stormflora

I like using PriceCharting.com for eBay sales tracking. Can give you an idea for the price range of sold raw/graded comics.

$200 ÷ 15 = $13.33 USD per issue, before shipping and/or other fees. I'm not sure what your shipping is, but divide the shipping by 15 as well and add it onto the per-issue cost. Then decide whether or not that final price is worth your while. Never decide based on just one total price. You can feel daunted by a large price tag. The per-issue cost is far more meaningful. Buying lots/many comics at once will always be cheaper due to combined shipping costs.

What do vintage comic racks typically go for, anyhow? I have no knowledge of such a market myself. I'd consider buying one, if it wasn't too expensive. But knowing how cheap I am (and how space is a luxury), I'd probably settle for reusing some shipping box to hold the comics in I wasn't aware that there is a comic rack thread. I'll see if I can find it to repost in.

Yep. I personally don't think it's worth that much, and it probably wasn't even worth a tenth of that back in the day. I'm leaning towards impulsive bidding on some auction site which shot up its price, and now it's being parted off by the winner at a similarly high price to try to recoup some that cost. I'd pick it up for ~$500 CAD, but even that is a stretch for me already. I've seen other vintage fixtures and memorabilia of various things that are more significant than this, and they didn't cost nearly as much.

I did in fact take a look at the active/sold listings, and have a rough idea for what its worth is. I think I'll hold onto it for a little now to read it, manually clean and press it, and then consider slabbing it for resale. A bit too early to say now. It would be my first PCH, so I'd like to bask in the afterglow for a little first :P

From visual inspection, I'd give it a 3.0 Good. It's an online local auction, but I can tell that the auctioneer knows nothing about comics. They just do estate auctions. I'll cross my finger and hope that it's complete. It comes in a small lot with a few other non-superhero comics from that era, though not horror.

Thank you very much! I'm gonna bid on it then. Looking through active/sold listings on eBay and getting a rough idea for what to make my bid.

I need your advice everyone. I THINK I might have found a pre-code horror comic, but I need confirmation as I'm not too familiar with it. GCD :: Cover :: Adventures into Weird Worlds #11 (comics.org) It is this one. I see it in a local auction near me. Should I get it no matter what? It's cheap right now. If so, max price? eBay has two listings for a few hundred, low grade.

Not too big of an issue when you're poor and can only afford low grade cartoon comics (aka me)

Why would it be a scam if they want to physically see the comic in person? It's not like they're taking the comic for free. If you're afraid that they might come packing and jack it from you on the street, meet up at a police station or in a mall or something. If you don't want to deal with meet-ups, don't offer pick-up as an option. As for eBay policy, yeah, they don't want you to be conducting business outside of eBay, so technically, it would not be allowed, and chances are, a lot of text from either party will be censored in the messages (likely the address), which you two will not be aware of. Or if eBay catches you trying to slide in some deets, they might give you an infraction or warning. I'd just play by the book and tell the person to pay for it first, and then they can pick-up.

The only materialistic objects in life that do not depreciate in value are collector's items, or random trinkets that retain their value indefinitely but are also difficult to sell. Everything else, expect to lose your initial investment by at least a little.

All issues that I have experienced first-hand... And don't want to ever go through again... It's either automatically calculated combined shipping or guaranteed ability to request an invoice, unless it is a trusted or well-reputed seller.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/6383433498389495/ Someone's selling this. Overpriced IMO but maybe I just don't know the value of these kinds of things.

It's probably a recent thing, with the whole introduction of eBay's shipping program and all, and eBay trying to push sellers to subscribe to that feature. The easiest solution is to set up proper combined shipping discounts or enable invoice requests. Simple as that. But as soon as you try to circumvent eBay somehow by disabling those and "promising" to offer shipping refunds for overpaid shipping, it gets messy. I don't know why any seller would ever disable shipping discounts, but there will always be those weird ones. So I've learned to never buy unless I know I can get a combined shipping discount or request an invoice without any errors.

