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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Nov 24, 2015 18:47:48 GMT -5
Every now and then I find an eBay listing that makes me scratch my head. Today's was for a ROM issue, #17, and someone is asking for $870. It looks high grade but...come one.
What other books have you come across, be it online or at shows, and you could not help but laugh at the asking price.
*Note...if this is breaking a rule I recall somewhere where it is frowned upon to talk values/prices, I will delete the thread.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 18:52:22 GMT -5
Every now and then I find an eBay listing that makes me scratch my head. Today's was for a ROM issue, #17, and someone is asking for $870. It looks high grade but...come one.
What other books have you come across, be it online or at shows, and you could not help but laugh at the asking price.
*Note...if this is breaking a rule I recall somewhere where it is frowned upon to talk values/prices, I will delete the thread. I always have to find out WHY something costs so much. I just looked on Lone Star's site, and it's $9 for a VF copy. But, still, what is so important about that issue? Is it because of the X-Men appearance? Is there a new character intro? Reappearance of a beloved character? These are the things I always have to find out when I find a higher price on a comic. I mean, one that is not an obvious answer (to me).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 19:46:37 GMT -5
Every now and then I find an eBay listing that makes me scratch my head. Today's was for a ROM issue, #17, and someone is asking for $870. It looks high grade but...come one.
What other books have you come across, be it online or at shows, and you could not help but laugh at the asking price.
*Note...if this is breaking a rule I recall somewhere where it is frowned upon to talk values/prices, I will delete the thread. comicspriceguide has it listed for $8 in NM. And Chuck's copy at Mile High is listed for a lowly $32 (which after a 50%-60% sale would get closer to twice cpg's value...) So, nothing of major significance with that book. In fact I've never heard of speculators getting their panties in a bunch over ROM #17. Come to think of it, I don't have a single ROM in my collection.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Nov 24, 2015 19:57:49 GMT -5
ROM #17-#18 does indeed feature an X-Men cross-over and the introduction of the character Hybrid. ROM was a terrific series despite being based on a long-forgotten toy robot. I bought those two issues off the rack and still consider them one of the finest stories of its time, a classic Marvel misunderstanding among heroes who share common goals, yet end up at cross purposes. It's a gripping drama in a snowstorm, with a (seemingly) innocent child at the center.
Still, $870 seems high, though I wouldn't take twice that for my own beloved copies. YMMV. Long live ROM!
ETA: ROM #17 has a Frank Miller Cover, presumably his first Wolverine art. Maybe this is what convinced the seller to price it so outrageously high?
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 24, 2015 20:19:07 GMT -5
Every now and then I find an eBay listing that makes me scratch my head. Today's was for a ROM issue, #17, and someone is asking for $870. It looks high grade but...come one.
What other books have you come across, be it online or at shows, and you could not help but laugh at the asking price.
*Note...if this is breaking a rule I recall somewhere where it is frowned upon to talk values/prices, I will delete the thread. There are plenty of people that just list stuff for ridiculous prices and hope someone buys them without knowing... you probably just found something like that.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 20:24:24 GMT -5
$870? That is a lot for sure. Although I see quite a lot of silly prices on eBay for old comics but I'm sure if somebody really wanted that actual issue in a high grade, they'd pay it. Being a collector of something often makes people do things that don't seem sensible to 'outsiders'...
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Nov 24, 2015 20:24:25 GMT -5
I think some of that is from wonky pricing robots.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 24, 2015 20:47:26 GMT -5
I saw a non-CGC'ed copy of Abnett & Lanning's Guardians of the Galaxy #1 in a LCS recently for $100.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 20:49:59 GMT -5
I saw a non-CGC'ed copy of Abnett & Lanning's Guardians of the Galaxy #1 in a LCS recently for $100. Well a year ago the local shop was selling copies for $85 a pop as soon as they came in raw in NM, he got 4 copies over the span of 2 months in and sold all 4 for that price in under a day each on display to 4 different customers, so asking $100 for it doesn't surprise me in the least. -M
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 20:51:29 GMT -5
Every now and then I find an eBay listing that makes me scratch my head. Today's was for a ROM issue, #17, and someone is asking for $870. It looks high grade but...come one.
What other books have you come across, be it online or at shows, and you could not help but laugh at the asking price.
*Note...if this is breaking a rule I recall somewhere where it is frowned upon to talk values/prices, I will delete the thread. comicspriceguide has it listed for $8 in NM. And Chuck's copy at Mile High is listed for a lowly $32 (which after a 50%-60% sale would get closer to twice cpg's value...) So, nothing of major significance with that book. In fact I've never heard of speculators getting their panties in a bunch over ROM #17. Come to think of it, I don't have a single ROM in my collection. I want to try ROM. I've heard nothing but praises for it. But I hesitate because of Mantlo. He ruined my Alpha Flight. And I am not sure I have enough forgiveness in my heart to move onto something else he's written. Seriously, my soul sobs at least once a day over that.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Nov 24, 2015 20:55:52 GMT -5
I saw a non-CGC'ed copy of Abnett & Lanning's Guardians of the Galaxy #1 in a LCS recently for $100. But that was characters from a movie! That is a small price to pay for characters from a movie! Or something... Didn't back issue prices used to be based more on popular artists than whatever corporate IP is on television this week? I like the old system better.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 21:26:27 GMT -5
I saw a non-CGC'ed copy of Abnett & Lanning's Guardians of the Galaxy #1 in a LCS recently for $100. But that was characters from a movie! That is a small price to pay for characters from a movie! Or something... Didn't back issue prices used to be based more on popular artists than whatever corporate IP is on television this week? I like the old system better. It's always been what's popular or flavor of the month, how people define what is popular changes from time to time, but it's always what people think will be in demand that goes up in price. It helps that GotG had a surge in popularity when the movie was announced, another when it was released, and that Marvel print runs in the early-mid 2000s were not that big. There were fewer copies of GotG #1 by Abnett printed than the first appearance of the original in Marvel Super-Heroes #18 and the Abnett series was only distributed to comic shops who ordered it, not to newsstands everywhere who happened to get comics. Take a smaller supply, add to it a couple of waves of high demand (for whatever reason the book became popular) and the mix is an increae in back issue prices that have held and continued to grow for a few years now. -M
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Nov 24, 2015 21:31:58 GMT -5
And also we buy stuff that was in movies regardless of quality. Bah! Bah!
(The Abnett/Lanning series was actually pretty great, though. I am glad it's getting more exposure.)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 21:47:03 GMT -5
And also we buy stuff that was in movies regardless of quality. Bah! Bah! (The Abnett/Lanning series was actually pretty great, though. I am glad it's getting more exposure.) People buy comics because the next issue continues the numbering sequence regardless of quality too, or because a certain character is in it regardless of quality, or...so the movies have little to do with people buying bad comics for stupid reasons.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Nov 24, 2015 22:12:12 GMT -5
I want to try ROM. I've heard nothing but praises for it. But I hesitate because of Mantlo. He ruined my Alpha Flight. And I am not sure I have enough forgiveness in my heart to move onto something else he's written. Seriously, my soul sobs at least once a day over that. It's devilish of me, but perhaps this may entice you to give it a whirl. Mantlo has many shortcomings, but his treatment of the Avenging Son is not one of them:
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