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WOW! 13 000 original owner comic collexn on ebay

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Flaming_Telepath

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check it out!

 

seller is neatstuffcollectibles

 

look @ the way the OO stored his books with those artistic sleeves.....................looked a like a definite true collector

 

impressive collexn!

 

Is your keyboard [embarrassing lack of self control]? confused-smiley-013.gif

 

'Cause there seems to always be dropped letters all over the place....

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comicdonna

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check it out!

 

seller is neatstuffcollectibles

 

look @ the way the OO stored his books with those artistic sleeves.....................looked a like a definite true collector

 

impressive collexn!

 

Is your keyboard [embarrassing lack of self control]? confused-smiley-013.gif

 

'Cause there seems to always be dropped letters all over the place....

He did it again. I sold a FC I Love Lucy (#1) to someone who typed like that.
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check it out!

 

seller is neatstuffcollectibles

 

look @ the way the OO stored his books with those artistic sleeves.....................looked a like a definite true collector

 

impressive collexn!

 

Is your keyboard [embarrassing lack of self control]? confused-smiley-013.gif

 

'Cause there seems to always be dropped letters all over the place....

He did it again. I sold a FC I Love Lucy (#1) to someone who typed like that.

 

It's txt speak. foreheadslap.gif

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richnerd

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Anyone ever win one of these lots? for years I keep saying I am going to buy one just to test it out.

 

I've sold many lots like this and I can tell you the ones I sold each seller made 10 times their money back plus some..But I also made much money on the sale too. It's just finding the right lot or the right person looking for someone to handle the sale. thumbsup2.gif

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Flaming_Telepath

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check it out!

 

seller is neatstuffcollectibles

 

look @ the way the OO stored his books with those artistic sleeves.....................looked a like a definite true collector

 

impressive collexn!

 

Is your keyboard [embarrassing lack of self control]? confused-smiley-013.gif

 

'Cause there seems to always be dropped letters all over the place....

He did it again. I sold a FC I Love Lucy (#1) to someone who typed like that.

 

It's txt speak. foreheadslap.gif

 

And what, he's on his [embarrassing lack of self control] cell then, is he? 27_laughing.gif

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jimm94

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I love the art on the wrapping he used. I'm curious to see if this auction meets reserve, whatever that amount may be. According to the description, "7,600+" of the 13,482 books are from 1979 or later. From what I can see, if a person wanted to make a profit reselling this collection, $10,000 is probably near the maximum they could pay and still do alright. Sell the early books/keys to try to make most of your money back, and build profit on the cheaper stuff. Even then, I think the margins could be pretty skinny over the long haul.

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I love the art on the wrapping he used. I'm curious to see if this auction meets reserve, whatever that amount may be. According to the description, "7,600+" of the 13,482 books are from 1979 or later. From what I can see, if a person wanted to make a profit reselling this collection, $10,000 is probably near the maximum they could pay and still do alright. Sell the early books/keys to try to make most of your money back, and build profit on the cheaper stuff. Even then, I think the margins could be pretty skinny over the long haul.

 

The Amazing Fantasy CGC 4.0 is $2800 by itself. (12 month average is actually $3200)

 

They also show 15 pages of keys.. each page has 28 books. 420 books. Take about 100 books off because they're not worth that much (Crisis) and average $10 per book and you've got another $3200 right there. (There's a GS X-men 1, HUlk 181, low grade Avengers 1, Iron Man 1, Hulk 102, Avengers 4, etc. in there plus many other keys)

 

SO $6k right off the bat minimum.

 

That leaves 13,000 books left.

 

I think you can easily do better than 10k actually if you had the time to sell it correctly...

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I love the art on the wrapping he used. I'm curious to see if this auction meets reserve, whatever that amount may be. According to the description, "7,600+" of the 13,482 books are from 1979 or later. From what I can see, if a person wanted to make a profit reselling this collection, $10,000 is probably near the maximum they could pay and still do alright. Sell the early books/keys to try to make most of your money back, and build profit on the cheaper stuff. Even then, I think the margins could be pretty skinny over the long haul.

 

The Amazing Fantasy CGC 4.0 is $2800 by itself. (12 month average is actually $3200)

 

They also show 15 pages of keys.. each page has 28 books. 420 books. Take about 100 books off because they're not worth that much (Crisis) and average $10 per book and you've got another $3200 right there. (There's a GS X-men 1, HUlk 181, low grade Avengers 1, Iron Man 1, Hulk 102, Avengers 4, etc. in there plus many other keys)

 

SO $6k right off the bat minimum.

 

That leaves 13,000 books left.

 

I think you can easily do better than 10k actually if you had the time to sell it correctly...

 

893whatthe.gif uh oh - all I can say is ya better clear it with the Boss first if you are thinking about jumping in there. smirk.gif

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jimm94

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There's no doubt it would resell for more than $10k, I was just saying that 10k would probably the most a person could pay and still make some $$$ margin. Say it takes a year of evenings/weekends to sell everything off at shows or eBay. How much could a person realistically turn this for and make it worthwhile? It's a lot of books to sell. The collection you and Jeff just bought is cool because it's a manageable amount of mostly desirable books even though they are low garde.

 

Obviously you and I both know how much work it takes to move post 1980 books - of course your level of experience with this is about 1000x greater than mine! I have so much more respect and appreciation for those who deal full-time in comics than I ever did before.

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