Tips for selling off a 100 slab collection?10450
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Darkga private msg quote post Address this user | |
So I FINALLY got around to cataloging all of my slabbed comics books, and I'm looking at about 100 slabs that I may be willing to part with out of my collection. I feel like I know my options, but it's still good to bounce ideas off of you guys.  Priced out at current GPA/sold prices this would be about $10,000 in books. That's an average of $100 a slab, but some are $300+ slabs and others are $30 slabs. I would much rather sell the whole lot and take a hit on pricing rather than slowly selling them piece by piece though. * I'm thinking ComicLINK would be easiest, but I run the risk of the lesser books selling for like $10 if no one bids. * Are there any online shops that you guys sell whole slabs lots to? * What should I expect out of it? 80%? 50%? * What have you done in the past if you were in a similar situation? Here are a few nice example books from the for sale list by the way:       |
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BigRedOne1944 private msg quote post Address this user | |
| If you had a complete list of all the books and looking to "wholesale" them as a lot you may get some interest from the board members here. Put them up here and let the board members bid on it? Just a thought |
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| @Darkga comiclink generally do not accept books with an expected sale value less than $300-500 your best option would be to offload it in a mcs auction |
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| You should try here and I would also suggest mycomicshop.com . You can list them on the exchange rather than for auction (if you don't want to risk getting a lower price for the comics) and they will list the comics on their website as well as on Ebay. The commission is also lower than comiclink, heritage and comicconnect. 10% commission on sales less than $300, minimum of $5 commission per sale. 8% commission on sales between $300 to $2999.99 and 6% commission on any sales at $3000 or above. It's easier to just send mycomicshop everything you want to sell unless you plan on selling on forums, craigslist, etc. where you would pay a 3% paypal fee and cost of packaging. With mycomicshop they handle everything and to me it's easier plus there is the bonus of being able to reach an international market that you may not be willing to sell to yourself. You can change your consignment prices as often as you like and choose whether to have them listed on the exchange or at auction. I would suggest using fixed price since I haven't had much luck as a seller at their auctions. | ||
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flanders private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Also, I may be interested in the Alf 48 depending on what price you'd be willing to sell it for. | ||
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| @Darkga - Similar to what @BigRedOne1944 suggested, you could post a list here on the forum and ask for PMs with offers for them. You'd get higher individual prices than the 50-75% you'd receive for the whole set. Then you could decide what to do with those that don't get any offers - but you might have made more money anyway, so that would just be gravy. What do you have, Harold? You have peaked my interest. PS - I don't think bidding is allowed on the forum. |
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| Agree with the others, forum first if you want and then MCS. MCS is much better with slabbed books than raw because they can't undergrade them, and they are more likely to accept them for consignment (they might take a particular book at NM if raw but VF if slabbed, for example). And whatever you send them for consignment, you can decide individually for each book if you want to put it in an auction or list it at a fixed price. | ||
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cyrano0521 private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Reslab the marvel milestone with cbcs as pink label before you srll it | ||
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| I highly recommend that you separate out the "liquid" from the non-liquid. Retail the liquid, wholesale the non-liquid. Otherwise you will be wholesaling everything. If you can get close to FMV for the top half of the books, that makes it easier to swallow whatever you do with the bottom half (liquidate cheap or keep). | ||
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 I had no way of knowing that 9.8 graded copies signed by Adam Hughes weren't what you were looking for.
