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Need Tips for selling 5000 comic books
Squashua
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I have a pretty large, 15000 book collection. And it's not really a collection; it's shit I've read since 3rd grade. And it's not 100% great (I've got an entire runs of Power Pack and New Warriors!)
I need to get rid of a bunch of it and I don't believe in book burning.
It's just, I'm not sure putting it on eBay is even worth the trouble. I culled through the collection and set aside about 5000 books (1/3 of my collection), and I don't expect to get much from a lot of it.
I've broken it down into about 75 "lots". Like, I have a bunch of Archie, but instead of selling Faculty Funnies and The New Archies as separate, it's all in one bundle. I put the Black Belt Hamsters with the Kung Fu Gophers, Jujitsu Kangaroos, and commando koalas along with an errant issue of Cerberus. I have a lot of issues of "The Viking Heroes", but I lumped them together in a "Fantasy" lot with some issues of Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms and Dork Tower, among other things.
I figure I'd start all the auctions at $.99 and let it be known that shipping can be combined and all that. I also have a ton of boxes. There's so many books that I just can't spend the time grading them all. And while some have bags, others do not.
I have a ton of cardboard boxes and plan to ship them all out in them.
[size=+1]Have I done the right thing?[/size] Should I just be sending it all to Whippy? Are there any tips anyone can give me with selling huge lots of comic books on eBay? Should I even be selling them on eBay? Is there a better place I just don't know about? I'm not bringing it to the local store (yet).
I need to get rid of a bunch of it and I don't believe in book burning.
It's just, I'm not sure putting it on eBay is even worth the trouble. I culled through the collection and set aside about 5000 books (1/3 of my collection), and I don't expect to get much from a lot of it.
I've broken it down into about 75 "lots". Like, I have a bunch of Archie, but instead of selling Faculty Funnies and The New Archies as separate, it's all in one bundle. I put the Black Belt Hamsters with the Kung Fu Gophers, Jujitsu Kangaroos, and commando koalas along with an errant issue of Cerberus. I have a lot of issues of "The Viking Heroes", but I lumped them together in a "Fantasy" lot with some issues of Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms and Dork Tower, among other things.
I figure I'd start all the auctions at $.99 and let it be known that shipping can be combined and all that. I also have a ton of boxes. There's so many books that I just can't spend the time grading them all. And while some have bags, others do not.
I have a ton of cardboard boxes and plan to ship them all out in them.
[size=+1]Have I done the right thing?[/size] Should I just be sending it all to Whippy? Are there any tips anyone can give me with selling huge lots of comic books on eBay? Should I even be selling them on eBay? Is there a better place I just don't know about? I'm not bringing it to the local store (yet).
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I currently have a 400 issue Superman lot that I was thinking of doing, but now I'm not sure how to break it apart properly, but I guess I'll have to (see spoiler for list b/c I could use advice on breaking it up).
Alpha Centurion 1
Emperor Joker 1
Lex 2000 1
Metropolis S.C.U. 1
Metropolis: Secret Files 1
Nemesis: Lex Luthor 1-4
President Luthor: Secret Files 1
Smallville: The Comic 5
Superman 80-81, 85-99, 101-118, 120-122, 125-149, 151-164, 167-169, 171-174, 176-188, 192, 221, 223, 224, Ann 5, 10
Superman / Silver Banshee 1-2
Superman / Toyman 1
Superman Villains : Secret Files 1
Superman: 80-Page Giant 1
Superman: Action Comics 689-699, 701-705, 707-719, 721-740, 742-749, 751, 774, 776-782, 784-790, 792-796, 829, 840, Ann 5
Superman: Earth Stealers TPB
Superman: King of the World 1
Superman: Man of Steel 24-29, 31-49, 51-53, 55-99, 101-111, 113-132, Ann 2
Superman: Man of Tomorrow 1-15
Superman: Our Worlds at War Secret Files 1
Superman: Secret Files 2
Superman: Y2K 1
The Legacy of Superman 1
It comes out to about 100 issues. If that's too big a lot, what should I do? I don't think the oddities (Justice : Four Control) will sell on their own.
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I'm always looking for more random shit to add to my stack.
This is the only post in which I'll discuss selling stuff here b/c I'm really not using this forum to sell stuff; I just want advice on selling SO MUCH stuff.
It is also the reason (in addition to potentially getting the thread locked - selling here is big no-no, I presume) why I'm not posting my list of items.
Once I do have it all though, I might do a link in my signature.
BOW TO YOUR SENSEI
i had to sell a ton of stuff some of which i really wanted to keep, but when you live in a small two story/two bedroom house having a dozen or so long boxes just takes up way too much space. especially when your fiance keeps complaining about the lack of room!
I did fuck up though; somehow Turbo Lister screwed up all the international shipping buttons, so somehow I have to go and redo about 141 of them.
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It also incorporated a Rorschach-ian sense of justice, and an intelligent way to circumvent Superman, both of which I agreed with.
The A. Bizarro thing is very "Jimmy Olsen and the New Gods". It felt like a relaunch of the original Jimmy Olsen series, but with a new front man. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't memorable.
edit: like Doctor Mid-Nite is labeled as "3 TPBs" when it's just the three issues.
Same with Act of God, Created Equal, League of Justice, and The Dark Side
I consider issues to be anything that's stapled and a TPB to be anything that's glued.
If you have confusion, that's what the pictures are for.
4 National Lampoon Magazines (Having a hard time giving this up)
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Ninja Turtles Spoof/Homage Comics Lot which contains some books that you would have found included in your Secret Satan gift had I gotten you as a Santee, Keith.
That's pretty misleading.
And also incorrect.
Any criticism you add to anything is non-constructive.
Daymmmm. See PM.
So far, one person asked me a question and I answered the question publicly here.