What books are autoslabs?

[drotto]

What books if you find them in the raw do you consider slabbing asap regardless of the grade?

[Meeklo]

Anything considered a "grail"

[Michelangelo]

BIG keys for sure

[revat]

in a very general way, anything that will net you a 4x-5x return on investment after grading costs and the cost of the book seems like an auto slab situation to me if you like selling books for profit. Of course you need to build some cushion because of grading variances.

 

But if your preference is to have raw books, then zero books.

 

So really, its about your collecting preferences, your aversion to risk, your grading skills, how much your book cost you, your desired return on investment, your knowledge of the market in terms of how much you think you can sell it for (and how fast).

 

 

[entalmighty1]

What they said. Most of the time, you're adding significant value to a book if the grade isn't subjective, especially if you're assigning a fair raw grade to the book, and not giving it an ebay VF.

[Tomega]

What books if you find them in the raw do you consider slabbing asap regardless of the grade?

 

Unique comics, ones that no one else may have.

 

Whitman variants that I think are scarce.

 

[miraclemet]

books that I want to be able to liquidate as quickly as possible.

 

 

books I'm keeping forever? dont care so much about them being slabbed immediately.

[eccomic]

Esoteric Cold War/Anti-Communist rarities

[Red84]

Anything worth at least $250 in a 0.5 grade.

[rodan57]

What books if you find them in the raw do you consider slabbing asap regardless of the grade?

 

I might add to the previous comments that any book where small increments in grade means big increments in money is a good candidate.

 

Also associated with the above -- any book where knowing if there is restoration affects the value big time.

[Icculus308win]

 

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