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[october]

51 minutes ago, szav said:

It’s probably intentional ...Just like being at any tourist trap, they’re forcing you through the gift shop on your way out the door.

They’re convinced that when you come up empty in your browsing for Power comics or Rangers  comics... that you just won’t be able to pass up that sweet sweet Power Rangers CGC 9.9 SS signed by some actor who never landed another role in their life, on your way out the door...

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[Casablanca]

59 minutes ago, szav said:

It’s probably intentional ...Just like being at any tourist trap, they’re forcing you through the gift shop on your way out the door.

They’re convinced that when you come up empty in your browsing for Power comics or Rangers  comics... that you just won’t be able to pass up that sweet sweet Power Rangers CGC 9.9 SS signed by some actor who never landed another role in their life, on your way out the door...

I know you're jealous Scott

 

[adamstrange]

2 hours ago, october said:

Same deal with CLink.

And yet clink is somehow able to separate the GA for their minor monthly auctions.

[lou_fine]

3 hours ago, szav said:

It’s probably intentional ...Just like being at any tourist trap, they’re forcing you through the gift shop on your way out the door.

Well, it doesn't work on me..........anytime I hit a DC title, I simply skip right to the next page and anytime I hit a Marvel title I simply skip a few pages over.  

[tth2]

7 hours ago, szav said:

It’s probably intentional ...Just like being at any tourist trap, they’re forcing you through the gift shop on your way out the door.

They’re convinced that when you come up empty in your browsing for Power comics or Rangers  comics... that you just won’t be able to pass up that sweet sweet Power Rangers CGC 9.9 SS signed by some actor who never landed another role in their life, on your way out the door...

 

But so right.

[BarristerBaker]

13 hours ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

Last auction I had big books at 50% of value with a week to go, and ended up around 110% of value by the time the gavel came down. 

 

Hoping that ends up true for me here as well. I could be slightly ahead of schedule then. 

[lou_fine]

On 9/5/2019 at 4:53 AM, BarristerBaker said:

On 9/4/2019 at 3:30 PM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

Last auction I had big books at 50% of value with a week to go, and ended up around 110% of value by the time the gavel came down. 

 

Hoping that ends up true for me here as well. I could be slightly ahead of schedule then. 

Well, how are they looking now that it's the weekend before the end of the big CC Event Auction?  

Looks like a lot of the books which I have been following have not made any major moves over this past week.  I guess most bidders already have their potential bids locked and loaded, but only in their minds and are now simply waiting for the 3-minute buzzer to go off starting on Monday.  

Especially since most of the current bids are still sitting rather low as compared to where I know they will end up finishing at next week.  Well, I can still hope out hope that the book that I want will continue to sit at its current 35% of condition guide even though it has always sold for multiples of condition guide in the past.      

[lou_fine]

Well, like many boardies have already stated, it sure does look like this book here will be the next one to be joining the $100K Club:

Already sitting at something like $86K where it has kind of stalled out for the past week awaiting the 3-minute bell to go off before the real action begins.  

Although the $100K Club does look like a sure bet to me, I am not sure if it can do a double from here and be able to get into the mid $100's that some board members here have suggested.  I guess the fact that it is the sole one and only one copy sitting atop the CGC census and QES sticker whatever it is, shouldn't hurt its chances here.  

All I can say is that the cover for this edition of the CC Auction looks absolutley stunning with this book taking up the entire front cover of the catalgue in all its glory.  

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

20 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

Well, how are they looking now that it's the weekend before the end of the big CC Event Auction?  

Looks like a lot of the books which I have been following have not made any major moves over this past week.  I guess most bidders already have their potential bids locked and loaded, but only in their minds and are now simply waiting for the 3-minute buzzer to go off starting on Monday.  

Especially since most of the current bids are still sitting rather low as compared to where I know they will end up finishing at next week.  Well, I can still hope out hope that the book that I want will continue to sit at its current 35% of condition guide even though it has always sold for multiples of condition guide in the past.      

I believe you are right. People are waiting. Every now and then an outlier drops down a new bid, but I’m still sitting at a little over 50% value. This is exciting and excruciating 

[BarristerBaker]

 

Just now, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

I believe you are right. People are waiting. Every now and then an outlier drops down a new bid, but I’m still sitting at a little over 50% value. This is exciting and excruciating 

Same here. Probably at 50%. Action has slowed significantly.

[batman_fan]

I had a bunch of my low ball bids get outbid this morning.

