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[toro]

That feeling you get when you see a book you once owned sell for $400+ more then you sold it for years ago.  Anyone else every see their old books sell for multiples of what they sold theirs for?  (Mine was the Blue Bolt #107 that just sold on C-Link)

 

Edited December 5, 2020 by toro

[WolverineX]

No real comics because I had a lot of 90s drek.

 

Mine was 20 shares of tesla i bought for very cheap and sold all when it hit 350...I think it hit 2000 and then spit 5 to 1...Ugh

 

 

 

[toro]

21 minutes ago, Wolverinex said:

No real comics because I had a lot of 90s drek.

 

Mine was 20 shares of tesla i bought for very cheap and sold all when it hit 350...I think it hit 2000 and then spit 5 to 1...Ugh

 

 

 

I stink with stocks.  Years ago two big tech companies stocks crashed and were around $6.00 a share.  One company I saw going belly up when that happened, the other was the one I bought because they were in my opinion was the best networking company ever, so I bought Novell and passed on that junk stock Apple Computers. 

[Hollywood1892]

1 hour ago, toro said:

That feeling you get when you see a book you once owned sell for $400+ more then you sold it for years ago.  Anyone else every see their old books sell for multiples of what they sold theirs for?  (Mine was the Blue Bolt #107 that just sold on C-Link)

 

A few....it happens...best not to pay attention, you can't be fond of living in the past

[wombat]

I avoid this problem by never selling any books. 

[allthingskryptonite]

2 hours ago, toro said:

That feeling you get when you see a book you once owned sell for $400+ more then you sold it for years ago.  Anyone else every see their old books sell for multiples of what they sold theirs for?  (Mine was the Blue Bolt #107 that just sold on C-Link)

 

How do you track your old books? 

[kav]

try sellin ASM 129 for $5.

[Larryw7]

3 hours ago, kav said:

try sellin ASM 129 for $5.

[Hollywood1892]

2 hours ago, Larryw7 said:

I wanted it for $5 dollars

[Ryan.]

8 hours ago, toro said:

That feeling you get when you see a book you once owned sell for $400+ more then you sold it for years ago.  Anyone else every see their old books sell for multiples of what they sold theirs for?  (Mine was the Blue Bolt #107 that just sold on C-Link)

 

What was the grade and final price? For some reason BB107 seems to be one of the more common numbers in the run. 

[Buzzetta]

I sold an Avengers 8 for around $450 iirc in 8.0.  I had bought it the year before for $100 raw so I was pleased with the sale.  I would obviously be more pleased today but sometimes this stuff happens. I used the money to buy other things.

Think of the guy that bought a Tec 27 when it was first on the stands and traded it to his friend at school. Lol  

[Ryan.]

I sold a TMNT 1 second print in 8.5 with white pages for $550 at the start of the pandemic. Wish I could get a mulligan on that one. 

[1950's war comics]

7 hours ago, kav said:

try sellin ASM 129 for $5.

at least you aren't the guy who bought two pizzas for 1000 bit-coins early on.......

[Hollywood1892]

5 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

at least you aren't the guy who bought two pizzas for 1000 bit-coins early on.......

And he probably sold those pizzas a couple days later if you know what I mean

[1950's war comics]

1 minute ago, Hollywood1892 said:

And he probably sold those pizzas a couple days later if you know what I mean

i just looked it up and it was actually 10,000 bit coins for the two pizzas , 

one bit coin is worth $19,000 today 

 

 

Hanyecz is known as the first person to use bitcoin in a commercial transaction. On May 22, 2010, when bitcoin was a little over a year old, he bought two pizzas for 10,000 BTC.

[Hollywood1892]

3 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

i just looked it up and it was actually 10,000 bit coins for the two pizzas , 

one bit coin is worth $19,000 today 

 

 

Hanyecz is known as the first person to use bitcoin in a commercial transaction. On May 22, 2010, when bitcoin was a little over a year old, he bought two pizzas for 10,000 BTC.

You know some might call him a colossal insufficiently_thoughtful_person, but I'm not so sure...and I'm not being a smart Alec, he had no idea how to predict the future...but I sure hope he asked for extra cheese!

[MatterEaterLad]

My first major key was a raw JIM 83. I was in the 8th grade and saved up and bought it for $80.

Sold it five years later for $500, and felt great about it.

Now that book is worth around $10k.

 

[1950's war comics]

i passed on a full unopened wax box of 1986 Fleer basketball cards in 1986 because they wanted $16 for it when Topps baseball

wax boxes at the same time were only $10

now even a wrapper is worth $15 and an unopened box is worth at least 25K 

the 1986 Topps basketball wax box value ?? about the same as it was back in 1986 - $12

Edited December 5, 2020 by 1950's war comics

[1950's war comics]

6 minutes ago, MatterEaterLad said:

My first major key was a raw JIM 83. I was in the 8th grade and saved up and bought it for $80

what year was that ? because $500 used to be a TON of money... even in the early 90's

 

[Hollywood1892]

So this here is a song I want you all to listen to...its beautiful and tragic at the same time....it's a story of David Milgaard who spent over 20 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. And was eventually released, but the moral of the story is you can never reclaim a day or a decision and there is a verse in the song about "living" in the past and how if someone does then they aren't going to last. This verse is ambiguous for the prisoner, because his "past" is freedom, his "past" is good health and his present is "pain" and "decay" and as I said about its ambiguity is that the "released" prisoner can't help but live in the memories of incarceration.

We all make poor business decisions, but we take for granted the little things like food and shelter, but the most important thing which is the freedom to choose

Choose well my friends and live well

Forgive the transgressions of your enemies and cherish the moments you have with those closest to you, because it can all be gone in a instant

Edited December 5, 2020 by Hollywood1892