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International Collectors - Buying Up Books??

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acesilver

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Just wondered if the weak US $ right now has caused international collectors to buy more and/or better quality books these days. 893scratchchin-thumb.gif

 

I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone who may have bought books at the Heritage Sig. auction that just concluded. flowerred.gif

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goldust40

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According to various dealers (both U.S. and U.K.) the pound / dollar conversion rate has made an impact - English buyers are taking advantage and spending more, at least to a moderate extent. Although as far as the top end is concerned, I doubt it's made that much difference. I got outbid on all the Heritage items I was interested in, for example. frown.gif

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kiltman

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The strong pound hasnt really influenced my buying habits but I do feel like I'm getting better value for money (so thats a big NO to the Euro Tony)!!!

 

Are you an Eric Cantona fan? (Your avatar) Whats happening with him these days? Last thing i remember about him is fly kicking a fan at Man United

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Jungle_Junkie

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I'm buying more expensive books now while I still can.

At the moment the NZ$ is 70cents to the US $1.00 when I first arrived here 4 years ago is was 40cents for one US dollar - that makes a big difference when your buying a $300.00 book.

 

old rate = $750.00

new rate = $429.00 a saving of nz$321.00

 

At the moment my uncanny x-men run has never looked so good cloud9.gif (thanks to Ted Superworld/Blazing bob/Comic link & Metro).

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Fandango

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The strong pound hasnt really influenced my buying habits but I do feel like I'm getting better value for money (so thats a big NO to the Euro Tony)!!!

 

Are you an Eric Cantona fan? (Your avatar) Whats happening with him these days? Last thing i remember about him is fly kicking a fan at Man United

 

Erics a legend - still acting\playing beach football last I heard.

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AussieRuss

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Yes the conversion rate between the $US Vs $Aussie has made me purchase a lot more books from the U.S.A.

 

The Aussie dollar buys about $.77 at the moment.

 

If the dollar goes under $.75 I stop purchasing.

 

I have spoken with several people that have purchased comics a few years back when we were only getting $.50cents to the dollar and now they have to make an extra 25% profit just to break even with todays exchange rate.

 

If the Aussie exchange rate drops below US$.75 it becomes a good time to me to sell to the USA.

 

Putting it simply every 1c move upwards on a $1000 book saves me $10 & with postage to Australia costing arount US$18-30 it can work out to getting the equivelant of free postage quite easily.

 

Regards,

Aussie Russ

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According to various dealers (both U.S. and U.K.) the pound / dollar conversion rate has made an impact - English buyers are taking advantage and spending more, at least to a moderate extent. Although as far as the top end is concerned, I doubt it's made that much difference. I got outbid on all the Heritage items I was interested in, for example. frown.gif

 

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Silver Surfer

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The strong pound hasnt really influenced my buying habits but I do feel like I'm getting better value for money (so thats a big NO to the Euro Tony)!!!

 

Are you an Eric Cantona fan? (Your avatar) Whats happening with him these days? Last thing i remember about him is fly kicking a fan at Man United

 

I think he just coached France to the world championship in beach soccer. I don't know if you have seen this before but it will blow your mind. When you see what these guys can do with a ball on the sand it really gives you an idea of just how much skill they have.

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tth2

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HK Dollar is pegged to the US Dollar, so nothing`s changed for me. confused-smiley-013.gif

 

I`m hoping China will revalue the Yuan, which would likely cause HK to revalue the HK$, which would make me a happy camper. 893crossfingers-thumb.gif

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drbanner

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Been sending a lot of books across the pond over the last 1-2 years...yeah, the weak dollar has made a difference!

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Earl Davis

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Yep I am spending at lot more buying from US retailers than I did before the exchange rate turned advantageous - ' it's not quite as good as it was a couple of months ago though).

 

I just wish more French, German and Spanish sellers took Paypal so I could fill in a few more of my language variants.

 

Earl.

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Norrin_Radd

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Just wondered if the weak US $ right now has caused international collectors to buy more and/or better quality books these days. 893scratchchin-thumb.gif

 

Seems like it. About half of my BA books I've sold in the last year have went overseas to UK and Europe.

 

(Mind you that's only about 15 books.)

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FFB

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Just wondered if the weak US $ right now has caused international collectors to buy more and/or better quality books these days. 893scratchchin-thumb.gif

 

I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone who may have bought books at the Heritage Sig. auction that just concluded. flowerred.gif

 

I got a very strong offer from a French collector for my FF#3 Winnipeg and FF#22 CGC 9.4 on ebay last week ($4,600), and he purchased my FF#48 CGC 7.0 at an aggressive price ($475). I probably would have agreed to a deal with him on the #3 and #22 if I hadn't wound up selling both books and a few other books to a local collector at the Oakland con this weekend.

 

I have also made some nice $500-$1,000 sales to Canadian buyers lately. The foreign buyers are less price sensitive because of the weak dollar.

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