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What's new in your Silver Age collection this week
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Patriot6

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2 minutes ago, Readcomix said:

A) you're waaaay too kind!

B) I don't think I can part with it yet (I did just land it after a few weeks of haggling)

I would never sell it either once it was slabbed. You got a real treasure there. ;)

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1 minute ago, Patriot6 said:

I would never sell it either once it was slabbed. You got a real treasure there. ;)

 

1 minute ago, Patriot6 said:

I would never sell it either once it was slabbed. You got a real treasure there. ;)

Thanks again! It was hard to actually negotiate rather than just pay his asking price, but I had bought a Mad #1 and #4 from the same guy and knew he had a tendency to mark well above what he would take. So I held out figuring he would not get the traffic this time of year, then went back at him. I got lucky that no one stumbled across them in the time it took to play out.

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2 minutes ago, Readcomix said:

 

Thanks again! It was hard to actually negotiate rather than just pay his asking price, but I had bought a Mad #1 and #4 from the same guy and knew he had a tendency to mark well above what he would take. So I held out figuring he would not get the traffic this time of year, then went back at him. I got lucky that no one stumbled across them in the time it took to play out.

Hold for the gold! I hope you got them for a good price, but when you have to have them you have to have them! 

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37 minutes ago, Patriot6 said:

Hold for the gold! I hope you got them for a good price, but when you have to have them you have to have them! 

I did, and it worked!

Funny story, I learned (though I'd always realized, it's not the same until the moment when you don't do what you know you should...then it's ingrained for life!) when I bought my first GA Cap, something I had long wanted. The seller had no intention of asking the price marked on it; he merely put mint guide prices on his bags for a reference point (go figure!)

Anyway, I had a top dollar price in mind (well below mint #) but when he blurted out a number under what I was willing to pay, I just said "sold!" With no thought to whether I could have gotten it cheaper. (It was a flea market guy who specialized in records; he received a few GA books in an estate purchase of albums. The seller just threw them in the box and said take these too, he told me. I bought the rest, but haggled. lol

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4 minutes ago, Readcomix said:

I did, and it worked!

Funny story, I learned (though I'd always realized, it's not the same until the moment when you don't do what you know you should...then it's ingrained for life!) when I bought my first GA Cap, something I had long wanted. The seller had no intention of asking the price marked on it; he merely put mint guide prices on his bags for a reference point (go figure!)

Anyway, I had a top dollar price in mind (well below mint #) but when he blurted out a number under what I was willing to pay, I just said "sold!" With no thought to whether I could have gotten it cheaper. (It was a flea market guy who specialized in records; he received a few GA books in an estate purchase of albums. The seller just threw them in the box and said take these too, he told me. I bought the rest, but haggled. lol

Good story. What all did you end up getting? I wish there were more flea markets in my hometown, but the snow kills it :(

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