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Post by Crimebuster on May 4, 2021 19:12:07 GMT -5
It's all going to depend on who watches the video. The X-Men #244 is actually a super hot book right now, just not for my audience I think. A copy broke $600 last month on ebay, so this is a pretty solid deal, but I'm not sure this is the audience for it. But if the right person sees the video, I think it will go.
I've got a couple other venues to try if I can't trade certain books via YouTube or here, but I didn't really build into the rules an option to swap books out. I'll just need to figure out a way to trade the books, which is part of the challenge!
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Post by Icctrombone on May 4, 2021 20:26:35 GMT -5
I can’t wait to see who tries to swap for these books. I noticed that you have more subscribers in YouTube. That will help.
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Post by shaxper on May 4, 2021 21:27:42 GMT -5
It's all going to depend on who watches the video. The X-Men #244 is actually a super hot book right now, just not for my audience I think. A copy broke $600 last month on ebay, so this is a pretty solid deal, but I'm not sure this is the audience for it. But if the right person sees the video, I think it will go. Why all the excitement over Jubilee? I'm a huge X-Men fan, and I tolerate Jubilee at best.
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Post by shaxper on May 4, 2021 21:31:43 GMT -5
I sold one for $44 last month. 22 bids. Some of these would do better if they had a month or two to "mature". Even that Batman #666 will probably triple in value by Round 5. I think Scott should give himself the option to switch some of these out to a sideboard so that values have a chance to rise a bit. Magik is a solid investment, but not if you're looking for a turn-around in two weeks. It has been very slowly rising in value since I started buying up three dollar copies on ebay two months back, but it's been slow going. JLA #220 won't see any movement for a long while unless someone watching the video sees its potential. Micronauts #1 is on several hottest back issue lists right now.
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Post by Crimebuster on May 4, 2021 23:18:29 GMT -5
It's all going to depend on who watches the video. The X-Men #244 is actually a super hot book right now, just not for my audience I think. A copy broke $600 last month on ebay, so this is a pretty solid deal, but I'm not sure this is the audience for it. But if the right person sees the video, I think it will go. Why all the excitement over Jubilee? I'm a huge X-Men fan, and I tolerate Jubilee at best. I don't know, to be honest. Best guess is nostalgia, as she was a fairly large part of the 90s cartoon, combined with speculation that the MCU might do something with her. But I dunno.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 5, 2021 5:10:55 GMT -5
Why all the excitement over Jubilee? I'm a huge X-Men fan, and I tolerate Jubilee at best. I don't know, to be honest. Best guess is nostalgia, as she was a fairly large part of the 90s cartoon, combined with speculation that the MCU might do something with her. But I dunno. The character, as far as I know, isn't being used. That hurts the marketability of the book.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 5, 2021 5:15:12 GMT -5
I sold one for $44 last month. 22 bids. Some of these would do better if they had a month or two to "mature". Even that Batman #666 will probably triple in value by Round 5. I think Scott should give himself the option to switch some of these out to a sideboard so that values have a chance to rise a bit. Magik is a solid investment, but not if you're looking for a turn-around in two weeks. It has been very slowly rising in value since I started buying up three dollar copies on ebay two months back, but it's been slow going. JLA #220 won't see any movement for a long while unless someone watching the video sees its potential. Micronauts #1 is on several hottest back issue lists right now. I'm shocked about the Spawn book. It must have had a print run of 3million. But it being an almost 30 year old book and still being published must help. I will admit to not keeping my ear to the ground on the " hot books". I only began to hear about spec books after the Wandavision series.
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Post by shaxper on May 5, 2021 5:56:13 GMT -5
I sold one for $44 last month. 22 bids. Some of these would do better if they had a month or two to "mature". Even that Batman #666 will probably triple in value by Round 5. I think Scott should give himself the option to switch some of these out to a sideboard so that values have a chance to rise a bit. Magik is a solid investment, but not if you're looking for a turn-around in two weeks. It has been very slowly rising in value since I started buying up three dollar copies on ebay two months back, but it's been slow going. JLA #220 won't see any movement for a long while unless someone watching the video sees its potential. Micronauts #1 is on several hottest back issue lists right now. I'm shocked about the Spawn book. It must have had a print run of 3million. But it being an almost 30 year old book and still being published must help. I will admit to not keeping my ear to the ground on the " hot books". I only began to hear about spec books after the Wandavision series. 30 year old books is a big part of the issue, I suspect. Some folks who had those books don't have them anymore. Thus, demand. And no one ever said collectors were logical.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 5, 2021 6:11:30 GMT -5
I am not being critical of the Challenge, I’m just thinking out loud about the books involved. I find this endeavor so interesting.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 5, 2021 22:13:51 GMT -5
It's all going to depend on who watches the video. The X-Men #244 is actually a super hot book right now, just not for my audience I think. A copy broke $600 last month on ebay, so this is a pretty solid deal, but I'm not sure this is the audience for it. But if the right person sees the video, I think it will go. Why all the excitement over Jubilee? I'm a huge X-Men fan, and I tolerate Jubilee at best. I agree.. I mean, they've tried to sell her as a lead 5 times at least without success. There are also ALOT of the book out there. Sure, 9.6-9.8 cgc'ed copies went for a couple hundred, but more often non cgc'ed ones seem like 40-50. I got the Magik book in a dollar bin myself! (actually the whole series for $4 in the discounted sets bin, but that counts!) so the fact that's its in there makes me happy.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2021 22:50:06 GMT -5
I don't know, to be honest. Best guess is nostalgia, as she was a fairly large part of the 90s cartoon, combined with speculation that the MCU might do something with her. But I dunno. The character, as far as I know, isn't being used. That hurts the marketability of the book. isn't she part of the Hellions team? Edit - she's on the newest version of "Excalibur" team:
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 5, 2021 23:01:55 GMT -5
Where's Shogo? did they de-vampire her? That looks like 80s Jubilee?
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Post by Crimebuster on May 6, 2021 14:24:42 GMT -5
Quick update: things are definitely slower this time around. I do think these early rounds are going to be the trickiest, because in theory I will gain new viewers and thus trading partners as we go, so right now I have the smallest pool of trading partners that I'll have.
Last time I traded 14 books to 5 trading partners. This time so far I've only traded 3 books to 2 trading partners.
The good news is, these are new trading partners form last time. I've also had a number of people say they are interested in participating, they just haven't seen the books they need.
I'm pretty confident in most of the books currently in my trading pool, but again, since I have a limited number of trading partners, having good books isn't the challenge right now - it's having good books that these specific people want.
So, my focus right now is going to be bringing some of these to a couple new venues to see if I can turn over some of the stock and get in some other books, and also expanding the pool of potential trading partners. I'm really hoping to get other youtubers involved, as that will greatly expand my pool of trading partners if their audiences get into it as well. But we'll see.
Finally, for George - I did get an offer on the Spawn #1, but I've turned it down for now. It would have been a value increase, but it also was going the wrong direction as they were offering two lesser value books for it, and I really want to go the other way and package the Spawn with some of the other books at the lower end of my list to consolidate upwards. But the interest for Spawn #1 is out there!
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Post by Icctrombone on May 6, 2021 17:53:51 GMT -5
I'm a bit surprised about the Spawn book. I hope you get good value for the books that are left. I have noticed that you gained a few more subscribers. Any offers for the top three books yet ?
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Post by Crimebuster on May 6, 2021 18:41:51 GMT -5
Not yet. The Kirby lot in the 18 position has had a lot of chatter, but no offers yet.
The other two are probably the hottest books in the group so if they don't trade soon it's okay as they are currently increasing in value on their own.
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