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Larryw7 reacted to a post in a topic: Will The Marvel love ever spread to DC?
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Ken Aldred reacted to a post in a topic: Will The Marvel love ever spread to DC?
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I'm in no hurry to see the day-traders and profiteers make a mess of DC prices like they've done with Marvel. The Eternals movie is probably going to be the first of the Marvel stinkers that sets the ball rolling back downhill.
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Wolverinex reacted to a post in a topic: Buyers: What is your plan for the current insanity?
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Off Panel reacted to a post in a topic: Buyers: What is your plan for the current insanity?
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Buyers: What is your plan for the current insanity?
FineCollector replied to Off Panel's topic in Comics General
I'm not sure it's crypto profits as much as market manipulation a la Game Stop stocks. Imagine, you buy a book off eBay at a stupid price, and everyone just agrees that's the price from now on? Couple that with new collectors who hear the muppets on Youtube pushing them to buy at any price, and you have a runaway train that's destined to crash. There's plenty to buy that hasnt spiked. I'm a run collector, so I just move to other titles and plug away. I wont own the Marvel mega keys, but finishing runs of non keys has never been easier, when the online flippers desperately liquidate an -
FineCollector reacted to a post in a topic: Buyers: What is your plan for the current insanity?
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FineCollector reacted to a post in a topic: Buyers: What is your plan for the current insanity?
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FineCollector reacted to a post in a topic: Has there been a substantial increase in the number of serious comic book collectors?
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IronMan_Cave reacted to a post in a topic: Which of the 4 Marvel's major universes have more key issues, FF vs X-Men vs Spider-Man vs Avengers?
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PopKulture reacted to a post in a topic: Which of the 4 Marvel's major universes have more key issues, FF vs X-Men vs Spider-Man vs Avengers?
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Spider-Man has the most keys, but few with any real significance outside of the Spider-Man title. What effect did Chameleon, Vulture, Dr Octopus, Electro, Mysterio, or Shocker have in the rest of the Marvel Universe? Absolutely none. Fantastic Four is the title from which the Marvel Universe was built.
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FineCollector reacted to a post in a topic: Bronze age comics that are heating up on eBay...
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mec3437 reacted to a post in a topic: Completeness
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FineCollector reacted to a post in a topic: Silver age comics that are heating up
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The way I see it, there are three kinds of buyers at work in the market: - day traders who dont care what they're buying as long as they can flip to someone else for more than what they paid. They're the ones setting new highs, flipping back and forth with each other. - old guys, who mostly have what they want already. They are largely unaffected by the mob, because they're not chasing trends. - the young collector, who was told by some of the old guys "buy what you like, but you really want to buy keys." They're buying books they cant afford and are afraid to touch. They're
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Montreal Theft rings open for business again
FineCollector replied to blazingbob's topic in Comics General
I could use a list if you have one. -
I think the run ups in price are from people who have no interest or attachment in the books themselves. Collectors don't want to set new highs, they want bargains. I think prices are being driven up by speculators selling to other speculators, as long as they think someone else will pay a little more than they did. It's like day trading stocks, except the market is far easier to manipulate. I'm already tired of this... bring on the crash.
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FineCollector reacted to a post in a topic: Silver age conundrum
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I don't do "keys." If I don't like the title enough to attempt the run, I don't need the single book. The phrase "quality over quantity" makes flame shoot from my eyes. A complete run to me is one of each standard, original cover. I don't care if it's newsstand or direct, Jeweler insert or not, it's all the same, because I'm not selling it. Canadian versions are fine for the 80s, but Canadian prints of GA books have terrible color and are often missing a story, so I avoid those. I can have pence copies, 2nd prints, or variants in addition to the original US cover, but they can't be m
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VCC 2021 Discussion Thread
FineCollector replied to DeadOne's topic in Virtual Comic Convention (VCC) Expo Center
I'll be watching. Let's have none of this "not shipping outside the US due to COVID" nonsense I'm seeing in other sales lately! -
FineCollector reacted to a post in a topic: Silver age comics that are heating up
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FineCollector reacted to a post in a topic: (Closed) Thank you everyone
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What movie based "key" are you most annoyed by?
FineCollector replied to serling1978's topic in Comics General
The books don't bother me, it's how young collectors want every "key" indiscriminately. As soon as something's announced, there's no longer a question if there will be enough demand to drive up the price of a book, only how much it will go up by. It doesn't matter how insignificant the character, the people buying it have no sense of context. -
FineCollector reacted to a post in a topic: What movie based "key" are you most annoyed by?
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Bronze age comics that are heating up on eBay...
FineCollector replied to PeterPark's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
Bonkers is I start typing "Avengers" in Google, and 186 is the first option. I'm so sick of people flowing from hot book to hot book like locusts. -
ASM Annual #1 - white back cover vs normal back covee
FineCollector replied to Diaolos's topic in Comics General
Those aren't socks... it's natural protection from the cold. Same for the "sweater." -
ASM Annual #1 - white back cover vs normal back covee
FineCollector replied to Diaolos's topic in Comics General
A week or two ago, I was checking eBay for a different Canadian variant, JIM Annual 1, and the blank copy was selling at a premium over the more plentiful US copies. I get the sense that since 80s Canadian price variants like ASM 238 or Thor 337 sell for more, buyers feel justified in paying more for other Canadian variants. -
Easiest Way to Value a Collection?
FineCollector replied to Axelrod's topic in Newbie Comic Collecting Questions
It depends on your means of selling them. Do you want someone to come haul them away? Are you going to advertise a yard sale? Do you want to get a table at a con? Do you want to sell on eBay? Do you want to start an online store, or sell on Facebook? Prices realized will be different in all of those scenarios. -
Frankly, if you collected them because they're worth money, then the end goal was always to liquidate, and profit from their sale. I wouldn't expect a lot of sentimentality for random books that were purchased because the price tag was impressive. The person with a more emotional attachment to their collection wouldn't feel that same sense of relief.
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UPS enjoys sending you a $50 brokerage invoice a month after your package gets there. It's not fun.