Overstreet Price Guide 2016-2017901
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| I received the newly published Overstreet Price Guide today. I have never had one of these price guides before, so I was surprised to find prices are only listed for these grades: 2.0, 4.0, 6.0, 8.0, 9.0, 9.2. That leaves out a lot of what I would consider valuable pricing data. Especially the data for 9.4 through 9.8. Is there a good reason for these grade levels to be excluded? |
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| Overstreet...people still use that. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by DarthLego If 6.0 is $50 and 8.0 is $100, then 7.0 is $75. Welcome to the OPG.  |
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| Originally they only had three grades: Good, Fine, and Mint | ||
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MR_SigS private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Yeah, I had so many Mint books back then LOL | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by MR_SigS Didn't everybody? |
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Quote:Originally Posted by earthshaker01 Well considering most of the books I deal with are moderns 9.4 and up, this book isn't much use to me. Unless I stumble across a good lot of older books at a garage sale. It has Harley Quinn on the cover, I guess that's a plus. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by DarthLego Overstreet is primarily for raw books, that's one reason they changed the top grade from 9.4 to 9.2. |
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| General rule of thumb (of course there are many exceptions): 9.4 is equal to roughly 1.25 to 1.5 times the 9.2 value; 9.6 is roughly 2X the 9.2; and 9.8 is usually around 3X the 9.2 value. 9.9's and 10's are mostly imaginary and go for ridiculous multiples of 9.8's (plus a pond of flesh AND your first born). I also check the recent sales prices at GoCollect.com. |
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| The price guide is just one tool you have these days. It's like a hammer, it won't do much for your screws. A guide that reflected everything you need to know would probably take up five volumes? If you feel a need for something that would suit you better, that might be worth inventing. I'd like a guide that published all the different variant covers. | ||
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| Comicspriceguide.com is a good source for finding images of all the variant covers for an issue, but they are not 100% on all covers, especially newer releases. I mainly bought the new OS as a novelty, since I never had one, rather than a go to tool. I can find most prices I need rather quickly from searching the various online resources. |
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Just noticed this page, pretty much answered my question lol. |
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MR_SigS private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by DarthLego LOL What doesn't? smh |
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Now, here we go, something worth the price of admission lol. |
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ares private msg quote post Address this user | |
| So what does showcase 22 in 4.0 go for? | ||
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DarthLego private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Showcase 22 origin and 1st app. Silver Age Green Lantern 4.0 $1,700 | ||
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This book has a lot of interesting write ups in the front by a lot of well informed people in the hobby about the current trends they are seeing. I think there's more value in the articles than the actual guide. |
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| What does it show for a 6.0 NM #98? | ||
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BrianGreensnips private msg quote post Address this user | |
| I always enjoyed the market reports that are grouped together near the front.There are also some pretty good articles in some issues. I really enjoyed the story of Robert Overstreet helping to sort and catogorize the Gaines file copies. That one was a few years ago. Very good reading. | ||
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DarthLego private msg quote post Address this user | |
| New Mutants 98, 1st app. Deadpool 6.0 $39 | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by DarthLego You have one you want to let go at that price? |
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I didn't write the book.  |
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| I think a lot of the prices are going to be behind the market on hot books. | ||
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DarthLego private msg quote post Address this user | |
| The biggest downfall of a printed guide is by the time it is written, edited, and printed it's already probably 6 months behind the market. | ||
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DarthLego private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Many of the articles talk about NM 98 and the upcoming movie, so these things were written prior to Deadpool hitting the theater. | ||
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| i'd like to hear from the graders. what's the difference between a 9.8, 9.9 and 10.0, and why there isn't a 9.3, 9.5 and 9.7 grade. if you can tell the difference between a 9.8 and 9.9 why not 9.3 and 9.4. heck why should there only be a 8.0 and 8.5? why not and 8.25? imo, these grades are all ridiculous, and a detriment to the collecting community. i can see vf/nm (9.0), nm- (9.2), nm (9.4), and nm/m (9.6)... shouldn't be anything higher. the current system has inflated prices for those poor suckers willing to pay enormous prices for imaginary grades. no such thing as a 10.0. every comic has a flaw. again, imo. |
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DarthLego private msg quote post Address this user | |
@sugarman read this book, it'll answer all your questions. |
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DarthLego private msg quote post Address this user | |
For anyone who's confused why the point scale was set up the way it is here's the breakdown, it's very simply a transliteration of the old system in number form. |
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| @DarthLego that's exactly right. The price guide is a joke. | ||
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DarthLego private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @earthshaker01 are you referring to my remark about it already being 6 months behind by the time it's printed or something else I said? | ||
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