I was going to take a ride up to that sale, but totally forgot about it. Glad to see you picked up some good books. When I am searching through the box I will slow flip the first 50-100, but if it looks like it been picked or is stuff cheap stuff I will do the quick flip.
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In a gigantic place like that, full of thousands of Moderns (not my expertise), id be going through them quickly as well. Going through each book and searching for recognition. Kinda like a memory game. Other comic bros going through before me plays a factor with speed as well
If Bronze, Copper my knowledge base is far more significant and would go slower checking for condition, since condition these days is really important than ever for value. People turn their noses up on mid grade copper and bronze commons if priced over a dollar or 2
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I tend to go a bit slower & will usually check every book unless itās clear it a big, unseparated chunk of books like Valliant, fodder, etc.
The thing is (and Iām sure many of you feel the same), I take it as a challenge & pride myself on the fact I believe my digging skills are far superior to many. Doesnāt mean I wonāt miss something still. Always keep learning!
This hobby is insane with the amount of things you can look for & in in situations like this you need to calculate fast.
.30 cent price variants, .35 cent price variants, DCU variants, later printings, variants, spec, big artists on junk books, low print books, final issuesā¦whew. Itās mentally exhausting at big events.
Skipping around in most cases just makes me fearful I missed a gemā¦and Iām mad as hell at myself if I see something pulled that I missed.
I find myself repeating āonly takes oneā¦only takes oneā as I can always find something.
Great haulā¦would have been fun.
Ohā¦I also finding myself always pulling books that are unique, odd, that have sexy stuff, or that I donāt feel Iāve ever seen. Often I will get burned, but they usually are ok (or anything horror & mature).
I also donāt mess around with my phone or looking at lists, eBay. For those cheap prices, I grab it and go if it sparks the āhmmā¦I think this book is a good oneā.
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Iām a slow and steady kind of guy, flipping through the books one by one looking for things that other diggers miss like high grade newsstands, Canadian price variants. Unless itās a stack of 90s Youngbloods, X-force etc I skip those.
Itās amazing how many times Iāve found gems in boxes that has been picked through by diggers that use their phones and the key collector app. That app is not a good resource because itās not really thorough and miss books that are quite valuable.
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I love when shops use KCC though. They miss so miss so much stuff.
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You can tell when a vendor or a shop uses it because something thatās not worth much is a crazy price and all this good stuff ends up getting missed.
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Their instagram said they refilled boxes and added like 60 more long boxes last night. So should be more good stuff today and maybe the coming weekends.
Itās an hour drive for meā¦so likely wonāt be up there again for this sale.
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@D-Rog awesome haul man, thanks for sharing! Wish I could have gone to a sale like that but itās too far a drive.
Cool to hear what everyoneās digging techniques are. I ultimately go with what I know and like, learned from the forum and what seems interesting. A lot a hit and misses.
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Still trying to figure out what this book isā¦how scarce it might beā¦thinking of just putting it o. eBay for a ridiculous price and leaving offers open. See what happens.
This is what AI had to sayā¦
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Boo to AI, yah if it is valuable!
If you wanna know itās āreal valueāā¦ do an auction and start if off at like $0.01 and let the people decide how much theyāre willing to spend!!! 
I donāt agree with that, as if people are not actively looking for it (as itās so obscure) it may not reach a proper sample size to establish a proper value.
7 day auctions are are too short a window for items that may not appear but once in several years.
If someone has a gocollect account hereās a link.
So then it does apply me thinks, if no one is āseekingā this out, then just throwing out a number based on your āscarcityā is just creating a false demandā¦ If you try and tell people, āyou want or need thisā type of mentality, comes off as snake oil sales type tacticsā¦
Hopefully what happens is people have alerts set for the book. I hate to say it but at a reserve if you donāt want it to sell cheap.
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Need a thumbs down 
button.
Hahaā¦ that just tells me you know itās trueā¦ haha!!!
My concern is if only one person views it within 7 days of listing it, it sells for $0.01, regardless of what their high bid would be. I would not consider that FMV.
However I would want to give it more time (two or more weeks) to have a better chance two or more people may see it and compete for itā¦which is more believable as far as determining FMV.
So thumbs down to you, sir!
This is why you set a reserve price to keep it exposed longer, even @Anthony mentioned reserved priceā¦
But it still goes to showā¦ if no one is seeking it out now, that just gives the precedent on itās current demand. If nobody is looking for it, then itās not in demand and yet it should sell accordinglyā¦
Iām with D-Rog on this. Iāve seen too many auctions underperform against what multiple BIN listings went for, sometimes badly. And as a buyer, there have been times I just learned something existed and saw one sold a few months ago at a price I would have paid more than.
You can set a reserve, but if you truly have no idea what somethingās worth, you could still inadvertently underprice the reserve. Itās fine if the seller doesnāt care about maximum value.