Convince me not to sell my entire comic book collection... Or don't. 7 7

[Math Teacher]

On 6/2/2022 at 8:34 AM, shadroch said:

Okay. If you say so.  

Thank you for your confirmation.

[shadroch]

On 6/2/2022 at 6:36 AM, Math Teacher said:

Thank you for your confirmation.

If that is the advise your tax advisors gave you, go for it. 

[piper]

On 6/2/2022 at 7:27 AM, Math Teacher said:

Understood. However, I have books that I purchased in the late 1970s and in the early 1980s. I certainly don't have a receipt, and there is no way that I can remember what I paid for them. In this case, most of my books will have to designated as 100% profit.

I think it would be reasonable to base it on an old price guide for those instances, but that's just my opinion.

[lordbyroncomics]

I'm so eager to just wash my hands entirely that the insane idea I had today was to just price every comic in my collection at $6 or $7 each (but whoever buys it has to buy the entire collection). Let me clarify that out of nearly 1,000 comics in said collection maybe 4 of them would be close in price to $7 and what I've got is primarily Silver-Bronze and a bunch of slabs; but I don't need to make a profit at this point I just want completely out of collecting and go cold turkey. Like some of the posts here, sometimes I feel like they sit there untouched and unloved and sometimes the thrill of getting some new SA books is overwhelming to the point of obsessive. It can really run hot & cold and I suppose there's never one easy answer.

[AndyFish]

I'd ditch the cats and keep the comics, but then I'm a dog person. ;)

I second the thought that I've sold collections in the past and lived to regret it.   I sold my Detective Comics #29-#36 to help finance a purchase for my then wife (she's now long gone thanks).  I should have gone to a bank, I could have gotten a loan at a good rate and paid it back.  Money doesn't accumulate value anywhere near as quickly as those pre-Robin detectives did.  And I bought all of those in the late 70s early 80s so I think I paid no more than $200 for any single issue and they were all mid grade and better.   I'll never do that again, and I have a run of Batman #1-20 that will go with me to the great beyond. But money is not the motivator for you, that's a good place to be.

I'd suggest buying one of the new fancy plastic comic short boxes (Amazon has 'em) -- they are great, they are durable and would stand up to cats.  Short boxes are a helluva lot less heavy than long boxes.  Fill three of them with titles you LOVE and then call up Ted @ Superworld or someone else who will travel to you and arrange all of the processing and shipping and hand you a pile of cash.   Don't discount some dealers not giving you a fair shake, I was with him in Chicago when he bought a large collection and it was much higher than what I would have expected a dealer to pay.  Worst case you decline the offer and you're not out anything.

Easy peasy.