All raw All the time now with CGC SS

rawisokv · Post by **rawisokv** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 3:32 am

I know I will be shot at with a tank, but I'm a newbie and need to sell some books. As many read in my HisStory page, I moved to Utah from NY and unfortunately only brought my variant box. All books are NM unless noted. Shipping will be $8 USPS ground and will arrive in 2 days. If you want to see pics I will post them they are a lot so I didn't want to take up like 7 pages of just pics.
Thanks for looking.

rawisokv · Post by **rawisokv** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:04 am

Secret Invasion #2 (Steve McNiven) variant $8 now $6
Secret Invasion #3 (Steve McNiven) variant $8 now $6
Batman #1 (Jim Lee) Euro variant $30 now $25
Dark Tower Long Road Home #1 (Jae Lee) Sketch variant $13 now $10
Dark Tower Long Road Home #2 (Jae Lee) Sketch variant $13 now $10
Dark Tower Gunslinger Born #1 (Joe Quesada) variant $10 now $8
Dark Tower Gunslinger Born #2 (David Finch) variant $10 now $8
Dark Tower Gunslinger Born #3 (Leinil Yu) variant $10 now $8
Dark Tower Gunslinger Born #4 (Steve McNiven) variant $10 now $8
Dark Tower Gunslinger Born #4 (Jae Lee) Sketch variant $13 now $10
Dark Tower Gunslinger Born #7 (Olivier Coipel) variant $10 now$8
Dark Tower Gunslinger Born #7 (Jae Lee) Sketch variant $13 now $10
Giant Size X-men sketch variant #1 $15 now $12
Ultimate Origins color variant #1 $10 now $8
Ultimate Origins Sketch variant #1 $15 now $10
World War Hulk 1-5 variant $9 each or take all for $40
Uncanny X-men #492 variant (Messiah Complex 2) $7
X-Men #205 (Messiah Complex 5) $7
Uncanny X-Men #493 (Messiah Complex 6) $7
X-Factor #26 (Messiah Complex 7) $7
X-Men #45 (Messiah Complex 8) $7
X-Men #206 (Messiah Complex 9) $7
Uncanny X-Men #494 (Messiah Complex 10) $7
X-Factor #27 (Messiah Complex 11) $7
New X-Men #46 (Messiah Complex 12) $7
Death Dealer #1 varaint $10 now $9
Batman#1 Euro variant (bend near bottom staple 9.4 to be safe) $25 Hush cover
Astonishing X-Men #13 Midtown Comics Edition $20 now $15 Signed by John Cassaday w/ Cert.
Street Fighter 2 #1 Raw Edition No cert. $20 now $15
Signed by Alvin Lee(Pencils), Erik Ko(Udon Chief), Ken Siu-Chong(Story)
and Jim Zubkavich(Project Manager)
Udon Summer Sketchbook 2005
Signed and sketched of Akuma on first page by Omar Doogan $15 now $10
Green Lantern #25 variant $8 now $6
Batman #676 variant $8 now $6
Batman #677 variant $8 now $6
Hulk #1 variant $8 now $6
Hulk #2 variant $8 now $6
Hulk #3 variant $8 now $6
Justice League of America #1 variant $8 now $6
Justice League of America #2 variant $8 now $6
Justice League of America #5 variant $8 now $6
Justice League of America #7 variant $8 now $6
Justice League of America #8 variant $8 now $6
Justice Society of America #5 variant $8 now $6

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:26 am

Hey dude, le tme help you out and be honest when others may just shy away from the thread.
Yes you are correct being new and not having many posts will not help.

Secondly and take this from someone who knows the retail prices very well being a retailer, they are too high really.
Not by a huge amount, but there doesnt seem to be anything ground breaking in your list and i see these $7-10 book for $3-5 quite a bit and the $10-15 for $5-8.
The ones that are slghty higher than $10-20 on your list are not likely to get a hit at all as to be fair they are the strictly for variant collectors only and you wont find many here to my knowledge.
Im sure there are plenty of dudes here who like the odd variant, but in general i think we all pretty much stay away from the madness that is variants.
I myself absolutely do not support them in anyway until they are five years old and cost very little.
The market is flooded with this kind of product and its always going to be a hard sell.
I think you may well get the odd hit or two here, but your best bet is either ebay or slashing your prices so people here cannot resist.

