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    Exclamation Whats the best way to sell 300 comic books?

    Cleaned out my Parents basement and grabbed 3 boxes of Comics (in plastic) from 1980s. Whats the best thing to do with this?

    Go to local retailer and let them give me their best offer?
    Sell all 300 on ebay (1 auction selling 300 books)?
    Sell individually on ebay( 300 auctions selling 1 book)?

    Im honestly clueless when it comes to online sellings aside from the ebay commercials.

    Other ideas?

    Let me know, thanks

    Czzarre

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    Quote Originally Posted by Czzarre View Post
    Cleaned out my Parents basement and grabbed 3 boxes of Comics (in plastic) from 1980s. Whats the best thing to do with this?

    Go to local retailer and let them give me their best offer?
    Sell all 300 on ebay (1 auction selling 300 books)?
    Sell individually on ebay( 300 auctions selling 1 book)?

    Im honestly clueless when it comes to online sellings aside from the ebay commercials.

    Other ideas?

    Let me know, thanks

    Czzarre
    It will all depend on the quality, rarity, and condition of those comics. It could be that you have 300 worthless comics.... but then again you may have a bunch worth something.

    I would say to get a comic book price guide (online if you can find it, or buy a book from the local comic shop). That way you can look up the comics and see if they are worth anything. Just make 2 piles... cheap crap, expensive stuff.
    Then decide if where you want to sell the expensive stuff.

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    sell them individually on ebay......itll take longer but youll make more money that way....

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    What I know from collecting coins is as following:
    There are usualy catalougues, that list all coins of any kind there is (for example one for all coins ever made by a certain country, including specials and collectables).
    They are devided into described simple classes of condition and a price is listed in the form of single-entity standard market prices.

    It will all go down to a barter anyways, but you could ask a lokal comic-book store if they have a similar catalogue for comics. If there is, you might be able to get a good rough idea what your collection is worth, with no real big effort.

    edit: Phr0zen said the same already.

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    If you don't care too much about money and just want to be rid of them, go to a local comic book shop and see if they would like to buy any.
    If you want the most money out of it, go through with a comic pricing guide and sell on ebay.

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    what he said.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SprKid View Post
    what he said.
    Was this really necessary?

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    I have sold them on eBay before. THis is what you will want to do, you can either get a comic sales book right now (one for the year of 08) and check ALL of the comics that can be somewhat rare and see the value. A lot of comics even from the 70s and 60s are worthless. The only important ones are first appearence, first edition and first comic. These if they are in good condition you will want to get graded which will cost money but will give u much more money. I have seen an auction of one comic for for $400, the winner got it graded as a 8.8 and then sold it for $900. People will not but ungraded as much as graded. So thatis the way for the most profit but also the most work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Czzarre View Post
    Cleaned out my Parents basement and grabbed 3 boxes of Comics (in plastic) from 1980s. Whats the best thing to do with this?

    Go to local retailer and let them give me their best offer?
    Sell all 300 on ebay (1 auction selling 300 books)?
    Sell individually on ebay( 300 auctions selling 1 book)?

    Im honestly clueless when it comes to online sellings aside from the ebay commercials.

    Other ideas?

    Let me know, thanks

    Czzarre
    wwell layy em out in ebay, when you do u can pm me, ill be ur customer, i love comics

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    Go on like a comic forum and post them all to see if any of them are worth anything. Or search them all up online to see if any are worth something. After that sell them on ebay if you have any worth something.

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    To sell 300 comics,you just draw someone nearbie a cliff or a hole and ask for lots of money.He will reply "This is madness!"

    And then you shall shout "THIS IS SPARTA!" and kick him in the gut.If he doesn't fall,push him.

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