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| burningdoom:
--- Quote from: Cartagia on September 09, 2021, 03:56:34 pm --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on September 09, 2021, 03:52:25 pm ---Yeah, then. But we're talking now. As far as the 90s goes, I don't recall slabbing being a thing, then --- End quote --- Mis-attributed the quote. Biking was describing why the crash happened, and was accurate in their description. You are talking about today afterwards, but their comment was about when things crashed, which I am reading as the late 90s, not today. --- End quote --- Ok, gotcha. But even then, no, slabbing comics wasn't a big thing then. What killed the aftermarket then was everything being advertised as collectible, gimmick covers like chromium and hologram covers every time a character sneezed, and non-readers buying up copies for investment only. The death of Superman being a big example. That last part is certainly true, today, though. Way too many speculators getting in on the action but not into it as fans. However the market is so different, today. Comic movies and TV shows will make books suddenly spike to crazy values, then cool off again. And slabbing a book will double or triple it's value. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on September 09, 2021, 01:00:05 pm ---No more than $10 for a graded card? I imagine you must not find many for that much. Doesn't it cost more than that to send it in to be graded? --- End quote --- when tcg's had way lower prices years ago even for magic the gathering grading costed around 7$ a card Nowadays it's 50+ or way more for valuable items. Low end cards should still be relatively cheap although not 7$ cheap. However depending on the popularity of said collectible them cheaper prices should definitely be still there. Logical considering otherwise nobody would use it. |
| tripredacus:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on September 09, 2021, 01:00:05 pm ---No more than $10 for a graded card? I imagine you must not find many for that much. Doesn't it cost more than that to send it in to be graded? --- End quote --- Yes, $12 for Beckett and $18 for SGC. I have done three for Beckett and one for SGC. I prefer to put cards into pages. I have only bought 1 graded card for $10, most I have got for $3. I have about a dozen of them. There are also cards that were released only in graded form. The one I got for $10 was this type of release. The thing is that prospecters and people looking for investments will send many cards in for grading, and when those players do not pan out or the cards are not actually valuable to begin with, it is common then to find graded cards being sold that are below the costs paid to get them graded in the first place. |
| gummo:
--- Quote from: sworddude on September 08, 2021, 03:31:10 pm --- --- Quote from: gummo on September 08, 2021, 01:41:32 pm --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on September 08, 2021, 02:14:18 am ---In most cases the batteries in games anyway dry up so in most instances nothing would happen aside from save batteries etc being dead. if you have terrible luck than you can have simular scenario's as say xbox consoles in wich you get leaks. --- End quote --- I had a lithium button battery from a watch explode once . It was sitting on my wooden work bench waiting to be replaced , not shorting or anything . After that I don't totally trust them . --- End quote --- Did the explosion leave a mark on that work bench? --- End quote --- Nope , no burns or anything . I just noticed that the battery was missing , not on the bench anymore . Looked around the ground at the foot of the bench and found half of it and then found the other half across the room . |
| leynos:
Don't do this shitty scam |
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