Turning $30 Bucks Into $4000!!!
Two months ago, I wrote a piece about a gentleman popping into our shop to get a comic graded. That comic is a unicorn and worth a small fortune. The cool aspect regarding this (for him) is that he bought this comic from us for $30 bucks several years prior. You can read about that here if interested. https://steemit.com/comics/@blewitt/the-comic-that-has-come-back-to-haunt-me
For those of you too lazy to read the previous article, here are the cliff notes...
The book in question is the Uncanny X-Men #510 Campbell Partial Sketch Variant. It was given out at the San Diego Comic Con I believe in 2009ish, and we had a handful that we sold in the shop between $30-$50 bucks. Years later it was realized by hardcore collectors just how rare it actually was. Now, it fetches mucho $$$! End
Well the gentleman who sent it away through us to get graded will be happy to know that his book just arrived back safe and sound from CGC with a grade of 9.0!!!
In early January, a graded 8.5 copy sold for $3350!!! I’d guess that his 9.0 here could bring in anywhere from $3500-$4500 bucks, but when you have a book that is a ghost you can pretty much set the market yourself.
Currently the only other copy up for sale publicly is a graded 9.6 copy that the seller is asking $11,500. That’s up from 2 months ago when the seller had it listed for $10,350. He just keeps raising it. Nobody is biting at that price though...
Either way, my guy spent $30 from us around 10 years ago on the book and $71 to get it graded for a tasty total of $101 bucks. Not too bad of an investment if he sells it for roughly $4000!!!! Congrats on the book Sean!!!
Blewitt
Tell me you have a copy or two of this book stashed away somewhere?
It doesn't look like the ones you gave out at the Fest, sup with that? :P
He's a cheapskate...
Well at least i wont need to go shopping for toilet paper this week then :D
Why, did you buy a bidet like I did?!? 😜
Marvel uses cheap ass paper for their books so you might want to double up the pages.
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Bidets are so 1800's!
lol :D
Lol. I fuckin love mine. The kids are weirded out by it. Good. Keeps em off my throne.
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a bidet is a little piece of heaven for your bum... Just saying... LOL
Hell yeah!!! Loving mine! Lol
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This.
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Sadly we sold em all years back...before anyone even gave a rats ass.
The 300 plus books I gave out there wasn’t enough. It’s never enough for you!!!
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I wondered if you kept one of everything, and if that was even possible at buy prices.
I'm very grateful for my comics sir, now can you go burn the other copies of these so mine is worth $$$$ please? :P
I wish. Sad part is a large percentage isn’t worth hanging onto to. It’s the diamonds in the rough that are the game-changers.
Lol. There is a store who has a shop Exclusive variant coming out for Detective Comics #1000 next month. They created quite the controversy as they said they are only keeping a small portion of the Edition size and are destroying the rest to make it more collectible.
I crazy story. A couple years back I qualified for a 1 in 1000 variant for a Spider-Man book. What that means is marvel offers a special incentive. For every 1000 copies of the regular you order, you may order 1 of this special variant. Blah blah blah. I did it as I’m dumb and wanted one except the variant arrived hammered. Distributor made me destroy it before they would send me another so I took video of me popping it in the shredder. Heartbreaking watching a $1000 dollar plus book being shredded. I had to destroy 3 copies Becker I got a decent one. I’ll pop up a piece about that as it’s pretty interesting. I might still have the video in the sent emails.
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So... are you going to share the same face with us when you sell you 0,30$ STEEM for 40$? :D
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😂
If Steem gets to $40 bucks...I’ll share whatever anyone wants. Besides my Steem. Lol
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Aaaaahahaha. Just a burger and a beer would make my day.
Lol. Sounds tasty. That’s my kind of meal!!
Lucky motherfucker. :))
I know. I wish I would have held onto one or two of these...
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Right? But no... we bought Bitcoin because we're cool, instead of comic books. Damn :)))
Solid investment. I’m only down 80%!!!
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This is a really good return of investment. ;)
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Right?!? It’s not often you get to see these kind of returns. Best part of this was it was initially a giveaway. Nutty!!!
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How much it cost to grade comics in the first place?
It depends on the book. If it’s anything after 1975 and is not something like this that’s worth thousands...it’ll roughly cost $35 bucks. Prior to 1975 and not worth thousands would be around $55. This specific book cost the gentleman $71 bucks.
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It is really a good return on investment. :)
Yeah, sometimes it isn't worth getting graded though if it wont reach a certain grade on a certain book in a certain condition. lol
It's a lot to take in!
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I wonder if some of my things would have value nowadays need quick money but then I see my geeky things and can't get rid of them LOL
It’s always so hard to part with the nerdy nonsense we hold near and dear.
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I am the most sentimental I kind of read the books many time, but yes I face a moving soon, I have way too many things, and serious need to fund some things too... sigh! I wish I had kept my magic cards collection!
Di you throw the MTG cards out or sell them back in the day?
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