telerites Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 16 hours ago, littledoom said: I know a guy who got Hulk 181 9.0 raw via a second chance offer because the high bidder didn't pay.. this was years ago maybe a decade ago.. he paid like $260-300ish 8 hours ago, oldrover said: Wow... that's huge. 20 years ago, I got a Hulk 181 as a throw-in on a cracked CGC case deal... he described it as GD... turns out it was VG+. I will never forget in the mid to late 70s, I found a Hulk 181 in $1 box at a convention. I was 16 and really hadn't followed the Hulk or X-Men. I sold the book at the same convention to a dealer for $3. I tripled my money I don't know what it was going for back then and $3 may have been fair but I have never owned another copy. Rhymenoceros and littledoom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsouxlja7 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Wasn't ebay but on this forum. I had a Brave and the Bold 30 that I listed and priced as JLA 30. D'OH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledoom Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 (edited) At a yard sale I wasn't ready setting up.. I had a box of coins from my dad sitting underneath a chair and a guy was looking through it and asked me "how much" were these? There was some gold in a little plastic Ziploc baggie and I told him $4. And he repeated $4? And I said yes.. He gasped.. took out his wallet quietly handed me the $4 and speed walked right out of my driveway without any eye contact.. I didn't really get a chance to look what was inside the bag (classic garage sale tactic lol). I believe there were handful 1 gram ingots mixed in w other pinbacks and lapels possibly .. all vintage of course Edited May 8, 2020 by littledoom ADAMANTIUM, telerites and oldrover 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledoom Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 (edited) Sold Sweet Tooth #1 for $30.. it was sitting on my ebay with little to no watchers for several months.. then it sold.. copies are now selling for $200 RAW! fml lol. Edited May 15, 2020 by littledoom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingDonut Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 I will unfortunately win. Sold on eBay in 1999. This was before art exploded. I regretted selling it almost instantly. It resurfaced on CAF in 2012. My assumption is to buy it back I'd have to pay 50X what I sold it for. Larryw7, littledoom and Hollywood1892 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan. Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 7 hours ago, FlyingDonut said: I will unfortunately win. Sold on eBay in 1999. This was before art exploded. I regretted selling it almost instantly. It resurfaced on CAF in 2012. My assumption is to buy it back I'd have to pay 50X what I sold it for. Wow. I don't know what you sold that for but there is a page from ST 53 at auction on eBay right now quickly approaching five figures. Several years ago I sold the original art for the cover to Speakeasy 68, which I had bought from Totleben directly in 1998 or so, for way too cheap. I made some desperation sales when my wife got pregnant with our first kid. A little panic selling before I regained my senses. Oh how I wish I could get that back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmac538 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 This was recent at C2E2, purchased 3 Wolverine 1 C2E2 John Tyler Christopher Variant at the Marvel booth, Proceeded to get them signed by the author Benjamin Percy, and graded onsite, all came back 9.8. On the flight home posted them for $175 each , which i thought was a fair price, they all sold before i reached home. They are currently average $450 on Ebay. I never try to think about the money i could have made, i just think about the money i could have lost. littledoom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledoom Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 53 minutes ago, Dmac538 said: This was recent at C2E2, purchased 3 Wolverine 1 C2E2 John Tyler Christopher Variant at the Marvel booth, Proceeded to get them signed by the author Benjamin Percy, and graded onsite, all came back 9.8. On the flight home posted them for $175 each , which i thought was a fair price, they all sold before i reached home. They are currently average $450 on Ebay. I never try to think about the money i could have made, i just think about the money i could have lost. good way to look at things... win some and loose some.. in the end everything balances in the universe Dmac538 and Hollywood1892 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollywood1892 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 On 5/7/2020 at 2:09 PM, kav said: Sold a lot of SA Thor books. It was like 10 lower grade books went for around $45. When I shipped I accidentally added my copy of Thor 165 in abt 7.5. Had to repurchase the book on ebay when I discovered my mistake. Your ASM 300 Too! 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serling1978 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Luckily I never had a big one. The worst for me was a high grade Marvel Milestones TOS 39 reprint I got cheap to flip. I meant to start it a 99 cents auction but mistakenly listed it bin for 99 cents. It was probably worth about $20-$30 at the time. The funny part was I told the buyer that I mistakenly listed it for 99 cents but I would honor it (for some reason I didn't want the buyer to think I was an insufficiently_thoughtful_person who thought it was only worth 99 cents. Like it mattered ) and his response was that he would be sure to buy from me in the future. Not sure how he thought that would benefit me? But I guess he figured I would be listing all kinds of things buy it now for 99 cents and he could keep coming back to the well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr bla bla Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 13 hours ago, FlyingDonut said: I will unfortunately win. Sold on eBay in 1999. This was before art exploded. I regretted selling it almost instantly. It resurfaced on CAF in 2012. My assumption is to buy it back I'd have to pay 50X what I sold it for. Holy Cow ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted May 16, 2020 Author Share Posted May 16, 2020 (edited) Biggest dumb@$$ move I ever did... my first auction back in 2002... bid and won an ASM1 4.5 CGC... immediately had buyers remorse... and contacted the seller. He had another buyer right behind me, offered it to that guy, and I got out of it. Oh by the way the final sale price was $2400. Now they sell for, what, $8000? Edited May 16, 2020 by oldrover serling1978 and littledoom 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledoom Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 I used to list comics on ebay according to comicsprieguide.com and wasn't even aware of a sold listings part... I sold a lot of stuff cheap .. Conversely I've gotten a lot of comics cheap when sellers sell me their comics from their collection using that website so it balances out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 I accidentally listed my Action #1 as "Active Comics #1" Went for 99 cents only one bidder- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan. Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Just now, kav said: I accidentally listed my Action #1 as "Active Comics #1" Went for 99 cents only one bidder- I once sold a Tim Sale Batman CGC 9.8 Signature Series sketch via auction, back when even his quick sketches sold for a couple hundred bucks, and forgot to mention "CGC" or "Signature Series" or "sketch" anywhere in the fricken listing. I think I titled it like, "Tim Sale Batman Original". Sold for about $15. kav and littledoom 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 10 minutes ago, Ryan. said: I once sold a Tim Sale Batman CGC 9.8 Signature Series sketch via auction, back when even his quick sketches sold for a couple hundred bucks, and forgot to mention "CGC" or "Signature Series" or "sketch" anywhere in the fricken listing. I think I titled it like, "Tim Sale Batman Original". Sold for about $15. Should have added L@@K littledoom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan. Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Just now, kav said: Should have added L@@K If I at least added "CGC it" I would have taken a step in the right direction. littledoom, kav and 1950's war comics 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted May 16, 2020 Author Share Posted May 16, 2020 (edited) I was selling a Thor 126 5.0 and getting no traction... then I realized with 10 hours to go in the auction, I had it listed under "generic 70's superheroes". Book should have sold for maybe $130... went for $70. Edited May 16, 2020 by oldrover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Intermission: Larryw7 and 1950's war comics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dikran Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Not comics, but when I stopped playing Magic the Gathering in early 2000’s, I auctioned off my a Black Lotus for a whopping 180$... kav 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
