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12 minutes ago, Kerdese said:

Grumpy. Just sharing, dude. It pulls from various sources, like Go Collect, which pull from eBay. But makes sense if they haven’t separated this newsstand yet. They’re working to separate more and more of them. Like Spawn 1 newsstands have their own category now. 

Garbage in, garbage out.

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7 hours ago, the blob said:

What is clz and why should we care vs. Looking at ebay? A 9.8 newsstand of 53 hit $317. My guess is that this has warped perceived values of cgc copies. Raws are still under $10. As has been pointed out, big newsstand numbers are being used to hype direct numbers and too many of the folks buying stuff are too clueless to understand this and think this it is now a $317 book and then a website like this pushes it. Newsstand prices are their own wacky universe. And even if a direct is $300 because of a perception that 9.8 is really hard, I doubt it carries over to a 9.6 of this common as heck kind of nothing book.

It allows you to load your entire collection on your iPad or phone and gives you updates on recent sales and Go Collect fmv. 

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17 minutes ago, Kerdese said:

Grumpy. Just sharing, dude. It pulls from various sources, like Go Collect, which pull from eBay. But makes sense if they haven’t separated this newsstand yet. They’re working to separate more and more of them. Like Spawn 1 newsstands have their own category now. 

Garbage in, garbage out, at least if values are going to get twisted by a newsstand variant sale. These apps seem to be responsible for a lot of people thinking their cheap books are worth real money. Some guy was on facebook selling darker image 1s for $15 or 20 each and folks were laughing at him. He defended it by citing gocollect or some other app., which had clearly been corrupted by newsstand version sales. But people look at this stuff at face value and pay too much. 

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6 minutes ago, the blob said:

Garbage in, garbage out, at least if values are going to get twisted by a newsstand variant sale. These apps seem to be responsible for a lot of people thinking their cheap books are worth real money. Some guy was on facebook selling darker image 1s for $15 or 20 each and folks were laughing at him. He defended it by citing gocollect or some other app., which had clearly been corrupted by newsstand version sales. But people look at this stuff at face value and pay too much. 

They’re working on separating them. A lot of them have separate categories but takes time to get them all.

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6 minutes ago, the blob said:

I get annoyed not because i don't want Spawn 53 to be worth something (and not with you)... I own a couple of copies, i have a horse in the race ... but I don't want people feeling duped. Believe me, I am happy the market is hot, I need the money. But if people feel duped and scammed they leave the hobby, may never come back, or maybe it takes decades, and I'd rather have these people buying my comics in the coming years. I think folks can accept that books get hot and cold and today's hot book might not be hot next year, but it may be worth more, we don't know. If they don't feel scammed I think they take it better. But apps giving people wildly inaccurate information is going to burn some people and they may drop the hobby as a result. A lot of stuff happened in the 90s to mess stuff up, but I think magazines like Wizard overhyping stuff as investment material probably burned a bunch of folks and they felt scammed. Nobody at Wizard ever wrote an article saying "2 million copy print run... it might take decades before this is worth cover price..."

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6 minutes ago, the blob said:

I get annoyed not because i don't want Spawn 53 to be worth something (and not with you)... I own a couple of copies, i have a horse in the race ... but I don't want people feeling duped. Believe me, I am happy the market is hot, I need the money. But if people feel duped and scammed they leave the hobby, may never come back, or maybe it takes decades, and I'd rather have these people buying my comics in the coming years. I think folks can accept that books get hot and cold and today's hot book might not be hot next year, but it may be worth more, we don't know. If they don't feel scammed I think they take it better. But apps giving people wildly inaccurate information is going to burn some people and they may drop the hobby as a result. A lot of stuff happened in the 90s to mess stuff up, but I think magazines like Wizard overhyping stuff as investment material probably burned a bunch of folks and they felt scammed. Nobody at Wizard ever wrote an article saying "2 million copy print run... it might take decades before this is worth cover price..."

I hear that. I recently stopped buying raw books with the hopes of a high 9. I managed to get a couple worthy of sending to CGC, but I got a few that were clearly not high 9's. Sad part was that a couple might've been but the seller didn't properly package the books. This even happened to me with the Brzrkr 1 Mico variants. The books are 1 of 500 and they put them in an oversized box with no bubble wrap or form. One of the issues had damage on every page. That was disappointing. So now I'm just buying graded books or readers from now on - books I don't care about the grade. I guess I could buy from guys that handled their business well, but it's rare they'll have more books that I'm looking for.

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1 minute ago, Kerdese said:

I hear that. I recently stopped buying raw books with the hopes of a high 9. I managed to get a couple worthy of sending to CGC, but I got a few that were clearly not high 9's. Sad part was that a couple might've been but the seller didn't properly package the books. This even happened to me with the Brzrkr 1 Mico variants. The books are 1 of 500 and they put them in an oversized box with no bubble wrap or form. One of the issues had damage on every page. That was disappointing. So now I'm just buying graded books or readers from now on - books I don't care about the grade. I guess I could buy from guys that handled their business well, but it's rare they'll have more books that I'm looking for.

It is important not to pay a huge inflated price on a raw book hoping it turns into a 9.8. 9.8 prices are what they are and it is nuts to pay 9.8 price minus slabbing costs for a book when there is no guarantee what its grade will be. Honestly, the raw market for high grade newer books should be its own universe separate from cgc prices. Heck, even folks here are so dead certain x, y, z is a 9.8... we've got folks who do 25 or 50 submissions a month who sometimes don't get them half right and acknowledge it. I will not longer say anything is better than NM and most of my ebay listings just say "high grade" (if I think the book is)... if I leave money on the table, then so be it, I don't need the hassle of a return. If someone wants to ask me what I think the grade is, then fine.

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15 minutes ago, Dr. Dank said:

This really bothers me. Where is it from?

This right here is correct 

9 minutes ago, NWOslave said:

It's Robert Redford in the 1972 movie Jeremiah Johnson. 

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9 minutes ago, the blob said:

It is important not to pay a huge inflated price on a raw book hoping it turns into a 9.8. 9.8 prices are what they are and it is nuts to pay 9.8 price minus slabbing costs for a book when there is no guarantee what its grade will be. Honestly, the raw market for high grade newer books should be its own universe separate from cgc prices. Heck, even folks here are so dead certain x, y, z is a 9.8... we've got folks who do 25 or 50 submissions a month who sometimes don't get them half right and acknowledge it. I will not longer say anything is better than NM and most of my ebay listings just say "high grade" (if I think the book is)... if I leave money on the table, then so be it, I don't need the hassle of a return. If someone wants to ask me what I think the grade is, then fine.

Agreed. If it starts getting anywhere near the price of the book minus cgc fees, I just start looking for the graded version. And if my current books don't look like high 9's, I don't buy more raw versions. I try catching a graded version as soon as they start flooding eBay, hoping I can get one for about 40-ish, so all the work of sending it to cgc is done. Hoping to do this with the Alien 1 Gleason variant. Mine has a damaged corner and I can't get one locally anymore.   

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1 hour ago, GeeksAreMyPeeps said:

Funny; I've seen this gif plenty of times but never had any idea where it was from. My guess was that it was from some relatively recent comedy that was parodying a Grizzly Adams-type character

Just how old ARE you . . . lol

 

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