Pike's Comics

Decided to try a new method for selling comics. Please check out and follow our new Instagram sale pages: 

@fivedollarcomics

@tendollarcomics

@cgcforsale

@10to50comics

@pikescomics  

Does anyone have any experience selling on any these websites? If so did you have any good results? 

Hoping one of these might end up being a good alternative or supplement to Ebay. 

Definitely one of the best true comic book shows in Florida! 

1 hour ago, Mercury Man said:

I think the dealer that bags and boards $1 books, will ultimately have more to $how for it at the end of the day. 

Have you ever tried to rebag and board 80 long boxes? 

So I guess this leads to the next question. When we are saying bag and board are we speaking brand new bags and boards or whatever they have been in for last twenty years?

Not many great stores in Miami. Most the amazing stores are in Ft. Lauderdale such as Past, Present and Future Comics and Tate's Comics.  Definitely worth going to both.  The West Palm Beach is the best of the PPF stores for silver keys but they all have their fair share.

2 hours ago, F For Fake said:

I'm sure you're right about a lot of folks, it's just not relevant to my experience.

PS to add: The question is whether those additional run-fillers are making enough to sales to offset the time and expense of bagging and boarding. It's interesting to me, but I don't have the answer.

I usually only bring low end books when I do 4+ booths at a show (400sf). I've mostly switched to doing $2 books but I have them all in order and bagged and boarded making sure all older bags have been replaced to give a uniform presentation. Victory Comics does a great set up using this methology. 

My question is what does a person expect to find from a comic in a dollar box organizational and presentation wise? Do you expect the books to be in alphanumerical order? New bags and boards? 

I find for myself that the labor cost to put your dollar books in complete alphanumerical and not just sections is just not cost effective let alone put them in new bags and boards. 

So what have you guys found so far?

So measurements put it at 6.5ft long. For shows I think I fit 9 long boxes on a 6ft table. 

11 hours ago, Shawnismaximus said:

How many longboxes will it hold?

My math based on average box sizes puts it around 12 boxes a shelf/48 total. 

I wonder if they make a five shelf version of those. That would fit about 60 long on it. 

What shelving do you use in your warehouse/backroom area to store your longboxes? Im looking for something sturdier than the base model edsols found at Home depot/lowes. Those seemed to bend under the weight after a few months of the long boxes. 

If you have photos to show off I would love to see your setup.

Just now, Mercury Man said:

Disappointed you weren't set up this year, but I get it.  As I said, not many local Tampa vendors were there at all.  Curious to see how Tampa Comic Con vs. Tampa MegaCon will play out.  I don't think 2 large shows like this, especially so close to each other is a good thing. 

I won't set up at any shows owned by this company due to the way they treat their vendors and my past experiences.  If I hear in the future they have changed the way they do business I will reconsider but until then...

I went on Weds. A lot of non-comic/non-collector oriented booths there like Sprint and Gieco taking up large amounts of space. Also based on the floor plan and the emails I received one week before the show it looks like they didn't sell about 15-20% of their booths. 

FYI - The Uncanny Xmen 423 is a newstand edition but not the Error edition. 

This definitely was a great show! There are three major shows that take place in Florida and having two of them occur on the exact same weekend definitely affected sales. Another item which affected sales was having a local store with a very large backstock close with the last month and had blown out there inventory locally. Many dealers were there reselling this inventory at rock bottom prices. With that said my sales overall were still great for a major convention! 

On 5/15/2017 at 2:18 PM, sd2416 said:

How did the move go?

It was a tighter fit then I would have wanted. I ended up getting a smaller warehouse than I wanted as they rented the one I wanted out from under me. 

I have almost cleared out all the gaming and non comic related stock so I should soon be able to start grinding away on the comics! 

Two shows coming up next month!

So the thing I am most dissatisfied with for my convention set up are the extra tables I need to bring to properly do my set up. My current tables which are mostly Lifetime tables all bow under the weight of the boxes I place on them.  They also are all slightly too wide (30inch).

Does anyone know of a good brand of tables to get to bring to shows?  I figure I place around 400-550 pounds on each table

I'm betting time it takes to scan is a lot longer than what it takes with this set up. I'd love to see some of your photos from this.

Has anyone tried using a document webcam like the IPEVO Ziggi HD Plus Document Camera for scanning comics to sell?  

Found this article about it but not sure if it would work well:

IPEVO Ziggi HD Plus Document Camera

Getting rid of the stair steps of Xmen 94?

POS:

 

-Do you plan to deal in MTG singles and sell them online? Then crystal commerce is your only choice.

 

If you are okay running two separate POS I would then pair this with Comichub or Diamond's Comicsuite.

 

 

So Crystal Commerce is a seperate POS system? Like ComicSuite for gaming cards?

Or is it software for a POS?

It is a software/website integrated POS. It is the only POS that works directly with Tcgplayer.

M If you can't make money there selling back issues, no one has a gun to anyone's head.

We want our vendors to do well, and we are working to attract people who are interested in comics and we advertise heavily in the community.

The last two years have seen some of the best line-ups of vintage dealers that I can remember at MegaCon, and that's going back some 16 shows, and the fact they were clustered together I think improved the experience for many of us who actually were there for comics.

 

What many of us casual fans bemoan, and again, not a criticism unique to MegaCon, is that a dealer like Rick, who misses a year because of the schedule change, is now on the outside looking in, replaced by another comic dealer, possibly, or at worst, someone pushing anime, aromatherapy, cosplay costumes, or god knows what.

I can tell you from talking to the many other comic dealers who have done the show over the last few years a very large number of us are not returning this year. Sadly, we won't know the full exent of who isn't returning until a week before the show as that is when Informa usually releases the dealer list.

POS:

-Do you plan to deal in MTG singles and sell them online? Then crystal commerce is your only choice.

If you are okay running two separate POS I would then pair this with Comichub or Diamond's Comicsuite.

I did this con for 10+ years until they moved it from feb/march to may. I really wish it would move back. I miss the opp to have a show close to home in the early (cooler) spring

Maybe the Tampa guys will jump in and fill the void left!