Reacting to antique shop comic pricing! (Hilarious)
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Let's have some FUN Making FUN of this antique shop's (unnamed) completely unrealistic prices! This gave me and the fiance some real LOL's.
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Are you sure you were at an antique mall and not Mile High Comics?
Hahahahahaha
Burn!
Is Mile high overpriced? I've never been..
@@Forever_Endeavor Mile High would slap a $1000 price tag on a used roll of toilet paper if they could.
It was a huge waste of time, you would think a place like Mile High would know better but they don’t only over price their books, they also have a bunch of garbage ass books to huge keys, nothing in between, place sucks, owner is nice though
*_That was hilarious. I'm sure someone was given the task to look up their value and just took the CGC 9.8 values._*
They would have been off on even those prices!
You could buy all those issues at 9.8 CGC and still pay less after shipping.
Somebody trying to hit the lottery on comics😂🤣😂 I don't blame them if they can get it I bet they got them displayed in hard cases too
This happens a lot with antique malls and flea markets. Hell, I know some comic shops that obviously don’t want to move their product!
Here’s what happened: someone’s wife said “you need to get rid of these comics you have too many and they’re taking up space!” So the guys grabs a bunch of dollar books and prices them outrageous just to say he did it and says he has no idea why they won’t sell lol
Yeah
My story is a lady at a flea market who had her childhood copy of Secret Wars 8, it was a raw copy but in immaculate condition. I asked her how much she wanted for it and she told me that she was currently holding it for someone who agreed to pay $4,000 for it. I had to hold back my laughter and politely tell her that was too rich for me. Happy hunting and good luck with your channel bub.
Woof!
Wow, if she gets that she is the best
Ya should've told her that she was gonna be waiting a LONG time for that $4,000.
Once , I entered a Pharmacy and paid a quarter for both Hulk 181, Star Wars #1, and 20 cents for a Werewolf by night #1. Oh! This was back in the early 70's . (insert Metal Gear Solid zing here). Cheerio!
I have talked to antique owners that price books like this & they never listen. I guess they think I am trying to cheat them. I even showed them I wasn't lieing but they always say the price is the price. I even offered a good price for a book once that I liked & they said they would not budge from the price. I told them they will NEVER move that book at that price. They didn't care. Research is important.
Maybe approach the educating them with the desire to not buy anything. It likely won’t make a difference, at least they might look into it more if they dont think you are trying to scam them.
they are hoping some fool with a little too much money will bite for just 1 comic will be worth it
U should give name so no 1 wastes time with them👍
@Robert T in my experience, trying to educate antique dealers is a waste of time. They are either convinced they know more than you do, regardless of your knowledge or experience, OR they are invested in the price they paid because they paid too much and think they have a chance of making their money back. I've seen this thinking on everything from comics to picture frames to silver coins.
I don’t think it’s the owners, it’s the dealers. Unless you can catch them and politely educate it’s gonna be pointless. 😂 I own a record store and have the same pricing issues with them as well. Just makes you dig harder.
I wonder what the store would say if you walked in there with one of the highly-overpriced comics and said "hey, I see you have one of these for sale, what would you give me for this copy?"
I'd be dumping a long box full of those Legend of the Dark Knight books on the counter and telling them they could make a fortune off of selling more those books.
Interesting 🤔
But knowing the fleecing they'd be doing, would you be equally culpable for enabling them?
Some execs from Disney just called. They think that those comics sound amazing and would love to negotiate a package deal for them. Do you have the address so I connect them to this treasure trove of value?
Maybe they can turn some of them into derivative media variations of the source materials.
Haha! Those prices are hilarious! Another pricing thing antique malls do is just take a whole box and just slap a $5 sticker on each book. Seemingly blindly. Now, I know some ppl love this situation, cuz they might find $20 books in there. The problem for me is I wouldn’t know a $20 book if it bit me on the butt. I only buy to read or if it looks cool. So, what I see is a box essentially 98% full of dollar books (at best) on sale for $5. I don’t even look.
