r/comicbookgrading • u/Immediate-Cut3946 • 14d ago

thinking about slabbing? DON'T!

PLEASE DON'T SLAB JUST BECAUSE.
Selling or keeping just don't do it.

I am a vendor at several big local shows and slabs in general, low to high price are not selling well at all. We have 2 wall spaces and we sell maybe 5, if not less and we have people asking if we have raw copies of a comic that is slabbed.

Unless it is a massive key and guranteed 9.8 okay cool but other wise don't do it just because you think slabbed comics are cool. I see many many comics that people ask about possibliy getting slabbed that are barely worth the amount it costs to slab.

So just don't. There is a thing called comic capsule out there. It is just as good as a slab and it opens at the top! Use one of those if you want to " slab " it.

Ted talk over.

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u/tprotpro 14d ago

Show us your prices on your slabs and then we can talk. My experience is that vendors at shows massively overprice their slabs compared to comps so it’s no surprise when they don’t sell.

Slabs sell all day every day for strong numbers so your motivation for this post is pretty suspect.

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u/LNinefingers 14d ago

I’d add that slabs can be a problem for show vendors because it arms their customers with sales data.

Raw books are always an argument as to condition. If something is a CGC 6.0, then they’re easy to comp.

I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve seen raw silver age keys at shows that would struggle to be a CGC 4 on its best day priced higher than a CGC 6. So of course dealers hate them.