I've been subscribed and watching your videos for a few months now and I have to say you have become my favorite content creator. You seem very honest and genuine and these are rare qualities in 2024. Love your passion for the books and collecting as a whole, we need more like you. I only wish you would do more content besides unboxings... I think you have a lot of knowledge that should be shared.,either way thank you for the many things you do
I appreciate the kind words! I am actually working towards doing much more "other" content soon. I just moved to 2 videos a week so I can get through my enormous backlog. I recorded tons of unboxings over the past few months and need to get through them. My plan is to move to more process-oriented content and only do occasional unboxings. Or do 2 videos a week, 1 unboxing and 1 process. Let me know what you think.
Most of the comic shops around me have crazy upcharges for keys, but there’s one that prices them usually $50-100 lower than eBay, possibly to sell them quicker. That’s my go-to. Also the owner bought a giant collection a year ago and 95% of them are 90s non-keys that are all mint. He grabbed a few boxes to bring to the store and inside were Transformers #2-20, Web of Spiderman 1-10, ASM 200-300, etc. I’ve been bugging the hell out of him to bring in the rest lol
So, I am my LCS' official clean and press guy to help improve their comics. My LCS owner recently bought a collection where a long boxes worth of books had some water damage, so he's giving them away for FREE. I know I can improve them with a clean and press, so it should be easy to make a few bucks on them. I cherry picked all of the damaged ASM books in the #320+ range.
I was this time, yes. Sometimes they do that, but not always. It's kind of B.S. really, because the books are sent in raw.. so most people put the raw values. Then, they give it whatever grade they want and look up the value and upcharge you based on a slabbed value. It's a racket. I always send my books in based on the raw value.. that makes the most sense to me.
Congrats on the 252! When looking at a slabbed book that is currently a 9.4 or a 9.6, but you think it’s a 9.8 candidate, what “scares” you the most in terms of not seeing something as well as you wish you could because it is slabbed? Obviously you can’t see the interior so that’s a given, but would it be the spine, the staples, something else? Thanks!
Sometimes it's very hard to see micro corner creases. Sometimes the corners are folded over, then unfolded and it's very difficult to see the tiny color break sometimes present. Other than that, sometimes people seem to go out of there way to photo their books at angles that hide the defects, most often the spine ticks.
Not “now” but, eventually most likely. Dont quote me on this, but I think it will be 5+ years until you see major price drops on 9.8’s. Its coming around and I think most 9.9’s and 10’s for the next few years will be super modern books that have no substantial value to begin with. There will be some bigger books too. The big books will still be fewer and take longer to drive down 9.8 prices.
There needs to be a smaller gap between 9.8 and 9.6 for sure. I think people undervalue 9.6 and way overvalue 9.8. As you see in my videos, they are basically the same thing a lot of the time and a grader's mood one particular day can mean hundreds or thousands of dollars for us.
