One time, we had a
customer bring in some comic books for us to look over. He was curious as to
how much they were worth. Among the books was a copy of Infinity Gauntlet #1,
signed by George Perez, with a certificate of authentication. After a few
minutes of research among various comic prices sites, eBay and Amazon, we told
him it was the most valuable book in the lot, but that the price was all over
the place, with sellers pricing it anywhere from $25 to $160. His response “Oh,
that’s all?” The customer figured that
1) all of the interest in Avengers:
Infinity War would have driven up the price of the book and 2) he had
heard such
high prices paid for first issues of books that he had set an anchor point
for the value of his book at a much higher point than the price people were
currently willing to pay for it. In this case, a little knowledge was indeed a
dangerous, or at least disappointing, thing.
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