And Ultimate Fallout 4 Djurdjevic variant in 9.8 went for over 40K. Those are some hot moderns
With the recent controversy around Heritage and their shenanigans, I would take all the auctions from Heritage with a grain of salt…
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When I saw a Mario 64 graded game sell for $1.6 million I really regretted giving my unopened copy to a neighbor kid years ago, Along with all my N64 Gear.
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One of my neighbors gave me call her N64 stuff cuz her new boyfriend wasnt into video games. She also gave my wife some Harley Quinn posters and figures. This was way before the N64 had any value…
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I just won a Heritage auction the other day and the juice plus shipping and taxes added 38% to my winning bid - which was still less than my max bid, so I still came out OK.
Another bidder immediately made me an offer - a first for me. Heritage would take 10% of that offer for themselves but still claimed that I would “make 43% more than I originally paid, minus any shipping and other costs incurred”. So when they try to sell you on the deal they compare the offer only to your winning bid not your final cost.
In the end I would have only made maybe $100 profit from the deal - and only that much because the item hasn’t shipped yet so I wouldn’t get hit for the additional shipping back to their office. I declined.
Had I taken the deal, in the end they would have collected the seller premium & the 20% buyer premium on the auction plus another 10% on the side deal - just for being the middleman.
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Sleaziness. They send you the invoice for your win, they can’t do the additional math?
Of course they can…but 1% “profit” isn’t as alluring as 43% profit loaded with asterisks…
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I’m no longer even understanding, remotely, why anyone would use Heritage with so many other options available.
Name recognition I guess? I can’t think of any other reason.
Scoundrels is too nice of a word
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It is apparently a rare book - only 25 copies allegedly exist, so I could understand the seller hoping to get more visibility on it. In this case however, it probably didn’t go for as much as he hoped, because I’ve now received a second offer and I suspect it is the owner hoping to buy it back.
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This. They seem to have some air of prestige that other (at least comic-oriented) auction houses don’t. And, they probably have the best website for what they do. But boy do they love their Ticketmaster-esque fees.
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