question about bulk buys...

[nycjadie]

That's an easy run of books to sell, too. I'd imagine that Amazing and Uncanny are some of the easiest to sell.

I'm looking at a nice run of early Uncanny, but it's $15 a book, which I think is fair, but certainly not a deal given the large number of books I'd need to buy.

[GGSAE]

That's an easy run of books to sell, too. I'd imagine that Amazing and Uncanny are some of the easiest to sell.

I'm looking at a nice run of early Uncanny, but it's $15 a book, which I think is fair, but certainly not a deal given the large number of books I'd need to buy.

That's part of the problem, is he has a number of books that many people want which makes it easy for him to pick/choose his price. He also has a number of other big Marvel books......I'm thinking about making him an offer on everything but it's hard for me to really get a bargain because he has so many interested parties. I live in a city with the highest median income in Canada; where a number of public servants earn very, very good salaries. Although I doubt there's a lot of people that can just shell out several thousand for a collection, he won't have a lot of difficultly selling individual books for good amounts.

[nycjadie]

I think at that price, I'd only get them if I really wanted them and I could afford it without selling any.

I hear you on local competition. It's the same here.

[SnotDrip]

That's an easy run of books to sell, too. I'd imagine that Amazing and Uncanny are some of the easiest to sell.

I'm looking at a nice run of early Uncanny, but it's $15 a book, which I think is fair, but certainly not a deal given the large number of books I'd need to buy.

That's part of the problem, is he has a number of books that many people want which makes it easy for him to pick/choose his price. He also has a number of other big Marvel books......I'm thinking about making him an offer on everything but it's hard for me to really get a bargain because he has so many interested parties. I live in a city with the highest median income in Canada; where a number of public servants earn very, very good salaries. Although I doubt there's a lot of people that can just shell out several thousand for a collection, he won't have a lot of difficultly selling individual books for good amounts.

For what it's worth, I would let it pass for the time being and let all the others trip over this one - you may get into a bidding war with others or at the end of the day yourself only - the seller clearly knows what he has. To court a favour, recommend to him which ones to sell individually/in runs for higher return/maximize his profit, in order to to drive up the prices, and knock the buyers/competition out for your next one that will come up.

The other side is follow your gut. If its worth it, not just from a price point of view, go for it but don't look back. But then again you know this already...

Although I suspect what you say is true (doubt there's a lot of people that can just shell out several thousand for a collection) some like you and I can, so there will be bound to be others. We also have a few solid LCS' in our area, reputable and stable for over 20 years that also bite into the collection buying market in our area.

we may have tripped over each other a few times in the past although I cover mostly south of the city towards Brockville/Prescott and have not bought a collections in over 5 years. Some of my best purchase were over 25 years ago...

Best of luck

[GGSAE]

Thanks for your insight. I'm actually going to back-down on this, at 2k I was kind of on the fence, but now that I think about it I'm gonna hold off. I have other sources to buy collections of people with great books, so I might just revisit those later. I also know that new opportunities come up all the time. I agree it's better to walk than get into a *SQUEE* match with a bunch of buyers.

I've only started buying collections in the last year +, so this is still somewhat new to me.

[nycjadie]

That larger collection with silver age stuff was the same way for me. I knew I wouldn't make money on it, and that if I wanted a break even proposition, I'd have to work pretty hard at it, but I really wanted those silver books. It'll probably be a few more months before I'm close to breaking even, maybe even 3-4.

[nycjadie]

My collection this week was really special. The original owner of about 35 golden age Little Lulu books from the 40s and early 50s, plus a few other great books. The condition of the books are good. The price paid? Zero!

[ilzuccone]

My collection this week was really special. The original owner of about 35 golden age Little Lulu books from the 40s and early 50s, plus a few other great books. The condition of the books are good. The price paid? Zero!

[GGSAE]

My collection this week was really special. The original owner of about 35 golden age Little Lulu books from the 40s and early 50s, plus a few other great books. The condition of the books are good. The price paid? Zero!

Zero? Is that all you could hold while running away? lol, nice grab!

[nscc]

My collection this week was really special. The original owner of about 35 golden age Little Lulu books from the 40s and early 50s, plus a few other great books. The condition of the books are good. The price paid? Zero!

Ya can't beat that price

Nice one

[GGSAE]

Got a line on the biggest deal yet....don't want to jinx it, will post full details if everything goes through.

[ilzuccone]

[nycjadie]

I look forward to it. I bought about 5 $100 collections recently. Nothing super high grade, but some great older minor keys.

[lorddunlow]

[ilzuccone]

i live vicariously through you bulk buyers. if i had extra free time this would be my hobby.

[GGSAE]

Details tomorrow hopefully it should all go through, suffice to say this is the biggest cash outlay for me by far so I'm taking some risk. I will also be looking to sell other comics I have just because I need some money.

[ilzuccone]

[Elveen]

Details tomorrow hopefully it should all go through, suffice to say this is the biggest cash outlay for me by far so I'm taking some risk. I will also be looking to sell other comics I have just because I need some money.

This is like must see TV.
I can't wait to hear.

[GGSAE]

Hey guys, I'll try to post everything tonight; I took photos with my phone to save time, but you'll see many of these books can/should have their own scan because it doesn't do them justice. I got really lucky with this lot, the seller was a really good guy, aware of the value of the books but it seems he's getting all out of collecting. Having said that he threw in some really nice freebees, below is a complete long-box of all utimate books (huge run of x-men, spiderman, ff, civil war books, etc). There was also a heavy box crammed full of full-back along with an equivalent amount of egerber mylars. There was also another book of low grade books thrown in that I don't know if there's anything of value, they're all silver age misc. books.

[GGSAE]

I added this pic because I thought it was funny he had the Paul Kariya rookie card thrown in, we had talked about the differences in comics/cards briefly.

[GGSAE]

[GGSAE]

Some Big Books Here!

[GGSAE]

Love the Dracula Books!!! I might hang onto to those ones....




Apologies if this one is upside down...

[GGSAE]

SGT Fury books, rare to see in this condition given their age but they will be some of the first books I sell to recoup some of my money.






Gold Key Books in CGC 9.4/9.6....



Demon Books, great covers, awesome eye appeal....yes that's a 9.8 below...

[GGSAE]

This Book Deserves it's own separate post!