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On 11/19/2021 at 6:26 AM, Flex Mentallo said:

What's driving me nuts is what this means for non ped values in the same grades. Is my #58 in 9.6 now worth 13k?:canofworms:

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the Promise pedigree designation does seem to be garnering far higher values (for some reason)

I think your copy is nicer than the promised one.

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On 11/19/2021 at 8:33 PM, Artboy99 said:

the Promise pedigree designation does seem to be garnering far higher values (for some reason)

I think your copy is nicer than the promised one.

Well certainly the scan is better! Thanks be to Heritage (it was cheetah's copy, and before that kelholt was the owner)

From what I can recall, the other 9.6 is nicer than the Promise copy as well.

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On 11/19/2021 at 6:13 AM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

Probably. Whoever picked up the Promise copy is now out of the market, and so this book may now go for my underbid. Regardless, this is a nice bump for your book. Previously the GPA only showed my purchase of the Mile High 9.4 copy for $8k. At the time I thought I’d wildly overspent, but a rising tide floats all boats eventually.

It didn't seem to help the Cap #74 8.0 thought it would go a lot higher si ce the Promise pedigree went for over 200k.

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On 11/19/2021 at 5:36 PM, mstrange said:

It didn't seem to help the Cap #74 8.0 thought it would go a lot higher si ce the Promise pedigree went for over 200k.

It will be interesting to see what Promise books are selling for in a couple of years, after the hype has died down. I suspect that sellers who try to cash out via the no-reserve-auction route will end up taking some hefty losses, but we'll see.

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On 11/19/2021 at 3:42 PM, jimbo_7071 said:

It will be interesting to see what Promise books are selling for in a couple of years, after the hype has died down. I suspect that sellers who try to cash out via the no-reserve-auction route will end up taking some hefty losses, but we'll see.

I agree. Lots of the Promise books have sold at hyper inflated values.

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On 11/19/2021 at 4:36 PM, mstrange said:

It didn't seem to help the Cap #74 8.0 thought it would go a lot higher si ce the Promise pedigree went for over 200k.

I was shocked about that. Only $44k. This is criminally low for what is now the second highest copy. The rusty staple kept you and me out.  But the crypto crowd overlooked a rusty staple in The Cap 1 and horrible dust shadows in other Promise books in previous auctions. It seems like somehow someone has focused outside money into the Promise books. And the money going in there has a motto “no defect is too big to overlook!”

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On 11/19/2021 at 1:45 PM, Flex Mentallo said:

I see that the other Promise Planets in the latest group had quite a lot of variation in the hammer prices, it seems to me with no rhyme or reason.

Agreed. The #44 cgc 9.0 hammers at 5K, and others in the 7K+ or more. It didn't appear that production quality of the book ( miscuts and bad centering ) or color strike or the availability of the same book in grade had any effect on the prices. The Promised pedigree designation/ collection attention is certainly inflating the prices of the books in the auctions. 

Out of all of the Planets available in this latest auction I disregarded several due to very poor colors, 2 for bad centering/ miscut (where the title appears very crooked as an example ) and a few because the book I already own is pretty solid which left me 3 books to bid on. The 44, 49, 51. Comparatively speaking the 51 was a bargain price wise.

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On 11/19/2021 at 4:21 PM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

I was shocked about that. Only $44k. This is criminally low for what is now the second highest copy. The rusty staple kept you and me out.  But the crypto crowd overlooked a rusty staple in The Cap 1 and horrible dust shadows in other Promise books in previous auctions. It seems like somehow someone has focused outside money into the Promise books. And the money going in there has a motto “no defect is too big to overlook!”

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it sure seems there are some very dep pockets purchasing these labels. "Buy the label, not the book" is the opposite of what we always talk about. I can't call that Cap #1 a 3.5.

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On 11/19/2021 at 6:27 PM, Artboy99 said:

it sure seems there are some very dep pockets purchasing these labels. "Buy the label, not the book" is the opposite of what we always talk about. I can't call that Cap #1 a 3.5.

I still can't wrap my brain around the grades that some of these Promise books have gotten. I never thought that I would see high-grade books with rat chews!

Take a close look at the lower right-hand corner on this Mary Marvel #6:

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On 11/19/2021 at 5:42 PM, jimbo_7071 said:

It will be interesting to see what Promise books are selling for in a couple of years, after the hype has died down. I suspect that sellers who try to cash out via the no-reserve-auction route will end up taking some hefty losses, but we'll see.

I agree. This collection was overhyped and people are paying crazy amounts for some of the books. I don’t see them retaining their value either.

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On 11/19/2021 at 7:06 PM, kypackman said:

Sold my 5.0 a while back and regretted it.  Couldn’t pass up this one.   And it went for less than I thought it would.  95D3381D-DFA2-4F96-B4FD-94BF8AC6B313.thumb.jpeg.4212851ea3415e663d9d46165d08e19e.jpeg

I remember when I turned down a NM, white-paged copy for $700 because guide was $350. Talk about regret.

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