malvin Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 On 11/15/2022 at 8:24 AM, G.A.tor said: Guess if folks don’t even have the courtesy to respond (I sent two inquiries of interest and neither bothered to respond ), maybe that says more than their pricing. Who knows Wow! I'm shocked. Just so I am clear, these pieces didn't sell, and you sent an inquiry with a question or an offer off their listed price? I guess it's just me. I almost always respond. Even on CAF when people lowball me on NFS pieces I send a polite reply saying it's NFS. Malvin John E. and davidtere 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtcheap31 Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 On 11/15/2022 at 9:38 AM, malvin said: Wow! I'm shocked. Just so I am clear, these pieces didn't sell, and you sent an inquiry with a question or an offer off their listed price? I guess it's just me. I almost always respond. Even on CAF when people lowball me on NFS pieces I send a polite reply saying it's NFS. Malvin Same yeah their were two pieces I sent stuff on as well no response I assume a lot of art does sell on there that is not captured by the reporting… sellers being lazy I bet the reported sales is far less then actual my two cents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.tor Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 On 11/15/2022 at 11:38 AM, malvin said: Wow! I'm shocked. Just so I am clear, these pieces didn't sell, and you sent an inquiry with a question or an offer off their listed price? I guess it's just me. I almost always respond. Even on CAF when people lowball me on NFS pieces I send a polite reply saying it's NFS. Malvin Correct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Sid Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 Are there any pricing restrictions in place for sellers? What's to stop me from listing my Chas Truog Animal Man panel page in the event at $5m? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sideshow Bob Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 (edited) On 11/15/2022 at 1:39 PM, J.Sid said: Are there any pricing restrictions in place for sellers? What's to stop me from listing my Chas Truog Animal Man panel page in the event at $5m? During the recap, Bill quoted the total amount of art that was on offer by collectors, and also in total with dealers. He'll use that to compare to other CAF Live events and likely in advertising sales decks, but now we've established that the quoted number is effectively inflated by the $5m. So now Bill has to put a caveat on the offered amounts by carving out "joke offers". Anything that makes Bill have to do more work when not absolutely necessary isn't very cool in my book. -Bob Edited November 15, 2022 by Sideshow Bob alxjhnsn, Will_K and Dirtcheap31 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BVladimirHarkonnen Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 I reached out to a well known member about follow up on a piece in the future, they responded promptly. Have yet to purchase during the event (Only picked up a signed & remarqued book from an artist) but do like being able to have the saves in my gallery and be able to follow up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malvin Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 On 11/15/2022 at 10:39 AM, J.Sid said: Are there any pricing restrictions in place for sellers? What's to stop me from listing my Chas Truog Animal Man panel page in the event at $5m? No pricing restrictions. But if you have the secret sauce to boost Animal Man pages to $5M each, let me know how I can help, I have lots! Malvin J.Sid and Rick2you2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 This is my fifth Comic Art Live (out of 6) that I’ve sold in. I didn’t hit my sales goal, but that’s okay. Still what I like about the event is that it prods collectors who usually don’t sell, to sell. And it’s nice seeing a lot fresh-to-market art. I noticed that a lot of sellers who participated in 2020 who brought some great stuff at reasonable prices were absent this time around. Whatever the case may be for that, personally, all my inventory was wiped out by the third show. By the fourth show, I brought out small sketches and all my sales were under $100. This is to say that I didn’t see a lot of vintage art coming out of black holes this time around. A lot of what I saw that was overpriced were commissions and new art bought & overpaid from an art rep. I don’t know…I wish I had the evidence to prove it…but it seems to me a lot of the art offered is art recently acquired, maybe last last 2-3 years, likely bought at close- to full market, and so it’s sold at 100%-150% at current market just to make it worthwhile. Because bottomline is that most of us don’t want to take a bath on it. But no one actually hangs on to their art long enough to let it “naturally” increase in value. Hockeyflow33, Mighty Hal and Twanj 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xatari Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 In reference to the lack of response, it is possible the sellers didn’t see the messages. I actually found two messages from the last CAF Live event in my own CAFL inbox because they don’t go to your main mail (it’s an entirely separate messaging system). Any CAF Live inquiry also send an email to the seller, but it may get filtered by the email host. This actually cost me a sale last event since I didn’t see it. May not be the fault of the seller, especially if they are well known and respected in the community. John E. