...To Become a Comic Book Pro | Rick Akers Interview
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
- Rick Akers -- Consignment Director at Heritage Auctions -- shares his comic book journey from selling comics as a side gig to managing comic books full time at Heritage Auctions. He provides behind-the-scenes insights and gives tips about how to consign comic books. Last, Rick takes off his dealer hat and opens up about his passion as a collector.
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Most pics/videos are directly from Rick Akers, Heritage Auctions (HA.com website), or my own.
Exceptions include video/picture grabs from EBay (random search of comic books), Instagram (KaizerDawg), and the CGC Boards.
Thanks so much for watching my friends! -Keston - Розваги
Great interview with Rick. He definitely seems like a very humble person with an undying love for comics and art. Matt baker has some really fantastic art as well. Thanks for the upload Keston! 👍
Thanks, Up North! Rick is a really good guy. I bought from him a few times when he was selling on the CGC Boards. He's got good taste.
Great videos. I love the content, with the exception of the "deal lector" term as too many folks try to thread the needle as collectors, but they are really low-level dealers. Keep it up!
Thank you, CBN! Good point: the line between collector and dealer can get pretty murky. I do find that most good dealers do have a passion for the books, like Rick. I'm always turned off by dealers who don't seem to know anything about books but the potential money associated with them.
Heritage does have a great reach for those high value collectibles, but darn those buyer's premiums. Interesting interview Keston, keep up the great work.
Thank you, Jim! Yeah, I appreciated Rick's behind-the-scenes perspective.
That Matt Baker art was amazing. Great interview Keston
Thanks, Shane! I had know idea he had that or was going to show it.
Really awesome video. I really like the kind of “inside baseball” type advice Rick shared in discussing kind of a sweet spot in numbers of books to consign and other nuggets. I also very much enjoyed his measured advice in encouraging people to collect and pursue said collections responsibly. Great stuff!
Thank you, Two Bent! Yeah, I liked the consignment advice too. Makes sense and actually has been my experience. Over the years, my books have done well at auction collectively. I've had a few disappointments, coming in at only 75% or 80% of what I thought they would sell for. But, then again, I've had a few books sell for twice as much as I anticipated which more than offset the "losers."
Great interview. The Matt Baker art was incredibly cool. If I had that job I would to be too tempted to buy everything.
Haha. I hear ya CCG. Me too. Yeah, that Baker Art is special!
Great interview!
Thank you, VV!
really good interview. i love planet comics
Hi, Greg! Planets are a cool run that probably don't get the love they deserve.
Another great video!
Appreciate it, Adam!
Excellent interview!
Thank you, Samuel!
Very intriguing!
Thanks Mitch and Caroline!
Well done interview Keston. Was wondering when the next one with Ivan from PBA galleries would happen again 👍
Hi Kryptonite. Good question. I was thinking the same thing :-)
With the new PBA auction coming up next month be great to get another interview with Ivan and the amazing other books coming to auction in March this year
Great Interview
Thank you, CTA!
Nice video 💥
Thank you, Omega!