koollectablz wrote:I've bought from them as well - at 'normal' prices.
It strikes me as just them trying it on? Every so often relatively common items sell for enormous prices for no apparent reason, most times its a bit of auction fever - but it also does seem to be a thing that sellers try from time to time.
When I list, I absolutely try to get the very highest price I can - but within reason as i actually want to sell the items I list - and if they don't sell first time around I'll tend to bring the price down till it does.
i have no problem with sky high prices for rare items - my pet annoyance is sellers constantly listing common items very high, when there usually two or three copies of the same item running at the same time for far lower. That seems to happen with '76 Action #1 an awful lot. Its a very common comic that no one should really pay more than £30 for, in fine condition, and maybe £75-100 with the gift. Yet you'll regularly see people listing it for hundreds in very average condition without the gift.
I have notice that with comics that there can be reams and reams of the same issue listed all at different price's starting from next to nothing to hundreds of pounds for the same comic. Sometime the condition is virtually the same.
It is odd why some people think that and issue should be worth such and such eg) first appearance, death of characters, limited printing, variant covers etc etc.
An ex partner once brought me a copy of a DC comics Batman from the month I was born she paid for the most expense one she could find but when she got it she was not happy with the condition so returned it to the seller and brought one which was drastically cheaper and the condition was far better?
it seams like there are a lot of people out there that see comics whatever they are ,whatever the condition and think there is money here.
