Selling Comic Books There are a lot of things to be considered when you plan to sell your collection.

There are a lot of things to be considered when you plan to sell your collection. First is how much is my collection worth? What is worth to me personally & how much is it worth retail? The most widely accepted authority on grading comics is the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. Before you can tell how much your comics are worth, you must make out a detailed list, including condition, title & issue number. If you think that this is too much work, you can always take your comics to a dealer and they might buy them from you for pennies on the dollar. Once, you have a detailed list you can sell them on E-bay or through the Comic Buyers Guide. If you sell them as a collection you will get less than if you sell them individually. If you sell them individually, some will sell immediately other will not sell at all. Generally the higher the condition and the oldest comics (over 30 years old) sell the best.

I have not sold any comics on E-bay. Why? Too, much hassle. I considered E-bay, but found it too constraining. There are time limits & none of the comics that I monitored brought anything near what they were worth. A friend tells me on the average he get about 1/3 retail value for what he sold (you can sell them for more if you put a reserve on them, but you may not sell them right away or at all.). I think E-bay is a good way to sell comics. If you have the time (the more information you provide for something you are selling, the more successful you will be).

I did sell comics through the Comic Buyers Guide for about a year. I could list about a hundred comics in one $35 ad. I stopped when I stared loosing money on the adds. My main problem was that I did not have that many comics on my price list, about 250

This is not a tactic that I employ, although, it is probably the best way to sell on the internet. If you want to sell a lot of comics on the web you should do everything you can to draw attention to your comic collection. E-bay is a place that you can get in touch with people that are interested in comics. Find news groups dealing with comics. Create a news group. Create a web site. Trade links with similar web sites. Join a web ring. Submit your site to search engines on a regular basis, but not more than once a month. Find as many comic book message boards as you can, participate in discussions & list your web site link. There are others as well, but the all amount to, "look what I have to sell " & the more people that know it the better. The reason I do not do this, is that it is a lot of work, it would increase the amount of comics I sell (more work), & would turn a nice hobby in to more of a job. After all, I made this web site for fun more than anything else & I really take myself too serious as it is.

This is another insidious plot to destroy a good thing like E-mail. By spam I mean, unsolicited E-mail. I think if someone sends spam, unless it is in a bright blue can, should go to jail. As in Network everyone should yell "I'm as mad as Hell & I'm not going to take it anymore! (SPAM)". SPAM must make someone money or else why would anyone risk angering 1,000 people just to make a nickel. I know that E-mail can be a wonderful marketing tool, but it should not be used to bother people that are not in the least interested in what you have to sell. I never send mass E-mail (even to relatives). I do not think it is good business. DEATH TO SPAM! Come on Kit tell us how you really feel? (okay, this a sarcastic remark, but it had to be made)

I buy most of my comics from dealers. I have been offered one good deal. Someone offered about $1000 worth of comics for $140. What do I consider a good deal? A good deal is when someone offers me $1000 worth of comics for $200. There are times when I can get good deals from comic dealers. If you would like to sell your comics to me, make me a "deal that I can not refuse".

I have been offered a number of comics from the 1980's through the 1990's. For the most part, they have little or no value. I am not saying that they are not of any value, but the most I have heard a dealer offer is 38 cents for each comic (I would offer less if I were interested). My local comic shop has a lot of those issues & if someone wants a comic from that era, I can usually find that comic. They are pretty common.

I will pay a dollar each for any comics in very good condition or better that have a cover price of twelve cents or less

I will pay 50% of guide for the following titles & if I do not have that particular issue. Donald Duck, Daisy & Donald, Magnus Robot Fighter, Uncle Scrooge, Dell Giants (Ducks), Four Colors (Ducks), & Walt Disney Comics & Stories.

When you sell comics on consignment, the seller gets 75% of the sale of a comic & the broker (me) gets 25%. I will sell some items over $50 on consignment. If I should agree to the consignment, I will take comic & try to sell it. When the sale is made you get 75% of the sale. The trouble with this is that some comics may never sell, unless they are discounted.

This offered the most flexibility but was infinitely more time consuming. It took me a year before I sold my first comic. It also took me a year to figure out how to do it well. The best part is that I can put up whatever my warped mind could conceive. It is very liberating. Click here to go to my web site dairy.

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