How to sell my comic collection?
I am going to sell my comic collection to a comic store. I think my collection is worth a couple of hundred. Not much. I have a big box of comics.
What can I do to make sure I get the best price possible? I don’t want to get taken advantage of… Thanks.
Comic stores generally do not take advantage of people, because if they did they would no longer be in business, most likely. What they will do is offer you a price that they feel is reasonable and they can afford, and you can either accept or decline.
Comic stores are like any other business, and need to make a profit, so they cannot possibly offer you full value. If your collection is worth $1000, and they offer you $1000, they’re going to spend 2-3 years selling your books to other customers to make back their money, and then what have they gained? Nothing. So they’ll only offer you a reasonable percentage based on what capital they have to spare and how they think they’ll be able to sell your collection back. So, in this scenario of a hypothetical $1000 collection, they may only offer you $400. Why? Because it’s going to take them MONTHS if not years to sell enough books from your collection to recoup their $400, and only then do they start to make a profit, which they need to do to stay open.
The benefit of going to a comic book store is that it is simple, and they’ll generally offer you a fair amount of money for the bulk of the collection, and hand you cash (or check, whatever the case may be). In order to get full value, you’d have to individually sell each book by whatever means you can – eBay, craigslist, yard sales and flea markets, etc. – but this will take you a very long time and you have, in essence, opened your own store, albeit a small one. You’ll find that your comics are likely not worth as much as you think they are, particularly if you were buying them in the 1980s and 90s. The majority of comics from that era routinely wind up in the discount "quarter bin" at most comic stores, because they are incredibly common and the store may have dozens of copies of any one issue. The only way to get rid of them is asking ridiculously low prices such as 25 cents.
Do some searches on ebay looking for completed auctions and try to find the same comics you have, and see what they routinely go for. Keep in mind that if you see lots of individual issues for sale at $2-5, that means that you, too, will have to INDIVIDUALLY sell them to see those prices. As a collection, they’ll likely only go for a fraction of that.
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Comic stores generally do not take advantage of people, because if they did they would no longer be in business, most likely. What they will do is offer you a price that they feel is reasonable and they can afford, and you can either accept or decline.
Comic stores are like any other business, and need to make a profit, so they cannot possibly offer you full value. If your collection is worth $1000, and they offer you $1000, they’re going to spend 2-3 years selling your books to other customers to make back their money, and then what have they gained? Nothing. So they’ll only offer you a reasonable percentage based on what capital they have to spare and how they think they’ll be able to sell your collection back. So, in this scenario of a hypothetical $1000 collection, they may only offer you $400. Why? Because it’s going to take them MONTHS if not years to sell enough books from your collection to recoup their $400, and only then do they start to make a profit, which they need to do to stay open.
The benefit of going to a comic book store is that it is simple, and they’ll generally offer you a fair amount of money for the bulk of the collection, and hand you cash (or check, whatever the case may be). In order to get full value, you’d have to individually sell each book by whatever means you can – eBay, craigslist, yard sales and flea markets, etc. – but this will take you a very long time and you have, in essence, opened your own store, albeit a small one. You’ll find that your comics are likely not worth as much as you think they are, particularly if you were buying them in the 1980s and 90s. The majority of comics from that era routinely wind up in the discount "quarter bin" at most comic stores, because they are incredibly common and the store may have dozens of copies of any one issue. The only way to get rid of them is asking ridiculously low prices such as 25 cents.
Do some searches on ebay looking for completed auctions and try to find the same comics you have, and see what they routinely go for. Keep in mind that if you see lots of individual issues for sale at $2-5, that means that you, too, will have to INDIVIDUALLY sell them to see those prices. As a collection, they’ll likely only go for a fraction of that.
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