Carlo M Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 A friend of mine commented a few months ago that he could see less and less high end pieces being posted on CAF. At the beginning I shrugged it off as not proven. Then I started to pay attention, and indeed very few of the big pieces going thorugh auction are resurfacing on CAF. Now we all know that a big part of collectors do not post all of their collection on CAF, but is there a trend here? As pieces become more valuable, are people getting more nervous to show them off (either for security reasons or to protect resale value)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matches_Malone Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Re-sell value? Keep the "fresh to market" feel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alxjhnsn Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Fear of theft? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumbydarnit Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 It is definitely a thing for all of the reasons mentioned above. If you want to see high end art Heritage archive scans are the new CAF. The Voord 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alxjhnsn Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 25 minutes ago, gumbydarnit said: It is definitely a thing for all of the reasons mentioned above. If you want to see high end art Heritage archive scans are the new CAF. Yep. Too bad ComicLink and ComicConnect don't do the same. Twanj, timguerrero, JadeGiant and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comix4fun Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Dealers don't post their new inventory to CAF when they have a site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjonahjameson11 Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 I used to post my big wins on CAF, but people contacted me, dangling significant cash for this piece or that one, to the point where I regretted selling. So now I rarely post a big win on my CAF in order to keep the big (ahem) Fish at bay. timguerrero, The Voord, Stefanomjr and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batman_fan Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 I took down most of my stuff because I got too many rude inquiries. After thinking what the benefit was for me to have them up I decided to take them down. John E., timguerrero and Stefanomjr 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapeape Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 I’m torn. I really believe in sharing with the CAF community my art. I want them to do the same. Everyday you find new surprises or revisit old friends. I get the “why I don’t crowd.” Keep it fresh. I thought of this when one of our members on CAF insisted he was so tired of seeing the Wrightson Frankenstein ($1,000,000) so much over the years that he was sick of it. Trying not to attract theft. Yeah a lot of bad actors/ That being said CAF won’t be the same Awesome gallery if the majority of collectors hide their best art work. So I appeal to those who dare to post post post. davidtere, Stefanomjr, thethedew and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 I can’t speak to the problems of publicly sharing a world class collection, but I have a bunch of smaller pieces (especially by comparison) that I don’t even bother posting on CAF because no one bat’s an eye. If it’s not $20k it’s “whatever” to others. Very little CAF users leave comments...not even for support. There’s not even a spirit of reciprocity. So what’s the real incentive of sharing? So you can get unsolicited offers with “what do you think is a *fair* price?” It seems to me that collectors want to track where the art lands so they can hound them later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timguerrero Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 I don't post my permanent collection on CAF so that I am not tempted to sell or trade them. Decided on this a long time ago. John E. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Voord Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 I post everything I have on CAF. Sometimes I've regretted a few things that I got tempted into parting with, but as I prefer to share have learned to live with past mistakes. Within three minutes of posting my recently acquired Ditko ASM splash I had a PM from someone wanting me to sell it to him. This is despite a NFS description and a lengthy write-up talking about how happy I was to have landed the art. I ended-up revising the NFS status to something worded a little stronger. PopKulture, Catwoman_Fan, John E. and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Sid Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Another factor: Facebook. People post a lot of stuff there that doesn't make it to CAF. Go figure, people in 2020 want to look at things on their phones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alxjhnsn Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Everything I have is on the CAF - for my own ease of viewing mostly. I do enjoy writing the Descriptions of why I bought the specific piece though. But then, I don't have anything that would be considered a "major" purchase by most measures. davidtere, grapeape and The Voord 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comix4fun Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 1 minute ago, J.Sid said: Another factor: Facebook. People post a lot of stuff there that doesn't make it to CAF. Go figure, people in 2020 want to look at things on their phones. I LOVE Facebook for this. Especially the two main groups....one is JUST for showing off your stuff, nothing bought or sold there, and one just for selling and buying stuff. Really great when the same piece shows up on both, at the same time, and with a glowing description about how thrilled the person is to add it to his/her collection in one and "priced to move" in the other. J.Sid and GotSuperPowers? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weird Paper Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 17 minutes ago, alxjhnsn said: Everything I have is on the CAF - for my own ease of viewing mostly. This. alxjhnsn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 (edited) 24 minutes ago, Weird Paper said: This. I do that too but I only have 10%-20% publicly viewable. I bet lots of others do the same. Use it to catalog the art but only make selections viewable Edited December 17, 2019 by Bronty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumbydarnit Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 OK for one guy, CAF is still the place to see all the cool pieces ...Bill Cox -site administrator!!! I bet you he has seen some earth shattering pieces while going though the site's image files on the server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post batman_fan Posted December 17, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 17, 2019 1 hour ago, comix4fun said: I LOVE Facebook for this. Especially the two main groups....one is JUST for showing off your stuff, nothing bought or sold there, and one just for selling and buying stuff. Really great when the same piece shows up on both, at the same time, and with a glowing description about how thrilled the person is to add it to his/her collection in one and "priced to move" in the other. The biggest problem I have with posting my collection on Facebook is you have to have a Facebook account. John E., BCarter27, mlansdown and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstojano Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 (edited) Big pieces are still posted but relegated to page 15 of Sort New after minutes due to the incessant wave of poorly drawn soft core pr0n people feel the need to share everyday. I post some things but mostly to let people know I am collecting in that area. Aesthetically I am more and more drawn to 2dgalleries, if I am being honest. Also, what percent of CAF art is actually comic-related? Sure it is still the majority but I know I use it to post vaguely related things - movie poster art, animation art, gaming art, fantasy/sci-fi/imaginative realism... I wish there was an active venue for these pieces that wasn't Facebook. In many ways this is why I continue to follow vintage toy collecting groups, in particular vintage Star War toys which I haven't collected in years. There is a strong community there and its fun to be actively engaged in some way. I feel the same way about these groups as well since I am not super active in the comic world either. Edited December 17, 2019 by cstojano John E. and alxjhnsn 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
