8/2/2020
Topic:
When to sell
pthomas2010
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That Venom is probably at or near its peak selling price now. It will eventually go back down to a level less than you paid for it. This is the only way to stay ahead with modern comics.
Sell asap. |
8/2/2020
Topic:
Box Spacers
pthomas2010
|
I cut board-sized sections out of boxes that come through the house. It's a pain, but the size of my collection makes a lot of things a pain. |
9/4/2020
Topic:
Ruk's list-Who has the best collection
pthomas2010
|
My Sept 2020 Collection Info:
TOTAL COLLECTION VALUE : $316,916.96
ISSUE COLLECTION COUNT : 42,599 |
9/14/2020
Topic:
Longest Comic Run in Your Collection
pthomas2010
|
I have ASM 1- Legacy 848 (#47 of current series)
Not quite as long: Avengers 1-current, Action Comics 305-current, Batman 233-current, Superman 117-current, Need FF 1 & 52, Need JIM/Thor 84, 85, 89. |
10/4/2020
Topic:
Ruk's list-Who has the best collection
pthomas2010
|
October 2020
TOTAL COLLECTION VALUE : $318,928.23
ISSUE COLLECTION COUNT : 42,768 |
10/18/2020
Topic:
Amazing Spider-Man 300 On Fire
pthomas2010
|
fdaz89 wrote:
I've heard rumors that eBay is not a price guide.
If the price a book sells for on ebay stays consistent over a period of time, then that is the value. Value is only what people actually spend on a collectible, and ebay sales are documented for everybody to see. |
10/30/2020
Topic:
The insanity of Ebay
pthomas2010
|
I think it's great that the back issue market has exploded. I was out of the hobby from 1985-2010, and since I started back, activity and selling prices on back issues have gone up consistently. Ebay has been at the forefront of this, but it has affected the major dealers, too. I get the weekly newsletter from mycomicshop.com, and their business has exploded over the last decade. The only thing that seems to have affected their sales at all was shutting down for over a month due to COVID-19, and since reopening, their sales are higher than ever. It may seem crazy, but there are plenty of people willing to pay big bucks for comics now. Too bad I don't want to sell right now. |
11/2/2020
Topic:
Longest Comic Run in Your Collection
pthomas2010
|
Defiant1 wrote:
I have X-Men # 1-350 with some duplicates including two #1's.
I sound like a broken record, but I lost interest in owning runs after acquiring Amazing Fantasy #15. I started wanting more keys and less of the common issues. I own too many comics as it is.
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I bought a house with enough room to store however many comics it takes for me to decide I'm done. I love my big expensive keys, but I like working on runs between my mega dollar purchases. I don't really collect anything passionately besides comics, and I decided when I started collecting again in 2010 that i would build my collection by following whatever whims i felt while shopping. So far it's lead to a collection of over 43,000 comics, a bunch of complete and almost complete runs, and still a 35-page want list. Still much cheaper than my second passion, muscle cars. |
11/3/2020
Topic:
Ruk's list-Who has the best collection
pthomas2010
|
Here are my November numbers.
Let's have some more participants!! Even the guy who thought we were stupid for doing this would be welcome.
TOTAL COLLECTION VALUE : $322,001.70
ISSUE COLLECTION COUNT : 43,035 |
11/6/2020
Topic:
The insanity of Ebay
pthomas2010
|
quinnspuddinjoker wrote:
Insane at times prices being paid. Less than a year ago I bought ASM 300 in NM- for $195 and now it is selling between $500 to $800 on average. Happy about this but wow...Star Wars books have seen big jumps for characters 1st appearances I never heard of. Only know since I got a short list of Star Wars books my son in law wants for Xmas.
Those are the kind of books I worry about having longevity. So many of those Dark Horse Star Wars comics were in dollar bins for so many years, and the slightest suggestion of a character maybe showing up in a movie gets the hype going and the price shoots up. The only way I would buy any of those at their exaggerated selling price would be to immediately flip to somebody like your poor son in law, when he finds out they are dollar comics again a little down the road from now. There is an art to buying comics that will hold their value or appreciate. Like the stock market, you need to try buying low and selling high, and you also need to have historically reliable but unspectacular, steady investment comics. I don't see many of the modern variants and first appearances being worth much in 10 years. There will be some, but people have really lost their common sense with the money they pay for common issues that have hype. I hope I'm wrong and people stay just as insane about comics until I get ready to part with mine. After that I don't care. |
11/29/2020
Topic:
Ruk's list-Who has the best collection
pthomas2010
|
I think Ruk's collection value is going up because he's secretly buying new variants (and loving it). He's been too ashamed to admit it for fear of being kicked out of the cool club. |
12/5/2020
Topic:
Ruk's list-Who has the best collection
pthomas2010
|
Final update of 2020:
TOTAL COLLECTION VALUE : $322,689.84
ISSUE COLLECTION COUNT : 43,205
|
12/6/2020
Topic:
Ruk's list-Who has the best collection
pthomas2010
|
First time I've been back since my long post. It took me a while to do that one because I wanted to get the words right, and I guess it signed me out. That's happened to me several times since the forums were brought back to life. It's a pain, but still better than an entire forum that doesn't function at all. |
12/30/2020
Topic:
Ruk's list-Who has the best collection
pthomas2010
|
My last update of 2020.
I'm stuck at position 13 with about $50,000 between the next slots up or down.
TOTAL COLLECTION VALUE : $325,905.30
ISSUE COLLECTION COUNT : 43,337 |
12/30/2020
Topic:
Star Wars
pthomas2010
|
I've sold so many of those Dark Horse issues over the past few years for $1 or less. When my old lcs ended up with dollar box comics taking over the store, the owner would let me buy longboxes for $40 at first, and eventually $20 apiece. When it got to that level I would try to round up 10 boxes full, and Dark House Star Wars were all scattered throughout. Even when they didn't sell for a lot, they sold. Never got stuck with any and I've accumulated thousands of dollars in store credit from mycomicshop during the last 6 years. No telling what gems got past me back then. |
1/25/2021
Topic:
Ruk's list-Who has the best collection
pthomas2010
|
2019 12
| $ 290,425.00
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| *EEIG
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| 40406
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| PTHomas2010
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2020 13
| $ 325,905.00
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| *EEIG
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| 43337
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| PTHomas2010
|
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1/25/2021
Topic:
Ruk's list-Who has the best collection
pthomas2010
|
JAN 2021
TOTAL COLLECTION VALUE : $327,738.78
ISSUE COLLECTION COUNT : 43,613 |
3/1/2021
Topic:
Ruk's list-Who has the best collection
pthomas2010
|
My totals for March 2021
VALUE : $330,648.80
ISSUE COLLECTION COUNT : 43,801
update on 14th. |
3/2/2021
Topic:
Ruk's list-Who has the best collection
pthomas2010
|
is that typical spring temps there, Ruk? Does it break zero in the summer? |
3/5/2021
Topic:
Ruk's list-Who has the best collection
pthomas2010
|
ruk wrote:
DEar PThomas(*EEIG)
the great white north is subject to fluctuating temperatures
winter is brutal.
Spring is wonderful but short
summer it is very hot
and fall it is colourful and pleasant.
we have had over 100 F in Summer.
In Sask. where I have some connection- I have seen -30 Centigrade-that is very very cold.
not sure what that translates into F but cold.
Today it is a balmy 45F-out for a walk.
I just know it's too cold up there for me. I would also hate having to convert C to F just to know what it felt like outside.
And as an American, I'll never use the metric system either. You can keep your kilos and centigrade. |