That's what one would expect, however... I actually addressed with a few sellers directly about this issue when we encountered a discrepancy with the shipping cost paid. It became a heated matter that we had to discuss with eBay directly, while escalating to the supervisor. The screenshots we had of the final breakdown of costs did not match at all. eBay has been making profits in the middle with the shipping costs and not being transparent about them with the seller. I imagine class action lawsuits will follow once more and more people find out about this.

Sadly, I've had a hard time dealing with eBay sellers who do not offer combined shipping/request invoice at checkout. The whole "refund overpaid shipping" is borked by eBay's fees and commissions. What you paid for shipping might not actually be what the seller received, so when you ask for a certain difference back, the seller might not have ever received that amount in the first place. Frustration ensues.

That's an interesting approach... An "indefinite loan" that doesn't cost any interest. Not something I'd do myself, since I don't think I'd ever part with something of (significant enough) sentimental value. But if it works in giving you some relief, go for it

Sometimes, what we really want out of reselling unnecessary/incorrectly purchased items is closure. To pass it onto someone else who might see more value out of it. Sure, we could simply donate it somewhere to do the same thing, but sometimes it can give us a little bit of relief to at least get a little something back, so it isn't a total loss. On the bright side, sometimes selling things can be an enjoyable experience too, especially if there is a courteous interaction with another human being out there on the planet. The satisfaction of knowing that you helped someone by offering them something that they needed, even if you did not.

Those people tend to be narrow-minded, as they fail to realize that not every single buyer is an enthusiast that knows all about the comic collecting scene. There's bound to be "suckers" who will buy something they think is worth the price, even if it might not necessarily be true. But yeah, it's a dictionary definition case of "mind your own business." I could list some pancakes at $500 even if I know nobody would ever buy them. Why do you care? Yeah... I've never been fond of sellers that charge extra shipping per book. It increases the total cost of shipping. I know they do it to offset fees/commissions, but it's still a lame practice.

Black Friday (as well as many other sales holidays in the year) are often times just false advertising. Retailers are not stupid. They are not going to deliberately lose money. All of the savings you think you got have already been written off or offset elsewhere by the businesses, through many different tactics. A very common one being to deliberately upcharge consumers during ordinary days, and then give them the wholesale price on sales days. Or they deliberately take a loss on a few specific items (usually clearance/liquidation) with the expectation that most customers will also pick up something else during their visit, which allows them to make money.

It's called sunk cost fallacy. But everyone experiences that many times in life, due to poor insight or foresight. Nobody's perfect. If I could refund/cancel all of the purchases I've made with poor judgement, I'd easily have another $100-200K in my bank account. But that's easier said than done. As grown adults, all we can do is resell them at a lower cost to recoup losses or make money elsewhere to offset them. If you lost $20 buying something you ended up never needing and thus never using, all you'd need to do is work a bit of overtime to earn back that $20. But I can understand when people fail to see the exchange in such a light, dwelling on their mistake for making the failure in the first place.

Considering the cost of commercial pressing and the cost of buying a heat press to do it yourself, it almost seems silly not to just spend a few days to research about doing it yourself and buying the materials necessary. There are plenty of online (video) resources to dumb down the process, so it's hard to mess up as long as you copy someone 1:1 for the procedure and parts, and practice on low value/reader comics first.

It's probably because most sellers refuse to ship overseas without tracking. You're responsible for paying the shipping costs anyway, so they take no loss from that.

Are newish members allowed to join in? If so, although I'm not as wealthy as most people here, I can offer to send out a bunch of extras that I received in my lot purchases. It'll be a bundle of duplicate Tom & Jerry comics that I have, as well as some other extra stuff you'd never expect. That's the best that I can do, as someone who is a new, small-time, low-grade collector. USA/CAN shipping covered. Let me know if that is permissible. If it helps to vouch, this is my eBay profile: Feedback Profile (ebay.ca) You know it's me, because I'm literally the only guy buying up all of the Tom & Jerry comics on eBay and talking about it day-in and day-out here