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Post by antoine on Jan 4, 2022 11:00:10 GMT -5
The first CGC books have entered the challenge!! I hate CGC books, not even sure why I have some. I'll gladly trade whatever I have for non-graded comics ! : )
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 6, 2022 14:54:35 GMT -5
The new video is up:
Some of the books in the video have already been traded, but alas, that's one of the vagaries of space/time.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 7, 2022 11:14:49 GMT -5
This is shaping up to be the most active round yet for whatever reason. So far 9 books have been traded, with four more on hold for pending trades.
It's a lot of fun and very exciting, as I'll have a significantly different group of books in the pool to trade next time.
One thing I wanted to ask is if anyone has any specific want list comics. I've asked a couple of you individually, but since I am doing so much trading, I thought it would be useful to try and keep an eye out for any big books anyone is looking for that you haven't been able to land. Finding comics to help people complete their collections is the best part of this, and while I've been lucky enough to do it a few times already, that was mostly by chance.
So let me know if there's anything in particular you're looking for. I'll put together a list, and if I can trade for one of these, I'll give whoever needed it first crack at trading for it.
Thanks!
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 27, 2022 12:24:29 GMT -5
Rounds 5 and 6 are now complete. I ended up trading 14 of the 20 books on the list. There were several upwards consolidations, so I ended up with five empty slots which will be filled with new books. The trading pool underwent a significant leveling up this time. The big books are the top are bigger, and there are more of them. I've got four books now in the $250-300 range, as opposed to none. This upcoming round I am really hoping to trade up one or two more times and get at a minimum one book that is $500+. Bets case I can bundle four books to get a book that is worth over a grand. The full list of books available for Roung 7 will be up here shortly, with a video to follow in a week or so. But here's a preview of the big books in the pool now, only one of which is a holdover from the last round:
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 27, 2022 12:27:11 GMT -5
Rounds 5 and 6 are now complete. I ended up trading 14 of the 20 books on the list. There were several upwards consolidations, so I ended up with five empty slots which will be filled with new books. The trading pool underwent a significant leveling up this time. The big books are the top are bigger, and there are more of them. I've got four books now in the $250-300 range, as opposed to none. This upcoming round I am really hoping to trade up one or two more times and get at a minimum one book that is $500+. Bets case I can bundle four books to get a book that is worth over a grand. The full list of books available for Roung 7 will be up here shortly, with a video to follow in a week or so. But here's a preview of the big books in the pool now, only one of which is a holdover from the last round: Wait...is Amethyst suddenly worth money?
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 27, 2022 12:30:16 GMT -5
Those are both very rare 35 cent price variants. The normal editions are 60 cents cover price and are still not worth anything yet.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 27, 2022 12:38:45 GMT -5
Those are both very rare 35 cent price variants. The normal editions are 60 cents cover price and are still not worth anything yet. Gotcha. I didn't notice the price.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2022 13:50:49 GMT -5
Those are both very rare 35 cent price variants. The normal editions are 60 cents cover price and are still not worth anything yet. Gotcha. I didn't notice the price. The 35 cent variants were found in dollar bin CT when I still lived there. I decided to replace them with the regulars and turn them into books I wanted, and the Dollar Bin Challenge was the perfect opportunity to do so. -M
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2022 15:57:30 GMT -5
Just got a package from Crimebuster in today's mail that was part of this challenge. I'll post some pics later. -M
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Post by Crimebuster on Feb 7, 2022 14:13:56 GMT -5
Okay, here's the full list of books for Round 7. I've already made a number of trades this round. The big challenge for me this round is that I haven't had any interest in the first half of the list. Books #1-11 are all still available, along with the Strange Tales #169, while all the other books between #12-20 have been traded. I'm going to be posting the video for this round next week, so maybe I can drum up a trade or two there. I'm also going to be going to reddit. But I really need to trade a few of these lower priced books and combine them upwards in order to keep things moving. All of the stagnation has been with the cheapest books. I have dropped my ask on a couple of them to try and get them moving, but so far nothing. Here's a photo of the books still left if there's anything interesting any of you want to trade for:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2022 14:20:39 GMT -5
I'll be curious to see what you got for the Amethyst books, since I had a stake in those.