[lou_fine]

On 8/30/2019 at 9:12 PM, adamstrange said:

On 8/30/2019 at 1:22 PM, tth2 said:

The amount of hand wringing that goes on here about prices when bidding still has 11 days to go would be absurd if it weren't so irritating. 

We need to save our precious internet energy to debate which young up and coming tennis star will win the US Open.

Sad to say, but I don't think the much younger inexperienced Canadian teenage girl stands much of a chance against the much older and more experienced Serena.  

[lou_fine]

43 minutes ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

This is exciting and excruciating 

Yes, it's especially exciting  if you are a consignor and the 3-minute bell keeps getting rung on your book, while it's especially excruiating     if you are a bidder and the 3-minute bell keeps getting rung on the book that you want .   

Edited September 7, 2019 by lou_fine

[lou_fine]

55 minutes ago, BarristerBaker said:

57 minutes ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

I believe you are right. People are waiting. Every now and then an outlier drops down a new bid, but I’m still sitting at a little over 50% value. This is exciting and excruciating 

Same here. Probably at 50%. Action has slowed significantly.

Based upon my own personal experience though, there is one very serious flaw with the strategy of waiting until the last minute to bid.  

Like me, how many times have you completely forgotten all about the end of the auction or all of a sudden been busy doing something else, that you never get around to being there when the auction actually ends.  

Of course, if I think I might be busy that day, I do go in there that morning and place a higher bid, but being the El Cheapo guy that I am, still nowhere close to where I would have been willing to go if I was actually there for the real end of the auction.  

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

51 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

Based upon my own personal experience though, there is one very serious flaw with the strategy of waiting until the last minute to bid.  

Like me, how many times have you completely forgotten all about the end of the auction or all of a sudden been busy doing something else, that you never get around to being there when the auction actually ends.  

Of course, if I think I might be busy that day, I do go in there that morning and place a higher bid, but being the El Cheapo guy that I am, still nowhere close to where I would have been willing to go if I was actually there for the real end of the auction.  

Yes, I forget too. It’s gotta happen. So, yes, there’s that

[lou_fine]

On 8/30/2019 at 7:59 PM, tth2 said:

In all seriousness, there are plenty of things about the books in the auction to discuss.  But whether current bids are indicative of the final price (they aren't) isn't one of them, in my opinion.

Now, if a book's bids with 11 days to go have already blown past people's expectations of the final price, that's another matter.  But when does that ever happen?   

How very true, but what happens in terms of the opposite situation?  

Just took a look at some of the so-called "pedigree" books here with only a couple of days to go, and some of them are still at single digit percentage fractions to current condition guide valuations.  

Then again, I guess Rockford's and the like aren't really true pedigree quality books, unlike the newly minted Eldon and Harold Curtis pedigrees.     

[jimbo_7071]

46 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

How very true, but what happens in terms of the opposite situation?  

Just took a look at some of the so-called "pedigree" books here with only a couple of days to go, and some of them are still at single digit percentage fractions to current condition guide valuations.  

Then again, I guess Rockford's and the like aren't really true pedigree quality books, unlike the newly minted Eldon and Harold Curtis pedigrees.     

A lot of nice material has been offered up recently. You always have collectors exiting the hobby; lately it seems like there may be more GA collectors exiting than entering, which isn't too surprising.

Those of us who are under 50 really have to wonder whether our heirs will be able to find a market for our books x number of years from now. 

[Zolnerowich]

49 minutes ago, szav said:

Orrr... and just hear me out on this one...you could use my patented one step method, and put in your max bid a day or two before the auction ends, no matter which auction site you’re using.

I assure you, I have both won and lost auctions this way, but never once paid more than my maximum bid for anything.

But where’s the fun in that?!? 

[lou_fine]

7 hours ago, lou_fine said:

On 8/30/2019 at 9:12 PM, adamstrange said:

We need to save our precious internet energy to debate which young up and coming tennis star will win the US Open.

Sad to say, but I don't think the much younger inexperienced Canadian teenage girl stands much of a chance against the much older and more experienced Serena.  

Well, surprise, surprise............it looks like I was dead wrong here.    

Missed the whole match as I was out in the garden the whole afternoon, but based upon the scores, it looks like the Canadian teenager must have handily beat Serena.  

[tth2]

10 hours ago, lou_fine said:

I guess the fact that it is the sole one and only one copy sitting atop the CGC census and QES sticker whatever it is, shouldn't hurt its chances here.  

Has the Church copy been graded, and if so, what is the grade?

If it hasn't been, does anyone know what kind of grade it would get?  Otherwise, I would never pay up massively for this copy on the basis that it's the one and only 9.4.