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RafaVia Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 I bought 2 pages from 2 sellers for the first time at caflive. Take into account timezones. I am in Europe, so I got response to my requests when I was already going to bed. So I replied when I woke up and the Us based sellers were in bed then. Also I didn’t have the time to go through all the art offered because of weekend commitments. maybe they could start the next event already om a friday and do 3 days. I find 2 days a bit short to have the art offered, it’s online afterall. Not like we have to be present all the time. John E. and The Voord 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyFish Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 This was CaFLive #6 for us-- we've been in them all and each one has subsequently grown for us. This time around we kept our sales goal the same as last time rather than increasing it and we hit it to the penny. I also bought a few pieces and unlike previous years the seller(s) responded immediately and I already have some of the art in hand. CaFLive remains our favorite of the half dozen or so cons that we do, Bill is great and CAF has always had some great folks on it. RafaVia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Unstoppablejayd Posted November 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 18, 2022 Am I buying??? Yes I am! Just received my piece I bought.. a great rogue centric Silvestri/Green page that happens to be from the first appearance issue of Jubilee!! I’m sure @Xatarican appreciate this one lol. Twanj, vodou, Andahaion and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xatari Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Man! I’ve been looking for a page from that one. Congratulations! Unstoppablejayd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unstoppablejayd Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 On 11/18/2022 at 11:55 AM, Xatari said: Man! I’ve been looking for a page from that one. Congratulations! Thank you my friend! Xatari 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post justadude Posted November 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 18, 2022 (edited) I've been looking for a good Allred X-Force/X-Statix page for a while now and this one was the best price I've seen. They're in space suits, but the whole team is there and this captures the best part of X-Statix: the fame! Didn't pick up anything else but was negotiating on some. Look forward to the next! Edited November 18, 2022 by jazawlacki John E., cloud cloddie, Unstoppablejayd and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aahz Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Just received my one purchase. I have been looking for a Marvels: Eye of the Camera page, and landed on the perfect one ... with Monsters! I am in awe of Jay Anacleto's pencils. John E. and Unstoppablejayd 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malvin Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 On 11/18/2022 at 1:12 PM, Heidjer Staecker said: Just received my one purchase. I have been looking for a Marvels: Eye of the Camera page, and landed on the perfect one ... with Monsters! I am in awe of Jay Anacleto's pencils. Congrats on that! I was considering that page and put it on my watch list while I finalize other things. At the end of the day when I wanted to look at my watch list to reconsider stuff, I saw that this was gone. Congrats again. Malvin Aahz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benedict Judas Hel Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 (edited) As I stated before, I didn’t make any purchases during CAF Live but placed a few pieces on my Saved List. A couple of sellers reached out to me during the event but the prices were still out of reach. However, one seller reached out to me after the event ended and we were able to come to an agreement. I just made the first timed payment today so I hope to add another page to my collection in the near future… Edited November 20, 2022 by Benedict Judas Hel John E., RafaVia, cloud cloddie and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Buzzetta Posted December 19, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 19, 2022 (edited) I spent the time "attending" my first Comic Art Live show and I went though every vendor, dealer, artist's gallery and found two great pieces that I felt really caught my eye. I am and will never be a player for the ASM 300 cover so it did not bother me whatever it was priced at. They could have priced it at 1/10th of that and I am at a point where I would rather throw money at property than spend that on a cover. So what did I find? I found that there were a few great deals out there if you really looked. I spent $160 shipped on the Conan 212 page and $90 on the cover to volume 2 from a self published title called, "Tales of Reverie". I instantly caught a Narnia, Oz vibe and at $90 shipped on an oversized page of 18x24, I thought it was a fun piece to own. I will definitely pay attention for future events. I really am impressed with everything Bill organizes and executes over there. Edited December 19, 2022 by Buzzetta Unstoppablejayd, Rick2you2, davidtere and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumbydarnit Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 There ya go! Good art without breaking the bank… well done! Buzzetta 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
