ComicConnect Event Auction!

[jimjum12]

Too short. Let it run 6 months.

 

....Let it run until the cows come in ...that way they can bid as well.... GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

[Flex Mentallo]

Too short. Let it run 6 months.

 

....Let it run until the cows come in ...that way they can bid as well.... GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

 

Sorry Jim, could you repeat that? Something about cows chewing the cud was it? Speak up youngster!

[mrmyst]

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[Flex Mentallo]

Whippersnapper

[VintageComics]

An impulse is buying a pack of gum in the check out line when you went to the store for a loaf of bread. If I'm bidding on a Flash Comics I need for my run, I'm not impulsively going to bid on a Planet Comics item.

 

Whom amongst cc target market doesn't have a persistent anxiety to fulfill a collecting need (obsession)? That anxiety is acted upon be a repetitive behavior of going to the cc website continuesly for three weeks to see the status of their bids\watch list (compulsion).

 

I understand your point, but there are very few people who are only chasing a narrow focus. Most of us like multiple things, titles, issues, covers, whatever.

 

So you have your eye focused on a Flash #10 that might in your price range but then you see a classic horror cover somewhere else that you also need to have and so now you're distracted. Or another copy of Flash #10, or whatever.

 

I know it can go both ways but I still believe that impulse is the dominant force for most purchases.

[Jaydogrules]

Auction is pointlessly long, period. Especially since up to half the action occurs in the 2 or 3 minute "extended bidding" intervals anyway. You have a nearly one month long auction and you STILL need more bidding time after that ? Come on.

 

10 days is more than enough time.

 

-J.

[jimjum12]

Auction is pointlessly long, period. Especially since up to half the action occurs in the 2 or 3 minute "extended bidding" intervals anyway. You have a nearly one month long auction and you STILL need more bidding time after that ? Come on.

 

10 days is more than enough time.

 

-J.

 

....back that up with DATA GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

[Jaydogrules]

Auction is pointlessly long, period. Especially since up to half the action occurs in the 2 or 3 minute "extended bidding" intervals anyway. You have a nearly one month long auction and you STILL need more bidding time after that ? Come on.

 

10 days is more than enough time.

 

-J.

 

....back that up with DATA GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

 

It's anecdotal and speculative.

 

-J.

[mrmyst]

Auction is pointlessly long, period. Especially since up to half the action occurs in the 2 or 3 minute "extended bidding" intervals anyway. You have a nearly one month long auction and you STILL need more bidding time after that ? Come on.

 

10 days is more than enough time.

 

-J.

 

....back that up with DATA GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

 

It's anecdotal and speculative.

 

-J.

 

YOU???

[gino2paulus2]

Whippersnapper

 

[Jaydogrules]

Auction is pointlessly long, period. Especially since up to half the action occurs in the 2 or 3 minute "extended bidding" intervals anyway. You have a nearly one month long auction and you STILL need more bidding time after that ? Come on.

 

10 days is more than enough time.

 

-J.

 

....back that up with DATA GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

 

It's anecdotal and speculative.

 

-J.

 

YOU???

 

 

-J.

[Point Five]

An impulse is buying a pack of gum in the check out line when you went to the store for a loaf of bread. If I'm bidding on a Flash Comics I need for my run, I'm not impulsively going to bid on a Planet Comics item.

 

Whom amongst cc target market doesn't have a persistent anxiety to fulfill a collecting need (obsession)? That anxiety is acted upon be a repetitive behavior of going to the cc website continuesly for three weeks to see the status of their bids\watch list (compulsion).

 

I understand your point, but there are very few people who are only chasing a narrow focus. Most of us like multiple things, titles, issues, covers, whatever.

 

So you have your eye focused on a Flash #10 that might in your price range but then you see a classic horror cover somewhere else that you also need to have and so now you're distracted. Or another copy of Flash #10, or whatever.

This sounds like me. There's a toughish GA book in the CC auction I've wanted for a while, and I waited what seemed like ages for the auction to even begin. Now it's begun but I'm looking at three more weeks of waiting... and in the interim, a pretty similar copy of the same book has been listed as a BIN on ebay.

