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AUGUST COMIC LINK AUCTION

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Mephisto

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Agreed on the depth of this auction. I have heard from my collectors that there are more stuff in Clink that interests them vs. the recent HA.

 

The stuff I want have reserves, so hopefully the reserves are reasonable.

 

Malvin

 

This has absolutely been the case for me. No NY sales tax also makes me more willing to throw down bids as well. Also if you take away the Shamus pieces (not even big ticket ones) there really isn't much on HA that has caught my eye.

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Sideshow Bob

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As opposed to HA, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to track lots. There also isn't a way to see historical prices sold on those books (or art) that you're interested in unless its in their Featured Auctions and the prices shown are only those pieces they decide to show (no search feature I've seen).

 

Except...if you put in bids early in the auction, you'll get to see it in your bid history forever, including the final price. At least six lots have early bids on them from me on the tracking aspect alone. I wonder how many other lots have the same dynamic going on in the early bidding.

 

I would love to be corrected on this if there is a tracking feature...

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As opposed to HA, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to track lots. There also isn't a way to see historical prices sold on those books (or art) that you're interested in unless its in their Featured Auctions and the prices shown are only those pieces they decide to show (no search feature I've seen).

 

Except...if you put in bids early in the auction, you'll get to see it in your bid history forever, including the final price. At least six lots have early bids on them from me on the tracking aspect alone. I wonder how many other lots have the same dynamic going on in the early bidding.

 

I would love to be corrected on this if there is a tracking feature...

 

Pretty sure all the lots (of any value) benefit in appearance of early activity from everyone putting down their tracking bids... I'm scrupulous in only raising to the next minimum bid, which I think everyone should do in the first couple days so everyone that wants to track can do so without being confused with bidders who are pursuing serious price discovery.

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Dumur

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I'll say this about these C-Link and HA auctions, they make me really appreciate the art I already have and REALLY appreciate how much I paid for them. There are pieces I worried I over paid for that when compared to prices of similar items in these auctions, seem cheap in comparison.

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jbud73

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As opposed to HA, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to track lots. There also isn't a way to see historical prices sold on those books (or art) that you're interested in unless its in their Featured Auctions and the prices shown are only those pieces they decide to show (no search feature I've seen).

 

Except...if you put in bids early in the auction, you'll get to see it in your bid history forever, including the final price. At least six lots have early bids on them from me on the tracking aspect alone. I wonder how many other lots have the same dynamic going on in the early bidding.

 

I would love to be corrected on this if there is a tracking feature...

 

The lack of a tracking feature is deliberate for the reason noted in your second paragraph. Yes it is annoying.

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86Celtics

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As opposed to HA, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to track lots. There also isn't a way to see historical prices sold on those books (or art) that you're interested in unless its in their Featured Auctions and the prices shown are only those pieces they decide to show (no search feature I've seen).

 

Except...if you put in bids early in the auction, you'll get to see it in your bid history forever, including the final price. At least six lots have early bids on them from me on the tracking aspect alone. I wonder how many other lots have the same dynamic going on in the early bidding.

 

I would love to be corrected on this if there is a tracking feature...

 

The lack of a tracking feature is deliberate for the reason noted in your second paragraph. Yes it is annoying.

I once asked clink about this and I was told their feeling was that allowing us to track lots will somehow cause people not to bid. I guess if you're selling an ASM 1, 14, 122, 129, GL 76, Avengers 1, 4, Hulk 181, etc then you don't need tracking as people will bid no problem but for the more uncommon books tracking is very important. I think their policy hurts those books. If I ever sell an expensive group of books, I'm going to insist they allow tracking for my books or else my next call goes to comicconnect. Perhaps if enough people do this, then they'll be forced to comply with they're customers ( and what a dumb reason to lose business ).

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Doc Joe

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As opposed to HA, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to track lots. There also isn't a way to see historical prices sold on those books (or art) that you're interested in unless its in their Featured Auctions and the prices shown are only those pieces they decide to show (no search feature I've seen).

 

Except...if you put in bids early in the auction, you'll get to see it in your bid history forever, including the final price. At least six lots have early bids on them from me on the tracking aspect alone. I wonder how many other lots have the same dynamic going on in the early bidding.

 

I would love to be corrected on this if there is a tracking feature...

 

The lack of a tracking feature is deliberate for the reason noted in your second paragraph. Yes it is annoying.