I think we’ve all seen this before. And I don’t even try to inform them anymore. Had a person selling a book probably $50 over its value. Told the owner (old fellow) and he said “I know what it’s worth!” Showed him what it sales for and he got pissed and walked away. I walked away as well.
Same, I didn't even bother
A lot of these sellers were mtg sellers in the age of scrye when the values weren’t based on grade, but just the value of sold cards so high was the average of the bottom third mid was the average of all data points and high was the average of the top third
Came for the overpriced comic books, stayed for the fart noises.
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Damn! Those prices are even worse than here in Australia! And that's saying something!!!🤪
Dear lord 😂
Unbelievable. How did you keep a straight face in the store? 🤦♂️ dig the soundbites 😂
My wife and I went to an antique district around 3 months back to look for comics. We definitely found some hilarious prices. Most notably was the free DC Connect previews monthly catalog...for $5. It wasn't even old. It had Abyss (Batman 118) on the cover.
It's funny. There's an antique store here in town that has comics, and they're pretty close to FMV on their books. Then there's a thrift store a block away from them that also has comics (they get all of their stock from abandoned storage units) and they not only don't display them in a way that doesn't ruin them, but they also overprice their books. Nowhere near this bad, but well over FMV. Great video, James. Always educate yourself on what the books are worth, or have your phone available to check. I'm just worried that someone will pay those outrageous prices.
This was fun, thanks! And I thought my local antique shop was crazy, with some of the ratty and/or non-key books regularly selling for $10-$50 because they're old! Though I did find a Scooby Doo 1 for $3 there back in January, so I keep going back like a lemming! 😂
I love it when they price 1950s cartoon comic books in low grade at $20 or more. They seem to think that just because it's got a 10-cent cover it's got to be worth a lot of money.
I got 20 sets of those books at 11:05. I would GLADLY sell them for half that price to that store lol.
Hahaha for real
ok that makes 13 year old me feel better I only bought one set. Could have bought 4 Wolverine #1's (1988) but nooo.....
but I did buy one and it came in at 9.8, so good day there at least.
Every antique store in my area is like this, and they absolutely refuse to listen to reason. I stopped trying altogether.
Loved the sound effects. I literally laughed out loud multiple times, the WHAT! Is my fave
I'm suspicious. They probably added it in the insurance and eventually will burn their antique shop eventually. 😆 What do you think?
Wait... maybe
@@MintHunterComics 😆
Was thinking the same thing. Cuz really are all antique stores making a profit?
Wow, that was PAINFUL lol !...they have NO business in comics what so ever !
Oof… as someone who regularly hunts for comics at antique shops, I unfortunately can relate to this. But I’ve NEVER seen prices that high!
You can almost never buy at those shops. such a shame
Man the ad libs and sound efx...had me rolling 😂😂😂😂😂
Hahaha - glad you enjoyed!
Went to an antique shop next to my friends house. Asked a dude if he had any comics and he pulled out five wrinkled comics… the most expensive book in there was a Batman #356. Cool Dr. Strange cover… but a below average grade considering the wrinkles and rust spots. None of them were in bags.
I thought he was a nice old dude who ran an antique shop out of his garage so I offered $50 for them… literally $10 a book. And all the books were about half that Considering the condition. He accepted and I figured I threw the guy a bone for his store. It was just after the pandemic and everyone had just opened up shop again.
Literally next time I was at my friends house he ran out of his garage to talk to me about what a deal I stole from him and was sure to sarcastically say enjoy the deal… told him I’m more than willing to return your books if you want to refund me… he just said “no you just enjoy your deal”…
guarantee you this guy went and looked at 9.8 graded copies of all 5 books listed on eBay and thought he could have gotten the same price for the half destroyed copies… literally the last time I’ll buy comics from an antique shop. 0/10 experience… would rather have my $50 back.
At an antique mall I bought a copy of AMAZING ADVENTURES #35 for $ .35 cents. The person at the cash register told me it was a collector’s item that’s why they were selling it for ten cents more than the cover price.😊
WOW!
