I found a nice, clean copy of Nebula 1 at the con yesterday for cover. Listed it right away, and it sold today for $30.
I will say this. KCC, which I dislike far less than most here, is simply talking up books with potential. When they posted about Nebula, I think they had it listed as a $5 book. Sales went bonkers, so they adjusted their price to $20. If they talked about it, and no one bought any, it would have stayed at $5.
If people go berserk and buy a ton of a book, that’s on them. If someone wants to give me $30 for a $5 book, I’m cool with that.
I bought several copies of Nebula 1 right after the key collector alert for under cover. I also bought Gamora 1 which was in the same alert.
I do this all the time with key collector alerts and usually make good money flipping them right away, I think anyone paying more than cover is wasting money.
Same here. One point of this (awesome) forum is for us to share info with each other to be ahead of the game. If someone talks up a book and it starts to move, I’m not ever mad about it. I’m just happy that most of the time we’re ahead of it here, so I can buy them up cheap and make a few bucks to pay for the books I want.
Yeah, all my browser bookmarks are comic shops but searching them all was taking to long after an alert so I just made an app that searches them all for me.
This is not aimed at you, Zeropepp, just a general comment:
This must be a different Nebula and Mantis than were in GotG2, Infinity War, and Endgame, right? As in, no one is going to be surprised that the old Nebula and Mantis have big roles in GotG3, that franchise they already had actual roles in… so it must be new ones.
Is KCC bad? Not necessarily. I think what most of the community here at CHU advocate most for is organic growth.
Sure it’s great to offload some books that were worthless yesterday but selling like hotcakes today because some app mentioned them or sent out an alert but is this overall healthy for the comic book industry? I don’t think so to be honest. I would rather see more organic growth and people stop and actually think about what they’re buying before actually buying it.
If you’re gonna buy a book just because your phone vibrated in your pocket to tell you, “go buy this book, it’s a key book”, then you probably shouldn’t be in this hobby and you likely won’t be in this hobby long spending all your money on books that fall in value faster than they went up briefly.
I don’t care about Nebula 1 at all, and they will be sold as soon as they come in, I bought them at under $4 a piece only because they popped up on KCC and I knew people would start buying them.
That’s totally the right play! I’m just baffled that people would be like, whaaaaaaat?!? Nebula and Mantis have roles in GotG3? I’ve gotta buy that Nebula comic that came out after her significant role in Endgame, this movie I’ve clearly never heard of because otherwise I wouldn’t at all be surprised she would be in GotG3.
Type in what you want to look for and select what shops you want to search and then it does the rest, the results will link you directly to that sites listing when you click them.
At face value, KCC is a tool that work well. I think the problem is that they are now large enough where they affect the market. We all know the saying, "with great power…” I’d like to think most times they take that responsibility seriously. However, there have been times where they were way off base, doubled down on their incorrect information, and actually pushed back on people in the community who are raising red flags and calling them out when the info they post is flat out wrong. I like KCC. I use it. I do have a problem though when they don’t correct mistakes they make.
