Crisis on Infinite Earths wasn't worth that much. But I understand. I had a decent sized comic collection as a kid that was given to a charity shop.
IIRC, it was suggested the COIE set would
sell pretty high (I think a couple hundred dollars) but what was offered to the guy wanting to cash them in wasn't very high, it was pretty much the same problem that's ran into all of the time on "Pawn Stars" where the customer doesn't realize the store has to turn a profit and isn't going to pay full price for an item. If they paid for what the item is worth how do they re-sell it for a profit? They'd have to sell it for MORE than it is worth! I don't think there's been this much discussion yet on the show trying to explain to the customer how retail works, but there has been so far a couple instances of the customer thinking that because it's a high-value item they're going to get high-dollar for it.
It's even been said a few times on how much the worth of this stuff has gone down even a year ago that COEI set could've gotten a higher price. There's also been a couple of instances where it seems the customer has simply gotten their item "authenticated" or "appraised." Last week it was a guy with an actual prop lightsaber from ESB that he gotten for pretty much nothing and was told it was worth tens of 1000s of dollars. This past week a guy came in with a large collection of very old, very rare comics and a couple that introduced new characters (like Wonder Woman and Robin), the store didn't buy any of them as they said the comics were so valuable he'd be better of selling them at auction.
Which makes sense, if someone walks in with an Action Comics #1 they're not going to get $1m from some hole-in-the-wall comic book store it's not feasible for the store to buy it as it's not something they're ever going to sell and make a profit on (no matter how little they end up paying for it) something like that is better sold at auction.
Which, again, is what I find interesting about this show is the few times things have been bought it's only been for a few dozen dollars or maybe a couple hundred (as was the case for the large Thor poster.) It's sort of a nice contrast to Pawn Stars where people are coming in occasionally with $30,000 rare pieces of jewelry.
(Not to disparage Pawn Stars, it's still a show I like.)
But the banter between the group in the sound-booth is becoming a highlight for this show, Kevin Smith is just a lot of fun to watch and funny. It's a shame he's mostly backed out of making movies that's he's written and are fairly "low budget."
I'm still not a big fan of the bearded guy, he seems like sort of a jackass.
. I still keep missing the show. Ming too has been mentioned in tons of Kevin Smith film audio commentary. Caught the third episode tonight, and the comic shop stuff is the most interesting aspect of the show, but I don't want the show to turn into a "Pawn Shop" type series, I don't really think that works for a comic shop...and as for the worth, comic book prices have dropped significantly in that last few years. So it's not surprising they offer what they do for various items.
That made me sick. I'll probably never watch the show again.
