@therealsilvermane Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 12 minutes ago, Shoomanfoo said: This is the most incorrect statement I’ve read in some time... take a look at your gpa Giant size and other x books dropping That hasn't been my recent experience on eBay since the nationwide quarantine started. A raw GSX1 I bid on sold for over $4K. A raw X-Men #101 I was looking at sold for over $700. But not just X-Men is what I meant. As someone who has bought and sold on ebay over the past month and a half, my observation is that people are spending a lot of money on comics on eBay right now. Shoomanfoo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoomanfoo Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 7 minutes ago, @therealsilvermane said: That hasn't been my recent experience on eBay since the nationwide quarantine started. A raw GSX1 I bid on sold for over $4K. A raw X-Men #101 I was looking at sold for over $700. But not just X-Men is what I meant. As someone who has bought and sold on ebay over the past month and a half, my observation is that people are spending a lot of money on comics on eBay right now. 1 or 2 over gpa sales does not indicate a trend. It was probably stimulus check money as nobody would buy a 4.0 GSX 1 for over 1000.00 at this time with hard earned money lol. again...GPA is dropping and that is a mathematical fact not an assumption sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoomanfoo Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 And wait...you are a vendor and do not know your gpa prices?? You think that because during quarantine and free money that those books are actually climbing? interesting to say the least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@therealsilvermane Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Just now, Shoomanfoo said: And wait...you are a vendor and do not know your gpa prices?? You think that because during quarantine and free money that those books are actually climbing? interesting to say the least I'm not a vendor by any means. I don't even know what gpa means. I'm just a collector who's been selling a little more recently, and I'm basing my previous post on my recent buying/selling experience and also from comments on social media. There seems to me to be more bidding activity and higher prices on ebay right now than in recent months and one can correlate that with an entire nation unable to go anywhere or do anything with their money since March. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@therealsilvermane Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 13 minutes ago, Shoomanfoo said: And wait...you are a vendor and do not know your gpa prices?? You think that because during quarantine and free money that those books are actually climbing? interesting to say the least I don't really know where prices have been. I'm more an investor for the long term and haven't made big purchases lately. So maybe records aren't being set, though I've seen a couple folks on social media make that comment regarding online sales. I myself have tried to use this downtime to pick up a few bigger dollar books on auction sites, and I keep getting outbid with final sale prices I'd never thought some of these books would get. And on the other side, I've sold a few books to thin out the collection and got final sales much higher than I'd expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoomanfoo Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 29 minutes ago, @therealsilvermane said: I'm not a vendor by any means. I don't even know what gpa means. I'm just a collector who's been selling a little more recently, and I'm basing my previous post on my recent buying/selling experience and also from comments on social media. There seems to me to be more bidding activity and higher prices on ebay right now than in recent months and one can correlate that with an entire nation unable to go anywhere or do anything with their money since March. Oh I see. well I will agree that sales have spiked lately and I’ve also been outbid with ridiculous prices. Though I don’t think it’s a trend and only due to s much free money. beside the checks I personally know people getting unemployment from state and the unemployment from federal and making more money than when they worked. this well end soon. Oh gpa is a service that cgc offers that gives you the latest up sales of any given grade averaged to make an accurate estimate of fair market value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenosmilus Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 6 minutes ago, Shoomanfoo said: Oh gpa is a service that cgc offers that gives you the latest up sales of any given grade averaged to make an accurate estimate of fair market value. It's not CGC, it's some dude from the land down under. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@therealsilvermane Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) 50 minutes ago, Shoomanfoo said: Oh I see. well I will agree that sales have spiked lately and I’ve also been outbid with ridiculous prices. Though I don’t think it’s a trend and only due to s much free money. beside the checks I personally know people getting unemployment from state and the unemployment from federal and making more money than when they worked. this well end soon. Oh gpa is a service that cgc offers that gives you the latest up sales of any given grade averaged to make an accurate estimate of fair market value. I don’t want to downplay some real hardships people are dealing with out there. I don’t doubt some collectors are having fun with their stimulus checks, but I also think a big part of it is collectors unable to buy comics at their LCS or go to conventions or shows. The only immediate way to buy comics right now is off auction sites, mostly eBay. Edited May 6, 2020 by @therealsilvermane Shoomanfoo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimik Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) 18 hours ago, Shoomanfoo said: This is the most incorrect statement I’ve read in some time... take a look at your gpa Giant size and other x books dropping Prices tend do dip across the board during the late November - March period year in year out, and they were down before COVID-19 hit. At the start of COVID they pulled back a but further on fear, but since then on eBay they have been rising for the past month as people buy due to 1) stimulus cheques and most importantly 2) no conventions. Clink results have been more spotty - for every book you sell that sets a GPA high there are 2 or 3 that sell for at or less than GPA. Edited May 6, 2020 by kimik Shoomanfoo and jimjum12 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cortown71 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Everyone says Hugh's getting too old to play wolverine...i say it would be a perfect time to introduce old man Logan to the MCU. Someone's gonna have to play him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 14 minutes ago, cortown71 said: Someone's gonna have to play him. for the next 10 years! 10 years Man! Ten Years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimik Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 They will just bring in a younger actor. Batman changes every 2-3 films, why can't Wolverine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollywood1892 Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 On 9/8/2019 at 6:13 PM, ComicConnoisseur said: but the big question is will Hugh Jackman going to be Wolverine or will they have someone else? I think the bigger question is Where is ComicConnoisseur? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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fantastic_four Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 On 5/5/2020 at 9:03 PM, Shoomanfoo said: And wait...you are a vendor and do not know your gpa prices?? You think that because during quarantine and free money that those books are actually climbing? interesting to say the least Obviously I'm four months late to this conversation and pricing trends have changed during that time--which I would have expected myself back when you posted this on May 1, and what I'm posting now is exactly what I would have posted then had I clicked into this thread this year--but the trend I see in GPA pricing for X-Men key issues (as well as keys from several other major titles) is a modest increase in pricing. And that's exactly what I was expecting as soon as the shutdown happened. There's an ironic truth about recessions that I saw hold true after the 2008 and 2001 economic downturns--the price of most in-demand hard assets like gold and collectibles rises during a recession. I'm not entirely sure why it happens, but in general people seem to stop putting money into markets when they're volatile and put it into other places, and collectibles ends up being one of those places people put money. I haven't been following comic prices closely during this recession, but I just spent about twenty minutes looking through GPA and see prices are largely up on the keys I follow over the last 90 to 120 days. The market I have been following more closely is action figures, and those are up sharply since the recession started. In the past I've seen a sinking national boat causes rises in all of the collectibles markets--guns, cards, coins, comics, toys, or whatever. alexgross.com 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimik Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 After selling some of my early X-Men multiples this summer at auction, I would say that early X-Men and the early keys are up quite a bit from start of Covid until now. Check out the X-Men #1 CGC 4.5 that just sold for $10,100 on GPA, for example. They have jumped nicely from July until now. I keep buying them for below GPA prices whenever I can find them. zosocane and alexgross.com 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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