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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 14, 2019 19:43:44 GMT -5
Digital is nice for carrying around on a trip or getting something inexpensively which might normally be out of my price range. As for Classic OOP Trades I own....hmmmm that is a difficult one. So much of the Trades I have gotten are more recent as in the last 5-10 years so most are readily available. Though there are the few which have gone crazily expensive due to short printings: The big one which jumps to mind: The Colossal King Conan printed in 2018 collecting the Darkhorse Truman and Giorello Tomas and others runs of stories. Ordered that bad boy new from Amazon which cost me $74.99 at the time and now the price suggestions are outrageous by Crom! some of my Marvel Essentials and DC Showcase have gotten quite pricey. $75 bucks for that much material is a pretty sweet deal, actually! Good catch! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2019 8:04:32 GMT -5
I have the X-Men Visionaries & both Batman books as well. Being OOP is a funny thing because Batman Strange Apparitions is always listed on eBay for around $50 or higher but the Greatest Stories one is listed for around $10-15. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 15, 2019 10:20:05 GMT -5
I have the X-Men Visionaries & both Batman books as well. Being OOP is a funny thing because Batman Strange Apparitions is always listed on eBay for around $50 or higher but the Greatest Stories one is listed for around $10-15. Yeah, Strange Apparitions was pretty hard to find for a price I was willing to pay; I finally stumbled on to a copy on eBay offered by a seller from the UK for about $10 with, inexplicably but fortunately for me, a 'buy it now' option. So I snapped it up (with postage I think I ended up paying about $15 total). In fact, I similarly also found (really, chanced upon) the other Batman book pictured, plus the Walt Simonson, Project Pegasus, X-men Visionaries and Captain Britain books, on eBay for a really low price with no other bidders or a 'buy it now' option. I didn't pay more than $10 each for any of those, and often less - the covers on the Capt. Britain book are pretty banged up, so the seller only charged 99 cents, and postage was a few dollars. Of course, that was in what I call the 'good old days' at eBay, from about 2007/2008 (when I first discovered it was a great place to find cheap books) until about 2012-ish, when a lot of the individual sellers (i.e., not large online bookdealers) started to use eBay's global shipping service for international orders - the rates charged under that regime are ridiculous.
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Post by tarkintino on Oct 15, 2019 12:21:40 GMT -5
It took me quite a while to find this OOP Trade in a nice NMintish condition...   This is a nice volume, but for a fan of 70s Batman, this could have been three or four times the page count. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 15, 2019 13:48:27 GMT -5
Here's some of mine:  I have the X-Men Visionaries & both Batman books as well. Being OOP is a funny thing because Batman Strange Apparitions is always listed on eBay for around $50 or higher but the Greatest Stories one is listed for around $10-15. I think part of it may have to do with initial print runs and with how long they originally stayed in print. As I recall Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told was a pretty big book when it came out. I suspect that it had a significantly higher print run and it may have even gotten more than one printing. |
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Post by brutalis on Oct 15, 2019 14:22:00 GMT -5
Digital is nice for carrying around on a trip or getting something inexpensively which might normally be out of my price range. As for Classic OOP Trades I own....hmmmm that is a difficult one. So much of the Trades I have gotten are more recent as in the last 5-10 years so most are readily available. Though there are the few which have gone crazily expensive due to short printings: The big one which jumps to mind: The Colossal King Conan printed in 2018 collecting the Darkhorse Truman and Giorello Tomas and others runs of stories. Ordered that bad boy new from Amazon which cost me $74.99 at the time and now the price suggestions are outrageous by Crom! some of my Marvel Essentials and DC Showcase have gotten quite pricey. $75 bucks for that much material is a pretty sweet deal, actually! Good catch! One of the advantages of pre-ordering with Amazon. Whatever the lowest "Advertised" price once you pre-order is what you will be charged. Can normally save between $5-10 on TPB's and Omnibus. Example: last week received the 1st Trade of the new Betty and Veronica: Senior Year which is $17.99 and my cost was $10.91 so I saved $7.08! The Steve Ditko Omni which recently shipped at the end of August Isaved $17.50 off the cover price. So I tend to pre-order higher end editions as soon as the pop up. Worth the wait at times if ordering 8-10 months or a year ahead when you can save some major dollars, especially as more publishers are basing their printings on pre-order purchases. |
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