Would you publicize this find? 0

[BlowUpTheMoon]

 

Spoiler

 

[Lazyboy]

No. Why would I publicize a single grain of sand on a beach?

This isn't a long box of the ASM 667 variant or something else that would absolutely destroy the value of the pictured books.

[Bookery]

No... because the deal isn't even done yet.  If the seller sees your excitement about the collection, and you talking about all of the DMs pouring in, he might feel he could make more elsewhere and you may never see the other half of the collection.  And though these comics won't impact the larger market (conventions, eBay), if you have a shop, it would certainly affect your local market... I certainly would expect I could get a deal if I knew you were sitting on 40 copies of an issue.

[Dick Pontoon]

Negatory. Nope. No way, Blowie.

[ThothAmon]

All directs?  Hard pass. 

Edited March 5, 2023 by ThothAmon

[Artboy99]

On 3/5/2023 at 6:55 AM, ThothAmon said:

All directs?  Hard pass. 

is some news stands

[g-man]

Keep it on the down low…grade the best, bag/board the rest and do a show or sell on the boards over time. Any 9.4 or better, toss em on clink, CC or heritage. 

[Stefan_W]

I see local comic stores advertising stuff in collections they buy, so that part is fair game. Gotta drum up business and recoup the cost of buying somehow. The weird part for me is the deal isn't even done yet. 

[Robot Man]

No! Hard to do sometimes but keep yer trap shut. This guy is just bragging.

That is the trouble with books like this. Sooo many copies in high grade. I just can’t see fools paying much for most of it.

By showing all your cards so to speak, you are just devaluing what you do have.

I’m not impressed…

[Dr. Balls]

I'm of the philosophy of never showing people how the magic happens. Yes, he's a dealer and he buys collections - but keep the mystery alive. When I had my shop, I routinely ordered multiple "hot" back issues from that mail-order place on the backs of books and this newfangled thing called "internet bulletin boards" in the 90s. I would put one up and let the customer think it was the only one around, the day after he bought it, I'd put another one back on the wall. It helped my shop was in a small town in the middle of Montana - where the Wizard Top 10 books were always hard to find, so getting them in was a boon for business.

Bragging publicly about multiple copies erodes the "gotta-have-it" mentality.

[Moondog]

On 3/5/2023 at 9:48 AM, Robot Man said:

No! Hard to do sometimes but keep yer trap shut. This guy is just bragging.

That is the trouble with books like this. Sooo many copies in high grade. I just can’t see fools paying much for most of it.

By showing all your cards so to speak, you are just devaluing what you do have.

I’m not impressed…

Bob, you are sooo right.  Man, I get tired of looking at collections like this.  Sooo much spoon out there!

[bronze_rules]

I could swear this collection came from a friend of mine when I was much younger. He literally had a box of those New Teen Titans 2 issues when they came out. Man, I was envious.

[SpideyFein]

On 3/6/2023 at 2:22 AM, bronze_rules said:

I could swear this collection came from a friend of mine when I was much younger. He literally had a box of those New Teen Titans 2 issues when they came out. Man, I was envious.

I’m on Long Island, and once found a collection with 17 copies of NTT2, 10 sets of She-Hulk 1-12, and multiples of many random issues. Nothing else spectacular. It was definitely fun spreading those copies on a table. 
 

I agree with most and would not advertise it to the world. He should’ve held back wanting attention, but in our society driven by “likes,” he just couldn’t resist. Again, the deal isn’t even complete. Crazy. 

[Robot Man]

Sometimes when I make an amazing find, it is hard to keep it to my self. Not for bragging rights but just the amazement that I got so lucky. We have mostly all gotton lucky one time or another but it never gets old. I would rather discourage not incourage  my competition though.

I one time lucked into a cool SA key at a flea market for $5. I wanted to howl at the moon but I just kept it in my back pack. A local guy that is real aggressive and annoying came up to me and asked me if I found anything and what was in my back pack. He was real persistent and nosy. I just said, “haven’t seen anything today”. A couple of weeks later I sold it to him for $900. at another show never telling him where I got it. If he knew what I paid he would have grinded me into the dirt. What you pay and what you sell it for are irrelevant.

Those days are pretty much gone. I mostly just bump into moderns if at all these days. 

[october]

On 3/5/2023 at 8:30 PM, Moondog said:

Bob, you are sooo right.  Man, I get tired of looking at collections like this.  Sooo much spoon out there!

Gary, if you ever get tired of looking at collections of dozens of bronze and copper keys, send em my way. Happy to go blind looking at that stuff every day for a LONG time. 

It might be garbage to old school guys, but it's a big deal to younger collectors. 

[october]

On 3/5/2023 at 9:48 AM, Robot Man said:

I just can’t see fools paying much for most of it.

 

Why? 

There are hundreds of copies already on eBay of each of those. A few dozen isn't going to move the price a cent. There's near-infinite demand for stuff like X-Men 141 and NTT 2. 

[Stefan_W]

On 3/6/2023 at 12:38 PM, october said:

Why? 

There are hundreds of copies already on eBay of each of those. A few dozen isn't going to move the price a cent. There's near-infinite demand for stuff like X-Men 141 and NTT 2. 

This is exactly right. Unless it is a legit rare book the census count will be continually expanding, and it makes little to no difference if one person sends in 17 copies since there are already tons in the census. They are all just drops in a much larger bucket. For example, the NTT 2 already has 786 copies in the census at 9.8 alone. If that number grew to 796 or something like that I can't see it mattering to anyone who was figuring out how much they are willing to pay for their copy. 

[Robot Man]

On 3/6/2023 at 9:37 AM, october said:

Gary, if you ever get tired of looking at collections of dozens of bronze and copper keys, send em my way. Happy to go blind looking at that stuff every day for a LONG time. 

It might be garbage to old school guys, but it's a big deal to younger collectors. 

Pay no attention to that geezer behind the curtain @Moondog

 

[Gonzimodo]

I hate all these humbling reality checks.  Every time I start to feel good about myself for having a certain comic in my collection, one of you bozos comes around and shows a stack of fifty of them...  

[theCapraAegagrus]

Hard to say. On the one hand, you can buildup anticipation for someone who could be a customer. On the other hand, I like to have my ducks in a row, first. I'm leaning towards "no".