Does anyone know how many collectors there are for comics over $1,000?

[BleekerBob]

Does anyone have a sense how many collectors are out there that would pay over $1,000 for a comic? Is it over 500?

[Comicdey]

I've paid up to $600 cash. Traded for up to $1,500 with partial cash trade. I sold my FF #1 for $2,500 and an Action 28 for well over $1,000.

 

I've heard there are about 50,000 true collectors out there so at 1% of all collectors, yes, there are easily 500 collectors that would pony up over $1,000 for the right comic.

[BleekerBob]

Thanks for the feedback.

[Murph]

Dependant on what title/publisher the book is, I think you'll find more than enough buyers on books above one thousand dollars. However, as the price goes up the number of potential buyers continually goes down.

 

Brian

[batman_fan]

I have personally spent $10k for a single book. Would I do it again? You bet!

[skybolt]

I have about 30 books in my collection that I've paid over $1K for. I'd say that there are at least 2,000 people out there who will pay over 1k for a single book.

[jokersrevenge]

I think there's more than that. Most dealers would pay that if they thought it was a good enough deal to make money. I think there are still a lot of speculators around too, as well as collectors.

[drbanner]

Check out this old poll.

[BleekerBob]

What book did you spend over $10k on if you dont mind me asking?

[Larryw7]

My usual limit is around five or six hundred bucks, but I will pay over a grand for a book if I can do a time payment. Most dealers are pretty flexible in that regard.

[Norrin_Radd]

What book did you spend over $10k on if you dont mind me asking?

 

Just a guess...

 

 

 

[Aman619]

Ive spent 'way more' than 1000 on comics. But always as little as I could for each book. Expensive tastes I guess.

[rjpb]

I think you have to differentiate between those who would pay 1K or more for certain key/grail books knowing they're never going to find them for less, and those collectors who more routinely pay 4 figures for books they want. My guess is there are alot of collectors whohave never spent more than a couple hundred on a book who would pony up over a thousand for say a low grade AF#1 or FF#1 if they felt it was a good deal.

[batman_fan]

Detective 33

[sfilosa]

think you have to differentiate between those who would pay 1K or more for certain key/grail books knowing they're never going to find them for less, and those collectors who more routinely pay 4 figures for books they want. My guess is there are alot of collectors whohave never spent more than a couple hundred on a book who would pony up over a thousand for say a low grade AF#1 or FF#1 if they felt it was a good deal.

 

An that's the really question.

 

How many will pay more than $1K for a book for THEIR COLLECTION at FAIR MARKET VALUE?

 

I'm not sure if there would be 2,000 if you eliminated all the dealers and bargain hunters.

 

Would I pay $1,000 for a baseball card. NO (I don't collect them).

 

If someone wanted to sell me a Mickey Mantle Mint rookie card (certified of course), would I buy it for a $1,000. Yes.

 

Hmmmmmm....

[bobpfef]

I have a hard time paying over $100 for anything, but have paid almost $500 for a "grail" book. If something amazing came along that was $1000 + and I knew I could get my money back out of it if I had to I would seriously think about it (after talking to the wife of course - hard to get that kind of money without her knowing about it )

[skybolt]

It's an obsession. After many years away from comics, I started buying mid grade SA books a few years ago for less than $70 a piece. Then slowly but surely, I started to inch my way up to a couple of hundred dollars when I purchased a Sub Mariner #1 CGC 9.4. Before long, I was buying X-Men #1 and ASM#1 for thousands of dollars. Once my bank account dwindled down, I'm back to a limited budget again. I'm not married, so all I have to go by is that little voice inside my head telling me to spend-spend-spend!

[BleekerBob]

Yeah I'm the same way, glad I'm not the only one!

[SpideySense-migration]

Off the top of my head there are only a handful of books I paid over a $1,000 (a Hulk #181 CGC 9.4, a GS X-men #1 CGC 9.4, and maybe few others). I mostly just buy raw comics and submit exceptional looking ones to CGC instead of buying them already CGC'd.

[Mephisto]

I'm in the same boat as you guys...But I usually don't go blabbing to my parents how much money I've spent. I don't think they'd really want to know I could have dropped 5K on another car and not one piece of art work. But you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs...and unfortunately my current car broke for a little while over the summer, but I just tell myself there's no point in buying another one since I don't need one at school. I then convince myself I could use a new piece of art work though.