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Disturbed_1
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Where can i find the best place to sell a bunch of comics and actually get a good price for em?
Ive got the run of green arrow where he dies and i want a good price for them. Not like the full 10 point value but ive ckecked at the lower like 5 point value i think and id at least like that price.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ive got the run of green arrow where he dies and i want a good price for them. Not like the full 10 point value but ive ckecked at the lower like 5 point value i think and id at least like that price.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Unless there is some local shop that might be willing to buy them.
Boxes worth of old stuff I am never gonna read again.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Should I try for EBay?
"I was born; six gun in my hand; behind the gun; I make my final stand"~Bad Company
Second? Bags and boards. Stop the damage before it gets any worse (yellowing paper, odd smells, etc.)
Make a list of what you have. Usually you'll get more for selling a big stack of the same title than individual books. Then go find a comic guy you can trust, and ask his advice. If you have, like, hundreds of books (like I do), buzz through your collection with the copy of Wizard and locate your best comics. Then go talk to some local comics shops or at a convention and find out what they might give you for them. Check on eBay and do some price comparisons. You might get a better offer from the store than on eBay.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
wrong.... Sorry, I'm not meaning to sound offensive at all, but I go to conventions on a regular basis, and they work like this. Shops set up booths, to sell product, for as much as possible, and buy product, for as little as possible. Collectors come to buy product for as little as possible. Even if he could walk around a convention, comics in hand, advertising them (which he couldn't, he didn't buy a booth and he would be asked to leave) some shop would just undercut him.
Get a comics pricing guide, find a decent price, and use ebay (set a minimum) or craigslist.
Also, I got your PM: I'll see if either myself or the shop I go to needs any of that and I will let you know. Thanks.
Seriously? I'd wager you could make half a mint off that. But what do I know?
A good rule of thumb is, if something says "collector's item!" on the front, it never is. Ever. That X-Men #1 might be worth something if it's not one of the five zillion reprints, which it very likely is - in that case you'd want a shop owner to take a look at it for you, and then promptly go get a second opinion as well.
The thing here is that the comics market is significantly smaller than it was in the 1990s, so there are way more copies of stuff like "X-Men" than there are people willing to buy them, and trade paperback collection has really taken off, so it makes more sense both economically and space-wise for people to buy twenty X-Men comics in a compact volume for $20 than spend twice that on messy, hard-to-store individual issues.
Let's put it this way: stores these days generally buy old collections by the foot. I'm not joking. The backissue market is crap and a couple stores in my area have opted not to even stock them anymore.
All that said: the best way is probably to bundle a bunch of issues of a title together and sell them as a group on e-Bay, because sometimes it's three in the morning and someone wants some damn Moon Knight right now and they don't want to hunt around. Even so, don't expect to put your way through college doing this. If you get enough money to replace the issues with their equivalent TPB consider yourself lucky.