Maybe my wife priced this stuff: during the pandemic I hauled a bunch of old comics out of my attic I had in storage and went through them. She was checking the value online as I'd read them to her. I pull out Daredevil #6 and she goes, "Oh my God!!! That's worth like $10,000." I was like, no babe, that's for a perfect copy, this looks like it was stored in my asshole for the last 30 years. To prove it to her I sent it in for grading. It came back a 3.5. Worth about $100. She says, "This hobby sucks."
Relatable
I enjoyed and laughed while watching this video for 2 reasons. 1. The prices are ridiculously outrageous 2. Your math skills at working out percentages are just as outrageous! LMAO
The math is for 299.99 not 300, so you're seeing it out of the 99.99 value
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What a hilarious video! I have seen this kind of stuff but never this extreme. Good work!
Glad you enjoyed it!
As a test it would be interesting to see for example, if you offered say $30 for a book they priced at $89 that’s worth $3 if they would take it, or hold firm at $89? Maybe it’s a (ridiculous) negotiating postioning for some stores? Still hilarious- thanks for sharing 😃
Find these prices often, especially people selling comics locally using Facebook market.
With shops like that one, I'm never sure whether the sellers are ignorant, or they are hoping the customers will be. The thing I find when it comes to looking for comics at antique stores is that the ones by me tend not to reprice their merchandise very often or very quickly. So sometimes I've gotten lucky when a book pops and an antique dealer's $5 price tag goes from highway robbery for a dollar book to a steal for the buyer.
Yeah… we have a few of those thrift/antique stores in my part of Jersey. I’ve tried to talk to them about the prices…. Then I see the beanie babies priced over $100 and realize I need to GTF out of the store!
this one was PA, but yup! crazy
Now, a good antique store story: i was approached by this guy at my table (i was selling some of my art and doing sketches of people) this guy asked “hey you like comics? I got whole box filled with them” i said “sure lets have a look” he told me to meet him at the parking lot in 30 mins. I said ok because he seemed friendly and i was right. Bunch of minor-mid-key all fot $5, BUT among them was ASM 252 around 9.0 for $5 too. Total for the whole box was $45. He told me all those comics belonged to his late grandfather who passed away last year and he used to have an antique shop. He had been trying to sell the comics for months with no luck.
This might be my favorite video you've made yet! Keep up the good work sir!
This happens in most antique shops in the UK as well. Great video!!!!
I guess I will be the devil's advocate who defends antique stores/malls as a good place to buy comics. I will wholeheartedly agree that about 8 times out of 10 the dealer is someone who either doesn't keep up with the comic book market or prices everything at the Overstreet NM value regardless of it's actual condition. Usually they just put a price on it that they pull out of their ass, put in in a box (in a bag if you're lucky), and never touch it again until it sells, but as a buyer I use that to my advantage. Since they don't follow the marketplace, adjust prices when values go up or down, or even know what each individual comic is actually worth, you can often find a modern key or a spec book just sitting there at an insanely low price because they labor under the impression that only old books are valuable.
To site an example from your video of how to take a complaint and turn it into an advantage, you pointed out how antique dealers often way overprice the first issue of a series because they (mistakenly or not) believe that first issue automatically means it's worth more. Do you know what they also do? They way underprice the last issue in a series run, not realizing that this is usually one of the more expensive issues in a run due to them often having a low print run. I can't tell you often I've snagged a last issue from an antique mall for a buck or two and then flipped it for a profit to somebody trying complete the run of a collection.
Long story short (too late!), what most people hate about antique dealers who sell comics is what I love about them - their ignorance (intentional or accidental) of the actual value of the comics they sell. For every ten booths I have to wade through that are selling copies of Turok # 1 with the chromium cover for $25, I'll usually find one booth that has a Flash Vol. II # 92 for $1 because they don't know or care that it's the first appearance of Impulse. For me, at least, I'll gladly take those odds.
man i need to bring some of my books into that shop and tell them they can have them for half the price they will sell them for! lol
Good idea!
This video was awesome. I loved those prices. Dang, Chuck Rozanski would be like “their prices are ridiculous.”
They really are haha
It's the 'old comic book' phenomenon...
I laugh out loud regularly at these!
