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[adamstrange]

1 hour ago, Randall Ries said:

How can we buy like we used to with people expecting $40k for a Transformers #1?

I doubt I'm ever going to buy any uber-high grade Transformers, but then they were never on my wantlist.  I welcome Transformer collectors to the hobby, while hoping they don't start collecting GA for a few more years. 

[Randall Ries]

27 minutes ago, adamstrange said:

In the case of GI Joe, Shooter, Goodwin and Larry Hama worked with Hasbro from the start of the GI Joe 80s revival.  Yes, the toys were among the most popular 80s toys, but so were the comics and animated TV show based on concepts and characters from Marvel.  It should not be a surprise that someone who grew up reading those books would later be interested in getting the best copy or pages of the original art.  Pride and joy of one of the biggest art collectors on the Boards is the complete art to GI Joe, a wordless issue.

That's great! I never saw the value in it but that's beside the point. I was trying to illustrate my friend likely grew up with it hence the attraction. We all collect what we remember to larger and lesser degrees. I collect Adams stuff from the late '60's-early '70's.

[Professor K]

4 hours ago, Randall Ries said:

How can we buy like we used to with people expecting $40k for a Transformers #1?

"We got no food, we got no jobs, Tranformers #1's are selling for 40K!" 

Edited March 1, 2021 by Professor Chaos
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[Randall Ries]

31 minutes ago, Professor Chaos said:

"We got no food, we got no jobs, Tranformers #1's are selling for 40K!" 

Real Mad Max sh%t, right?

[lou_fine]

7 hours ago, Aman619 said:

But we don’t buy like we used to, so we are irrelevant bystanders to the market.  Which is fine, others are leading the way now... in everything.. 

As long as we own the books that some of these crazed buyers want, we are 100% relevant to the marketplace, especially if you are willing to part with some of the "scraps" from your long held personal collection.  

[lou_fine]

7 hours ago, Randall Ries said:

How can we buy like we used to with people expecting $40k for a Transformers #1?

As long term comic collectors YOU DON'T.................  what you do is YOU SELL into this crazed marketplace and hopefully in time before the bubble bursts.  

As I had stated in one of my previous posts here:  In this red hot crazed comic book marketplace, one collector's worthless drek (i.e. hopefully any of OUR BA or CA books brought at cover price) is another collector's priceless treasure (i.e. hopefully one of these deep pocketed newbie buyers willing to pay 5-figures for our former drek books).  

   , THE MONEY, that is!!!    

 

[Aman619]

Problem is, as we have repeatedly seen here, we keep reaching these points of no return.... and years later those prices are darn cheap.. there’s a new thing going on now.  Well it’s the same thing... people who want comics and have the cash. Is a crash coming.. the answer has always been yes.  Soon... but it never does.  

maybe soon based on this irrational exuberance... or it’s just yet another rise in interest and prices.  Let’s face it, our hobby has caught the attention of pop culture, what we’ve always dreamed of.  Let’s see where it goes!  We aren’t the geeks anymore ...

as someone pointed out here recently. If you suddenly are interested in buying a key comic book, and never followed the market, you buy what you want at the price it takes to get it. Today’s prices are too high for us, but for them, it’s what they go for.  

[Mmehdy]

20 minutes ago, Aman619 said:

Problem is, as we have repeatedly seen here, we keep reaching these points of no return.... and years later those prices are darn cheap.. there’s a new thing going on now.  Well it’s the same thing... people who want comics and have the cash. Is a crash coming.. the answer has always been yes.  Soon... but it never does.  

maybe soon based on this irrational exuberance... or it’s just yet another rise in interest and prices.  Let’s face it, our hobby has caught the attention of pop culture, what we’ve always dreamed of.  Let’s see where it goes!  We aren’t the geeks anymore ...

as someone pointed out here recently. If you suddenly are interested in buying a key comic book, and never followed the market, you buy what you want at the price it takes to get it. Today’s prices are too high for us, but for them, it’s what they go for.  

I would say the GA/SA market will not be as stable going forward, as in the first 40 years with Overstreet slowing down the speculators with a gradual price increases year to year. That stability which we have become accustomed to is out the window the minute speculators run rampant in our GA/SA comic book world. They are not in it for the Comic Book, the art...they are in it for a profit.....GA books could be widgets or bitcoin or Gamestop shares. This "splash" will have gravity of prices eventually correcting itself back to the normal course of supply and demand and price growth based upon actual collectors and not jacked up demand and price growth.

