Aweandlorder

6 minutes ago, maidenmate91 said:

I Wish you a speedy recovery

Thanks. Luckily I didn’t personally meet @Myowncollector after my accident otherwise my other foot would be stuck high up his  

24 minutes ago, maidenmate91 said:

I personally wouldn't drop $50 on it. More power to you though This book is super common as @Aweandlorder said he has a ton as well. I would flip quick because saturation is here, and price drops are sure to follow. 

Yup this book is common as dirt. I started listing the ones I have at home already but in no way am I going through my boxes to get more anytime soon. I honestly thought this won’t last long but seems like it’s still selling. Hey I ain’t complaining

I’ve injured my foot last week so can’t walk much. Bummer I won’t be going to the storage unit lifting boxes to take out those 100-200 copies of the spider man fcbd 😰

7 hours ago, Keys_Collector said:

Punchline say what?  Black Label with 1st app of Batwang?

DC... The Oops, we did it again, kings 

There are also some nice amazing heroes covers from the time just too lazy to find them

I think theres been more thought put into this McFartlane drawing than the dam mona lisa

A couple of other not so well known McSpidey covers from the copper era

13 hours ago, Myowncollector said:

Hold on to your copies for 20 years and let us know your results. You may be right, but I will turn my $150 to $200 per book into tens of thousands per book in the next 20 years. As another member said. I am not blowing my sales $ on twitch gamer girls, I am going to buy more books to flip for profit. Rinse and repeat. #All Miles must go

TGG is the new crack 

I cleaned out a amazon seller out of all his uf4s 3-4 years ago or so after confirming with him they were all 1st prints for 5/each. Must’ve been 20 copies at least. All thanks to @authority that discussed it here first

8 minutes ago, spreads said:

Right, this is a good approach.  I have books that I put aside too....I do comingle stuff into my PC, but the important thing is to hold onto the stuff with the greatest price appreciation.  Whether you put those high grade books aside, or just keep them buried in a box you can find later it's good to hold onto books that offer the greatest return over raws.  I think of a lot of late 90s low print run books where there might not be any high grade books slabbed.....

I have tons of inventory. Tons! So I’m not a really good example. I have boatloads of books like power pack 1, dazzler Error 1, x-men 4, alpha flight 1... most will grade 9.8... but I also have twice as much high 9s bronze & silver that need to be graded. Also 2-3 longs of high value keys... as you can see, I’d have to spend a tremendous amount of money in grading all of those and they will ALL benefit me financially when graded. Often times what will happen is, I will have some of those spec books turn hot overnight and then I’ll HAVE TO sell them raw because I didn’t grade them yet. That’s ok, as long as I made a nice profit I won’t mind. You can’t win with 100s percent of profit all the time.. sometimes you gonna win little too... but we all have our spec books that we submit in the hopes of a huge return over character/series development, and those almost always turn profitable in the long run. The name of the game for me is invest smart and ALWAYS very little in comparison to my return, BECAUSE I can

1 hour ago, spreads said:

I guess this works for very high volume slabbers, but for those of us submitting up to 100 slabs a year I never sell them discounted to current GPA.  When I have a stack of books that I want to send to CGC, right before the submission I take another long look at the book and also pull up GPA to see what the market is on it.  I factor in the risk by analyzing shipping, slabbing, currency conversion, etc all before the book arrives back to me.  It's more of 'picky approach' but I have yet to sell a book for at least what I paid for it and does involve waiting - but who cares it just sits on ebay.

I dont have one method of slabbing... Its usually demand and owning the market... or a combination of the 2... But I wont submit a book that had one or 2 sales in the past year at the price that I want it to sell.. If its a unique book then it better not have any existence online and a few sales in the past year at my target price..

As far as the wait game.. Thats ok quite frankly im never in a rush and thats why I never ever sell a book at at least 3 times the amount i invested on it. This works 95% of the time on all my inventory, not just slabs. So the question is, if i have a raw book that i can list raw and make 3 times (at least) the amount, or a book Im gonna spend the time submitting and hoping will come as I expect it to, to make 3 times the amount, AND, if I have sht ton of inventory, guess what Ill do.... I really wont send the books I "possibly" have to wait on to be slabbed. Ill likely have them sit in a special box until I see the need to slab them.

