3rd PARTY GRADING - What is the next big collectibles category in the future?

[MutantKeys]

Pink for girlie books?

Guess greggy will have a bunch

[nik]

Gold for the 9.8s and better

[MutantKeys]

Gold for the 9.8s and better

[namralos]

In putting together the next edition of the Beatles price guide, I wrote to CGC to ask whether they might consider slabbing LP's or 45 sleeves. They have talked about it, and if demand is there they might do it. I will mention this in the guide.

[mica]

I'm not too keen on GAI. I've seen some questionable autographs that have been authenticated by them. I'm sure if CGC went the magazine route, they'd outshine GAI real quick.

 

We will be doing Mags at some point, been doing research about them and the holder sizes for the last 2 years, just very busy with other stuff.

 

Our new website will launch soon, we have had quite a bit of programing being done for graders notes to be put online, We are working on changes to the forums, the # of registry sets is growing, and there will soon be a new type of label making it 5 different CGC colored labels in total, but I am not revealing anything about that just yet.........

Please put the grade initials (alpha) back on the label.

[sborock]

"Please put the grade initials (alpha) back on the label."

 

Sorry, not happening.........

[mica]

"Please put the grade initials (alpha) back on the label."

 

Sorry, not happening.........

Oh don't get me wrong. I didn't mean instead of the numbers.... I meant along side the numbers. I think this would be a more popular move than you might think.

[sborock]

I knew what you meant.........

[*paull*]

For those that think that LPs/45s are the next big thing, it appears that you are about 10 years too late. I collect a variety of records, and pretty much across the board, I'm seeing depressed prices. Are Beatles' Yesterday and Today (Butcher cover), Elvis Sun 45s, Velvet Underground & Nico first pressings, and other rarities always going to fetch top dollar? Of course. But you're talking about the Suspense Comics #3, Action 1 and Zap Comix #1 of the record world. There are thousands upon thousands of other records that aren't holding value.

[The Troll King]

For those that think that LPs/45s are the next big thing, it appears that you are about 10 years too late. I collect a variety of records, and pretty much across the board, I'm seeing depressed prices. Are Beatles' Yesterday and Today (Butcher cover), Elvis Sun 45s, Velvet Underground & Nico first pressings, and other rarities always going to fetch top dollar? Of course. But you're talking about the Suspense Comics #3, Action 1 and Zap Comix #1 of the record world. There are thousands upon thousands of other records that aren't holding value.

 

True, but isn't there also 10's of thousands of comics with no value?

[*paull*]

I'm talking about decreasing value, not that they never had value.

[joe_collector]

For those that think that LPs/45s are the next big thing, it appears that you are about 10 years too late.

 

These are people, who instead of examining and evaluating what kids 10 or 20 years ago embraced, look to the past, like some bizarre retrograde visionaries.

 

It's the same know-nothings who constantly spout that "people have ALWAYS been tell me comic prices have peaked" in defense of never-ending comic book price appreciation.

[ComicsAndCode]

Sugar packs. It's going to be huge in 2 1/2 years.

[dekeuk]

Sugar packs. It's going to be huge in 2 1/2 years.

 

This is about as likely as people collecting frozen TV dinners

 

(OK, so I stole this idea from the main plot line of the movie NEVER BEEN THAWED, which is an as yet unreleased independant film about people who collect frozen TV dinners dating all the way back to the 1950's. The collectors in this film would score a CGC 9.8 on the "loser" scale. They are all guys (what a surprise) with the exception of one female member of the collecting society).