This is super common. I’ve seen books priced super high in so many antique shops. They will usually do this because they don’t know actual value of books, they aren’t experts at comics. Rather than risking losing money they price them high (they see EBay prices for some books spike over night due to news or fomo)...if even one sells, they made all their money for the lot.
Lol that robin literally robbin the custom
The fart noises are spectacular. Had me laughing out loud, for real.
Hahaha yes! mission accomplished
Have you ever when you run into situations like this ask them how they price their books?
I sell comics in an Antique/Collectibles store and I basically use online pricing for every book I put in... Gotta keep up with the pricing or you will look ridiculous!! Thank you for the good laughs!
I got a booth in a antique/collectible store I'm about to put my comics in. Priced everything reasonably and fair for a kid to buy and read. I loved going to comic shops as a kid and hope someone else can get the same joy out of them as I did.
I laughed so much with the sound effects😭🤣
Good! 🤣
@@MintHunterComics😭🤣
seen lots of marketplace and ebay sellers do the same. "Oh comics are big now. This one is old, must be $50 bucks!"
Ive seen this at antique shops.... The owner sees a comic and immediately thinks it worth 100
You should take books like this and sell it to them for half of what they are listing for. Tell them to think of all the profit they can make
It can go both ways. I bought a VG copy of Batman #359 at an antique store for $8.00. Granted this was about 15 years ago but they had a ton of Silver Age stuff and nothing was more than $10. Still not a better find than my buddy who snagged a NM copy of New Mutants #98 a few years ago from a Goodwill for ten cents.
The Legends of the Dark Knight collection got me laughing at the round price. Only $300! That said it's an eclectic collection of comics they're selling.
All the best.
Those were crazy numbers, that antique shop seems similar to a few eBay prices I've seen. Although that Amazing Spider-Man #195 in a 6.5 is about a $25 book as it is the 2nd appearance and origin of Black Cat. the ASM 150 is about $20 book in a 7.0. In my experience, used bookstores are the best places to find deals on comics but I've never found a reasonable price at an antique store.
I was about to say the same thing I’m surprised others didn’t catch on. At $5 I’ll take every copy available lol I just paid $15 for ASM 150 on eBay and you have to pay shipping + taxes. But at $15 I couldn’t find any other issues close to that price most people wanted around $40-50. And I had just lost one in a Facebook auction that sold for more then what I paid on eBay even with shipping and taxes. My prices are CAD so would be a bit higher then USD but I like to buy at USD FMV lol
Agreed, those numbers are crazy, but some of those fmvs were a lil off. I would snap up those earlier gi joe issues for $3-$5 a piece. You cant find beat copies for less than $15 a piece on ebay.
@@eblanco7605 , you're correct, I don't think it is deliberate, but I believe he may be confusing FMV, with reselling in mind. FMV has nothing to do with reselling, it's all about, what a collector is willing to spend. I do sell, however I'm a collector first and resell any books I upgrade. I have no problem paying up to a certain amount for a book I really want in my collection. My intention is not to resell, however if I do, it's usually just to offset the cost of the upgrade, without losing any money on my OG purchase. resellers have a margin, which is far different from what FMV is.
@@eblanco7605 GI Joe 2 was always listed as scarce on the mule high ads in the 80s
I run into way overpriced junk comics all the time at antique stores. Usually beat up drek books not even worth a dollar that they want $5 or more for. Every once in a while I find a good deal, though. Went into one about a year ago. Had some really old cartoon books in pristine condition for dirt cheap that even those I couldn't pass up. While going through them I found a Wonder Woman #44 (1950) for less than $10. Had about a 3" spine split, but otherwise in great shape. Took everything up front and he said that he charged so little for that because of the damage. Ended up giving me about a 25% discount on everything also.
I scored a small stack of Feature Comics/Doll man from the late 1940s that way from an antique mall. Like $10 apiece. I took them up to the counter and didn’t say a word. Now I look at how much those old books go for😵 finally I got a win lol
And boy did they love that $89 price tag.
I recently ran into a woman who spent 280 on two long boxes. more than half the books were fcbd/previews and the other half were throwaways. She said "I'm gonna give you a deal. 400 for both boxes." I laughed and laughed until I realized she was abso serious. My reply was "I hope you didn't spend more than 20bux on these" turns out a guy bought them from another vendor in the back for 125 and walked all of four hundred feet to flip them over to her🤦♂️
Yeah, you sometimes see that pricing with stores that don't sell comics as the main product.
