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Have cash ready to go when you meet!!!! ( obviously be safe) - these contacts can be great scores ...

Indy DREK!!!

thems fighting words .... i know one of the artists....

This - right here - I have had people then try to up the price - based on my sales price. Then you go through the description of auction fees, overhead, actual work for individually listing books and the risk involved with hidden damage. They either get it or they don't. The only real bargaining ploy you may have if they want more $$$ - is to increase the offer as long as all of the other books are included. All depends on what that other stock is.. Sometimes you do have to just walk away.....

bad press.....BAD PRESS

also have packaged lots/runs - at the table! Pack refill boxes underneath. Go with 6 longs - 2 table "slots" with the packaged items stacked so people can see them. Things that are hard sells at a dollar each - you make decent runs for .75 each and you can move a lot quickly. Things like alpha flight or Excalibur--- come to mind. Examine ebay prices for runs - then undercut them for the show!!!! The more you can get people to glance at a stack and buy -- the better. With that kind of volume - focus on bulk packaging items first! I do not know the layout of the show - but I would almost consider all packed runs and bulk for the table. When you process - separate where you want to sell book - and get items for sale in parallel!! if you try to move items here - then at a show - then ebay - in many ways you are using up excess energy and could be using that time to list/sell separate items on the sites that make the most sense. I would consider getting an ebay basic store if you have decent sales there - you get 200 more free listings and it gets the most eyeballs on the merch. If you get into pure drek - that goes straight to the "auction house box". Try and pull 4 longs of that right away - then get that to the auction house!!!!! Keep doing this every time they have an auction- until you cannot find any more drek!

I'd definitely expect some Berk auctions just sucked ~ $ 3.5 million ( likely more) out of the spending potential of auction buyers short term.... May have some effect.... I know I am most likely deberked for a while

The crumbchaser .... overpaid for this but loved the cover.... My first larson.... And why not - it was cheap!!

my other target for tonight.......

Was one of the cooler covers - that was in my price range. Like the minimal amount of restoration as well.......

KEEP CALM and SELL COMICS ok - to keep from freaking out too much - take some time to set the priorities and plan. MAKE SURE TO TAKE BREAKS. Do not work 24/7 on this. This will seem overwhelming - and it should. IT is a ton of volume and you have not dealt with this before. If you overload yourself you will find that real life items get put off - and this will not go over well with the significant other. Take time to be with family and friends! - as this will refresh you and keep your spirits up as you stare at the sea of boxes....... for me - the key items ( in the order I would address them) 1. Pay off the collection ASAP I do not mean getting all of your money back, rather get all of the payments over to the seller. If you have the scratch to pay this off quickly - do it. If you are under water, you need to get that covered 1st with the least amount of effort. This means the big books. If you are planning on keeping some of the top books - great, but limit this to 2-3 for now. Get higher value books selling until your nut is covered. Snag the keys, minor keys, hot books, miniseries. Singles or sets that will go for $20 and up. Sort through ones that make sense to CGC - move them to the back of the sales pile. These you can hopefully slab - but might need to sell raw if you are under water. In the beginning you need to get cash quick and minimize the sales effort as you still have to ..... 2. Move em Reading the tale -it looks like you are progressively moving the pile. Good. Do not overexert yourself - but try and get this done quickly. Using the seller as a storage locker - is good for you, but they might sour on the idea the longer it takes to get everything out. Get a friend or 2 - rent a trailer or whatever you need to get this moved in 2 trips (so you can do on a weekend). 3. Store em No idea how much room you have in the homestead - but that is obviously the best (and worst) location for you. You may need to get a storage locker. Chicago area - 5 x 10 climate control unit~ 90 a month ( with insurance). Prepay a year and you may get additional discounts. A year? --- well ya, you got 40K books so this will take some time. When you are still in payoff mode - you will have to cherry pick during move/storage phase. Otherwise - your main goal here is to get them in areas for long term storage. 4. PROCESS THEM Ok - after the nut is paid off - this is when you can make a more formal plan with how to move. THINK BULK! I see some of your threads here - have $1, $2, $3 books. Drop that mindset. Better to group 10 books with FMV as $30 and sell them as on bulk $20 group. The value for you with a score like this - is in moving lots quickly, not eeking out every dollar with individual low dollar sales. Your goal should be to have $20 and up in a single sale. This will greatly reduce the overall work. The higher end books---- they are the ones where single unit sales make more sense. .... use this to organize for....... 5. BIG BULK SALES - So - after you get the books moved - and you are in the comfort zone with the $$$ made. Now - you go into clearout mode. Figure out your comfort level for packaging/shipping. If you have some standard ( I have a box side that fits ~ 50), set that as a lot. Going box by box - you snag the dreck. Hopefully there is some organization of the books so you can get runs together. If not - random still works. Online sales - keep things simple. Make sure you have a solid shipping rate - and have an idea of the minimum price you want for each lot. This needs to be low - if you can move the drek and break even in large batches - you win. I have sen many 50 book lots do well with an auction format. A couple of decent pics of the group --- let it fly for 9.99 auction plus shipping..... Craigslist might also be an option for this- sell by the (cherrypicked to death) longbox. Figure out how many you can transport in your vehicle - sell that many as a lot - list for like $75 a longbox and accept offers down to your minimum. If that does not seem to work - blow them out for $25 a LB.... This is not the time to set up a lot of individual sales - you are picking and sorting the best of what remains, sending the goodies to CGC - and moving bulk bulk bulk. Things that wont move regardless of price - HPB or donate. once you get that mountain into a manageable pile - go back to whatever mode suits you!!!!

