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Quote:Originally Posted by Studley_Dudley you and me both |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Studley_Dudley You ain't even close to being wrong.... |
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Quote:Originally Posted by chester15 Yeah. That’s not my experience. I feel like most CBCS books I find online are over priced. For example, one of the few of these in a CBCS slab I can find right now and it’s over priced by like $200-300 and needs to be shipped from Hong Kong??? And there’s like 2-3 dozen CGC copies on EBay. Yes some CGC are overpriced. But there’s enough available to find a few options near current FMV. I never see deals like what you showed. I must have bad luck.  |
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| @Danimal1112 ahahahha. Your post is classic. @Poka is a beloved member of the forum. I had no idea those are going for that much. It is best offer and who knows if it will go up in value once the Punisher episode of the new Daredevil series is released. As for that low CBCS price for Secret Wars, CBCS slabs tend to do poorer at auction and you'll have less eyes on your comic if the starting bid is $34.99 as opposed to 99 cents. |
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| I am not sure how accurate Go Collect is on CBCS, but there are over 300 tracked sales of Punisher LS 1 in a 9.8 and only 9 for CBCS. That’s a huge difference. One book that sells poorly wrecks the average price sold. All of this adds to the perceived value difference IMO. Maybe strike a deal with Go Collect to better promote CBCS stats? I don’t know… | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Danimal1112  |
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Quote:Originally Posted by flanders I have seen @Polka. Had no clue he was in HK. Didn’t know it was the same person. Thought it was a coincidence. Yes. The price can go up. My point was that was one of two CBCS options vs dozens of CGC. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Danimal1112 There are at least two or three CBCS books I would buy on eBay if the sellers didn't think the pages were lined with gold. |
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 It's like the Roach Motel for comic collectors.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Danimal1112 I wasn't even looking to find CGC/CBCS price disparities. I was looking to price a SW4, so viewing Sold listings on eBay. This is about an hour after reading here about "the unproven notion of cgc selling for more". Just a coincidence, but I bet serious research would yield more examples. Probably not as slanted as that one, though. Never, ever saw a CBCS version sell for more than a CGC, but there must some? |
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| Seriously… I want to buy CBCS books but not at a 15-50% mark-up. And it’s mostly a numbers game. Because there are so few out there, you have to be lucky to get a good priced one. I don’t want to submit. CGC ruined that for me. I just want to buy the book I want in the grade I want and will to pay the graded book price. Again, vicious cycle. That’s why I want CBCS to win over some big sellers. Give people more options. | ||
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| Before covid, there were CBCS books that sold for record prices over their counterpart from the cgc. But... since no one tracks these thing or keeps records. Plus, I have personally paid over the current GPA price for certain CBCS graded books. Recently I have found it easier, and less troublesome, to look for raw books and submit them myself to CBCS. Hell, I have even bought PGX graded books to submit to CBCS to avoid buying the new cgc slabs. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Danimal1112 I'm not sure what happened, but CBCS used to have memberships for individuals as well as dealer discounts. These options were suddenly removed from the site. It seems CBCS has decided that the discounts they'd have to give dealers to incentivize them to switch from CGC isn't worth the cost. Grading fees would have to be substantially lower than CGC to account for the difference in sales prices between the two companies, in order to attract dealers. CBCS did however increase the FMV limit for each grading tier, without raising prices. They also have a max $200 charge regardless of FMV instead of a fixed percentage of the FMV. I'm really surprised this hasn't generated more business for both high value comics and books that fall into the $400-$1000 range. CBCS really needs to do a better job marketing their savings over CGC: CGC Rates  CBCS Rates  |
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| Dealers still get discounts. The higher the volume, the better the discount. There's also a few other perks. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Danimal1112I feel Poka is usually reasonably priced. He also caters to a literal world market and is in much closer proximity to a large portion of the world. I’m sure however he is pricing is what’s working for him. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by HulkSmash I am sure that is usually accurate. But in this example, that one is priced at $825 and sells for an avg of $525 for the past 30 days, 90 days and year. It just so happened to be a book I was looking for and could not find one in CBCS reasonably priced. Probably an outlier or trying to hope for a DD show bump. People can list for whatever price they want. Either way, my point was that’s one of like 2 or 3 available with a CBCS label vs dozens and I tend to see CBCS listed for higher prices not lower. |
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| And then there's sales like these... clickable text Hard to believe the buyer actually paid. Especially for a #45 label. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by flanders I actually saw that and thought that was nuts. Given there are so many for sale for less. Stuff like that is also why some sellers list high. Just sometimes people pay it. Makes $825 look cheap. |
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| Sometimes ego and FOMO kicks in during auctions and people do things that don’t make sense. I have for sure fallen victim to that once or twice. | ||
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| Gooo!!! | ||
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 would be nice to have a snugger fit.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Danimal1112 Well...at least the shipping is reasonable. |
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would be nice to have a snugger fit.
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Quote:Originally Posted by flanders Good price? Need a membership to see. I found out even eBay is still biased.  Yes, search instead for what I typed, not what you think I should have typed. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Sigur_Ros Hey! I know that guy! (@poka) |
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Quote:Originally Posted by ComicNinja0215 It must be a 9.8. The certified label says so! |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Sigur_RosI clicked on big history and the last bid it shows me is $900 |
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| Potential steal of the hour coming right up... clickable text I haven't bought anything in months so I blame/thank everyone here if I win. |
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| @flanders That is nice. I have one I need to send in. |
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