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taskmaster Posts: 265
6/28/2021
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Can anyone explain with NO movie and NO TV are "Common" books going crazy.....
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Draven68 Posts: 138
7/15/2021
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Dear Taskmaster,
I've come to see that you're again requesting the same information of WHY, WHEN, WHERE. The fact is, you're in the same boat as everyone else and no one is trying to keep any secrets. For example, aren't you posting in the forums under "Market Watch"? Isn't it obvious that we post things here when we see an increase in prices for a particular comic? We often times post when we see a big change. Do we know every time why? Of course not, but we share it here for everyone to take note and for those that take the time to read the comment and want to take advantage of it. Please do the research like everyone else. Do a search on the internet for "comic book speculation" (Speculation - invest in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss.) There are a PLETHORA of websites available, there's youtube channels, podcasts, knowledge of certain comic book movies or shows coming out, certain facebook pages... etc. available to anyone that takes the time to look for themselves. There you may be able to gleam the insight and answers you're so desperately searching.
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7/16/2021
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At any given moment, there are going to be thousands of comics I would like to own, but I'm too cheap or not rich enough to afford them.
It's easy to look at Action #1 and think how cool it would be to own one. In truth, I'm not really that big of a fan of Superman, so I'm fine not owning one.
I think everything comes down to why you want the comic. Do you want it because you like the character? If you like the character, why did you wait until it was already hot?
Do you want it because you think the price will increase? Why did you wait until everyone else felt the same way?
Do you want it because other people told you it was good to own? I hope not. Why would anyone need another collector to tell them what to collect?
It's harder to predict what new releases will spike in price. I used to read Previews 3 months in advance. I hung out at the comic book store the day new comics were released. The store owners and managers were my friends. I knew which books were interesting or great quality the day they were released. I did pretty good at predicting which comics were a good investment. In the end though, new comics are a huge high risk gamble today. There are far more duds than there are good investments. If your goal is to buy all the newly release hot books before anyone else discovers them, the odds are not in your favor. I can assure you that people who did score a popular comic also wasted money on a lot duds. It balances out. You might have gotten some cool comics, but the odds are you paid for it in other ways.
When the Guardians of the Galaxy movie came out and Rocket Raccoon's appearance spiked in price, there were decades that you could've bought the book cheaply. Ask yourself why you want it now? Is it because you like the character, or is it because you want bragging rights? If it's for the bragging rights after everyone else decided they want it too, you're like a flag flapping in the wind. The market is deciding which way your interests swing and you will forever be at it's mercy.
In the 90's, I had a friend who would buy any copy of 2001: A Space Odyssey #8 (1st Machine Man) that he saw. He had at least 20 copies and only paid about $1 each. He liked the character. If Marvel ever makes a movie featuring Machine Man, he'll be sitting nice. Regardless, he was proactive. He believes in the character and he was willing to wait for others to agree. If you want to be ahead of the curve, you have to believe in something and you have to be knowledgeable enough about the hobby to know what others will believe in.
If you are waiting on someone else to tell you what's worth owning, you are going to lose out more than you will succeed.
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Oxbladder Posts: 487
9/21/2021
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Heritage, eBay, and many other online sites have loads of people that are more than willing to pay more, and there are loads of people that will pay more even if they know they can get a copy cheaper. My LCS has often had people seriously mull over buying a book but then balk at buying it because it was a bit too much only to find out later that they paid double for the same book because it was on sale for X% off. I kid you not. Almost every graded book is sold far over market value. How many books sell for over cover? Heck every book you buy has been marked up to guarantee a profit. People here order tons of stuff that is in stock around town and is often cheaper than online and no shipping costs. there are guys that sell at small shows here and consider they made a profit if they make above their table costs. Tell me if you spent 2 hours a day for five days getting g ready transported your goods there early to set up sat there for 7+ hours and made $400 over your tables spent $100 on other stuff or food,, then transported everything back home and spent a few hours packing everything back into place. Have you really made any money at all? How much is your time worth? Not everything is going to drop all that much nowadays so if people are overpaying clearly demand or desperation is the norm not the exception.
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Theoldcollector Posts: 213
7/15/2021
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As Draven said:
Draven68 wrote:
There are a PLETHORA of websites available, there's youtube channels, podcasts, knowledge of certain comic book movies or shows coming out, certain facebook pages... etc. available to anyone that takes the time to look for themselves. There you may be able to gleam the insight and answers you're so desperately searching.
Sure there are a lot of speculators in the comic market right now. So if you too are trying to speculate you have to do the research as well. If something hits the key collector app or and other large site used for speculation you can bet that the books are going to start going up immediately online. With research and a bit of effort you can try and grab these books in LCS, Flea Markets, Antique Stores or even online if you're fast enough but there are a ton and I mean a ton of comics collectors these days so yes you have to do your own research and you have to be quick if you are trying to buy everything online. Or if you have been a collector for years hopefully you already have the book in your collection and you can sell it if that's what your into. With the amount of posts you make like this it seems as if you want to be a speculator collector and you're just not having any luck finding the books that are hot. Plus it seems as if about 80% of what is hot now will be cold a year later short of older books that should have been hot for years anyways.
I get frustrated sometimes too when a book that I was already keeping an eye out for all of a sudden gets hot. Here lately when that happens I just wait it out and hope that it drops off the speculator's hot list and then go back to trying to find a nice copy for my collection. I speculate as well, I do it not to sell a book for more than I paid for it but I will get them in hope they go up in value and someone who needs it for their collection will have something I really want in my collection. I've never sold a book my entire life but I have been speculating on books for awhile.
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