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Straw-Man

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On 7/21/2020 at 3:41 PM, lou_fine said:

Well, let's hope they get all of their books shipped out pretty soon becuase I was just on their website and it appears that their upcoming Event Auction looks to be rounding into fine shape with already over 3,000 lots in total and still increasing on a daily basis.  (thumbsu

Not sure about the actual quality of the items though since there's just so many auctions nowadays, that it seems the quantity is certainly there, but not necessarily the quality.  Thi seems to be the case even for Heritage as the quality of books have certainly gone down with the increasing frequency of auctions that they are running.  :p

i see at least 9 quality books previewed.  pure coincidence that i have 9 books in the auction.  

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On 7/24/2020 at 3:34 PM, Straw-Man said:

i see at least 9 quality books previewed.  pure coincidence that i have 9 books in the auction.  

Would the Church copy of Wonderworld Comics 3 be one of these 9 quality books?  :cloud9:

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4 hours ago, Straw-Man said:

if that one was mine, it would be my heirs peddling it. 

Well, let's hope they are smart enough not to take it down to your local flea market and peddle it off for a whole dollar thinking they just hit the jackpot by getting a 10-bagger on the cover price of what is now obviously an old and used book.  lol  :takeit:

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On 7/25/2020 at 9:54 PM, lou_fine said:
On 7/24/2020 at 3:34 PM, Straw-Man said:

i see at least 9 quality books previewed.  pure coincidence that i have 9 books in the auction.  

Would the Church copy of Wonderworld Comics 3 be one of these 9 quality books?  :cloud9:

 

On 7/26/2020 at 5:34 AM, Straw-Man said:

if that one was mine, it would be my heirs peddling it. 

Well, not sure where this copy is going to eventually finished up at, but already one of the top books in the current CC Event Auction at $8K with still a long way to go, I would imagine:  :cloud9:

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Still way too early in the auction for most of these books, but I always like to sort their auction offerings by Highest Price first and was rather surprised that this book here was already way up there on Page 1 in their Top dozen lots or so:  :whatthe:

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Have always loved this classic Solomon Grundy cover and a book which seems to be rising up in the demand charts with a bullet as evident by the strong prices which it has managed to fetched over the past couple of years or so.  :luhv:

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2 hours ago, bpc3qh said:

That book is absolutely beautiful. It's one of the two Grundy books I know I'm going to have to buy at some point, and am already dreading (his first GA appearance being the other one).

Well, this just might be your lucky day then as I might just be able to save you some money here.  :gossip:

Not sure what other GA book you are referring to, but according to both Overstreet and this link attached link below, the All-American 61 is both the origin and first appearance of Solomon Grundy:  (thumbsu

https://dcuguide.com/w/Solomon_Grundy_(Cyrus_Gold)_Chronology

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13 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

Well, this just might be your lucky day then as I might just be able to save you some money here.  :gossip:

Not sure what other GA book you are referring to, but according to both Overstreet and this link attached link below, the All-American 61 is both the origin and first appearance of Solomon Grundy:  (thumbsu

https://dcuguide.com/w/Solomon_Grundy_(Cyrus_Gold)_Chronology

It's my fault for not looking at the post closely enough see which Grundy book was being referred to--the two GA Grundy books I covet are All-American 61 (his first appearance) and All-Star 33 (the classic cover). I already have his first SA appearance in Showcase 55, but I'll upgrade it eventually.

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56 minutes ago, bpc3qh said:

It's my fault for not looking at the post closely enough see which Grundy book was being referred to--the two GA Grundy books I covet are All-American 61 (his first appearance) and All-Star 33 (the classic cover). I already have his first SA appearance in Showcase 55, but I'll upgrade it eventually.

If I remember correctly, I believe that AA 61 is also considered to be a classic Grundy cover and in a survey of the Top GA covers of all time as run by Heritage back in 2016, it finished somewhere in their Top 40 chart of GA covers.  :gossip:

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1 hour ago, lou_fine said:

If I remember correctly, I believe that AA 61 is also considered to be a classic Grundy cover and in a survey of the Top GA covers of all time as run by Heritage back in 2016, it finished somewhere in their Top 40 chart of GA covers.  :gossip:

Oh yes, I'm sure that it is. I mostly meant to distinguish the two books--there's the origin/1st appearance that's "also" a classic cover, and the book that's "only" a classic cover.

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On 8/8/2020 at 11:59 PM, szav said:

Not sure this happened for others or not but after like 9 months of not getting anything or so I all of the sudden started getting my wantlist emails from CC/metro again...

I'm not sure I still want anything from them, can barely manage to force myself to search through their auction offerings.  Miss the old website.

Same. My (outdated) want list just resurfaced from Metro. Maybe a recent tweak to their revamped website. (shrug)

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On 8/8/2020 at 8:59 PM, szav said:

Miss the old website.

What's the biggest things that you don't like about their revamped auction website, as I must be getting used to it already?  (shrug)

The biggest visual difference is the fact that they now have their lots on a 5 X 4 layout format, instead of their old 25 vertical layout format, which I guess is really a case of to each their own from a pure appearance point of view.  I definitely don't like their overpowering countdown clock that they have, but certainly like the fact that their auction archives are now fully up-to-date.  (thumbsu

Now, if I was thinking about consigning any books to an auction house, I might give them a pass as I definitely wouldn't care for the fact that they line up all of the competing copies that they have in inventory against your consigned copy.  As a potential bidder though, it's probably useful unformation as it helps to set a ceiling in terms of the max price you should be bidding for some of these books.  hm

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23 hours ago, bpc3qh said:

I'm definitely adapting to the website, though I still find it slow, clunky, and somewhat unresponsive. ComicLink's website may be ancient, but I like it the best.

Since I am clearly not one of your new generation hi tech guys who notices the differences in page loading by nano seconds, this aspect doesn't seem to bother me too much.  (shrug)

Especially since their 3-minuted extended bidding time frames allows me enough time to check other auction sites archives, Overstreet, Gerber Photojournal, GoCollect or GPA stats, pedigree checklists like Mile High, Larson, Allentown, etc. before I decide whether to up the bid on a book or not.  Definitely came in very useful during the Jon Berk auction a few years ago.  (thumbsu

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55 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

Since I am clearly not one of your new generation hi tech guys who notices the differences in page loading by nano seconds, this aspect doesn't seem to bother me too much.  (shrug)

It could also be my computer--either way, there is a definite lag between that website as compared to the other auction sites

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4 hours ago, bpc3qh said:

It could also be my computer--either way, there is a definite lag between that website as compared to the other auction sites

Mine too.  Placing bids is quite delayed. I could see this causing trouble for people that wait until the last minute to bid.  Page loading was SUPER delayed for me when it first launched, but they seem to have improved that a lot since then (still pretty slow though).  

A few, more minor kinks to work out in my book, but it's improved considerably since launch where I have faith they'll get it done soon enough.

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