Selling at a con to dealers.

[DoubleCovaBrotha]

You might try something like this (it's worked for me) ...

 

Sort of do it as an auction. Have your books and a pad of paper.

Go to dealer A, show him the books and ask if he's interested. If so, get his

offer and write it down. Tell him thanks, and you'll get some other offers.

 

Go to dealer B, and do the same. Tell them what the current offer is for your

material. I keep a "hidden" sheet of paper with the offers and who made them,

just to keep it confidential, and I only show folks the "current offer" and not who

made it.

 

Be friendly, outgoing, and a good salesman. Don't try and hide what you're

doing. The better "people person" you are, the easier it is to sell books.

 

I've only had 1 person get pizzed off about this -- was insulted that I would

dare sell anything to anyone but him -- but so what, he was an insufficiently_thoughtful_person.

 

And as someone else said -- is a con a good place to sell books -- it depends.

If you've got an X-Men #1, people WILL be interested. If you've got VG- common

books, you might not even get a nibble.

 

And you may get lucky, and have a book that a dealer just has to have for

their personal collection.

 

cheers,

gozer

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Ooh, the Pharaoh's Chamber has a vibrating sarcophagus.

 

Great idea. I have never even been to a convention before (no time really). This sounds intriguing as I have always thought of conventions as a good place to buy books, not really for selling. Thanks for the tip!