PGM Amazing Spider-Man 100

[MODOK]

12 month GPA for 100 in 9.2 is $279 while 9.4 is $372.

 

Thank you so much for looking this sales data up for me!

[MODOK]

9.4 with ever so slightly blunted corners and off center cover keep it from higher IMHO...

 

If I got a 9.4 from CGC as is, I would be thrilled! Thanks for your opinion. I appreciate it.

[vaillant]

Again, thank you so much for taking your valuable time and responding to my thread. I appreciate it greatly.

 

Hi Modok,

oh, no need to thank me so much, I just tried to share my different perspective.

 

Other ideas came to my mind after I posted.

Especially for the higher grade books one, which I think is the best, would be to complemet your book descriptions with textual or photographic documentation about the insides as well. Personally I have come to appreciate bronze books with white paper, even if they aren’t high-grade. People are often willing to bid more than guide if they can see at their best what they get from the auction page.

 

jscomics may have a great reputation, but I do not think it’s just because of the high number of feedbacks. I make you an example: last week I was interested in a single book from their auctions, a book I particularly cared about and wished to have in high grade, and since I do not buy CGC it’s always difficult to judge from a photo. From the back cover it did not seem in the NM range, rather a VF+ or so. I placed a bid which was way more than the guide price, and I thought I’d have won it, while it went for almost twice the price.

Let me say the book wasn’t surely worth that price. With a little patience you can find NM copies at a fraction of that price, it’s just an excessive hype and the last-minute auction frenzy.

The same thing happened to other 3-4 books I was trying to bid on to save on shipping (a thing I am almost forced to do, being in Italy).

This makes me stray away from such noted sellers.

 

Let us know whether you’ll enter in the CGC arena or in any case when you’ll resume your eBay auctions. The suggestion of selling here in the market is also very good, do not underestimate it. I have followed the marked and I’m sure you’d be able to sell a number of high-grade books even at an extra price if they are really nice in shape.

I’d also keep the page as text-light as possible, i.e. substituting the huge JPG with a graphic with a concise, well written, detailed text. IMO, most people wish to know the most about the object, shipping & the essential things, they don’t care so much about a scenographic setup.

 

Side note: The John C. Holmes thing was just a joke.

You can’t believe it but there’s been an italian band – Elio e le Storie Tese – which wrote a song in his memory. The band performs a kind of "comedy rock", making fun of things in a demented way). But I find a little sad and unsettling for a men to be chiefly remembered for his pornograpic movies, and I have never been able to enjoy the song.

[vaillant]

Ah, and another important thing: I’d suggest to use scans instead of pictures taken with a camera. The jscomics auction uses a large scan, allowing to see the book in detail, while your picture (at least in the Silver Surfer example you posted) looks a little fuzzy, and thus may have put off some bidders.