My final piece of adive would be to stop spending your hard earned cash on this part of the comics world and instead look into trying some new books by creators who really deserve your $$$.
The publishers who pump out these variants and the retailers who push these books are not helping the industry at all. Its just easy cash for them all with little or no effort
If we all say no to overpriced retailer incentive variants and spread the good word on the crazy amount of quality available through out lovely industry it would go a long way.

Of course this is all just my opinion and im happy for anyone to step up and shoot me down in flames.

I re read my post and hope this doenst come across too hard on you or your collection of variants.

rawisokv · Post by **rawisokv** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:02 pm

Not at all. We all have opinions and are entitled to them.
But you are right and I stopped buying variants cause as you said its way too expensive. The prices are negotiable I will slash prices tomorrow to give people a chance to see the thread and of course whoever wants to see pics I have them ready to upload.
Just didn't want to have 10 something pages and no one is really interested.
Thanks again

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 2:25 pm

rawisokv wrote:Not at all. We all have opinions and are entitled to them.
But you are right and I stopped buying variants cause as you said its way too expensive. The prices are negotiable I will slash prices tomorrow to give people a chance to see the thread and of course whoever wants to see pics I have them ready to upload.
Just didn't want to have 10 something pages and no one is really interested.
Thanks again

Good move on the pics.
I think lower prices will help.
There must be a few cool items on there people here want at good prices.
Hell, i might even have had some myself if i were in the US.
I like the DC books to be fair and try to get them at cover or so a year later.
we were lucky enough to pick up two boxes of variants from the last two years for a joke low price and its scary how many of them did not get a sniff on ebay at 99p start price.
That really enforces my belief that you cannot manufacture high prices like this and expect it to keep going year after year.
Also glad you saw sense and got out while you can.

Good luck on the sale dude.

rawisokv · Post by **rawisokv** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 2:41 pm

Thank you well by popular demand I lowered prices on most of the books.
Take a look on the original thread

Like I said I have all the pics ready whomever wants to look at them either here on the thread or in a PM.
Basically I just need the money for a show I didn't even know existed which I saw here on the upcoming conventions thread. It's the one in Dallas and I would love to get some James O Barr and Josh Howard items, which are the 2 people I asked if anyone had some back issues. Kill 2 birds with one stone

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 12:20 am

my tank is parked

good pricing though im just poor right now

rawisokv · Post by **rawisokv** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:00 pm

Last attempt
The price for the thread is $459 but need to move them asap so take the whole lot of modern variants for $350

rawisokv · Post by **rawisokv** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:13 pm

Beyond last effort $300 for the whole lot and I will cover shipping
If you are overseas we will split it.
Thanks again for looking

KO2003 · Post by **KO2003** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:00 am

Batman #676 variant $8 now $6
Batman #677 variant $8 now $6

:takeit:

if still available.

Orangeribbon · Post by **Orangeribbon** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:48 am

Draco wrote: My final piece of adive would be to stop spending your hard earned cash on this part of the comics world and instead look into trying some new books by creators who really deserve your $$$.
The publishers who pump out these variants and the retailers who push these books are not helping the industry at all. Its just easy cash for them all with little or no effort
If we all say no to overpriced retailer incentive variants and spread the good word on the crazy amount of quality available through out lovely industry it would go a long way.

Of course this is all just my opinion and im happy for anyone to step up and shoot me down in flames.

I re read my post and hope this doenst come across too hard on you or your collection of variants.

I know what you mean on the damn variant thing, I was in my comic store, and I was looking around to see if there were new arcs I could jump in on after I am done waxing nostalgic for Valiant/Impact. Well I heard Capt was coming back and thought that might be a good place to jump back in seeing as I LOVED capt when I was a kid. There were like 4 or 5 versions of the same book, and I couldn't even tell what one was the regular one. Plus some were over 5 dollars. I can't see spending 5 dollars for something that will take me less than 20 mins to read and will not retain that value.

