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For me it’s almost always easier to get better deals buying auction books vs BIN. That may not be the case with current hot books but seems to be otherwise.

I’m the same way about most stuff he puts out but Invincible was amazing. I like it at least as well as TWD. Read it multiple times. 👍

It’s buy or hold time depending on your situation. There are so many cheap books right now that it’s hard to get top dollar for anything. The bad thing is that not everyone can afford to just sit on their collection or add to it. Here’s hoping you can 👍

Read it. Maybe 4 pages or so. Definitely part of the story and a little more insight into what he can do though there is a lot of story to tell imo

We’d have to go back 4 or 5 decades.

Feel the same way. I’m not surprised that #7 with the first Spider-boy took off but it seems to keep the momentum it started with and is bleeding into another book. Will have a better opinion once I read #8. I like that they’re adding new heroes and villains the last few years. There was a period of time where new characters were few and far between.

Spider-Man #8. Not sure if it’s because of his new powers or 2nd Spider-boy but it’s hot out of the gate. Bringing between $18-20 shipped.

I’m curious as to how they’ll respond too. I assumed that submissions were way down looking at turnaround times. There are certainly other factors that can impact TAT other than the number of books but the change was drastic. Prices hadn’t slowed me down at the time in which I quit submitting but grading did. My last submission was around 92-96% 9.8s on 300 comics. One box had 12 out of 25 9.8s. Been grading books well before CGC existed. Well aware that it is an opinion and not a science, Still, that one really got me. Hopefully that problem has been addressed. Never say never but until cost of grading comes down or the price of graded moderns goes up, I’m sitting on the graded sidelines. It does seem like a great time to buy stuff.

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I spoke with someone else who sells on MCS. I like them and frequently order books there. I’ve never sold through them. Do you sell on auction or BIN ?

Looking at the current cost to grade, ship, and sell a modern comic got me wondering some things today. Where is my line in the sand where it isn’t cost effective to sell a modern book. The costs to grade, ship, and ship back a comic is roughly $30. If you sell on eBay, you’re going to pay 13% in fees for both the product price and the cost to ship. You also have to take into account the cost of the book. For this example, let’s say a raw book that $20 online plus tax and shipping might be worth $100 graded in a 9.8. Let’s use a 5% sales tax and $5 to get the book shipped. Now our book cost us the following. $20 comic $10 shipping and sales tax $25 grading $5 shipping to and from CGC $14 eBay fees for a total of roughly $74. You still have the investment of handling time and in most cases fuel. I’m aware that there are other ways to sell such as the boards, Facebook ,Instagram, etc. All of these ways are slightly riskier and more time is required in my experience. Time is something I’m lacking. That leads us to a rough profit estimate of of $26. Even if you buy the book new off of the shelf, your cost drops $15 and you clear $41. This assumes every single book grades a 9.8 which is not a reasonable assumption imo. Then you have a federal tax on your earnings. You might set up at a show and save the eBay fees but then it becomes a job with overhead. How much is your time worth ? I’m not knocking anyone or any business model. Just curious as to what others think about trying to sell graded moderns. So what purchase price vs sales price would you consider a book to be worth your time and effort ? Does it make more sense to sell raw ? For me, when it was $14.40 to grade a modern and 10% to sell on eBay, this was a much easier thing to decide. That wasn’t very long ago.

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