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Post by Defiant1 on Dec 22, 2004 4:33:54 GMT -5
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Post by knightt on Dec 22, 2004 16:36:30 GMT -5
VERY nice link, thanks for the heads up. It is good to have some kind of price guide. I dont know where they come up with their prices but what the heck.
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Post by Defiant1 on Dec 22, 2004 23:06:05 GMT -5
VERY nice link, thanks for the heads up. It is good to have some kind of price guide. I dont know where they come up with their prices but what the heck. They base it on input from retailers, much like any price guide. A lot of things go into determining price for something. Supply and demand are the major variables in the equation, but localized supply and demand can create the illusion of patterns which differ from the actual supply and demand. Water is free at any public water fountain where I live, but it might cost an arm and a leg at some remote drought ridden country in Africa. A price guide can't base prices on the highest prices paid and it can't base prices on the lowest prices paid. Price guides should always factor the cost required to produce and distribute a comic even if dealers are dumping them for a nickel. Price Guides are run by humans and that means corruption is always a possibility. I will tell people what I think a comic is worth or what i can sell a comic for, but when the cards fall.... I want others to tell me what the research says. That's what I want to see in a guide. Overstreet has almost abandoned trying to maintain realistic prices on modern comics. That is one reason I place a lot of hope in the online price guide. I rarely use price guides as anything more than a reference when I price anything. I gave those guys an honest evaluation of what I'd seen relating to VH3 prices. They came to their own conclusion. Some books they deemed to be worth more that I think they are worth, some came back as being less than what I think they are worth. In the end, my prices are based on what I think they are worth, not what a guide says. If other disagree, then I keep them. No big deal for me. That just means they are worth more to me than others. Defiant1 |
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Post by depluto on Dec 23, 2004 10:59:17 GMT -5
I prefer the lack of a popular online price guide for most of the comics I'm buying. Look at what Greg's price guide did for the Valiants ... people who buy and sell stuff on ebay used that as a guide, and I'm certain that (along wth the buying habits of people who frequent his site) is the major reason why Valiants surged in price the last couple of years.
It does me no good, since I'm not selling. And they're mostly too expensive for me to buy.
As a pleasant sidebar, it steered me toward some comics I've found pretty enjoyable: Broadway, Defiant, even Ultraverse.
I just bought the whole run of Future Comics off ebay yesterday ... $8 shipped. Can't wait to give those a good read. And I've got a short stack of Continuity comics on the way from VK.
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Post by Brother J on Dec 23, 2004 12:41:34 GMT -5
I just bought the whole run of Future Comics off ebay yesterday ... $8 shipped. Can't wait to give those a good read. Not to try to make myself sound like some noble guy, but I had my eye on that Future Comics lot, as well but I decided not to bid on them when I saw you had placed a bid. I had a bunch of the books in that lot, so if you didn't have any of them then I feel like you deserved them more than me! ;D One book that I think is going to end up being fairly hard to find might be the Freemind collected trade paperback. I personally never saw those in the store, so they might have only been available directly through Future. The thing about Future Comics is they kept trying to get away from distributing their books through Diamond. When they first started, they tried to distribute themselves and then tried to go back to that later once they were near the end. I wonder how all of that may have affected print runs on some of those issues.... Sorry to be talking so much about Future Comics in the Broadway section!  |
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Post by depluto on Dec 23, 2004 14:11:54 GMT -5
Thanks for the consideration, Brother J! I promise I'll repay in kind sometime.
As for the Freemind GN, when I went to Don Perlin's charity thing a couple of months ago, Bob Layton had a giant box of them ... he was giving them out free to anyone who stopped by the table.
I didn't get one since my son wanted one, which Bob autographed to him.
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Post by Defiant1 on Dec 23, 2004 15:30:06 GMT -5
Sorry to be talking so much about Future Comics in the Broadway section! I don't care about things being off topic, but sometimes I do copy a post and start a new thread in a category where people can find it. Regarding Future comics, I think Bob mentioned he had a Peacekeeper (is that right?) Ashcan comic. I would have wanted to look at the art in that. Defiant1 |
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Post by Defiant1 on Dec 23, 2004 15:44:03 GMT -5
I prefer the lack of a popular online price guide for most of the comics I'm buying. Look at what Greg's price guide did for the Valiants ... people who buy and sell stuff on ebay used that as a guide, and I'm certain that (along wth the buying habits of people who frequent his site) is the major reason why Valiants surged in price the last couple of years. As far as I'm concerned, the valiant price guide was created to manipulate prices. First to lower them and then later to miraculously catch back up once the owner had a deep stash of them. A price guide is a necessary tool. It's a helpful tool and it promotes comic collecting. I do understand what you mean about prices increasing. All it takes is information and education to do that. 3 years ago nobody would be trying to price a Broadway comic $1500. Nobody would be driving up the price of ANY Defiant card product and you wouldn't see a seller double his price on a binder within one month's time. I'd buy those things for the right price, but my site helped others, not me. If anything, my site just being online pushed the more obscure things out of a price range I'll pay. That's no earth shattering big deal, but I'd rather see the comics get the respect rather than get damaged in a quarter box. Defiant1 |
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Post by knightt on Dec 23, 2004 16:13:42 GMT -5
I would love to give Continuity Comics a try... so if anyone ever gets a line on any cheap... be sure to mention it to me.
At my ONLY LCS here, I noticed that CrossGen Comics are now at a $1 buck a piece. From what I have seen (of the art at least) these look pretty good.
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Post by Brother J on Dec 23, 2004 18:08:28 GMT -5
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Post by knightt on Dec 23, 2004 19:14:39 GMT -5
hey looks pretty good and I will be bidding on this... I guess this service is just like Ebay ?
I noticed many dupes, not happy about that but there looks to still be quite a few books.
GREAT... another line of comics that my wife can give me the 'look' over. LOL
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