

I truly believe trimming definitely brings the value of the book down just like brittle pages and rusted staples. Those 3 factors are basically big No No's for me, but for a Tec 27, it may slide. I'm guessing the book will sell below $30k with all the premium books for sale on Heritage, C-Link, and CC. I feel that big collectors with deep pockets will be going for the Edgar CHurch Adventures, the early Tecs and Actions, and other SA and GA keys.

[Dark Knight]

Glad to hear you didn't get ripped off Dark Knight. I went through the same thing when a seemingly high grade copy of Phantom Lady #18 came up on ebay. The seller had 0 feedback, and I just couldn't trust spending over $1,000 on a mystery book.

 

Very wise decision you made and I'm glad you didn't push through with it. Those are things that you call "too good to be true." I was offered recently a FF #48 CGC 9.8 unrestored for $3500, but the seller had no history of selling any comic books nor sold anything on ebay. His scans as well were very blurry, but the 9.8 label can still be made. I just wasn't sure if he actually had the book. He emailed me a few daysa go asking if I would want to see the book. Today I emailed him that I can find someone to take a look at it. He then emailed me back saying that the book was sold. It's either I got lucky again by not going through with the transaction or I made a bad decision and should've went for it.