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[GreatCaesarsGhost]

22 minutes ago, woowoo said:

I don't collect timley but its something
 

MMC 2. Great cover on an important book! To me, it’s the best cover in the run. I like it better than 40, 44, 46 or any of the rest. It’s got such a pulp feel to it on a great sci-fi scene.

 I’m happy for you woowoo. Good job!

Edited May 21, 2020 by GreatCaesarsGhost

[Doctor Dositheus]

41 minutes ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

I never noticed, so I just went back to my Watch list(yes, somehow I’ve figured how to access my watch list), and all the sold books have prices written the same - in white numbering on a black background 

 

Where I'm seeing them is on the main auction listings as they get sold. Some are red, some are blue, some are black, and I think maybe a couple were green as well. They dont seem to indicate general price ranges like over 1000, over 5000, etc. I was wondering if maybe they are tied to GPA or FMV and indicate if it went higher or lower than that but that seems highly doubtful. I'll try and grab a screenshot tomorrow night if we don't figure it out by then.

[lou_fine]

5 hours ago, Comical Situations said:

I've been able to bid on every item I wanted to successfully and even won a couple without paying moon prices which is more than I can say about Heritage and CL most every auction so there's that.  I know some if this may be due to lack of faith/interest in the new site but I'll take what I can get.

Most definitely the case here as there were some books that went for substantially lower prices than what they had been going for in recent auctions.  

Then again like usual in all auctions, there were some books that still continued to fetch some rather surprsingly high prices.  

 

5 hours ago, Comical Situations said:

Decent job CC - take the useful feedback and implement if you choose and ignore the derisive comments, as some people will never be happy with change.

The absolute worst thing here is that I can't see the auction results for the lots that have closed.  They definitely need to fix this, especially since CL at least leaves their results until the end of the auction time period.    

[Cat-Man_America]

3 hours ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

MMC 2. Great cover on an important book! To me, it’s the best cover in the run. I like it better than 40, 44, 46 or any of the rest. It’s got such a pulp feel to it on a great sci-fi scene.

 I’m happy for you woowoo. Good job!

A very important Timely book that stands out (big woo-hoo for woowoo).  Absolutely beautiful cover albeit misattributed to Claire Moe, who was a very distinguished GA artist in her own rite.  The correct attribution is Chuck Mazoujian.  I believe this to be the only cover Mazoujian did for Timely.  He's known for his work in the Eisner-Iger Shop (Quicksilver, etc. for Quality) and co-creating Lady Luck with Will Eisner for the Sunday tabloid Spirit section.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Chuck_Mazoujian

 

Edited May 21, 2020 by Cat-Man_America

[tth2]

14 hours ago, Comical Situations said:

I for one like the new format of the site.  I understand it may have been rolled out incorrectly and still has some bugs to work out before consignors feel comfortable enough sending materials in.  I also understand the concerns on watch list and ended sale items vanishing.  All in all though, I get what they were going for and with some tweaking I think it will be a nice finished product.  I've been able to bid on every item I wanted to successfully and even won a couple without paying moon prices which is more than I can say about Heritage and CL most every auction so there's that.  I know some if this may be due to lack of faith/interest in the new site but I'll take what I can get.  Decent job CC - take the useful feedback and implement if you choose and ignore the derisive comments, as some people will never be happy with change.

WTTB, Mrs. Zurzolo! 

[Straw-Man]

well, you know i'm not mr. zurzolo, and i, too, like the site, tho' recognizing some room for refinement.

[Chicago Boy]

2 minutes ago, Straw-Man said:

well, you know i'm not mr. zurzolo, and i, too, like the site, tho' recognizing some room for refinement.

Is Vince tall enough to reach to keyboard ?

[lou_fine]

12 hours ago, lou_fine said:

Then again like usual in all auctions, there were some books that still continued to fetch some rather surprsingly high prices.  

While checking out another book which I have now forgotten  since past auction results are now gone , I initially thought this book had gone for a pretty strong price:

Especially since it had sold for $6,350 or at a price point of almost 5X condition guide.  

Then in trying to figure out why this mid-grade book had sold at such high multiples, moticed that this exact same copy had just sold through Heritage during one of their Sunday Auctions in the Fall of last year for $8,100 or at a price point of over 6X condition guide.    

