shadroch

Then again, some of us have actually done it.

Perhaps you can't. A little social media announcing every comic in the shop is fifty cents and see what happens. Guerilla Marketing was created for situations like this. Hopefully, this works out well for all involved.

I received a phone call about a week ago from a women trying to sell her sons comics. Right away I found out that he was 53 and she had his permission to sell them. She thought he collected until he went away to college around 1986. She says someone looked at them last month and offered her cover price for everything, but her son said they were worth much more. I drove over to look at them and was disappointed to find they were almost all DCs, ranging from .35 cent cover up to.50 cents, a couple dozen Dollar titles, with a few earlier BA books and a couple later, including a first print Killing Joke. Nice but not spectacular shape. Roughly 300 books. I told her I'd get back to her today with an offer. I'm thinking fifty cents a piece is too much to pay for these but I hate to think that well preserved forty year old DCs aren't worth their original cover price. I'm torn on buying them.

Point of sale system, software, phones, display cases, frames, signage,.... I attend auctions like this several times a week. I watched guys fighting over things most buyers put no value on and learned that the bottom feeders often do as well as the guys fighting it out over the good stuff. If there are 500 tpbs, hardcovers, ect and you sell them for $5 each, that's $2500 right there. Every comic in the shop cost you nothing so sell them all for half price and you have some working capital.

When a LI shop burned down a few years ago, I made a joke about Jewish Lightning. Some three years later, I was contacted, on this forum by pm, by investigators from an insurance company. I never responded and they didn't follow up.

The contents of the shop are worth far more than 3K.

Offered within is a single lot consisting of seven volumes of Big Book of..... by D.C.. I bought these as a single lot at a bankruptcy auction. They came all shrink wrapped together and I never did get around to reading them. They were sold to me as new old stock. Let's assume some shelf wear and call very fine overall. Still in the plastic wrap from the auction. Titles are Big Book of 1) Thugs 2)Losers 3)Hoaxes 4)Weirdos 5)Scandals 6)Weird Wild West 7)Conspiracies $30 shipped media or $40 Priority. PayPal only, returns okay but at your expense unless I screwed up. Local pickup cost would be $25.

My favorite Duck story of all time.

Just remember reading a "history" put out by a company is most likely a puff piece, not an accurate telling of their story. In Origin of Marvel Comics, Stan talks about building on the runaway success of Spider-Man to branch out and introduce Thor. Problem is they appeared the same week, not months apart as he indicated.

Throw a dozen or so in a magazine bag and offer them for a buck or two at a garage sale.

In all seriousness, why does the buyer have to know exactly what they are buying? Shouldn't it be up to the buyer to decide that? If someone is willing to buy a mystery box, I don't understand the animosity it brings out in others. I sent great things in my boxes- ASM 14, original art, A Sandman statue, and if satisfied customers want to buy them, I really don't see the problem. They don't appeal to everyone but I had several repeat buyers in the short time I did them. If a seller tries to take advantage of this place, we unleash the kav.

I love the cover of 109. I identified that as a breakout book about twenty five years ago and gathered up in excess of twenty copies. It never did reach where I thought it would be but it wasn't the worst investment I've made. Back then, you could still pick up nice copies for well under $10. I think its the first book I ever bought off of Mark Zaid when he was selling his neighbors books back when he was still in high school. I wanted the #89 but he wanted too much. After the show, I got a sweet pair of TOS 59/60 off him for about $5, but the #89 was sold. I think a pre-Metropolis Vincent picked up a good bit of Marks beautiful SA Marvel set that show.

What is that on the bottom inside front cover? I hope that's not marker bleed thru.

I had a lot of fun putting together mystery boxes. I sold dozens, including two $500 packages. I had one complaint. People enjoyed them. The loudest complaints seemed to come from a vocal minority concerned about possible ripoffs rather than any real ones. Once upon a time, this place and the marketplace thrived. Now it's ridiculously over moderated and far too many " buyers" have an exaggerated sense of entitlement. I will happily assemble boxes for anyone who wants one and everything I ever sell is satisfaction guaranteed.

Stan would have made that compelling.

I'm one of the few people who think the non-Kirby revival of The New Gods was an improvement. His ideas were brilliant, but I'm not a fan of the execution or the art. The dialogue is poorly written, as well. For all his brilliance, he needed a collaborative partnership to succeed, in my opinion. Without Joe Simon and later Stan Lee, his work is a magnitude below his work with them. I wish someone would take Kirbys Fourth World and apply " the Marvel method" to them..

I'd hedge my investment by buying three or four books instead of one. While I understand the urge to have one big book, never ever put all your eggs in one basket. Its easier to sell four $1,000 books than one $4,000 book. At least it used to be.

I'm hoping to begin shipping five to ten packages a day. Saving on shipping supplies can add up quickly. I sold two oversized boxes this week and charged $12 less than actual cost. A stupid and costly mistake. Getting a handle on both ends of shipping can really add to the bottom line. My Post Office has prices at least 50% more than Amazon.

I'd been getting mine from Amazon, five rolls at a time but the brand I used no longer sells through Amazon and the stuff they recommended for a replacement is sad and pathetic. I like clear tape, so there is that.

I met George while he was a student. He'd designed a gorgeous bag for Mike's Comic But, in Queens. It was the first custom comic bag I ever encountered. He also did the first sketch I ever had done at a convention-Adam Warlock after he didn't know Aragorn or Gandalf. I still have the sketch. He was charging $2 for head sketches. One of my favorite artists who managed to work on the biggest books. Phenomenal career. I hope he can enjoy his retirement.

I'm not following. Are those pictures the books you are selling? They don't look 1.0-2.0 but who can tell from the picture. $3500 for the books pictured would be a steal.

Diamond has a system in place that allows it to pass along most risks to shop owners. Until someone offers incentives to change that, the system will remain. Shop owners who attempt to run the traditional comic shop will slowly realize they are little more than unpaid interns pushing Diamonds products to the public. Shop owners who create successful businesses will have transitioned into a horse of a very different color.

My generic insurance policy for storage units limits contents to $5,000. I guess you could get riders, but it would be expensive.

Four packs of 50 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 plus 1-1/2 flap. Supply 678 #725M2 $53 shipped domestic. Only one lot available. PayPal preferred.

If you don't want a particular dealer or two looking at your books, don't let them. It's pretty simple. Pretend you are Blazing Bob and Dougie Schmell wants to cherry pick your stock. It's for moments just like this that God gave you two middle fingers and testicles.