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Calgary Expo 2014 convention report

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chrisco37

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Great pics from the show. Lots of people in costumes. Seems there are more each year.

 

No Sunshine Girl? (shrug)

 

And $5 for a McSpidey #1!!! :o Were people really paying that, or is that just what you had it marked at?

 

 

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Artboy99

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Great pics from the show. Lots of people in costumes. Seems there are more each year.

 

No Sunshine Girl? (shrug)

 

And $5 for a McSpidey #1!!! :o Were people really paying that, or is that just what you had it marked at?

 

 

They paid the full $5. (worship)

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I have been waiting for Dave to post his experiences and his pics for this show. I guess he has forgot in his old age :baiting:.

 

He told a story in our 2012 thread about a young boy buying his Avengers 1. This guy returned to visit us and he was ALOT taller! I recognized him, Dave did not, I made introductions and the young guy bought a few books off us and hung out and I got to talking to him about how many books he had and stuff.

 

here is the story from 2012:

 

2012- My next customer was a very shy 14 year old boy. He asked how much the

Avengers 1 was. We had my low grade copy for $400 and 500club's nice copy

for $2600. He looked at mine and then gave it back. I'm a bit of a joker and

teased him about something and he just turned and walked away. Oops, didn't

mean to scare him off but there's no way he's buying Avengers 1.

 

He came back and like a fool I teased him again and he again walked away.

 

He came back a few minutes later and handed me $400. I must say I was

surprised. I gave him the Avengers and asked him if he liked Spider-man.

He did so I gave him a decent copy of ASM 252. He was thrilled. I gave

him my card and told him to call me if there was any problem and I thanked

him for the sale. And yes, I'm sure I teased him again.

 

He walked off and then came back an hour later and purchased some

Marvel Star Wars.

 

Next time I saw him he was with his mother. She could not believe he had

bought a comic for $400. More shocked than mad but I'm sure the thought

that I had ripped her son off was in the back of her mind. She was also

concerned that he had been convinced to send the comic to CGC after

Stan had signed it.

 

Turns out they are farmers and he earned the money milking their 60 cows

every day and he spent almost all of it on one comic.

 

We had a long discussion about collecting comics and why certain comics

were worth so much. She didn't mind her son spending $5 on a Star Wars

comic; but $400 for one comic? I told her she had it backwards. The Star

Wars were relatively low demand books and the Avengers 1 was an

important old key book featuring popular characters and an easy book

to resell.

 

During this discussion I had a couple $100 type sales and then I sold

nice copies of FF 10, 14, 17, 26 and 28 to one guy. As I jammed the

pile of $100 bills into my Batman cash bucket she realized that grown

men were spending hundreds or even thousands of $$ on funny books

before her very eyes. And she could see that my cash bucket was

absolutely stuffed with big bills.

 

I also explained that it was a good idea to submit a signed book to CGC

to ensure the signature was verified.

 

And I told her she had raised a great kid and collecting comics was

a wonderful hobby and that comics were an art form.

 

I gave her my card with a link to the CGC message boards and him to

come here and read about comics and I told her if he wanted to sell the

book back to me at any time I would give him all his money back and I

told her to contact me if they ever had any questions.

 

The whole time that kid had a silly, happy, I'm in heaven look. He was

totally digging comics and the show and our discussion and he'll be a

comic collector and fan for a long, long time - unless they chain him to

a cow.

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thehumantorch

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I have been waiting for Dave to post his experiences and his pics for this show. I guess he has forgot in his old age :baiting:.

 

He told a story in our 2012 thread about a young boy buying his Avengers 1. This guy returned to visit us and he was ALOT taller! I recognized him, Dave did not, I made introductions and the young guy bought a few books off us and hung out and I got to talking to him about how many books he had and stuff.

 

here is the story from 2012:

 

2012- My next customer was a very shy 14 year old boy. He asked how much the

Avengers 1 was. We had my low grade copy for $400 and 500club's nice copy

for $2600. He looked at mine and then gave it back. I'm a bit of a joker and

teased him about something and he just turned and walked away. Oops, didn't

mean to scare him off but there's no way he's buying Avengers 1.

 

He came back and like a fool I teased him again and he again walked away.

 

He came back a few minutes later and handed me $400. I must say I was

surprised. I gave him the Avengers and asked him if he liked Spider-man.

He did so I gave him a decent copy of ASM 252. He was thrilled. I gave

him my card and told him to call me if there was any problem and I thanked

him for the sale. And yes, I'm sure I teased him again.

 

He walked off and then came back an hour later and purchased some

Marvel Star Wars.

 

Next time I saw him he was with his mother. She could not believe he had

bought a comic for $400. More shocked than mad but I'm sure the thought

that I had ripped her son off was in the back of her mind. She was also

concerned that he had been convinced to send the comic to CGC after

Stan had signed it.

 

Turns out they are farmers and he earned the money milking their 60 cows

every day and he spent almost all of it on one comic.

 

We had a long discussion about collecting comics and why certain comics

were worth so much. She didn't mind her son spending $5 on a Star Wars

comic; but $400 for one comic? I told her she had it backwards. The Star

Wars were relatively low demand books and the Avengers 1 was an

important old key book featuring popular characters and an easy book

to resell.

 

During this discussion I had a couple $100 type sales and then I sold

nice copies of FF 10, 14, 17, 26 and 28 to one guy. As I jammed the

pile of $100 bills into my Batman cash bucket she realized that grown

men were spending hundreds or even thousands of $$ on funny books

before her very eyes. And she could see that my cash bucket was

absolutely stuffed with big bills.

 

I also explained that it was a good idea to submit a signed book to CGC

to ensure the signature was verified.

 

And I told her she had raised a great kid and collecting comics was

a wonderful hobby and that comics were an art form.

 

I gave her my card with a link to the CGC message boards and him to

come here and read about comics and I told her if he wanted to sell the

book back to me at any time I would give him all his money back and I

told her to contact me if they ever had any questions.

 

The whole time that kid had a silly, happy, I'm in heaven look. He was

totally digging comics and the show and our discussion and he'll be a

comic collector and fan for a long, long time - unless they chain him to

a cow.

 

Can't find my :censored: camera cord to download pics.

 

I knew he looked familiar when he came into our booth but he's grown an awful lot in two years. He'd looked for our booth last year but couldn't find us. He's really shy and doesn't say much but obviously we'd made an impression on him because he hung around our booth for most of the time he had at the show. He's a real nice young man and I wish he could join this board - think he'd get a lot from it. The Avengers 1 I sold him 2 years ago as a 1.8//2.0 came back CGC 2.0.

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Found my camera cords.

 

Randy/Gyro was the first person we met after arriving. I'd offered him a pass for Thursday and he showed up Wednesday to meet us and help load in. Wasn't expected but much appreciated. Always nice to see Randy as he's a very nice person and I enjoy spending time with him.

 

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