 

So while waiting and killing time I've found I have options I didn't have a week ago. I'll still throw in a bid on CC, but it likely won't be as high as it would have been.

 

 

[SuperBird]

Now it's begun but I'm looking at three more weeks of waiting... and in the interim, a pretty similar copy of the same book has been listed as a BIN on ebay.

 

So while waiting and killing time I've found I have options I didn't have a week ago. I'll still throw in a bid on CC, but it likely won't be as high as it would have been.

 

 

Too late, I'm buying it

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Superman-6-Cgc-Graded-5-/141602335729?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20f8282bf1

[sagii]

There is usually one to two books I really want in a given auction, then there are about two to three 'consolation prizes books: books I've casually admired or just caught my eye after being offered in the auction, that I will go after in the event my top two choices go beyond my max OR they go for less than my allotted budget for them and I have money left over for an extra pick up.

[Sqeggs]

It's the live HA auctions that can be fatal to me. It's live! You can hear the auctioneer! You're a participant!

 

And up comes a book that you've always admired, although you hadn't been planning to bid on. But the current bid is only X. A bargain! Wait, you've been outbid. But X + Y is still a good price. Oh, no! Yes, I can stretch to X + Y + Z! Can't lose it now!

 

The smoke clears and you have just rocketed far above GPA to buy a book that is tangential to your collecting focus.

[Straw-Man]

It's the live HA auctions that can be fatal to me. It's live! You can hear the auctioneer! You're a participant!

 

And up comes a book that you've always admired, although you hadn't been planning to bid on. But the current bid is only X. A bargain! Wait, you've been outbid. But X + Y is still a good price. Oh, no! Yes, I can stretch to X + Y + Z! Can't lose it now!

 

The smoke clears and you have just rocketed far above GPA to buy a book that is tangential to your collecting focus.

 

this was me on the toledo planet 1; it was going, it looked cool, price was right....

[MrBedrock]

Wouldn't it be cool if their auctions were six months long? Especially if you could bid and retract at random! Imagine the fun in speculating whether an item was going to go up or down over a six month period. The threads, the gnashing of teeth, the price corrections, long term punishment bidding, punishment retracting, bid timing up and down perfected to an art. Snipe bid retracting downward on a book that was hot five months ago and now is exposed as overblown hype after fifty new copies hit the census. Some random issue of a title gets super hot after a movie announcement in the fourth month of the listing and by auction's end is selling for thousands of times initial expectation. Mitch would have a field-day playing both sides of the "what do you think that book will end at?" discussions. "This auction will break all records for highs and lows with the most and least views and the best and worst assortment ever!"

 

[jimjum12]

All these hypothetical scenarios are stimulating.... but not as much as my favorite one, where they give them away for free GOD BLESS...

 

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

[Cat-Man_America]

Wouldn't it be cool if their auctions were six months long? Especially if you could bid and retract at random! Imagine the fun in speculating whether an item was going to go up or down over a six month period. The threads, the gnashing of teeth, the price corrections, long term punishment bidding, punishment retracting, bid timing up and down perfected to an art. Snipe bid retracting downward on a book that was hot five months ago and now is exposed as overblown hype after fifty new copies hit the census. Some random issue of a title gets super hot after a movie announcement in the fourth month of the listing and by auction's end is selling for thousands of times initial expectation. Mitch would have a field-day playing both sides of the "what do you think that book will end at?" discussions. "This auction will break all records for highs and lows with the most and least views and the best and worst assortment ever!"

 

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[mrmyst]

Wouldn't it be cool if their auctions were six months long? Especially if you could bid and retract at random! Imagine the fun in speculating whether an item was going to go up or down over a six month period. The threads, the gnashing of teeth, the price corrections, long term punishment bidding, punishment retracting, bid timing up and down perfected to an art. Snipe bid retracting downward on a book that was hot five months ago and now is exposed as overblown hype after fifty new copies hit the census. Some random issue of a title gets super hot after a movie announcement in the fourth month of the listing and by auction's end is selling for thousands of times initial expectation. Mitch would have a field-day playing both sides of the "what do you think that book will end at?" discussions. "This auction will break all records for highs and lows with the most and least views and the best and worst assortment ever!"