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William-James88

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  1. Thats why whenever someone in the newbie forum asks about selling books and not being sure how ro do it, I just reffer them to MCS. You wont get a better revenue to effort ratio out there if you are just looking to unload some books
  2. I’ll admit, when this topic initially arose almost 3 years ago, I didnt think prices would ease up a bit. But I’m now back to eyeing ASM keys since sone prices have dropped 50% from their pandemic highs. So yeah, prices have definitely eased up a bit. And this pick of FF 6 in 3.0 auction results just says it all.
  3. We have modern examples too. The Alex Ross Covers for recent Hulk books make those books higher in demand and thus more pricey than other issues in the same creative run. There's also the artgem covers on the Batgirl run, and plenty more examples. And one of the probable best examples would be Batman 423 that's only a big deal because of a cover by Todd McFarlane.
  4. Joking aside, there is a lot someone coming from coin collecting would not understand about comics. The collections are entirely different. With coin collecting, the intrinsic collecting goal is to have all the years of a specific coin. They even have specially made presentation binders for that. So the base demand is essentialy the same for each coin. So then what matters is scarcity. Which is where the initial take for this thread comes from. comic runs, however dont have unified or common demands. While there is just 1 tiny dime to collect per year, there are between 12-20 comics for the main Batman title to collect. Collecting all US coins in one year gives you the 5-10 coins to add to one’s collection annually and costs next to nothing. So being a yearly completionist is relatively easy, low cost and low space. But each year there are thousands of US comics, which would cost someone tens of thousands to purchase and require a whole lotta room. So there are far far fewer yearly comic completionists out there and thus no uniformed base demand. so right then and there we can see how the two hobbies cant really be compared. Supply and demand will still dictate the collectible’s price but the factors involved with that equation will be completely different
  5. What were they going for slabbed before we knew this movie was coming?
  6. Funny enough, while not a huge spidey reader, Madame Web is very memorable to me but not in a good way. As a kid, I liked spider-man and could follow his stories as they were usually grounded. I enjoyed watching the animated show in the 90s. But Madame Web would show up at times and throw all that grounded feel out the window, there would always be some kind of crazy angle. I really hated her showing up. There's even a meme clip about spidey making a "savage" joke to a girl by showing a young girl his face only to then reveal that it's because she's terminally ill. But that clip cuts. And the reason it cuts is because right in the middle of that there is a madame web scene that comes out of freaken nowhere. Just to say, I was never a fan of madame web, because of how she clashed with what I wanted to watch as a kid. But that also means i never forgot her. Also, I don't get why people are so thirsty for Sydney Sweeney. I mean I can see that she has nice knockers when she wears certain clothes, but if that's all one cares about there's a whole bunch of videos and photos online of ladies which are as lovely or have even bigger knockers.
  7. Everyone was. Even Grace Randolph, and she was kind to Morbius.
  8. Here is the best solution, send all your comics to mycomicshop. They will grade them for you and you can sell them at whatever price you want there. You can even make them up up on auction. They basically do all the work you don't want to do and get a cut. And if you don't know the price, no worries, once your comics are up on their site, you can see what price they go for in that grade and work off that. You will not find a better solution i terms of how much you get from how little work it takes. https://www.mycomicshop.com/?AffID=2072802P01&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAw6yuBhDrARIsACf94RUvvWTg3yiRl_XCiYEqqmxdaMcl0Bc_jXI6NwenZCcMOuKk5SS9rIEaAjCAEALw_wcB
  9. oh man, the reviews on this one are baaaaaad
  10. I do not understand this post. Those comics are not scarce, but their demand is higher than other comics. Their demand is so high that it counters their current lack of scarcity. How is that not simply supply and demand? Your post proves that it is.
  11. You are understanding the situation perfectly. With supply being the same, the key issues are elevated in price due to higher demand. But the speculation is founded on past history of those key comics doing better than others. And here's an easy one: the fantastic four. Not every collector wants to own an entire run. Many just want the issues Galactus and Silver Sufer first appear in and not the 5-10 issues before or after their appearance. Either due to space, or speculation, or simply not wanting to spend a dime on anything they don't care as much about. And that added supply, with maintained demand, will drive the price up. And you can apply that to a run of spider-man, or hulk. How many fans really want to own every single hulk comics ever produced compared to how many just want that one issue where Wolverine first appears in? Unlike coins, comics take up a ton of space (especially in slabs). I have no space for a whole run of Ninja Turtles, but I own the first issue. And true scarcity is no good in comics, it ends up being a factor that hinders the price. A comic that is simply rare and not a key will be on the market so rarely that you can't establish a trend or a book being hot. So the price won't go up. As opposed to a key like Spider-man 300 selling a bunch of copies and showing a trend of the book picking heat, meaning that more people purchase it because it's picking up value, like a stock. And yes, in turn that can lead to a crash of some key books. We saw that with the first punisher which decreased almost by 50% from some all time highs for particular grades, and the first Carnage appearance which also went crazy down as soon as some demand decreased.
  12. Very happy it came to you safely. Enjoy and have fun!
  13. I would send them to My Comic Shop. Look them up online, contact them and they will guide you through it. Most effortles way to sell while not lessening profit too much.
  14. You're right, defamation does not require intent. That was a big discussion point in the many recent Dominion defamation cases.
  15. I remember that as well. Tring to remember if the video I saw was from Gem Mint or not. Been a while.
  16. They already have a high quality scan of the ungraded book which links back to the cert number so what you are asking for is already in place. It does make things safer for the future. The issue is with all graded books before this was recently put in place.
  17. That's fine. And no, I didn't watch the videos. I was just reading the forums and they were nearing what seemed like Black and White rules for what should be posted, but I misread that.
  18. I'd at least put the asterisk of "undoing CGC holders in a way to scam". Because videos of undoing CGC holders in general have been beneficial to me since I wanted to remove comics from their slabs (for space, signatures, CPR) without causing damage to the book or myself.
  19. Here are 2 books I own which I could send back to CGC for mechanical error. The Detective 400 has CK Elite Edition erroneously written on the top and the B&B 200 does not mention that it's the Canadian Price Variant. For now, both are part of my personal collection, however I could one day sell them. And for that bit, I want to know if those two errors would in any way matter to potential buyers. At the same time, if I were to send these in, would a buyer be hesitant of 9.8 reholders now that there is a scandal. AND would CGC pay closer attention to this mechanical error request, now that there is a scandal, and thus potentially regrade my comic. I'm playing a 4-D chess game of stupid anxiety in my head over this and was wondering your opinions. FYI, for the Brave and the Bold, having it correct would boost it in the census from 1 out of 293 to 1 out of 5 https://www.cgccomics.com/census/grades_standard.asp?title=Brave+and+the+Bold&publisher=D.C.+Comics&issue=200&year=1983&issuedate=7%2F83
  20. Oh man, CGC issues TONS of wrong labels. Here are two slabs I have on me just as an example, and I'm about to write a topic asking the community for advice. This Detective 400 has CK Elite Edition erroneously written on the top and the B&B 200 does not mention that it's the Canadian Price Variant.
  21. Oh, 100% Sorry if I wasn't clear (I do see how I was not), I was only relating to how the punishment didn't reassure me as a customer. But yes, of course, every angle should be investigated and no culprit should get off easy.