Ive got nothing but time believe me... Fresh example that comes to mind; 2 years ago I bought a near complete set of Savage Sword Of Conan Dark Horse TPB for $100. Today marks the day that I sold the very last one of them on Amazon. It was a very simple flip bcs it involved an overall 5 min time of listing them all but took a loooooong time to "flip"... But what the heck do I care, I made a clean 500% profit out of it and I sold tons of other stuff in the interim.

5 hours ago, fastballspecial said:

Overall the market is still really healthy on the raw side I cant speak to slabs I don't sell enough of them. 

I even sold something to Europe. My international sales have plumetted the last few years, but you know the 
market is good when you are selling there too.

 

It’s really tricky with slabs. On the one hand you take a book that you won’t be able to get 20 bucks for raw... say Alpha Flight 1... you then get it back 9.8... common sense tell ya right there and then you can flip it for 50$ easy... but wait... now they’re going for 100-120... 

so

if youre just looking to make a nice profit out of a 20$ investment, sell it for 50$ profit and forget the book ever existed... you’ll flip it in minutes within listing

but if you wanna get THE MOST out of it than yes I agree, you will sit on it for a very long long time

This MUST happen!

2 minutes ago, littledoom said:

same but I sold mine for less.. sat on my ebay for several months

Yup I got em for 5/each a few mo the back so was on the “flip em quick” bandwagon. Oh well.. Can’t win them all 

On 5/15/2020 at 4:39 PM, littledoom said:

Sweet Tooth 1

Wowza. I had 2 copies I sold too soon last week for 35/40  

16 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said:

Something like that would help.  

Observing a comic cover violated by even a small tear; the terror on seeing that horrible, horrible, matt-white blemish appearing, surrounded by still-pristine, coloured gloss, no going back now, a pamphlet scarred forever, the helplessness, nothing you can do ... well, it's a traumatic experience, burned into memory for life.

Understandably, nightmares ensue, self-recrimination, necessitating a search for a comicbook-related PTSD support group to help you through those repetitive, obsessive-compulsive, excruciating thoughts.

 

Dewd!! Thats not a TA (Tapepull Anonymous) meeting intro.. Thats a straight up Frank Miller epic storyline just waiting to be adapted to film!! 

55 minutes ago, Artboy99 said:

needs a more "legendary" name, similar to Paste Pot Pete.

Tape Tear Tommy?

Tape Pull Terry?

I thought tapepull was a brilliant name actually. @kav you gotta come up with a nm98 swipe with that villain ASAP 

This thread is going to drain me emotionally I can already see it 

43 minutes ago, letsgrumble said:

Ever since tape caught on one of my SA books and damaged it, I vowed to remove tape completely out and away from my collection. 

I have now been tape-free for over 15 years.

The first step is to admit we're powerless over tape—that it has become unmanageable.

Is there a tape-pull anonymous group I can join?

8 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

What book has been hurt here? 

It was a bronze Superman book that I was ready to ship. I placed the comic on a pile of bags unsuspectingly. Sure enough, one of the bags flap was wide open. When I lifted the comic... shhhhhffffttt the rip occurred 

1 hour ago, James J Johnson said:

I hope everyone realizes that there's a tape fairy that hates comics and the people who collect them. The tape fairy pops in unexpectedly and tapes your comic bags closed, whether you did or not. As if things weren't bad enough already, now there's something else besides Covid-19 for us to worry about! Here's a rare pic of the tape fairy caught in the act by security cam. Stranger still, the tape fairy appears to have a halo!

 

Exactly... She exists Ive seen her!!

We need something similar to the lego/foot meme to exist

Now if Bedlam and Enormous start heating up you’d know people are drowning in boredom cash

22 hours ago, Jaydogrules said:

Hawkeye v Deadpool #0 nearing $200 in a 9.8?  

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HAWKEYE-vs-DEADPOOL-0-CGC-9-8-NM-Near-Mint-Alamo-City-Convention-Comic-Con/362966306563?hash=item54827a4f03:g:K9cAAOSwRq5ejr6A

-J.

I wouldn’t say it’s heating up. It’s not even the Alamo City Variant as the listing states. I sold 2 Alamo 9.8 in the past for 200