Indeed
Great video! I was discussing this the other day with a fellow collector….so has anyone seen someone purchase a comic from the antique stores for the crazy prices? I never have..can’t understand how they stay in business unless it is a front for something else
Thanks for the laughs today
No idea how they do it!
It’s the whole, “this comic looks pretty old…it’s probably worth a lot” approach.
All antique stores are always over priced, here in NC all antique stores think they have gold.
OMG! In my area ALL the antique shops over price.
Oh wow!
I’ve noticed this for years in antique stores, but I thought it was just my area that did this. 🤪
I don't want to cast aspersions on other shops with overpriced goods, but here's one possible answer to the question "how do these morons stay in business?"
In my town, there was a cluttered, disorganized "toys and collectables" store in a run-down shopping strip that asked ridiculously high prices on almost everything in stock -- beat-up toys, sci-fi paperbacks, comics, T-shirts, posters.
The exception? Stacks and stacks and stacks of back-issue newsstand porno magazines (Penthouse and Hustler, mainly) along the back wall, all of which were bagged and generally priced at $3 or $4. I'm pretty sure that was how the shop stayed in business, because there were no other used book dealers in the area that carried skin mags.
The worst story I have about the place -- back in the late '80s I met a woman who was really into horror entertainment. She told me that she'd had a small stack of 1950s EC horror comics and took them to the "toys and collectables" place to have them appraised. No problem, the owner tells her. She returns a few days later and the owner claims he can't find the comics at the moment, but no problem, he'll look around and find them and if she comes back he'll have them. I'm not sure how many times she went back but by the time I heard this story she had long ago given up on the idea of reclaiming the comics. "Sorry, still can't find 'em. Looked everywhere. Turned the store upside down."
Yeah -- I've seen that too -- uneducated store owner x fear of under-pricing = DISASTER!
Always
I thought I was gonna get tired of the fart sounds...but I was wrong😂
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Even with all the competition here in the metro Atlanta area you still find some places like this, and yes, usually in antique outlets. Sometimes they figure they'll have 50% off sale and therefore mark it up. But in most cases, like this one, it would still be thoughtlessly overpriced.
Someone's Nana is going to buy one of these thinking she's gifting her grandkid with a cool book, only to get fleeced. Sad and unethical
ROFL! We do a segment called "you must be out of your damn mind" some of the madness that's out there is insane🤣
Exactly why I stopped wasting my time searching for collectibles at Antique shops. If they're not Jacking the price to high, they're charging market value and there's ever any deals until they're forced to close.
This goes out to all the novice and entry level dealers in the hobby. Majority of comics do not=gobs and gobs of money
Well, an antique mall near me literally picks up comics from half price books for $1.49 and charges $10 a pop. I know they picked it up for $1.49 because they don't bother removing the sticker and badly scratch it out with a sharpie.
When my wife and I first started dating she took me to Golden Age Collectibles in Seattle, the world's oldest comic shop. It's in Pike's Place Market, so it's pretty touristy but they have some good stuff.
Knowing how big of a Superman fan I am, she pointed out a book in their front display case, Superman Vol. 2 #1. I already had a copy but I'm glad she asked me about it before just buying it for me because it was priced at $40 and the FMV at the time was about $5! I nearly had a heart attack when I saw that price
She learned right there not to buy comic books for me, just let me go to a shop and cut loose (Which she does 😁).
Stopped in there on vacation based on strong recomm3ndations. Couldn’t have been more disappointed. More like a tourist trap with a couple comics. I don’t buy slabs or high value books, so I can’t comment on that, but the back issue bins were hilarious. There was maybe 6 short boxes worth of strictly DC/Marvel back issues in this little thing about the size of a child’s dresser. That was it. Had negotiated an hour of digging with my wife, so was really excited to dive in. Very disappointing.
@@mikem3543 If you ever find yourself in Denver, stop by Mile High Comics. You'll get lost in there.
