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Joosh

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About Joosh

  • Birthday June 24

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  • Comic Collecting Interests
    Silver Age
    Bronze Age
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    Modern Age
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    Farmington Hills, Michigan

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  1. I looked at what you are saying and found they use a 180 day average. Since the massive increase happened around 60 days ago, there are a large number of $2K 9.8 sales dragging down the average of the newer much higher sales. Assuming you have paid subscription, you can dive deeper and set your own average. I just changed mine to 90 day avg, and the 9.8 rises to $3,700. 180 day avg is too long for a high volume seller, I think. The recent large FMV change you mentioned is beyond my understanding. I can guess it has something to do with not having any ebay sales entered for 13 day in October, then the subsequent catch-up after fixing the bug. GoCollect has a very responsive and helpful customer service in my experience. I’m sure they can help.
  2. Im too young to have gotten any cheap silver age key issues. I was poor when IH181 was affordable. I splurged and got my ASM300 9.6 in 2018, no regrets. I wanted a 9.8 but refused to pay over 2X a 9.6 without being able to inspect it in hand. I can’t see myself dropping $5K on a 9.8 today, but I also can’t see this book going back to $2K for 9.8. I think this book is the next IH181, but at a lower price point overall due to higher grades and larger supply. It’s even an actual 2nd appearance, just like IH181, 😂.
  3. A few of these I may have shared previously, a few fresh back from CGC.
  4. You mentioned spending a couple thousand/month on comics for investment... with that budget you could save up for major key issues, purchasing one or 2/year. That’s the smartest play for strictly investing in comics long term. When liquidation time comes, it’s just as much work to sell a $200 Black Lightning #1 as it is to sell a $25K Amazing Fantasy #1. The AF15 will probably be an easier sell too.
  5. First off, knowing which issue under consideration will provide best advice. Most here on the boards will say go for the best presenting book. In this case, it’s the 9.4. I say it depends on your reason for purchasing. For pure speculation/investment purposes, the higher grades tend to yield greater returns overall. From what I’ve seen, well centered books can see a bump in value in grade, but rarely exceeding an off-centered higher grade.
  6. CGC will separate everything possible and charge shipping for each. Reholder is a separate invoice and therefore a unique shipping charge. They will even separate 2 books from same tier if one has a custom label added. Their sole legitimate competitor will combine everything to save on shipping and has no $5 invoice fee per tier, so there are options.
  7. Absolutely. As soon as I get them in my hands I’ll be ready to get CGC Customer Service involved and get it all sorted.
  8. @Jeffro. grades are not posted until books are shipped, so I have to wait and see. There’s actually another book in this batch that was wrongfully labeled as incomplete, so yeah this sucks. I’ve had close to 100 books graded since July and I’ve been impressed with everything until now. This particular 13 book batch has at least 2 errors as well as lower grades than expected, with grading notes mentioning pressable defects on books that were pressed.
  9. My grades came in today and CGC did not notate double cover... figures.
  10. I’ve got a double cover book getting graded right now. It better be marked on the slab regardless of whatever notes I did or didn’t add. Identification and authentication of such instances is a significant reason for CGC existing and the only reason I sent that book their way.
  11. I like this idea. Make the newsstand editions with unique covers and newsprint interior and they’ll be cheaper to manufacture; add a 50¢ to $1 to cover price in select regions, creating additional variants. Limit titles to big sellers and one shots/miniseries. I recall getting DC newsstands in 2017 and poor Aquaman was always in full supply, Batman and Detective were selling out. And just maybe sell them outside of Barnes&Noble and BaM, increase impulse buys from non collectors. Dollar General and similar convenience stores are everywhere nowadays; perfect places to sell comics. The Walmart Marvel 3 packs (not newsstand sales but comparable) seem to be selling well and they are not cheap. $10 for 3 books, and speculators only really want the Variant in front anyway. The hidden fillers are heavy with non-key 2nd prints and overprinted 1st prints.
  12. CBCS has their own forum on their website; all can be answered there. There’s no reslabbing time set that I’ve seen; most important, for all slabbed books, is proper storage conditions.
  13. I just had an Absolute Carnage 1 graded 9.8, it is missing the code from manufacturer and CGC didn’t even notate it. I’ve got an ASM698 with 2 stickers, all crooked. Haven’t had that one graded though.
  14. I personally think 9.9 and 10 are too fragile to pay a premium for. As was mentioned, these books can be damaged within their slabs accidentally, especially through shipping, with nothing to insure against such occurrences. Way too risky for me.