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HULK 181 CGC 9.2

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pins79

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Highly considering picking up this HULK 181 as I want a copy with White Pages. What do you guys think of condition (centering and spine stress)? Seller does not know if comic has been pressed.

 

Here are grader notes:

 

Bottom Front Cover Multiple Indent

Bottom Spine Small Wear

Front Cover Lite Finger Bends Breaks Color

Spine Stress Lines Breaks Color

 

 

http://www.dacardworld.com/comic-books/incredible-hulk-181-cgc-9-2-w-1205126001

 

Thanks!

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grube09

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Agree with most everyone else that the price is pretty high...especially considering the old label CL result last night. I'd want a 9.4 for the price they're asking for this one. The centering looks really nice and to my untrained eye, I think the colors look good. A lot of spine ticks for a 9.2, though. What matters most, and you'll hear it a lot, is what you think of the book. If it speaks to you, see if you can work something out with D&A. In my experience, they've been pretty responsive.

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Gotham Kid

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D&A overprice all their mess. They have a Tec 140 7.5 they picked up on ComicLink @9k only a couple months ago and have it listed with a BIN of 17k.

 

Not entirely true but it's the same copy

 

 

ok ok $16,995.95

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Detective-Comics-140-CGC-7-5-OW-Origin-1st-Appearnace-of-the-Riddler-/371488789543?hash=item567e751427:g:F9cAAOSweuxWS300

 

 

ComicLink listing

 

http://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?back=%2FComicTrack%2FAuctions%2Fbids.asp&id=1076636

 

I looked at a few random (ok, not so random for the tecs) books from their listings. All of them overpriced IMO.

Tec 140 7.5 @ 17k

fugly Tec 35 CBCS 2.5 @ 24k

Action 31 9.0 @ 12k

Batman 1 0.5 restored Brittle @ 23.5k

and this Hulk 181

 

Maybe not all their mess but high end stuff, certainly.

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Michelangelo

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DA Card world is always way overpriced on their website, then you go and check out their eBay listings and you're surprised again!

 

this is a weak 9.2 - i personally think it's over graded here. I was thinking 8.5 maybe with all those creases.

 

PQ is overrated to me as well.

 

In moderns I want White PQ

in Copper - OW/W or higher

in Bronze - OW or better

in silver - CROW or better (i'm not anti-CROW at all - I've scored some great deals)

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GAMBIT

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D&A are always very aggressive with prices, and they don't really negotiate much either .. so if its a book in a grade/condition that you MUST have.. give it a try and see what they can do. however, dont expect anything but pretty close to all time GPA highs with their books. 2c

 

 

with that said, i did buy from them 2 times a couple years ago :makepoint: (books long gone now)

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makeminemego

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D&A are always very aggressive with prices, and they don't really negotiate much either .. so if its a book in a grade/condition that you MUST have.. give it a try and see what they can do. however, dont expect anything but pretty close to all time GPA highs with their books. 2c

 

 

with that said, i did buy from them 2 times a couple years ago :makepoint: (books long gone now)

 

They're aggressive with their prices, but my experience with regards to negotiation has been different. I've bought a couple of SA Marvel keys @4.0 from them. I just called them on the phone and they were more than willing to negotiate. I offered 90 day GPA on one and 12 month GPA on the other. No headaches. Without exaggeration, it took about 5 minutes each time. We spent more time talking about Hockey than the book itself.

 

Obviously, their willingness to negotiate could be because we were talking about low-mid grade books, but I found them to be hospitable and cool to deal with on both occasions.

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Michelangelo

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Depends on the book too.

 

I called D&A about a pretty big key a few months back and they wouldn't budge on price more than $50 or so, which was still a couple hundred above GPA

 

Either way, the guy on the phone did tell me that they viewed the book as being 'hot' and that the owner/manager wanted to hang on to it, hoping someone would bite at the higher price.

 

So perhaps on other books, they'd be willing to negotiate more.

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makeminemego

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Depends on the book too.

 

I called D&A about a pretty big key a few months back and they wouldn't budge on price more than $50 or so, which was still a couple hundred above GPA

 

Either way, the guy on the phone did tell me that they viewed the book as being 'hot' and that the owner/manager wanted to hang on to it, hoping someone would bite at the higher price.

 

So perhaps on other books, they'd be willing to negotiate more.

 

I think it may have something to do with how long the given book has been on the market as well. I bought a ST 110 4.0 OWW from them at 12M GPA. They were asking about $400 above my offer. I think I made the offer towards the end of the ST 110 run up when the book had started to slow down a little bit. Of course, if they were asking closer to GPA in the first place, it may have sold much quicker. It's a nice 4.0 example, so I think their over pricing led to the book hanging around more so than the book being construed as a soft 4.0, which it isn't.

 

Then again, they're a pretty big company from what I understand. Maybe end of a month/sales period/fiscal year led to them being more responsive. Who knows?

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budsbundy

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Depends on the book too.

 

I called D&A about a pretty big key a few months back and they wouldn't budge on price more than $50 or so, which was still a couple hundred above GPA

 

Either way, the guy on the phone did tell me that they viewed the book as being 'hot' and that the owner/manager wanted to hang on to it, hoping someone would bite at the higher price.

 

So perhaps on other books, they'd be willing to negotiate more.

I've talked to them a couple times and they do not like to move on their prices.

I was told the same thing, It's a hot book right now, and we've had a lot of interest in it.

In that case it was a book they had on Ebay, I asked them if they have so much interest in it, why have they relisted it five times?

They didn't have an answer for that.

 

That being said, I have bought from them a few times, they ship fast, and pack extremely well.

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