I've run into this at the flea market, actually saw a person pricing their books using thr key collector app at "high" value
i went to one store and they were selling each issue of some randomcomics for 20 to 50 dollars each and the books were in like 2.0 to 6.5 condition
Those comic book prices are through the roof!
Breh. The fart sounds. Got me every time.
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Our local flea market overprices everything. Usually it’s a mint price for a vg comic.
I see this type of ridiculous pricing all the time with BINs for graded books on eBay and My Comic Shop.
Also, a "no discounts" sign🤣
Maybe they forgot the decimal place on that Robin book and meant to charge $1.49🤔
Right?!?!
That Infinity War #1 price is just ridiculous. It's not even like they looked up graded 9.8 prices or something, because that book is not worth $399 in any condition whatsoever. I can only imagine that they put up just ridiculous prices on everything in the hopes that even a single person might buy one thinking they were getting some rare and valuable thing... and also didnt come back with a torch to burn down the place when they find out how badly they got robbed.
You should of asked them how they got their prices or maybe ask them now and make an update video because I’m super curious if they know how insane their prices are
I seen some beat up copies of major keys at an antique store i am talking first punisher, galatacus, and king pin. The prices were crazy high. Then when covic hit all the books went through the roof. I went back to go find them. All gone smdh. I also missed out on moon knights first appearance. 😢
The content was good ...BUT THE SOUND EFFECTS WERE GREAT!!! 😂😂😂 KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK JAMES...👍👍
Hahaha thanks fellow James!
That was a great video. I’m glad I did not have some water in my mouth. I would have spit it out laughing at those prices. It’s like the joke about the guy in the sword store. They are so overpriced so that if he sells just one he screams” I Won!!!
ASM 195 is the second Black Cat appearance so it’s a minor key. On eBay, a really nice copy (vf-nm) runs between $35-50, with a mid-grade going for under $20.
Correct you are!
Most antique stores have multiple dealers who have booths, more than likely this is an old lady / old man who priced their books this way.
I have that problem with a lady here in her store. She works herself 7 days a week and she's like 90 something older than dirt no one to leave it to and she won't give nothing away not even a deal or a price drop. Very very frustrating isn't it?
The question is... How many people i wonder have bought any issues sold by the dealers, thinking they are holding a valuable comic.
They figured because of the horror marvel books are up in price since werewolf by night special.
I guess!
Wow, I thought the sellers at my local antique mall were bad asking 8-10 bucks for back issues less than 3 years old
It ALWAYS gets worse!
Age of books don’t have a direct relationship on price.
@@robertt9342 it is one of the variables though. Also the comics I am talking about are just random books in runs. Or cover A for vampirella current run being sold for 15+
A lot of these shops do consignment which is why you may not be able to negotiate. They just rent the space and cashier.
Up until a few years ago you could find good deals on older comics at some of these antique malls, but now everyone thinks their beat up stuff is worth thousands. You'd think they'd adjust their prices after not selling but I've seen the same books in some of these stores for more than a year. BTW that's a 2nd print GI Joe 2 that you pictured, I see them all the time on ebay listed as 1st prints. CGC even messes that up all the time, so be careful out there guys! Also, where on earth are you finding single digit Joe books in 9 and up condition for $3?! I'd buy those all day.
Guaranteed they are searching Ebay and sorting by highest price as a guide.
I think even then that's ridiculous
I actually see this all the time in my area. Even at some comic shops.
That’s crazy that’s why places like that usually will go out of business
Maybe they priced all of these during the 2020!2021 spike? Those were probably a steal at those prices back then 🤣
My local antique shop sells old comic from the 1950s to 1970s and they price them off the age it's foolish. They are selling some comics for literally $100+ that I found on eBay for about $5-10. They literally have no clue what they are doing.
THEN PEOPLE WONDER WHY THE MARKET IS SUCH A MESS. GOOD LUCK ON YOUR FUTURE WE WATCH YOUR BACK.
My experience of people with comics who aren't into funny books is that they have no concept of grade.
I would have thought the second appearance of Black Cat would be worth more than that.
The SFX tho...😆
hahaha