I once asked clink about this and I was told their feeling was that allowing us to track lots will somehow cause people not to bid. I guess if you're selling an ASM 1, 14, 122, 129, GL 76, Avengers 1, 4, Hulk 181, etc then you don't need tracking as people will bid no problem but for the more uncommon books tracking is very important. I think their policy hurts those books. If I ever sell an expensive group of books, I'm going to insist they allow tracking for my books or else my next call goes to comicconnect. Perhaps if enough people do this, then they'll be forced to comply with they're customers ( and what a dumb reason to lose business ).

 

I just don't get why this bothers people

 

1. Making people bid on your alleged books to track them helps your books go up in price which should make sellers happy

2. If you can get one of the major players to rewrite their software just for you then your negotiating powers are needed elsewhere in the world...get to Egypt pronto

3. My tracking bids are placed, if I win these items at my tracking bids bids then they are not tracking bids but insanely low prices and I am thrilled to win (only winning on 1 out of 16 :sorry: )

 

People want this cause they want the ability to get data for free, ComicLink is not giving it away for free, given the prices they have been getting recently, not many others are willing to shun their site.

 

On the plus side ComicLink is the only site where they don't allow their employees to bid in auctions - this is a good thing.

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I like those Turok 59 pages - Ticci and Giolitti ...

 

Wasn't Giolitti primarily known as an artist rather than as :wishluck: an inker?

 

In the beginning, I believe he was handling all of the chores but as the workload increased he collaborated with other artists who drew in the Giolitti style.

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Sideshow Bob

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As opposed to HA, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to track lots. There also isn't a way to see historical prices sold on those books (or art) that you're interested in unless its in their Featured Auctions and the prices shown are only those pieces they decide to show (no search feature I've seen).

 

Except...if you put in bids early in the auction, you'll get to see it in your bid history forever, including the final price. At least six lots have early bids on them from me on the tracking aspect alone. I wonder how many other lots have the same dynamic going on in the early bidding.

 

I would love to be corrected on this if there is a tracking feature...

 

The lack of a tracking feature is deliberate for the reason noted in your second paragraph. Yes it is annoying.

I once asked clink about this and I was told their feeling was that allowing us to track lots will somehow cause people not to bid. I guess if you're selling an ASM 1, 14, 122, 129, GL 76, Avengers 1, 4, Hulk 181, etc then you don't need tracking as people will bid no problem but for the more uncommon books tracking is very important. I think their policy hurts those books. If I ever sell an expensive group of books, I'm going to insist they allow tracking for my books or else my next call goes to comicconnect. Perhaps if enough people do this, then they'll be forced to comply with they're customers ( and what a dumb reason to lose business ).

 

I just don't get why this bothers people

 

1. Making people bid on your alleged books to track them helps your books go up in price which should make sellers happy

2. If you can get one of the major players to rewrite their software just for you then your negotiating powers are needed elsewhere in the world...get to Egypt pronto

3. My tracking bids are placed, if I win these items at my tracking bids bids then they are not tracking bids but insanely low prices and I am thrilled to win (only winning on 1 out of 16 :sorry: )

 

People want this cause they want the ability to get data for free, ComicLink is not giving it away for free, given the prices they have been getting recently, not many others are willing to shun their site.

 

On the plus side ComicLink is the only site where they don't allow their employees to bid in auctions - this is a good thing.

 

Joe,

 

Not providing a free tracking feature (where you "pay" for it by bidding) seems consistent with ComicLink not providing their sales info to GPA. And I don't disagree with it as a legitimate aspect of their business model. So while Heritage appears to think differently on both the tracking and GPA sales feeds, I guess its good that the industry is big enough to accomodate different ways of getting to the same place.

 

And nice to hear about their own employees not bidding. I have nothing but good things to say about ComicLink's staff, having bought and sold numerous times with them.

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As opposed to HA, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to track lots. There also isn't a way to see historical prices sold on those books (or art) that you're interested in unless its in their Featured Auctions and the prices shown are only those pieces they decide to show (no search feature I've seen).

 

Except...if you put in bids early in the auction, you'll get to see it in your bid history forever, including the final price. At least six lots have early bids on them from me on the tracking aspect alone. I wonder how many other lots have the same dynamic going on in the early bidding.

 

I would love to be corrected on this if there is a tracking feature...

 

The lack of a tracking feature is deliberate for the reason noted in your second paragraph. Yes it is annoying.

