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25 minutes ago, kimik said:

That's because you were smart and locked in nice copies of both at way lower prices. (thumbsu

I agree with you that Hulk 1 has traditionally been harder to find than X-Men 1, but a quick look at eBay shows the same number of copies, 13, of each for sale. The supply of X-Men 1s has dried up a bit as speculators hold their positions and collectors are not selling while prices ramp up, but there should be a flood on the market when the movies are announced.

Seriously, my X-Men 1 purchase is one of the smartest I've made.  I have a few others that don't make me look like as much of a genius, but let's not talk about those.  lol

There is definitely an observable phenomenon of supply drying up as speculators hold books -- I've never been able to quantify this, but I've felt it like a disturbance in the force at certain times, like when I was buying TOS #52 right around the Black Widow movie announcement.  I have a hunch that FF #4 and #5 have seen a bit of this lately, so if you are seeing it for X-Men #1 I'm not surprised.  It's always so hard to tell if now is the time to buy (as in, that book will never be this cheap again) or to be patient.  I recently had this off-handed thought about maybe upgrading my GSX #1 and X-Men #94 from 9.4 to 9.6, but I'm not sure what the timing for that should be.  I'm in the same boat with ASM #101, thinking about an upgrade but frankly not even seeing 9.6s around (possibly for the same reason, restricted supply).

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Looking at GPA, there is a bit of a contagno going on with GSX 1 in 9.4 vs 9.6 - the latest 9.4 sales are at the same level as 9.6s. Now is a good time to buy a 9.6 in that case IMHO as 9.4s are hitting $6-$6.5K, 9.6s are still in the $6ks, and 9.8s are close to $20k.

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47 minutes ago, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Yeah but it's CVA so you have to factor in like a 30% premium just for that sticker.

Has anyone sent in a book to CVA and gotten rejected?  How do you determine you have a good looking book for that grade besides people saying hey that book looks better than its grade? 

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25 minutes ago, Bluemedgroup said:

Has anyone sent in a book to CVA and gotten rejected?  How do you determine you have a good looking book for that grade besides people saying hey that book looks better than its grade? 

I would love to know more about how that works.  It's never occurred to me to submit a book to them, but you're right -- for them to have any credibility they should probably decline to put their sticker on most of the books they get.

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For anyone whose sarcasm detector is in the repair shop, I'm just joking around.  I don't think the value of the sticker is zero dollars and zero cents, but I have no way of quantifying its impact on market value.  When I have seen the sticker promoted as a selling point, it has generally (only?) been in the context of an auction, usually ComicLink or ComicConnect.  Those auction houses obviously think the sticker will have a positive impact on auction proceeds.  But I don't know if there's enough data to really tell a clear story.

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6 hours ago, Bluemedgroup said:

Has anyone sent in a book to CVA and gotten rejected?  How do you determine you have a good looking book for that grade besides people saying hey that book looks better than its grade? 

all i know is anytime CL has a nice looking book coming up for auction, 2 weeks later it has one of them d u m b stickers on it. pretty sure cva does not actually exist, but rather is just a roll of special tape that CL keeps in their desk drawer. 

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2 minutes ago, comicdonna said:

Most all of the books with CVA stickers are nicer than the given grade therefore, sell for a premium.  The sticker means nothing.   It's all about the book.  They would sell for a premium without the sticker.  

Agree, though perhaps the sticker draws enough attention for buyers to then size up the book more closely -- and also signals that they won't be the only one noticing that a particular book is nice for the grade.

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6 minutes ago, comicdonna said:

Most all of the books with CVA stickers are nicer than the given grade therefore, sell for a premium.  The sticker means nothing.   It's all about the book.  They would sell for a premium without the sticker.  

Exactly. (thumbsu

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1 hour ago, Batmanis#1 said:

Then grade it higher forget these stickers.

I'm not trying to promote services like CVA or QES, but in theory they specifically highlight features of a book that are not considered in the grading process -- things like centering, staple placement, color strike, etc.  Some of the things they highlight (like sharp corners) would definitely be factored into the grade already.

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