Heck Iggy sent me Zoom Suit issue 2 and it looked interesting. so I went to the publishers site to look for issue one. There are 3 or 4 versions of each freaking issue.

I thought it was bad back in the day when you had 2 versions of the same book.

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:17 am

Orangeribbon wrote:
Draco wrote: My final piece of adive would be to stop spending your hard earned cash on this part of the comics world and instead look into trying some new books by creators who really deserve your $$$.
The publishers who pump out these variants and the retailers who push these books are not helping the industry at all. Its just easy cash for them all with little or no effort
If we all say no to overpriced retailer incentive variants and spread the good word on the crazy amount of quality available through out lovely industry it would go a long way.

Of course this is all just my opinion and im happy for anyone to step up and shoot me down in flames.

I re read my post and hope this doenst come across too hard on you or your collection of variants.
I know what you mean on the damn variant thing, I was in my comic store, and I was looking around to see if there were new arcs I could jump in on after I am done waxing nostalgic for Valiant/Impact. Well I heard Capt was coming back and thought that might be a good place to jump back in seeing as I LOVED capt when I was a kid. There were like 4 or 5 versions of the same book, and I couldn't even tell what one was the regular one. Plus some were over 5 dollars. I can't see spending 5 dollars for something that will take me less than 20 mins to read and will not retain that value.

Heck Iggy sent me Zoom Suit issue 2 and it looked interesting. so I went to the publishers site to look for issue one. There are 3 or 4 versions of each freaking issue.

I thought it was bad back in the day when you had 2 versions of the same book.

This cycel will continue regardless of any bad press because too many retailers take full advantage over the situation.
Too many people told lies with no hesitation.
I know as i hear it all the time at the shows.
Im just glad this smart man is out of the loop and i hope he get some more sales here.
The prices are not too bad, but if he lowers them all to 50% of what he started with im sure they will go much quicker.
Other than that i really think he wil ljust be stuck with them full stop and thats harsh.
His retailer/s obviously never felt the need to advise him of the six months later variant syndrome.
Everything bar none will crash horribly and if you get back your money on anything then you did well, let alone make a profit.

rawisokv · Post by **rawisokv** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:48 pm

Your right it was an addiction but now I'm trying to sell the books at basically no profit at all. But hey live and learn. Hopefully someone bites like I said before I am taking offers so please don't be shy I have some pics which I can post to maybe entice people I was away so I didn't take pics till today.

rawisokv · Post by **rawisokv** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 1:08 am

Here are most of the books if it helps any thanks again for viewing

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rawisokv · Post by **rawisokv** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:20 am

Here are some more for anyone interested

rawisokv · Post by **rawisokv** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:21 am

Justice League of America #6 CGC SS 9.6 $60
Signed by Adam Hughes

rawisokv · Post by **rawisokv** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:23 am

Amazing Spiderman #30 German Variant CGC SS 9.6 $100
Signed in interior by Gabriele Del' Otto and Ron Garney
Only 9.6 in Census and only one 9.8 above this.

rawisokv · Post by **rawisokv** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:30 am

All Star Batman and Robin #1 French Acetate Variant CGC SS 9.4 $100
Signed by Jim Lee, Scott Williams and Alex Sinclair

rawisokv · Post by **rawisokv** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:32 am

Eternals #1 Variant CGC SS 9.8 $60
Signed by John Romita JR

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:55 pm

These aren't also posted over on the CGC boards, are they?

-slym

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:04 pm

Dude you really did get a bit on this variant thang didnt ya.

rawisokv · Post by **rawisokv** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:01 pm

I did get waaaayyyyy to crazy on them.
It was like a drug for me then I wanted to be different and get the overseas variant. I see I wasn't alone on these either lol

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:43 am

rawisokv wrote:I did get waaaayyyyy to crazy on them.
It was like a drug for me then I wanted to be different and get the overseas variant. I see I wasn't alone on these either lol

NO dude, you werent.
We are quite lucky as we hook up with some French retailers who have some nice bits.
I have two boxes of foreign language comics to offload soon.

Ranging from Spanish Conan with free transfers still on to standard Panini Marvel & DC reprints.
Some nice Spanish German Italian and French Marvel books from the last few years too.
Lovely original covers on them.