My newly unshrink wrapped S1 arrived and was scheduled for grading this Wednesday. I submitted under fast track for an additional $15. Fast Track turn around times meant it would be graded in 10 business days. The turn around time a couple of weeks ago was 60 business days.

Its now down to 30 days. Fast track is still $15 more, but it only takes the turn around to 15 days.

mbassoc2003 wrote in Your opinion doesnt matter anymore:So, for most modules you'd pay $50 for fast-track, (plus shipping both ways?), and it comes back graded and sealed in plastic. I can see that that could add more than $50 to the resale value, but surely it narrows the pool of potential buyers at the same time, taking it out of the collectors market as a whole, and moving it into the collectors of graded items market. Outside of the highest possible graded common modules, and maybe slightly lower graded things like OB3, RPGA, R1-4 etc. I don't know if the trade-off between grading and loss of marketability is worth it.

For most modules, you would pay $25 per , plus shipping to them and $45 for return shipping. (I should say, I do have a suspicion their pressing service, for an extra $15 helps the overall grade, I may have messed up not using it so far, but idk)

I am not sure about marketability at all. I would like all the first print-mono covers in 8.0 or higher. I should lower my expectations a little maybe. So, that's one person.

But there are a thousand miles between that and a market. There may not be a market for slabbed modules at all. New collectors, or changes in current collectors, may see value in the 9.0+. This is how the modern card market functions. 8.0+ is the same price as raw, you may get a few extra dollars because of the slab, but maybe not. 9.0 is a premium, 10s are a multiple. Or maybe new DnD collectors are from the school of comics. Folks know items from the golden age are great in 3.0 and the multiples can start with each grade.

This is from 1974. We know the relevance. I dont think anyone would pay $50 for a single page of a Men&Magic first print. This will likely end over $100. Some pages have gone for much more.


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I can kind of dig the page (though its not my cup of tea). Like a collectors-relevant way of framing the thing to look at.

That is  ..... outside of the nastiness of looking at it and thinking someone probably cut up a comic book page-by-page and then had them each graded. Id think about that every time I looked at it

I know I'm not a big time collector, but do people really want their prize collectibles in those awful plastic sleeves with the naff header? I've looked in awe at some of the photos of fantastic collections on here and I wouldn't feel the same about them if they were all done up like this.
Also, what do people do with their boxes, large hardbacks and spiral bound books? Are they also entombed?

JoeNuttall wrote in Your opinion doesnt matter anymore:I know I'm not a big time collector, but do people really want their prize collectibles in those awful plastic sleeves with the naff header? I've looked in awe at some of the photos of fantastic collections on here and I wouldn't feel the same about them if they were all done up like this.
Also, what do people do with their boxes, large hardbacks and spiral bound books? Are they also entombed?

Watching YouTube, I've seen comic collectors with tens of thousands of comics but only a dozen or two  "Key" issues that are slabbed.  I can very easily see that happening in our segment.  The truly rare/stratospheric items could/would do well in a plastic tomb.

Tszii wrote in Your opinion doesnt matter anymore:BTW: I dropped this S1 on Saturday and added a crease. It was bagged and boarded, on the way to a top loader.

Ugh.  Man that got dinged.


-SKA

Since we’re offering opinions, I feel I wouldn’t get any personal benefit or enjoyment from slabbing my books. I’d have to consider the business aspect though for items I would potentially resell. If I can add $100 in value for a $50 investment, seems like a no brainer.

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Is a 90 the same as 9.0?

I am all for people getting what they can get for prices... But is there really a market at $4,700 for a Moldvay basic set?

-SKA

$2500 for 85 AGA vs. $4700 for 90 AGA means that the first 85 points cost a little over $29 each, but points 86 through 90 cost $440 each. Does that meet Federal banking standards?

As a collector that also has bought, sold and traded RPGs since 1994, i would personally never tear off the SW to submit something for grading. It's potentially worth so much more wrapped than graded, at least until (or if) slabbing gaming material becomes more mainstream. I would happily submit other items in NM condition, or rare items, though.

Mike B.