Has The Bottom Dropped Out?

[jonjesper]

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bottom dropped out, now everyone go buy books you want...

 

[inthehottub]

k

bottom dropped out, now everyone go buy books you want...

 

 

That's all I need to hear.

Selling forum here I come.

[SignatureSelect]

Do you have 10 copies of 300 in 9.6 can you get me 10 by the end of the day tommorrow. If the answer is no, then this isn't a common book. I owned a comic shop for 3 years and in that time I saw maybe 7 copies come trough my door for sale. Now sure some guys would come in with a 9.6 or a 9.8 to get signed by Toddy Mc and stan the man. But as far as copies for sell 7. That says alot because I had everything from avengers 1 to x-men 266 come through the door and I bought books every week but only 7 300's. and they would usually sell fast. Oh and I forgot to mention that those weren't graded 9.6 copies. 1 out of the seven was a graded 9.6. all the others were raw 8.5-9.4.

 

Just because there are alot in 9.6 doesn't mean anything. there are 6 billion people in the population. So I think that means that less than 1 percent of the population can own a 9.6 of that book and less than 1 tenth of 1 percent can own a SS 9.6 copy of that book. Now that doesn't mean that everybody in that 1 tenth of 1 percent gets to own one signed by all 3 just that they get to own a SS 9.6 copy.

 

Look at those numbers and put it into perspective before you say something is common.

[mschmidt]

Do you have 10 copies of 300 in 9.6 can you get me 10 by the end of the day tommorrow. If the answer is no, then this isn't a common book. I owned a comic shop for 3 years and in that time I saw maybe 7 copies come trough my door for sale. Now sure some guys would come in with a 9.6 or a 9.8 to get signed by Toddy Mc and stan the man. But as far as copies for sell 7. That says alot because I had everything from avengers 1 to x-men 266 come through the door and I bought books every week but only 7 300's. and they would usually sell fast. Oh and I forgot to mention that those weren't graded 9.6 copies. 1 out of the seven was a graded 9.6. all the others were raw 8.5-9.4.

 

Just because there are alot in 9.6 doesn't mean anything. there are 6 billion people in the population. So I think that means that less than 1 percent of the population can own a 9.6 of that book and less than 1 tenth of 1 percent can own a SS 9.6 copy of that book. Now that doesn't mean that everybody in that 1 tenth of 1 percent gets to own one signed by all 3 just that they get to own a SS 9.6 copy.

 

Look at those numbers and put it into perspective before you say something is common.

 

ASM #300 had a print run around 300,000, and was published during a time when people knew full well how to protect & care for their comic books, which means that HG copies are never really going to be that hard to find.

 

I could go on ebay right now and get 10 CGC 9.6 copies if I felt like it - which, honestly, is not something you can say for a whole lot of other books (wolverine #1 springs to mind).

 

"Common" to me isn't a bad word - it's merely a reflection of how easy it is to find a book in a desired grade - and with that criteria in mind, there's no way you can say that ASM #300 isn't a common book.

[somewhereintexas]

Maybe I carried over a meaning that "common" has in card collecting over to comic collecting, but I sure thought it had the same meaning in both contexts. In card collecting, a "common" is a card of your ordinary, run of the mill player. It is not an indication of rarity, or a lack thereof. Ken Griffey Jr. (I'm using him because he was a hot player from about the same era as ASM #300) could never be a "common," even if there were twice as many of his card than any other card. In the same manner, an ASM #300 would never be a common, even though it might be easier to find than say an ASM #297. On the other hand, unless there were some reason that a lot of people wanted ASM #297, it would be a common because there is nothing to distinguish the book from any other book of that time, and that would be the case even if the issue were hard to find.