Edited March 1, 2021 by Mmehdy

[tabcom]

 

 

I don’t know where they came from or where they are going, but they are making it more entertaining to watch.

Edited March 1, 2021 by tabcom

[tabcom]

Any gold stackers out there?

Perhaps it's dislocation causing panic buying.

 

[Aman619]

13 hours ago, lou_fine said:

As long as we own the books that some of these crazed buyers want, we are 100% relevant to the marketplace, especially if you are willing to part with some of the "scraps" from your long held personal collection.  

We are Relevant only in the sense that we COULD AFFECT THE MARKET, but only if we sold our books. As long as we sit on them we are irrelevant to current sales. 
 

we all know that the dentist has a better copy of all the biggest keys ..  but he is the poster child of my sense of an irrelevant collection because they are never coming to market. The market runs on what it has to work with, not what’s in a safe somewhere. Especially if they’re still unslabbed like most older collectors gems. .  

[buttock]

1 hour ago, Aman619 said:

We are Relevant only in the sense that we COULD AFFECT THE MARKET, but only if we sold our books. As long as we sit on them we are irrelevant to current sales. 
 

we all know that the dentist has a better copy of all the biggest keys ..  but he is the poster child of my sense of an irrelevant collection because they are never coming to market. The market runs on what it has to work with, not what’s in a safe somewhere. Especially if they’re still unslabbed like most older collectors gems. .  

That's why SA Marvels will always do well.  Everybody wants them and they're always changing hands.  

[lou_fine]

3 hours ago, Aman619 said:

17 hours ago, lou_fine said:

As long as we own the books that some of these crazed buyers want, we are 100% relevant to the marketplace, especially if you are willing to part with some of the "scraps" from your long held personal collection.  

We are Relevant only in the sense that we COULD AFFECT THE MARKET, but only if we sold our books. As long as we sit on them we are irrelevant to current sales. 
 

we all know that the dentist has a better copy of all the biggest keys ..  but he is the poster child of my sense of an irrelevant collection because they are never coming to market. 

Not necessarily true because wasn't it the Dentist himself that was releasing some of those early Quality runs and early Pep runs into the marketplace a few years ago through Heritage Auctions?    

For sure, not his long term keepers like his Action and 'Tec runs like what everybody focuses in on when they think about his collection, but like I said, what he might view as "disposable scraps" to him.  I remember buying some of these so-called loose scraps from Dave back in the day, and surprisingly or not I guess, a few of them are now in Overstreet's Top 100 with a couple more just under this level.  

Like I have said, maybe it's all relative as some of his worthless drek books from his personal collection would be viewed by me as priceless treasures in my own  personal collection.    

[Aman619]

I’m sure you’ve got some pretty priceless treasures of your own too!

[lou_fine]

Wow, what a difference a week makes or it's probably just the usual Monday blues.  

Just went onto the CL live auction website and I must say compared to all of the action last week, seems like pretty much of a real snooze fest in comparison.  Most of the lots don't seem to be seeing any last minute action at all, and if they do, only the one single bid coming in.  

[LDarkseid1]

35 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

Wow, what a difference a week makes or it's probably just the usual Monday blues.  

Just went onto the CL live auction website and I must say compared to all of the action last week, seems like pretty much of a real snooze fest in comparison.  Most of the lots don't seem to be seeing any last minute action at all, and if they do, only the one single bid coming in.  

I had a couple disappointing sales and a couple solid ones. Overall happy, but would have liked a little more.

[lou_fine]

1 hour ago, LDarkseid1 said:

I had a couple disappointing sales and a couple solid ones. Overall happy, but would have liked a little more.

Are you referring to the auction as a whole or just the seemingly slow Monday night action only?  

[LDarkseid1]

15 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

Are you referring to the auction as a whole or just the seemingly slow Monday night action only?  

Bit of both. My two Strange Adventures finished strong tonight. My Eternals 1 9.8 was a bit of a let down a day or so ago.

Edited March 2, 2021 by LDarkseid1

[mwotka]

Does it seems to anyone else like they stretch things out too far?  It is fairly difficult to remember to check in on my one or two interesting lots every day for a week and a half.  I think it might be better in a shorter format.  Might explain some of the second week fatigue as well. 

[adamstrange]

2 hours ago, mwotka said:

It is fairly difficult to remember to check in on my one or two interesting lots every day for a week and a half.  I think it might be better in a shorter format.  Might explain some of the second week fatigue as well. 

I find it tiresome and often fail to check back.