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lou_fine

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15 hours ago, tth2 said:
18 hours ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

I sold one book tonight. It doubled in extended  bidding.

(thumbsu

Told ya! 

I really think it depends on the particular book in question and also a bit of luck in terms of the eyeballs that's on the book.  hm

Based upon what I have seen for the first 2 days of this auction here, there seems to be a larger proportion of books that appears to be heading right straight into the finish line without pausing to grab any of those 3-minute bonus money packs down the stretch.  (shrug)

Maybe it'll ust work out for me in this case then since virtually all of the books which i have a bid on for the last 2 days have not even moved up a single dollar in the past couple of days.  Especially surprsing is a couple of books that's still sitting at sizable discounts to condition guide valuations, when they have normally always gone for big premiums, if not even multiples to guide in the past.  So, I guess we'll see if my luck holds out til the end here.  :taptaptap:  :wishluck:

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Sqeggs

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20 hours ago, walclark said:

I don’t mind the extended bidding format, but I don’t like people acting like they can snipe a lot bidding with 2 seconds left.  Then we drag it out for another 2 minutes and 58 seconds and they try again.  By the third time, I just quit watching.

I think what's going on, at least some of the time, is people are hoping that someone bidding on multiple books will get distracted and not notice a last second bid on one of the books. Obviously, "last second" on CC means 2 seconds + 3 minutes. Still, 3 minutes can go by in the blink of an eye if you're juggling multiple open windows. I've had that happen where I planned on bidding again but hadn't noticed that my bid had been topped and the auction was over before I got back to it. 

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lou_fine

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12 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:
2 hours ago, comicnoir said:

Nice result on this.

https://www.comicconnect.com/bookDetail.php?id=834666

Nice looking copy, but that does seem like a strong result. The census lists 23 copies with higher grades. 

Bang on and definitely the reason why I would be much more in the mindset of selling this book right now, as opposed to paying this kind of ridiculous money to pick one up during this time of irrational exuberance for this particular book. right now.  hm

The only problem with that sound strategy is that I don't have a copy in my collection to sell off.  :(

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lou_fine

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12 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

I think what's going on, at least some of the time, is people are hoping that someone bidding on multiple books will get distracted and not notice a last second bid on one of the books. Obviously, "last second" on CC means 2 seconds + 3 minutes. Still, 3 minutes can go by in the blink of an eye if you're juggling multiple open windows. I've had that happen where I planned on bidding again but hadn't noticed that my bid had been topped and the auction was over before I got back to it. 

This was most definitely the scenario which I (and probably a lot of others) found myself in during the wild, but fun and crazy Jon Berk Auction a couple of summers ago.  (thumbsu

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1 hour ago, Sqeggs said:

"last second"

I don't do it to be obnoxious, but I wait until the last few seconds to place my bids so I can stretch the auction out as long as possible.  Fun to have books still be bidding on while the auction has moved on down the alphabet.  I have two schools of thought on the 3 minute overtime, it either wrings every last drop out for the seller or it curtails last second hail mary snipe bids hurting the seller.  Personally I think the former.  As Lou Fine brought up, the Berk auction was crazy fun.  

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41 minutes ago, ThothAmon said:

I don't do it to be obnoxious, but I wait until the last few seconds to place my bids so I can stretch the auction out as long as possible.  Fun to have books still be bidding on while the auction has moved on down the alphabet.  I have two schools of thought on the 3 minute overtime, it either wrings every last drop out for the seller or it curtails last second hail mary snipe bids hurting the seller.  Personally I think the former.  As Lou Fine brought up, the Berk auction was crazy fun.  

It's difficult to figure. Occasionally on CL you can apparently have two nuclear bomb bids (as @jimjum12 once put it) colliding: Two bidders put in "will not be denied" snipes, not really expecting to have to pay that price--until one of them does. OTOH, I've certainly been sucked into paying more than I intended to on CC and HA--more than my snipe would have been on CL. 

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2 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

I think what's going on, at least some of the time, is people are hoping that someone bidding on multiple books will get distracted and not notice a last second bid on one of the books. Obviously, "last second" on CC means 2 seconds + 3 minutes. Still, 3 minutes can go by in the blink of an eye if you're juggling multiple open windows. I've had that happen where I planned on bidding again but hadn't noticed that my bid had been topped and the auction was over before I got back to it. 

Us poor folks only bid on one item at a time. :sorry:

I think what gets me is the anticipatory excitement.  Let’s say I put in my max bid at $900 and I hold the high bid at $600.  Clock ticks down, I think I’m going to win at a bargain, and with 2 seconds, someone goes $650.  Now I’m high bidder at $700, so I’m still happy.  Maybe a little less so, but still happy.  5, 4, 3, boom, $750.  OK, I’m still on top at $800, but I’m losing some of my excitement.

When that third last second bid drives my winning bid right up to my max, it almost feels like someone knew my max and was teasing me for an extra ten minutes.

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5 hours ago, lou_fine said:

Bang on and definitely the reason why I would be much more in the mindset of selling this book right now, as opposed to paying this kind of ridiculous money to pick one up during this time of irrational exuberance for this particular book. right now.  hm

The only problem with that sound strategy is that I don't have a copy in my collection to sell off.  :(

Well I have a copy, maybe nicer than the one that sold. I should be slabbing and sending it to these guys. But I kinda like it. Only paid $95.00 long time ago.

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blackterror

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Did anybody get the price on the Miss Fury #2 in 7.0 that sold in the auction tonight?  

Also the GCE 12 in the post above … did it sell in this auction also and at what price? 

Is there a way to look at items after a comicconnect auction and see what they sold for?  

Thanks for any help and insight.

 

 

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