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HAS ANYONE PUT A HIT OUT ON RMA?

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The Risk Management Association (RMA), a member-driven professional association, helps banking and nonbanking institutions identify and manage the impacts of credit risk, operational risk, and market risk on their businesses and customers.

 

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you have people selling 9.8 silver age books for thousands of dollars. most of them based off gpa which can be skewed. i mean the book in overstreet is 80.00 at a 9.2. then someone asks 2500 for a 9.8. based on a system ( gpa ) that is really terrible. it simply is a guide but people blindly follow it.

Do you know how Overstreet comes up with a lot of their prices?

 

Nobody is claiming GPA is a perfect guide for all books, but at least it's based on actual prices paid. Overstreet is still a decent resource for many things. But guide prices and reality are often pretty far apart.

Exactly. That's because guide prices are still determined in some part by committee. If Dealer B has a boatload of romance books to sell, then romance books may figure heavily into his market report. At least GPA is a reflection of buyers willing to buy and sellers willing to sell.

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you have people selling 9.8 silver age books for thousands of dollars. most of them based off gpa which can be skewed. i mean the book in overstreet is 80.00 at a 9.2. then someone asks 2500 for a 9.8. based on a system ( gpa ) that is really terrible. it simply is a guide but people blindly follow it.

Do you know how Overstreet comes up with a lot of their prices?

 

Nobody is claiming GPA is a perfect guide for all books, but at least it's based on actual prices paid. Overstreet is still a decent resource for many things. But guide prices and reality are often pretty far apart.

Exactly. That's because guide prices are still determined in some part by committee. If Dealer B has a boatload of romance books to sell, then romance books may figure heavily into his market report. At least GPA is a reflection of buyers willing to buy and sellers willing to sell.

 

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Yes, GPA can be skewed. It's a 'guide'. Use it as a 'guide'. It has it's usefulness.

Yes OSPG can be... Um... Well... It's a 'guide'. Use it as a 'guide'. It has it's usefulness.

Ultimately it comes down to what you are willing to pay for a book versus what a seller is willing to sell a book for. The more information you have, the better prepared you are in such deals.

 

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