Anyone else sweating out a Hake's auction bid?

[nearmint]

I'll tell you in 26 minutes.

[Timulty]

Dude, you are way overpaying for that one!!!

[GoodyRickles]

probably,But I can't afford the occasional Gaines that comes on the market.

[Timulty]

Well, true. I can't bid against you. I was going to just to mess with you but my cheddar is being baked for another dish.

[GoodyRickles]

I'm almost talking myself into another book.

[Red Hook]

Go Gooody Go!

[Timulty]

Yeah, Goody. Hope you get it. It seems like it has been on 10 minute warning for more than 10 minutes though....

[GoodyRickles]

Yeah, get the feeling the 10-minute warning is actually a hour-warning..

[Timulty]

I started looking at it at 2:38 EDT It is now, 2:05 PM. EDT. What is going on. No one is bidding on it.

[Timulty]

You know, I noticed in the listing that this issue is the origin of the Crypt Keeper. I wonder why it isn't on the label?

[GoodyRickles]

Yeah ,it is one of the EC Super-keys, I have a couple of low grade copies (below fine)...always wanted a Nice one...I'll take this over the 2 grand a Gaines will cost.

[Timulty]

Well, I think the others above it have to close out then it will close out. Talk about a screwed up way of running an auction!!!

 

Edit: Found this one on Ebay. Decide the grade for yourself but it would be cheaper to pick this one up.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/EC-Tales-from-the-Cr...1QQcmdZViewItem

[nearmint]

It's not a 10 minute warning for that particular book, it's a 10 minute warning for the WHOLE auction. If no one bids on a particular item for 3 hours, that item ends. Or, if no one bids on any item for 10 minutes, the entire auction ends.

[Timulty]

Well, crud. Guess, I will find out when I get home then.

[GoodyRickles]

Good grief............

[Timulty]

I bet yours will finish(unless there are any bids!!) in the next hour.

[nearmint]

I got it! Very cool. I'd convinced myself that this book would go over 2K, and wasn't going to bid. Apparently, I was the only person on the planet interested in this book...

 

 

[Sal]

i thought you were looking at that $20,000 Nedor, Jeff...but that is a nice Schomburg War Cover, indeed

[Norrin_Radd]

I got it! Very cool. I'd convinced myself that this book would go over 2K, and wasn't going to bid. Apparently, I was the only person on the planet interested in this book...

 

 

 

Yup.

 

But it does have a cool cover.

 

 

I hope to own a Gaines copy of VoH #26 someday. A 9.0 sold for less than $1k at Heritage.

[Timulty]

So, Goody, looks like you got your Tales From The Crypt 33.