-M
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Post by Crimebuster on Feb 15, 2022 21:31:45 GMT -5
The video had some delays because I've had some technical issues, but the recap of the last two rounds will finally go up on Thursday or Friday.
I've also just made another trade, so the Shanna the She-Devil #1, Static #1, and Strange Tales #169 are all gone.
These are the books for this round still remaining:
1. Lone Wolf and Cub #1 - 8.5 - $15 2. Micronauts #1 (whitman) - 8.0 - $20 3. Ice Cream Man #23 variant - 9.2 - $20 4. Miracleman #1 - $30 5. StarSlayer #2 - 8.5 - $35 6. Red Ryder #65&85 - 4.5 - $40 8. Airboy #5 - $40 9. lot of Death of Superman late prints - $40 10. Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter #5 and #18 - 4.5 - $45
I really want to do another trade or two before I start the next round. In particular, I'm eager to trade the Lone Wolf and Cub, Ice Cream Man, Micronauts, and Red Ryders, as they have all been in the trading pool since last summer with no interest. At this point I just need to move them out of here and get some new stuff in those slots, so if anybody has any interest in those books, let me know and I'm sure I can give a good deal on them!
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Post by Crimebuster on May 27, 2022 16:45:26 GMT -5
The next round has started. I'll be posting the book list... well, when I have time, if that ever happens. But, anyway, I just traded a couple books at the top of my list for my biggest book yet, so I thought I'd give a tease.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jul 7, 2023 15:11:47 GMT -5
I'm starting this back up soon! I've just been too busy for the last year with Kickstarters, but also the market has taken a huge nosedive. That means re-pricing everything in the pool, but also it's just discouraging to see that bottom line take a nosedive. I never finished the last video, but it will be going up sometime soon hopefully - there's a lot of editing to do to get it ready. But essentially at the end of the last round last year the value of the trading pool was around $2200. Now, 16 months later, it was more like $1500. 😯 I did give the pool a value bump by swapping out the raw StarSlayer #2 for a CGC 9.8 that I have gotten back since last time. Even with that value bump, though, the pool lost more than 20% of its value since last time, which is discouraging. On the other hand, it only really matters how the value did relative to All-Star #8, and that I don't know. Here's where we left it last time - the books in the pool at the start of Round 7: Again, I'll have the video soon where I go over all the trades that took place during Round 7, but here's where we ended up. This is the starting pool for Round 8: The books in blue are ones that carried over from the last round. Now, for Round 8, I had one trade already lined up when we went on hiatus - that was for the Ultimate Fallout #4 I teased previously. And I also have one trading partner who has been holding some books to trade to me, just waiting for me to get my half together. So those two trades are going to take a lot of these Round 8 books off the board. As soon as I have finalized the current trade I'm negotiating, I'll let everyone know which books are still available from Round 8, and then we can hopefully get Round 9 going sooner rather than later.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jul 7, 2023 20:59:03 GMT -5
These are the Round 8 books currently still available:
1. Lone Wolf and Cub #1 9.0 - $12 2. Micronauts #1 (whitman) 8.0 - $15 3. Red Ryder #65 & #85 4.5 - $20 5. Richard Dragon #5 & 18 - 4.5 - $30 - 1st Lady Shiva & 1st Bronze Tiger 6. Funeral for a Friend lot of late prints - (grades range from 3.0-6.0) $40 8. Avengers Annual #10 - 8.5 - $85 - 1st Rogue 10. True To Life Romances #10 - 2.0 (centerfold detached at top staple) - $150 - LB Cole!
If anyone is interested in trading for any of these, I can add some photos. Just hit me up, either here or via direct message.
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