Are These Comics Crashing?!? How to Limit Your Risk! 

Auctions are so hit or miss, but definitely putting multiple books up at the same time is a good idea

I always appreciate your cool, calm, collected, and logical approach; it's the antidote for raw emotion and FOMO 😅

Great information, thank you.

On ebay my starting bid is my reserve because the fee they charge is stupid high.

Wow, yes Ryan it looks like you never can tell at auction what you are going to get for your books. I told you a few times that is my copy of Superman.1 yes, I am very very upset and disappointed. Because mainly 4.5 restored with trimming sold recently on Comic Link for almost $70,000.. I could say I’m very pissed off. They cannot get the restoration off but that’s not the problem. I should have gotten a lot more.. I think I told you Dave from comic book investments. He is as pissed off as me because he has his own auctions and he didn’t use that.. so he ended up losing thousands thousands of dollars on the albedo, 9.8.. he was expecting over $45-$55,000. The auction ended at $28,000 I believe.. he says on his video he had better offers from people before he put it for sale at auction. Yes it’s very very depressing..🤯🤯🤯

Anyway, because of what just happened to me, I don’t think I will ever sell my Batman 1 restored 5.0 with trimming I will just be very unhappy again.😞😞😞

Auction is liquidation. It’s extremely hard to come out ahead when you have to give up 20% BP - unless you have 40-50% margin on a book to risk.

Any time you put a Comic on sale anything can happen. Heck, if you get the wrong buyer they can try to swipe your book or claim it came damaged. Also, some sellers are shady and try to sell used comics as NM. All you can do, is try to navigate the comic waters and hope you don't end up getting sucked into a vortex.

Hi Ryan. Interesting video as always. On the subject of trimming, IMHO permanently removing part of a book is not restoration. It's unrestorable damage. Period. Useful to note too, that if someone has scribbled a huge penis on a cover, it will be deemed to have a better grade than if they'd dabbed a couple of white spots with a biro. Some folks would virtuall destroy a valuable book to remove those inconsequential pen points. Personally I think cgc should offer a choice to take a grade hit for ink on cover, rather than automatically getting that restored grade.

Great vid.

Ouch, someone's going to make a TON of money removing the resto and resubbing.

Auctions are hit and miss and too risky. You’re taking a chance that two bidders will want your book so much that they’ll bid up the price. The risks are inherent. Like Ryan, I would rather fix-price books on eBay or another platform.

At $48,000, was that with the buyer premium and the 20% commission... did the seller only get $37,400?

why do you waste so much of your time discussing a Superman #1 which is so far out of the reach of 98% of the comic collecting market...I listened to the first 10 minutes...then zipped past the rest....imo...talk to the mainstream of comic collecting, or at least don't use examples that nobody will care about....