I once asked clink about this and I was told their feeling was that allowing us to track lots will somehow cause people not to bid. I guess if you're selling an ASM 1, 14, 122, 129, GL 76, Avengers 1, 4, Hulk 181, etc then you don't need tracking as people will bid no problem but for the more uncommon books tracking is very important. I think their policy hurts those books. If I ever sell an expensive group of books, I'm going to insist they allow tracking for my books or else my next call goes to comicconnect. Perhaps if enough people do this, then they'll be forced to comply with they're customers ( and what a dumb reason to lose business ).

 

I just don't get why this bothers people

 

1. Making people bid on your alleged books to track them helps your books go up in price which should make sellers happy

2. If you can get one of the major players to rewrite their software just for you then your negotiating powers are needed elsewhere in the world...get to Egypt pronto

3. My tracking bids are placed, if I win these items at my tracking bids bids then they are not tracking bids but insanely low prices and I am thrilled to win (only winning on 1 out of 16 :sorry: )

 

People want this cause they want the ability to get data for free, ComicLink is not giving it away for free, given the prices they have been getting recently, not many others are willing to shun their site.

 

On the plus side ComicLink is the only site where they don't allow their employees to bid in auctions - this is a good thing.

 

:applause: Alright Joe is done bidding for the Clink Art auction, I'm in the clear to win :whee:

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As opposed to HA, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to track lots. There also isn't a way to see historical prices sold on those books (or art) that you're interested in unless its in their Featured Auctions and the prices shown are only those pieces they decide to show (no search feature I've seen).

 

Except...if you put in bids early in the auction, you'll get to see it in your bid history forever, including the final price. At least six lots have early bids on them from me on the tracking aspect alone. I wonder how many other lots have the same dynamic going on in the early bidding.

 

I would love to be corrected on this if there is a tracking feature...

 

The lack of a tracking feature is deliberate for the reason noted in your second paragraph. Yes it is annoying.

I once asked clink about this and I was told their feeling was that allowing us to track lots will somehow cause people not to bid. I guess if you're selling an ASM 1, 14, 122, 129, GL 76, Avengers 1, 4, Hulk 181, etc then you don't need tracking as people will bid no problem but for the more uncommon books tracking is very important. I think their policy hurts those books. If I ever sell an expensive group of books, I'm going to insist they allow tracking for my books or else my next call goes to comicconnect. Perhaps if enough people do this, then they'll be forced to comply with they're customers ( and what a dumb reason to lose business ).

 

I just don't get why this bothers people

 

1. Making people bid on your alleged books to track them helps your books go up in price which should make sellers happy

2. If you can get one of the major players to rewrite their software just for you then your negotiating powers are needed elsewhere in the world...get to Egypt pronto

3. My tracking bids are placed, if I win these items at my tracking bids bids then they are not tracking bids but insanely low prices and I am thrilled to win (only winning on 1 out of 16 :sorry: )

 

People want this cause they want the ability to get data for free, ComicLink is not giving it away for free, given the prices they have been getting recently, not many others are willing to shun their site.

 

On the plus side ComicLink is the only site where they don't allow their employees to bid in auctions - this is a good thing.

 

:applause: Alright Joe is done bidding for the Clink Art auction, I'm in the clear to win :whee:

 

just my tracking bids buster :insane:

 

I shall be victorious!!!

 

Every business has its issues, they all have different philosophies as to how they want to practice

 

I love HA auctions - but to have 20% of your end price taken to go to the house for me is too much - I know it varies and if you present a big offering it can go away and you can negotiate but for me thats too much. Happy to bid in them of course!

 

Again for Josh at Comiclink he feels his sales information has value - and he is right - he does not just want to give it away.

 

There are entire industries built around pharmacy knowledge - they basically sell the data of what doctors prescribe! That info has value.

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Why not just bookmark the pages and review them at your leisure? I bookmark about 10 or so every auction and review them a day or so out and decide if they are still in my price range. If not, I delete the bookmark. If it is, I come back and use the bookmark about an hour before to start watching the auction.

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Why not just bookmark the pages and review them at your leisure? I bookmark about 10 or so every auction and review them a day or so out and decide if they are still in my price range. If not, I delete the bookmark. If it is, I come back and use the bookmark about an hour before to start watching the auction.

With an actual bid, the closing price stays in your bid history. I expect the bookmark will eventually not work, and the history of the winning bid (if you don't save it elsewhere) goes away. Since the prices never go to GPA, a bid is an "easy" way to keep a sales price history on pages/books you might want to reference later.

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