[lscomics]

Do you have 10 copies of 300 in 9.6 can you get me 10 by the end of the day tommorrow. If the answer is no, then this isn't a common book. I owned a comic shop for 3 years and in that time I saw maybe 7 copies come trough my door for sale. Now sure some guys would come in with a 9.6 or a 9.8 to get signed by Toddy Mc and stan the man. But as far as copies for sell 7. That says alot because I had everything from avengers 1 to x-men 266 come through the door and I bought books every week but only 7 300's. and they would usually sell fast. Oh and I forgot to mention that those weren't graded 9.6 copies. 1 out of the seven was a graded 9.6. all the others were raw 8.5-9.4.

 

Just because there are alot in 9.6 doesn't mean anything. there are 6 billion people in the population. So I think that means that less than 1 percent of the population can own a 9.6 of that book and less than 1 tenth of 1 percent can own a SS 9.6 copy of that book. Now that doesn't mean that everybody in that 1 tenth of 1 percent gets to own one signed by all 3 just that they get to own a SS 9.6 copy.

 

Look at those numbers and put it into perspective before you say something is common.

 

There may be 6 billion people in the population but less than 1% of them collect comics throwing off your supply vs demand calculation.

[lscomics]

Do you have 10 copies of 300 in 9.6 can you get me 10 by the end of the day tommorrow. If the answer is no, then this isn't a common book. I owned a comic shop for 3 years and in that time I saw maybe 7 copies come trough my door for sale. Now sure some guys would come in with a 9.6 or a 9.8 to get signed by Toddy Mc and stan the man. But as far as copies for sell 7. That says alot because I had everything from avengers 1 to x-men 266 come through the door and I bought books every week but only 7 300's. and they would usually sell fast. Oh and I forgot to mention that those weren't graded 9.6 copies. 1 out of the seven was a graded 9.6. all the others were raw 8.5-9.4.

 

Just because there are alot in 9.6 doesn't mean anything. there are 6 billion people in the population. So I think that means that less than 1 percent of the population can own a 9.6 of that book and less than 1 tenth of 1 percent can own a SS 9.6 copy of that book. Now that doesn't mean that everybody in that 1 tenth of 1 percent gets to own one signed by all 3 just that they get to own a SS 9.6 copy.

 

Look at those numbers and put it into perspective before you say something is common.

 

ASM #300 had a print run around 300,000, and was published during a time when people knew full well how to protect & care for their comic books, which means that HG copies are never really going to be that hard to find.

 

I could go on ebay right now and get 10 CGC 9.6 copies if I felt like it - which, honestly, is not something you can say for a whole lot of other books (wolverine #1 springs to mind).

 

"Common" to me isn't a bad word - it's merely a reflection of how easy it is to find a book in a desired grade - and with that criteria in mind, there's no way you can say that ASM #300 isn't a common book.

 

Exactly my point.

[Lebowski]

Do you have 10 copies of 300 in 9.6 can you get me 10 by the end of the day tommorrow. If the answer is no, then this isn't a common book.

 

What if I can get you TWENTY?

 

There are 20 CGC 9.6 or better ASM 300s for sale right now on eBay. That doesn't include all the copies ranging from 8.0 to 9.4.

[somewhereintexas]

If by "common," you're using the particular dictionary definition (and there are plenty) of "occurring or appearing frequently," then you're absolutely right--ASM #300 is "common." But then again, so are FF #1, Amazing Fantasy #15, ASM #1 and a whole lot of other silver age keys. There are plenty of them out there to be had; it's just a matter of having the resources in order to be able to get them.

 

In this context, "common" means something that is not out of the ordinary. Clearly, ASM #300 is not an ordinary book. If it were, a 9.6 copy would go for less than $25, much like ASM #296. And yet, you can much more readily find a 9.6 copy of ASM #300 than you can ASM #296. So why isn't ASM #296 more expensive than ASM #300? Because ASM #296 is common, and ASM #300 is not.

[lscomics]

It has been clearly pointed out by not only myself but others as well, that ASM 300 is not a difficult book to obtain in high grade yet you seem to have an inflexible viewpoint on this. I respectfully withdraw from any further discussion on this matter.