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Do you collect anything? How did you start? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by MacedWindow@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I find that most people in my life have at least one "thing" they are collecting. It is often an insight into their personality and it is fun to hear people talk about something they are passionate about.

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[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Finding proper value on it has been difficult because there are so few you almost never see them for sale. The most I've ever been offered for mine is $7k, ungraded. I've definitely seen them sell for way less though it's just so rare I think the data isn't very reliable. Very much a 'how much is it worth to the specific collector at that time'

Edit to add, how tf do I actually get this thing graded? I tried years ago and they sent it back to me after months of back and forth because they couldn't figure out how much it was worth so they didn't know how much to charge me. The whole situation was a mess

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The grading isn't about assessing value, it's about condition. There are multiple grading companies out there who will grade the book and seal it to prevent it degrading.

You can talk with them directly or go through a local comic shop who does grading to get it done.

CGC is the big one:
https://www.cgccomics.com/

CBCS is #2:
https://www.cbcscomics.com/

There are others, but for terms of increasing the value of the book, you want one of those two.

https://www.pfadvice.com/2023/04/18/the-6-best-comic-book-grading-and-slabbing-companies/

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The fee CGC charges though is based on the value of the item. The reasoning I got was because they couldn't determine a value they didn't know what to charge for their fee and eventually I just told them to send it back (this was after months of trying to figure it out). It has been a while though so maybe better luck this time around? I didn't know about CBCS either so might just try them thank you for the suggestion

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh, yeah, but I was able to find an estimated value in like 2 seconds, you could point them here:

https://www.keycollectorcomics.com/issue/spawn-232-2,314047/

Low - $150
Mid - $500
High - $1.5k