Am I Missing Something Here?

[dc360]

$611 with four and a half days left?

 

Am i just way off? I don't really collect FF and i stay even farther from PLODs, so... is this typical for this kind of book?

[Aces]

$611 with four and a half days left?

 

Am i just way off? I don't really collect FF and i stay even farther from PLODs, so... is this typical for this kind of book?

 

A 1.8 with slight P....

 

My guess this is a $700s book.

In the $800s if a blue label.

[rob_react]

$611 with four and a half days left?

 

Am i just way off? I don't really collect FF and i stay even farther from PLODs, so... is this typical for this kind of book?

 

It's an FF1. the floor is pretty high on that book.

[seank]

From the scan, poorly-done granted, the book looks better than a 1.8. A 2.5 maybe?

 

But it does seem that the price is a bit high for a PLOD 1.8.

[rob_react]

From the scan, poorly-done granted, the book looks better than a 1.8. A 2.5 maybe?

 

But it does seem that the price is a bit high for a PLOD 1.8.

 

It's not. GPA has one other sale of a PLOD 1.8 and that was for 660. The lowest sale of an FF 1 is 425 for a trimmed 1.5. That's what I mean by there being a really high floor on this book. Two SA 1.0s sold for more than $500.

[tth2]

From the scan, poorly-done granted, the book looks better than a 1.8. A 2.5 maybe?

 

But it does seem that the price is a bit high for a PLOD 1.8.

The lower the grade of a book, the less important the PLOD status is. I've gotten more than Guide for low grade PLODs.

[FourthWorld]

That's a NICE looking 1.8...like to see the back cover to see if it's missing a "chunk".

[dc360]

The lower the grade of a book, the less important the PLOD status is. I've gotten more than Guide for low grade PLODs.

[honest question] Why is this? [/honest question]

[evilsly]

it will largely be because the kind of people buying 1.8-2.5's will be the kind of people who are buying the book, not the label, and the PLOD won't put them off as much as label hoarders. They just want to own an FF1, X-men 1, Spider-man 1 etc

 

I'd be perfectly happy buying PLOD silver age keys at decent prices, rather than spending a fortune on a blue label one which could just be a hidden press/trim away from a PLOD anyway.

[sterlingcomics]

The lower the grade of a book, the less important the PLOD status is. I've gotten more than Guide for low grade PLODs.

[honest question] Why is this? [/honest question]

 

When the value is closer to the bottom of the barrel, it's harder to impact the value with further bad news.

[rjpb]

It presents well for the grade. I've seen really ratty looking fuzzy scan raw copies sell for $500-$600 on ebay. That seems to be the price of entry.

Didn't a copy of AF #15 with about a third of the book missing ( torn or chewed off) sell for over $500 last year? Now THAT is

[tth2]

The lower the grade of a book, the less important the PLOD status is. I've gotten more than Guide for low grade PLODs.

[honest question] Why is this? [/honest question]

 

When the value is closer to the bottom of the barrel, it's harder to impact the value with further bad news.

That's my guess too. If a book is trashed all to hell and then CGC says it's got some color touch, for instance, who really cares at that point? The range of defects at the really low grades are so wide that even if you removed the color touch, thus exposing the color breaks, would it even impact the grade? Probably not.

 

If you're asking why someone would pay more than Guide for a PLOD, your guess is as good as mine.