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Last time I sold a properly valuable book - signed first edition of Lord Jim - I used Sothebys. I think most of the major auction houses outside the comic space have regular sales of books, but I don't know if perhaps there are specialist auction houses that attract more focus from dedicated collectors.

I would also suggest using Vuescan to average out multiple passes, you end up with a much more nuanced scan than most will give you on a single pass.

You can see the signature auction premium in the CGC slabs - Sandman #19 error edition can be bought in a 9.8 for about $125-150, sold here for $1,560...

Good lord how long is she going to take to close the DPS?

Grades in - being this badly wrong takes time!

Sign me up please!

Is it possible for a retailer to pay CGC to send someone round to sift through all the copies and pick out those most likely to get 9.9 or above? Or to send them all in, and have them screened for 9.9 and above?

Just another thought - if the seller listed the art in the wrong category, maybe that is why Ebay mistakenly thought it needed to charge VAT? Might be worth looking closely at the original listing.

That is very odd. Sales VAT shouldn't apply as you're buying from outside the EU; import VAT might apply, but as you say, the courier company usually handles the payment of that, and charges it on. I haven't bought art from Ebay for a few years, but that does all sound quite strange. There may be two different issues (Ebay charging VAT and the parcel entering France) depending on how the original owner shipped it - if they didn't put the right customs paperwork on the parcel, with the right HTS code etc. then maybe the French customs refused to accept it? All quite aggravating, I'd imagine!

They were doing that at the same time. As was Stalin.

Thanks for sharing - that's a pretty good summary of it. The missing piece for me was the liquidity issue, useful to have that insight.

I'm in

Thanks - my guess as well, but it seems to indicate a flaw in their system - which should be able to accept one bid and reject the other, rather than accepting both - which might then lead to confusion (I thought I'd won the auction, as I'd bid the winning amount, all a bit disappointing!)

Question for more experienced bidders - my maximum bid (pre-premium) is showing as being the same as the winning bid (pre-premium) and yet it says I've been outbid on the piece. What did I do wrong?

I'm going, but it'll be the first time for me, so can't speak to how much art there would be. Looking forward to it though, lots of exciting artists (and writers) on the list.