Just one win yesterday --- but that is ok ( saved me some $$$)........

Seriously! Wow. might also be good candidate for a press --- I will have to see the book in hand - but the grader notes are below.... aside from the resto - major flaws are creases......fingers crossed ... This is a keeper and apologizes to the purists - but if this can pop a grade I will CPR........... Grader Notes: Color touch (Average quality or materials up to 4"" x 4"") Cover B-4 Cover cleaning (Average quality) B-1 Piece fill cover (Archival material, average quality up to 1"" x 1"") Cover B-3 Re-glossing B-1 Reinforcement to cover (Archival material, average quality) B-1 Tear seals to cover (Archival material, average quality) B-1 light, multiple crease front cover light, multiple crease full top of back cover

my other win ---- This was the one I really wanted. The #6 ended at about the same time, I was really happy that both were mine Presents great for a 5....

--- got another nice one too..... both obviously $$$ - but actually really close to what I though they would sell for - so at least I was on target!

Sure- restored - but also Berk and Church

End units are the best for comic sellers for sure! - you get the extra row of good table space. Their layout kind of screws some people over - with 5 in a in some areas. The big local show - they only have 3 booths next to each other - so you pretty much guarantee an end or double end if you get a 10 x 20. Thieving hands are a concern no matter what - if you get a rush, it is just as easy for them to swipe inside or outside from the standard boxes. Wall books - is where you need a plan. In a larger booth - you can use a table as a blocker - so only you can get to them. Your setup - maybe plexiglass sheets covering the books? - rig something that requires you to physically have to move the plexi. They look deep enough - might be able to do a sliding door. For an interior "enter" booth - if you have a smaller entrance/exit ( works best with 10 x 20 and up obviously) - you have a funnel of where people enter and leave. I had three people in the 20 x 20 ( plus my artist friend that was willing to help out if we were slammed) - and that was kind of too much. My one buddy and I could have done the whole booth ourselves. To be fair - we are both former bartenders and can handle a crowd, watch everything, and make change very fast. One of thge other vendors - had a very successful 20 x 20 "exterior access only " both - so that obviously can work too . For your cash box - that is really up to you. I do not know how torch (or others) handle this, but you might be trying to track too much. You might have to scale that back in the interest of speed. I would love to know exactly what sold and for how much - but I would have to have 1-2 more people working to accomplish this. I know any large sales ( $100 books and up) - but the rest I know more on general observation.

Setup from last year- the whole left row is the "set" area. Displays2go has decent deals on wire racks - and the short ones fit the table with room for a flat row in front. You can fit a LOT of stock in the visible area doing this - and helped a ton with moving the bulk sets and TPBs I have. More stock underneath the tables - so I was able to constantly fill empties. For Spidey --- you have to have a lot of stock for this ---but you can move a lot as well. 2 weeks before the show - they offered me the "BIG" booth ( 20 x 20 ) for a sweet discount. Having these in flats ( and racks) - help me fill the space with easy to price items. I have a TON more of the dollar/ two dollar book stock for this year - and now I have time to sort it a bit. Doubling the booth - meant ~ 60%+ more stock so my $1 and $2 bins - were not sorted.

sounds like it worked out well for you - congrats 6' tables - home depo or Lowes - they have the plastic fold up tables ( fold in the middle) that are great for shows. Depending on the area they allow you can sometimes make an open "C" shape with a 10 x 10 -- with a mix of the tables If the rack fits on the tables - you have several options. These layouts assume people "inside" of the booth (and you have other vendors on either side). Left is if you are trapped with no chance to expand. Right is if you can grow a bit ( 1' into the traffic aisle and 6" over) --- depending on the con, you get this already as they give allowances for the fact that the tables generally are not a good fit into most 10 x 10 ( they are usually 2 1/2 feet wide - so any "L" shape means you have 10.5 feet with 2 8' tables). .. once you get into that double wide - you have a TON of more options. For my main "con" -- this is the default layout they give you for 10 x 20 ( 5 tables) .... so they slightly overhang the layout to start..... keeping that same overlap - you can get a ton of stock in there - though this would be a pain to manage sales- I would use this if I had just $1 stock for sure ... might even shorten the three interior tables to 6' - gives you a little more traffic pattern and realistically the same amount of useable display area. In the case where you have the 10 x 8 - you are really hurting as that 8' - if strict - really hurts any overlap potential.... On the left - crowded ( probably have to drop the 6') - on the right - shows you that silly overlap issue -- 6" more depth - and you could probably set that up with 2 8' and a 6' - and have some room to operate. Once you start letting people inside the booths ---- the wall books are always a worry. For slabs - you could just scan and print a picture of the slabs for sale - place the picture in the rack. I generally do not have a lot of high value "wall" books as my show - those I can sell easily on ebay or here. I do have a locked case for higher value slabs - those I bring more to show that I have the bigger hitters just in case.....

only 39,990 to go!!!! I picked up one of those monster collections last year - they are a lot of fun to go through, but such a pain to move ( both physically and selling, lol) ---- good luck!

picked up a couple of crumbs overpaid for sure but .... Liked this one from the start - white pages. Issues -- but presents really well for a 2,,,,, seemed a decent deal... and my 1st centaur

good luck - is this a one day or two day show?