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ComicLink's next Featured Auction Has Started Posting Books
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Professor K

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Definitely a nice winter auction. I've got like 40 or so books saved in my favorites. Curious to see what the Tomb of Dracula sole 9.9 will bring. I doubt it could be nicer than many of the 9.8's but I suppose the lure of a 9.9 will get some people very inspired. Wonder if theyre talking about it over in the Bronze Age section. 

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7 hours ago, Professor Chaos said:

Definitely a nice winter auction. I've got like 40 or so books saved in my favorites. Curious to see what the Tomb of Dracula sole 9.9 will bring. I doubt it could be nicer than many of the 9.8's but I suppose the lure of a 9.9 will get some people very inspired. Wonder if theyre talking about it over in the Bronze Age section. 

I doubt it'll beat the price the last time it sold, which was ~80k if I'm remembering correctly.

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On 12/4/2020 at 5:20 PM, Gotham Kid said:

No.

"Elvis: That's the way it is" -> That's the greatest depiction.

That and the NBC Special. Production numbers aside, Greil Marcus called it "music that bleeds". I haven't seen a docu-movie about EP that I enjoyed much. TTWII is killer. That seems to be the documentary everyone is going back to. The 8cd STEREO re-release plus DVD's of the movie and outtakes is excellent. They muffed the first release and released the cd's in mono. Ooopsie. A 50th Anniversary TTWII box set was just released. Not much new in it but I took it anyway.

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2 hours ago, Professor Chaos said:

Oh, I didn't find any past results on it. 80 grand wow. I agree , I doubt hit will hit that mark again. 

The book sold for for $4,370 in October of 2005, per GPA, but I seem to remember there being an intervening sale.

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11 hours ago, bpc3qh said:
18 hours ago, Professor Chaos said:

Curious to see what the Tomb of Dracula sole 9.9 will bring. I doubt it could be nicer than many of the 9.8's but I suppose the lure of a 9.9 will get some people very inspired. Wonder if theyre talking about it over in the Bronze Age section. 

I doubt it'll beat the price the last time it sold, which was ~80k if I'm remembering correctly.

 

7 hours ago, Professor Chaos said:

Oh, I didn't find any past results on it. 80 grand wow. I agree , I doubt hit will hit that mark again. 

There's a very obvious reason as to why you can't find any results as I believe you would be referring to this humongous record setting sale or more correctly NON-SALE for $85K in the August 2019 CL Featured Auction:

https://www.comiclink.com/error.asp?next=%2F.%2Fauctions%2Fdefault.asp

 

There was lots of talk about this sale at the time back on Page 9 of this thread here:

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/453326-comiclinks-next-event-auction-has-started-posting-books/page/9/#comments

 

On 8/28/2019 at 8:51 PM, Gotham Kid said:

TOD 10 9.9 @ 85K and WW 1 8.0 @ 85K

 

On 8/28/2019 at 9:03 PM, batman_fan said:

folks, its official, we have jumped the shark tank

No doubt it was another one of these record setting auction results that was never ever completed by the so-called bidder or possibly another one of these whereby the consignor is simply trying to manipulate the price upwards to set the book up for a future sale.  hm  (shrug)

Sometimes it works as in the case of the CGC 9.8 TMNT 1 sale that supposedly set a record price of $90K in a very high profile auction sale when all previous sales were only in the mid to high $30K price range to that point in time.  Definitely worked that time as it instantly spiked the entire TMNT market into the stratosphere and in particular, the TMNT 1 market up above the $50K price point.  Not surprisingly, the exact same $90K copy was then flipped out successfully for $59K through a low profile non-auction Buy It Now sale several short months later.  hm  (tsk)

I believe the consignor for this TOD 10 is hoping that everybody will remember the $85K price point and then bid this book up to an even higher price point on this go round here.  All I can say is that if that had been an actual legit sale that went through for $85K back in 2019, don't you think that CL would be hying that result like crazy in this auction here?  :devil:

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Lou_fine wrote:

"No doubt it was another one of these record setting auction results that was never ever completed by the so-called bidder or possibly another one of these whereby the consignor is simply trying to manipulate the price upwards to set the book up for a future sale. "

I don't understand why people make proclamations of fact with complete confidence when it is just conjecture. The sale of the Tomb of Dracula #10 9.9 in the 2019 auction did indeed complete for $85,000 in the Summer 2019 Featured Auction. The purchaser in that auction is reselling it in the upcoming one.  

-Josh

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3 hours ago, Professor Chaos said:

Winter auction has begun. I notice a lot of books I saw in the preview a few weeks ago now have CVA stickers on them and before they didn't. Personally I'm not a fan of that. 

Yes, if I compare the CVA sticker to the QES sticker, I would prefer the latter since the CVA sticker is pretty much generic while the QES sticker at least makes some sort of an attempt to list the specific factors as to why the book in question qualified for the sticker.  (thumbsu

If I may ask, as a potential bidder on a particular book, why would the presence of a sticker on the slab tend to bother you since you are not paying directly for the sticker itself?   Especially since it's really there to impart a bit more information to you as a potential bidder that the assigned technical CGC grade itself might not be taking into account.  hm  (shrug) 

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3 hours ago, lou_fine said:

Yes, if I compare the CVA sticker to the QES sticker, I would prefer the latter since the CVA sticker is pretty much generic while the QES sticker at least makes some sort of an attempt to list the specific factors as to why the book in question qualified for the sticker.  (thumbsu

If I may ask, as a potential bidder on a particular book, why would the presence of a sticker on the slab tend to bother you since you are not paying directly for the sticker itself?   Especially since it's really there to impart a bit more information to you as a potential bidder that the assigned technical CGC grade itself might not be taking into account.  hm  (shrug) 

Well......I'll give you an example as to one reason I am not a fan of those shiny little silver badges. In the January CL auction was a book that sold for 2,600 without the cva. I noticed before it ended that there was the same book with the same grade/page color coming in the Winter auction. Both looked very much the same. I got outbid in January. Ok, I'll bid ridiculously, with reckless abandonment, with no regard to recent sales prices (which seems to be the norm in comic collecting the past 6 months or so) in the Winter auction. But suddenly out of nowhere the book in the Winter auction magically grew a cva sticker and on the opening day it is already up to 2600. 

The subject has been addressed many times here but my feelings about the stickers is its just a way to make money. And besides I don't need no stinking badge to tell me what a nice example for the grade looks like. You probably agree for the most part right? 

Because CL has no watch list, I save each book as a favorite in my opera browser. Shows a nice picture of the book in the favorites page. I saved a lot in this auction 2 weeks ago and none of them had cva's at the time. now 4 or 5 do. This auction has some nice books and a few I will bid on but man I've never seen so many cva stickers in one place in my life.

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