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Ebay SUCKS as a selling venue for GA

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Senormac

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I'd have to say that I have found 1/2 of the :grin: books I collect on ebay.

 

Me too. Mainly cuz I nobody on these boards evens owns a Police comic except for Red Fury....much less putting them up in the sales forum

 

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Straw-Man

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Ebay is a last resort for me. I have much better luck on the boards!

 

only 2 of my amazing man's sold on the boards, and i mean i didn't even get counter-offers on my books. they all sold on ebay, for essentially break-even prices, which is all i was looking for at the end of the day. sometimes the forum really disappoints me.

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PokerKid

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I keep getting outbid on books I need for my collection, so I would say at least some of the books are fetching fairly good prices (and that I am too stinkin' cheap). I am not seeing huge differences in prices from one place to the next, but certainly on individual books timing and location are a big factor.

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Forbush-Man

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Ebay is a last resort for me. I have much better luck on the boards!

 

only 2 of my amazing man's sold on the boards, and i mean i didn't even get counter-offers on my books. they all sold on ebay, for essentially break-even prices, which is all i was looking for at the end of the day. sometimes the forum really disappoints me.

 

If they were Hulk #181's they would've sold. The rest of the boards don't reflect what we collect. The main focus seems to be SA & BA, with a few MA mixed in. I was surprised no one took those last 2 A-Man's. I thought about grabbing them for trade bait down the line.

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JiveTurkeyMoFo

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Ebay is a last resort for me. I have much better luck on the boards!

 

only 2 of my amazing man's sold on the boards, and i mean i didn't even get counter-offers on my books. they all sold on ebay, for essentially break-even prices, which is all i was looking for at the end of the day. sometimes the forum really disappoints me.

 

I think you have to be prepared to use both venues, and just have to know which books sell better where. Sometimes its also just a matter of the right buyer finding your ebay auction or Forum thread and having the money ready to buy.

 

 

 

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Detroit MIke

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I'd have to say that I have found 1/2 of the :grin: books I collect on ebay.

 

Me too. Mainly cuz I nobody on these boards evens owns a Police comic except for Red Fury....much less putting them up in the sales forum

 

I've got the Crippen copy of # 50 and the one with the cool devil cover.

 

I'd prefer to sell on venues other than eBay too.

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Forbush-Man

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I actually was shocked at how low prices were for non-superhero gold on Ebay.

I guess the majority pays big for superhero stuff and the other stuff is not as popular.

 

You are right about the focus being on the super-hero books. I just got this book off ebay for right at $200 shipped, try finding another copy any time soon.

 

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comicparadox

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I actually was shocked at how low prices were for non-superhero gold on Ebay.

I guess the majority pays big for superhero stuff and the other stuff is not as popular.

 

You are right about the focus being on the super-hero books. I just got this book off ebay for right at $200 shipped, try finding another copy any time soon.

 

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I love political correctness. :cloud9:

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BLBcomics-migration

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Having been buying trading selling vintage comic books since 1967, being on eBay since April 1998, what i think of eBay breaks down along two levels:

 

1) auction route you stand a huge chance of getting toasted. It is all a function of who just happens to be looking that week. Some times you get lucky, many times not. I stopped doing ebay auctions as i would rather wait till the person actually looking for any given book is actually doing that very function

 

2) BUY IT NOW Or Best Offer is a much better way to go. Placing stuff in an eBay "store" lists each item you hoist up for 3 5 10 cents each per month depending on what you price it at, which does not reflect what you might actually end up getting for it. However, you control the final outcome based on what you want to net out of any given artifact.

 

On eBay or your own web site, as well as here in the selling venues of this CGC talk site, you control your own "brand name" as well - on CConnect and CLink, no one knows who you are, which for some might be a good thing, for those wishing to remain anon.

 

For others like myself who does this full time, the hobby having got out of control many decades ago, keeping one's name recognized out there becomes more key. Once i obtain my hip joint replacement operations, T-Minus 2 days and counting now, plus factoring recovery modes, I will be able to get out in person again like i was all over the country at shows, as well as feed the e-machines I am set up on

 

So, long story short, if you are running auctions on eBay, and your vintage artifacts are not high grade "keys" to the comics kingdom, be prepared to be toasted

 

BUY IT NOW and a bit of patience over a month, two, or so, as the serious buyer fijnds your stuff via want list searches many collectors do there, nets you much better results in the short term as well as long

 

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*paull*

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I sell non-comic stuff (camera stuff, books, records, etc.) on eBay pretty regularly and this year has been way down for me. I'm getting about 50% of what I would have gotten a few years ago on auctions. I don't think it's just comics.

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