Here's the "corker." You have to throw out a lot of auction lots -- it's like diversification in stocks or other investments. Some lots go a little higher, some a little lower than what you have paid -- then, Wham -- a break-away, a home run. But, you don't know which one will be the winner, so you can over-spend and go bust on such "pure speculation" lots if you're not careful. Money management is key.
Risqué pin-ups of popular female super-villains are practically a cottage industry on eBay. The Filipino artists are very talented at this sub-sub-genre, but you have to pay that shipping cost from around the world. So to make up for the steep shipping charge, you buy several drawings for one package -- say, a couple of Harley Quinns, a Poison Ivy, a Vampirella, a Catwoman, etc., etc.
So I put up a typically big and bouncy $40 Harley Quinn drawing in a weekly auction -- my first offering of this type.
By Tuesday, it's up to a mind-blowing $2,868. I can't believe it. Will the price stick? Is it a mistake? Meanwhile, a few of my perhaps-overly-concerned co-workers are alerting each other to this incredible outlier. They're getting phone calls from their fanboy buddies, What's going on? It stuck. I got the money. Naturally, I immediately threw up another Harley Quinn by the same artist. That one sold for $26.
No matter -- I already had the home run.
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