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(attempted) Flip of the Day!
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Ecclectica

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Flash #5 (V2 - 1987) pages lot 

Sold for 408 USD on Aug 21, 2022 :

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134196046952?nma=true&si=NpLx8BwLcnskATi4gUnqncsn1fM%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Already offered now, splitted, for various prices :

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_ssn=ninmm98&store_name=ninmm98&_oac=1&_nkw="guice+flash"&_sop=16

(this version of the Speed Demon is the second one - the first one appeared in 1956)

Interestingly, the least interesting page of the original lot is not for sale. Maybe the seller kept it to himself ?

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On 9/3/2022 at 9:53 PM, Ecclectica said:

Flash #5 (V2 - 1987) pages lot 

Sold for 408 USD on Aug 21, 2022 :

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134196046952?nma=true&si=NpLx8BwLcnskATi4gUnqncsn1fM%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Already offered now, splitted, for various prices :

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_ssn=ninmm98&store_name=ninmm98&_oac=1&_nkw="guice+flash"&_sop=16

(this version of the Speed Demon is the second one - the first one appeared in 1956)

Interestingly, the least interesting page of the original lot is not for sale. Maybe the seller kept it to himself ?

Maybe he bought the lot because he wanted that one…. And you are blowing up his spot calling him a flipper?????? Lol

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Dan Flagg strip sold in August on HA for $89:
 
 
Now on eBay for $199.95 BIN/OBO:
 
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On 9/9/2022 at 6:19 PM, cloud cloddie said:

New Mutants 44 pg 17. Offered at Romitaman in March 2021 for 1500. Now available at Anthony’s for 2000. 
https://www.comicartfans.com/ForSaleDetails.asp?ArtId=8144331

How is that a flip? Over that time period 500 increase sounds like a modest amount in the mutant art world 

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On 9/9/2022 at 6:24 PM, Unstoppablejayd said:

How is that a flip? Over that time period 500 increase sounds like a modest amount in the mutant art world 

I think it’s beneficial to know when art moves from dealer to dealer, regardless of the price difference. 

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On 9/9/2022 at 11:18 PM, cloud cloddie said:

So it’s two even smaller flips? Great! Lemme know if you know how much the seller got from Anthony, and I’ll update my post. 

Have I lost the meaning of a flip? Isn’t a flip when someone buys something then quickly flips it for a profit? Not someone buys it from a dealer then a year and a half later trades/sells it to another dealer and it is available for slightly more do to the market???

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On 9/9/2022 at 10:25 PM, Unstoppablejayd said:

Have I lost the meaning of a flip? Isn’t a flip when someone buys something then quickly flips it for a profit? Not someone buys it from a dealer then a year and a half later trades/sells it to another dealer and it is available for slightly more do to the market???

I know. I feel like this thread is now just a couple of sour people ranting at clouds over art they don't (and will probably never) own.

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On 9/15/2022 at 10:02 AM, allyz said:

I know. I feel like this thread is now just a couple of sour people ranting at clouds over art they don't (and will probably never) own.

I am reluctant to play "flip thread police", but I think that cloud cloddie's recent offering probably falls under the heading of "provenance info" (hey, the New Mutants page has bounced around a bit over the past year+) rather than a "flip" of which potential buyers should be aware. 

I think today's offering from Sean- is more in the spirit of the thread.  Some folks have expressed an idea in the past that "dealers" can't really be "flippers" because the dealer business model is to buy or acquire art for a lower price to sell for a higher price.  I can go either way on that point, depending on the circumstances, including the amount of time that has expired between listings and the price mark-up. 

When I started this thread in 2017, I tagged it with the words "wishful thinking" and "homework".  The post from Sean- shows us that a dealer won a piece on eBay a month ago and is offering it for 4X what he paid (wishful thinking?).  The post from Sean- also shows us, if we weren't aware already, that Scott Hampton has been listing a lot of nifty art on eBay that has been going for fairly reasonable prices.  That's the homework aspect of this thread that perhaps will help newer collectors realize that some original art asking prices are not totally reasonable, and that they should expand their horizons when trying to add pieces to their collections.

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On 9/15/2022 at 7:58 AM, Lee B. said:

I am reluctant to play "flip thread police", but I think that cloud cloddie's recent offering probably falls under the heading of "provenance info" (hey, the New Mutants page has bounced around a bit over the past year+) rather than a "flip" of which potential buyers should be aware. 

I will totally agree my last post was mostly provenance info. Not a classic flip, but I feel tangential to the overall conversation of quickly recycled art. 

On 9/9/2022 at 8:10 PM, cloud cloddie said:

I think it’s beneficial to know when art moves from dealer to dealer, regardless of the price difference. 

 

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Thanks for starting this thread, Lee.  There is a huge wealth of knowledge on this board, and so many entertaining and educational threads.  As someone who’s only been collecting OA for less than 2 years, this Flip of the Day thread, Alex’s Pricing thread, and RBerman’s Morlock thread have been the cornerstones of my OA education journey.

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