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Offices & retail stores. Furniture stores are good, too. The boxes are a little large, but they are always double-layer, and often triple-layer, cardboard. -slym I once sent three comics in a recliner box. I spent $8,376 on packing peanuts You joke, but I actually received an X-Men #1 many years ago in a box the size of a small chair! Kept me in peanuts for months.

It's also the time of year that people are buying gifts and don't have extra cash. Net gain. Right after Christmas and into the first couple of weeks of January are always great for sales. Late Jan and early Feb tend to be weaker as the Xmas credit card bills come due. The best times to buy seem to be late Jan/early Feb and then November, for whatever reasons. August is not bad as well as people are on vacation or have spent their $$$ at the big cons. That being said the last week of November and first week of December have netted me some new GPA highs on books this year........ Sales are brisk this week.

Merry Christmas!

True dat, my single book packs are pushing 2 lbs. Cardboard is free and I hoard the heavyweight stuff.

Silly boy, take your finished FR package and put it inside a Padded FR with even more cardboard.

Some sellers use priority because the less time a book spends in transit under the control of the USPS the better. Also with priority your buyer gets the book anywhere from the next day to 3 days later at most. Buyers really appreciate getting a book only a few days after ordering it and sellers like knowing that they are free and clear of a transaction just a couple of days after they've gotten payment. Since you seem to be so knowledgeable about marketing on eBay, one would think you would understand the benefit of superior customer service. Said service coming at what any regular comic book buyer would view as a negligible difference in price between first class and priority. A buyer will quickly forget about the 2 extra dollars they paid for shipping when the book they bought on Tuesday ends up in their mailbox on Thursday. Just popping my head in here for a second. Isn't there an option for the seller to create multiple shipping options for the buyer to chose from? When selling on ebay I always gave the option for 1st class up to 2 books. I'm sorry, but when buying a $5 book the difference between paying $2.75 for first class or doubling the shipping to nearly $6.00 for priority, which is more than the cost of the book, is significant. Great customer service, in my mind, is giving the buyer as many options as reasonably possible. I seriously try to avoid selling $5 books, if I can help it . . .

Some sellers use priority because the less time a book spends in transit under the control of the USPS the better. Also with priority your buyer gets the book anywhere from the next day to 3 days later at most. Buyers really appreciate getting a book only a few days after ordering it and sellers like knowing that they are free and clear of a transaction just a couple of days after they've gotten payment. Since you seem to be so knowledgeable about marketing on eBay, one would think you would understand the benefit of superior customer service. Said service coming at what any regular comic book buyer would view as a negligible difference in price between first class and priority. A buyer will quickly forget about the 2 extra dollars they paid for shipping when the book they bought on Tuesday ends up in their mailbox on Thursday. This. We're on a roll now.

that's been the battle cry all year long. Freakin' cray-cray

Well, all I see is the Enchantress, who is heating up, but any other significance?

Checked on it, not a normal sale. The item was "purchased" by the same person consigning it, for delivery to a third party, so I assume the price was set just before purchase and the item was never really available at this price. Sales like this won't be reported to GPA. Thanks for the follow-up, sounds a bit hokie though. Why would someone structure a deal like this? Please enlighten. To cut out your commission? I am not really familiar with how your site works.

Btw, not really, the number of Cerebus #1s is finite, GSXM #1 is not - Even after years of high profile, they are still available in the wild, C1 not so.

I can't remember the last time someone "handed me $1000 to invest" . . .

It's called marketing, not luck. I agree completely. You can't just list books in the basic auction format and expect them to yield high sales prices. It may work on occasion, but generally not. Detail the book in the description, put emphasis on the positives, put up large scans both in ebay and in the ad, set your starting bid at what you yourself would buy the book for and set your BIN 30% higher. Yes, it's not going to sell right away, but be patient. Unless you're paying your mortgage or feeding your family on the returns, then you're in no rush - it's called a "collection". The discussion is about eBay sellers, not eBay patiently-fishing-for-a-suckers. Maybe it's the fact that prices change so quickly on these books that a smart seller placing the higher price helps hedge for unexpected increases. Thus, someone with significant inventory doesn't have to waste time constantly checking on price fluctuations. Therefore, a patient seller will always do better then the OCD collector willing to sell at a lose so they can simply have some money to buy the next shiny object that interests them for the month. If you don't like the price, make an offer or move on to another seller. I love the buyers who waste time explaining why they should get a "collector discount". Agreed. Lazyboy appears to be just that.

$5.90 for shipping a raw book??? Yeah, I'm sure the $1.91 difference in shipping cost between mine and Chip's auction is the reason for $32.00 difference in realized price. Title includes comic issue title, issue number, year of issue, publisher, grade - both numeric and letter, appearances. The description has all that plus creator credits and defect specifics for the grade, my method of packing and return policy. How specifically is that deficient? Your listing is fine, not great, but well enough to determine that the book was a steal at current market value. I bet the buyer has already flipped the book for 3-4 times what you got for it. What's your hurry? Do it right the first time. Like I've said before, I've had books take 2 years to sell.

It's called marketing, not luck. I agree completely. You can't just list books in the basic auction format and expect them to yield high sales prices. It may work on occasion, but generally not. Detail the book in the description, put emphasis on the positives, put up large scans both in ebay and in the ad, set your starting bid at what you yourself would buy the book for and set your BIN 30% higher. Yes, it's not going to sell right away, but be patient. Unless you're paying your mortgage or feeding your family on the returns, then you're in no rush - it's called a "collection".

Happy for ya as well mate, but honestly graded 9.6 of this copy are selling for more than 3 times the amount, and whos to say it wouldt fetch a 9.8? Just my opinion Because it wouldn't "fetch a 9.6"

Nope, there will never be any interest in these . . .

Yep, that's been hot for a while now . . .

I am really interested in this particular topic. We're all really happy that you are . . .

SW1 actually sells pretty well in HG (or it has in the past).

Stolen from yours truly. And many other collectors . . .

Maybe if you just retract this stoopid comment we can talk. That's my opinion. Calling it stupid is not appreciated. Another opinion, you're a real . Your opinion that someone else's opinion is stoopid is ok though?