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Originally posted by Juelle Lou:

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Originally posted by MarcG:
The Cordelia Sketch is now at $945 with 2 Days and 3 Hours left...

Inching closer to $1000.

I think it might reach there, even go past it maybe.

Is it just me or are the sketches starting to go for more money than when they were in the first week?
It's not as if there are less available, they just seem to me to be selling for more.

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Originally posted by MarcG:

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Originally posted by Juelle Lou:

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Originally posted by MarcG:
The Cordelia Sketch is now at $945 with 2 Days and 3 Hours left...

Inching closer to $1000.

I think it might reach there, even go past it maybe.

Is it just me or are the sketches starting to go for more money than when they were in the first week?
It's not as if there are less available, they just seem to me to be selling for more.

It seems that way...

I think when they first were out on the bay, the prices were really high and people were interested but weren't willing to thrown down that much for them yet.

But I guess they started realizing how rare each sketch card was and some could be buying for resale in the near future or they figure this is their only chance to get a rare 1/1 sketch from the Buffy set and they are starting to sell a bit more.

And there are still a few sketch cards that have not been seen yet...

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Originally posted by Juelle Lou:

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Originally posted by MarcG:

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Originally posted by Juelle Lou:

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Originally posted by MarcG:
The Cordelia Sketch is now at $945 with 2 Days and 3 Hours left...

Inching closer to $1000.

I think it might reach there, even go past it maybe.

Is it just me or are the sketches starting to go for more money than when they were in the first week?
It's not as if there are less available, they just seem to me to be selling for more.

It seems that way...

I think when they first were out on the bay, the prices were really high and people were interested but weren't willing to thrown down that much for them yet.

But I guess they started realizing how rare each sketch card was and some could be buying for resale in the near future or they figure this is their only chance to get a rare 1/1 sketch from the Buffy set and they are starting to sell a bit more.

And there are still a few sketch cards that have not been seen yet...

But there couldn't possibly much resale value in a card that sells for over $1500 surely? Possibly the few with Buffy on it that sold might go for more down the track.

Maybe those that sold for under say $700 might be able to do that. It will be interesting to see if any ever go for 2 grand, the Rhiannon Owens Dark Willow was awfully close to that mark.

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Originally posted by Logan:
Cordelia sketch is up to $1,005.

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Originally posted by Logan:
Cordelia sketch is up to $1,005.

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Originally posted by Juelle Lou:
Apart from the GoT sketches do any other sets with sketches go for this sort of money?

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Originally posted by igman7:
Actually, Star Trek Aliens had sketches with likeness (for a limited group of actors) just last year and while they were more plentiful (1 per case), they went for some serious money as well. It is the newness factor, for those who have not had literally tens of thousands of sketches done for their collecting love, that is driving the prices on these.

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Originally posted by igman7:
The other thing to keep in mind is market saturation. If you go back several years (and thousands of sketches) ago, both Star Wars and LOTR had several sketches that would shoot past the $1k mark. These are the very first (and possibly the last) official sketch cards for a long & sustained collector base. If Harry Potter was ever done with sketches, you would likely see big money on a number of cards as well.

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Originally posted by Raven:

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Originally posted by Juelle Lou:
Apart from the GoT sketches do any other sets with sketches go for this sort of money?

Being only a marginal sketch collector at best, I just did a quick search on that site under sketch card in trading cards. There were 16,209 listings a few minutes ago. Sorting by highest price, besides groups, Star Wars Masterworks has a few asking over $1,000 and I saw a GOT and a few of the Buffy sketches that have been posted.

With SW Masterworks, which is a premium product, there were obviously some gems done by at least a couple of the same artists that contributed to Buffy. Unlike Buffy, while that high quality was evident, it was not consistent throughout the product. In other words you had a range of sketches and there were some that really could not be called Masterworks.

GOT sketches were beautiful, but they were very rare in a traditional box product and that alone made them expensive. The problem was that only generic objects could be drawn, so you got landscapes, dragon eggs, dragons, a horse I think. I loved the White Walker and the three baby dragons, but that was as close to a character that I saw.

So I guess I'd have to say . . . Yes there are other sets with sketches costing this much.

However in terms of having a set that includes sketches with character/actor likenesses and then also having the highest quality in every sketch produced over the full run assumed to be somewhere a little over 100 sketches, well if there is another product like that I haven't seen it.

Now Grimm has some nice work, as does The Walking Dead. Some of them can get pricey, but not this kind of pricey. And Bettie Page had some great stuff, but again there was a range of quality.

When you take a good look at a fraction of those 16,209 sketch listings it really is surprising what you see, especially if you factor in ACEOs. There is some incredible work that is going for peanuts, while other lesser items, for various reasons, are valued considerably higher. Art is a tough business.

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Originally posted by igman7:
It is the newness factor, for those who have not had literally tens of thousands of sketches done for their collecting love, that is driving the prices on these.

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Originally posted by Raven:

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Originally posted by igman7:
Actually, Star Trek Aliens had sketches with likeness (for a limited group of actors) just last year and while they were more plentiful (1 per case), they went for some serious money as well. It is the newness factor, for those who have not had literally tens of thousands of sketches done for their collecting love, that is driving the prices on these.

I actually pulled a sketch card from Mr. Cover in a recent Trek set, have to look if it was that one. It was a drawing of the ship, not a character. We posted it in one of the other threads. I haven't been following the sketches so I didn't know they did any likenesses, but I'm not surprised that you say they are selling well if they are any good.

Interesting that you consider them plentiful at 1 per case. I know it's your business to buy in bulk, but that is very limited to someone like me.

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Originally posted by Raven:
I don't know if anyone would touch Harry Potter again as long as the series remains over. Artbox really did a great job while it had the license in terms of putting everything into it other than sketches.

But could you imagine Bond or Trek sketches with character likenesses. Won't happen because of all these hurdles, but collectors would love them.

Did you say market saturation? This market is floating out to sea, which is why you have 16,209 listings of both underrated and overrated work, depending on how you look at it.