Being a longer term collector, I always have a hard time trying to figure out why a buyer would pay astronomical prices for a book and then attempt to flip it back out a few short months later and not expect to lose some money on it.  Either they have deep deep pockets or maybe they just noticed that Heritage will be having a far superior looking CGC 8.0 graded copy of this book available in their next auction, and the consignor is simply cashing out based upon their determination and expectation to win the higher graded copy coming out.    

[Comical Situations]

4 hours ago, tth2 said:

WTTB, Mrs. Zurzolo! 

Awww...how cute.. its Mr. to you though...thanks for playing 

[batman_fan]

10 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

While checking out another book which I have now forgotten  since past auction results are now gone , I initially thought this book had gone for a pretty strong price:

Especially since it had sold for $6,350 or at a price point of almost 5X condition guide.  

Then in trying to figure out why this mid-grade book had sold at such high multiples, moticed that this exact same copy had just sold through Heritage during one of their Sunday Auctions in the Fall of last year for $8,100 or at a price point of over 6X condition guide.    

Being a longer term collector, I always have a hard time trying to figure out why a buyer would pay astronomical prices for a book and then attempt to flip it back out a few short months later and not expect to lose some money on it.  Either they have deep deep pockets or maybe they just noticed that Heritage will be having a far superior looking CGC 8.0 graded copy of this book available in their next auction, and the consignor is simply cashing out based upon their determination and expectation to win the higher graded copy coming out.    

Sometimes I wonder if Auction Houses buy books from other auction sites to resale.

[Vince G]

14 hours ago, woowoo said:

I don't collect timley but its something

Congrats!  Great price on this too!

[lou_fine]

Any guesses as to where this currently red hot book will finished up at, since it is already sitting at $11,200 with another almost 5 hours to go:

My guess is that it'll finished up at a very string price with some extended bidding thrown in there for good measure, but still nowhere close to the outlier of a price of $24K that the CGC 5.5 graded copy was able to fetch in a Heritage Auction near the end of last year before the severe economic downdraft of this whole Coronavirus situation.     

And to think that copies like these were selling for only a grand or two (and even less in some cases) only a few short years ago.     

[Gotham Kid]

Not Gold, but interested in where this one will end.

https://www.comicconnect.com/item/854548

Edited May 21, 2020 by Gotham Kid

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

44 minutes ago, Gotham Kid said:

Not Gold, but interested in where this one will end.

https://www.comicconnect.com/item/854548

I loved Rawhide Kid and Kid Colt.  I hadnt noticed this book until you pointed it out.  I'll be watching it too!

[RareHighGrade]

On 5/19/2020 at 9:01 PM, RareHighGrade said:

The new site is really frustrating.  How do you see what a book sold for?  You can no longer track it through your watch list because it gets automatically deleted from the list once it is sold.  And their marketing emails no longer include links, so you cannot access the info that way either.  I've been a pretty regular customer of theirs over the years, but this change seems designed solely to frustrate customers.  It's frustrating enough that I may stop being one. 

To give credit where it's due, the sold items have now reappeared on my watched list.  Thank you CC. 

[Doctor Dositheus]

Okay, not the greatest pic, but these are the different colored sale prices during the auction I was seeing. Wondering if anybody can decode the colors.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

31 minutes ago, Doctor Dositheus said:

Okay, not the greatest pic, but these are the different colored sale prices during the auction I was seeing. Wondering if anybody can decode the colors.

Sorry, I’m stumped

[batman_fan]

This is the one I am shocked by.  More valuable than Action 1 based on some people's assessment but currently sitting at a low low price 

OBADIAH OLDBUCK, THE ADVENTURES OF MR. (1842) 

 

 

[Doctor Dositheus]

47 minutes ago, batman_fan said:

This is the one I am shocked by.  More valuable than Action 1 based on some people's assessment but currently sitting at a low low price 

OBADIAH OLDBUCK, THE ADVENTURES OF MR. (1842)

I'm pretty sure that will get a PLOD. I'll wait for a 9.8 blue to come along

[Spiderturtle]

Everyone is discussing the glitches but I also don’t like the mobile and desktop layout of the new comicconnect.  The old layout was 100x better.  Don’t need to fix it if it’s not broken.