The Less Blob

What if 23 Wonder Woman 67 Plop 18 Peter Porker 2 Plastic Man 18 Superman Silver Surfer 1 Ninjak 1 Magnus 4 Robin 183

Akira 25 26 Goon 2 Lone WOlf 1 1st print Lone Wolf 2 Uncharted 5

I have sold a bunch lately (for me -- 26 comics sold in the last 2 weeks, out of about 70 BIN listings). People have bought multiple items to combine and save on shipping. I used to do free shipping for $50 an over combined and people would buy stuff to get over $50 (I guess free is better than just combined). I have three high bids on a boardie's stuff and am terrified I will just win one and get stuck with $6.50 shipping. If I win all 3 it evens out, even 2 is ok. But $6.50 plus just any one of the books I might win blows them up. But auctions of inexpensive books are a bit different than store sales. I would like to run a bunch of $4.99 starting bid auctions of decent stuff like a certain flying fried pastry fellow does. Nothing I would be upset not getting more than the $4.99 opening bid. Throw $5 shipping into those and a lot of those books really aren't worth $9.99 to anyone. Win 5 of them and it's just $1 a book shipping...those are good at a total cost of $5.99 each. With that said, my store items are mostly $20+ with a few $15-$18 books, so $5 shipping is not as big a deal for any of those.

Well, really it is 10 cents a listing because you already get 50 free. If they gave 150 listings I would probably do it for $4.95. 50-75 store items. And then I would run 40-50 auctions every 2 weeks or so, although I feel like you really need to run 100 auctions at once (if you don't have a huge store offering) to give people enough things to bid on to spread shipping costs, although a curated 50 can work too.

Yup. I can live with a small secondhand stain, but rusty staples make me queezy

Maybe. Or maybe they feel the floor space can be more profitably filled with books, trades, toys, pops, shirts, etc. I do have a shop that devotes very little space to them, but does a good job of turning them over so as not to be too stale. They may only have 1000-1500 back issues, but they set it up to allocate almost no space to them.

Those free listings spurred a lot of activity though. And more money flowing back and forth (it isn't like I don't spend at least 25% of my ebay sales back on ebay most of the time) gives ebay more chances to snag 10%. At least when they spread them apart enough so as to not oversaturate. I sold a ton of stuff with them. Give me something ebay... 100 10 cent auctions if opening under $10?

Has ebay given up on giving away extra free listings to spur activity or have the decided coupons and ebay bucks are how they will do it?

Comic taped to a single piece of thin cardboard. Inevitable results. The book was lower grade anyway and the bend was not creases in, but that shipping method is a great way to get a detached staple. Probably though sending in a semi padded envelope cured it all. I should point this out to the seller and with $2.66 shipping I should have expected this, but he was cool about cancelling a purchase, re-listing, etc so I could use a 15% off coupon so I am not going to raise a stink. It was a $30something SA book though

At 20% off Fantastic Four Lot # 1 $ 10.00 118 VG, 121 VG/F, 125 VG Fantastc Four Lot # 2 $5.00 126 Fine 127 Good 128 Good Fantastic Four Lot # 3 $ 8.00 129 VG 130 VG 131 Fine or better Fantastic Four Lot # 4 $8.00 132 Fine 133 Fine 134 G/VG Fantastic Four Lot # 5 $10.00 135 Fine 136 Fine 137 Fine

Eternals 1 (and other issues).

Too much fee avoidance through $1 items with $10 shipping charges in the old days. Or $1 auctions with $1 per book handling fees pls $4 s/h. You'd buy 24 crappy books and be charged $27 to ship them media mail (which cost $3).

You're all right! The book has a rusty staple, but that's not where the stain is from!

$324 BIN in November. No "JUN X" date stamp.

"JUN X" date stamps are incredibly rare

At this point half these guys are dead, but I guess their widows, etc. what happened with cockrum was terrible. I'm talking about $100-250k a movie. That's the craft table on the movie set for a few days. I guess marvel did not own x-men movies, but did they get any royalties?

Gold digger and knights of the dinner table are hot on spawn's tail at 259 and 265, respectively.

Have not bought it. If it does not have a rusty staple and it is just a small stain, but it is a stain that makes it look like a rusty staple so if I ever try to sell outside a cgc case it will be hard. I wonder how much cgc would hammer an otherwise 6.0 - 6.5 book? At 6.0-6.5 it is probably worth a slab.

What is weird is that all of a sudden about 25% of my purchases are from Washington State and I think that is one of the impacted states. Mind you, if you are a re-seller and paying taxes and reporting your sales I think you can avoid paying this sales tax, right ?

Are you sure? The tax Is based on the buyer location, not seller. The seller is not collecting the tax, eBay is.

Or sitting on top of and bled upward as there is no sign of this on the front cover or middle pages. Anyway, maybe the seller will respond. I wonder if that could be cleaned without being resto? (Not that the book is worth doing that for. oh well)

Rusty staples freak me out, but the inside doesn't look like one

Hmmm, so ebay is going to figure out county/city tax too? NY state sales tax is like a little over 4%, but the counties/cities add their own 4%+ to get over 8%. We are not on the list yet, but will be. I am curious, does ebay collect for in-state now? I think I have not bought from a new Yorker in a while.

Disney/Marvel can give creators a piece of the action for new creations although calculating that could be tricky. Let's say ebony maw... Somewhat recent creation, minor character. Throw the creator a bone. Fact is they should have a modest set aside for every movie to creators (and innovators of a character, although I doubt claremo t and Byrne need the money... Byrne can live nicely off commissions until he drops dead) as a matter of good will. Herb trimpe and Len wein should have been getting a check for every x-men and wolverine movie. (Not "should" as legally obligated, but as good p.r. and corporate citizenship for marvel... Have them "consult") ... Dave cockrum, etc too.

I get offers all the time and while I am mulling someone pays full ask. They want to lock it down now!