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drchaos private msg quote post Address this user | |
| I see a few in the OP that I would be interested in. You should post them on this forum individually (no charge to do so). After that you could try consigning what is left with MCS, Comic Connect etc. if you do not want to spend the time and effort to list them on ebay. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by cyrano0521 Completely disagree. If you resubmit that Marvel Milestone to CBCS, the Dynamic Forces Kirby sig will fail authentication and you will be out a bunch of money for no good reason. Leave it as is. |
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| I'd be interested in the Betty + Veronica | ||
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 The Fifth Golden Girl
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| List them on mycomicshop.com Very easy to use and Buddy gets good prices. |
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Darkga private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Thanks for all the input! I'm leaning more on the "sell the bigger books at retail" and then that would allow me to be more flexible on the rest. Also the MCS idea sounds good too. However the right offer on the entire lot would be easiest to ship them all to the same place and be done. Here is the list of 85 books I could let go. I started at 100, but then nostalgia got the best of me on 15 of them, lol. Publisher Year Title Issue Grader Graded Notes Value $9,261 Whitman 1980 Winnie-the-Pooh 20 CBCS 8.5 OW rare Whitman Disney comic $100 Whitman 1980 Winnie-the-Pooh 21 CBCS 6.0 OW/W rare Whitman Disney comic $50 Whitman 1980 Winnie-the-Pooh 22 CBCS 5.5 OW rare Whitman Disney comic $200 Marvel 2008 Wolverine: Origins 28 CBCS 9.6 W 2nd printing variant $400 Marvel 2013 Uncanny X-Men 8 CBCS 9.6 W Campbell variant $50 Marvel 1992 X-Men 4 CBCS 9.8 W 1st app Omega Red $107 Marvel 1982 Wolverine Limited Series 1 CGC 8.5 OW newsstand $62 DC/Vertigo 1989 Sandman 1 CGC 9.6 W $182 DC/Vertigo 1989 Sandman 8 CGC 9.4 W 1st app Death $139 Marvel 1991 Infinity Gauntlet 1 CGC 9.8 W newsstand $132 Marvel 1991 Alf 48 CBCS 9.0 W seal cover $168 Valiant 1993 Harbinger 0 CBCS 9.4 W $40 Valiant 1996 Harbinger 1 CBCS 9.6 W $234 Valiant 1992 Rai 0 CGC 9.8 W 1st full app Bloodshot $175 Image 1993 Darker Image 1 CBCS 9.6 W Silver Edition $50 Hamilton Comics 1994 Saban's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 1 CBCS 9.2 W $40 Image 2014 Wayward 1 CBCS 9.8 W Japanese edition $70 Image 2014 Wayward 2 CBCS 9.8 W Japanese edition $50 Stranger 2016 Vampire Hunter D: Message From Mars 1 CBCS 9.6 W Artgerm B/W virgin variant $50 IDW 2017 Star Trek: The Next Generation: Mirror Broken 0 CBCS 9.8 W $20 n/a 1948 Know Your Presidents nn CGC 7.5 C/OW $100 DNC 1948 The Story of Harry S. Truman nn CBCS 9.4 W mentioned in SOTI $300 DNC 1948 The Story of Harry S. Truman nn CBCS 9.4 W mentioned in SOTI $300 Gemstone 1998 Crime SuspenStories 22 CBCS 9.8 W reprints classic cover $100 Marvel 1991 Marvel Milestone Edition: X-Men #1 1 CGC 9.2 W SS - Stan Lee; Q - signed Jack Kirby $1,000 K.K. Publications 1967 Top Comics 3 CGC 9.6 W Woody Woodpecker $50 Marvel 1982 Daredevil 184 CBCS 9.8 W $100 Comico 1984 Macross 1 CGC 9.6 W 1st Robotech $170 Comico 1987 Space Ghost 1 CBCS 9.8 W $85 Verotik 1994 Phantom Lady nn CBCS 9.2 W Adam Hughes cover $100 Bildschriftenverlag 2016 Phantom Lady 5 CBCS 9.6 W German Edition; reprints Phantom Lady #17 $100 DC 1987 Elvira's House of Mystery 11 CBCS 9.6 W Dave Stevens cover $100 Dark Horse 1990 Cheval Noir 7 CBCS 9.2 W Dave Stevens cover $50 Dark Horse 1991 Tank Girl 1 CBCS 9.6 W 1st Tank Girl in own series $345 Eternity 1991 Evil Ernie 1 CGC 9.0 W 1st app Evil Ernie, Lady Death $255 Eternity 1992 Evil Ernie 2 CGC 9.6 W 1st Lady Death cover $231 Dark Horse 1993 Comics' Greatest World: Ghost nn CBCS 9.6 W $35 Sirius 1997 Tears of Dawn 2 CGC 9.6 W European Tour Edition $70 Topps 1994 Zorro 11 CBCS 9.0 W Linsner cover $30 London Night 1993 Razor Annual 1 CGC 8.5 W 1st app Shi; Gold Edition; Q - signed Tucci, Hartsoe $75 Crusade 1995 Shi: The Way of the Warrior 1 CBCS 9.6 W Virgin cover $40 Image 1995 Cyblade/Shi: The Battle for Independents 1 CBCS 9.6 W 1st app Witchblade, Tucci variant $40 Action Lab 2014 Zombie Tramp 1 CGC 9.8 W Howard variant cover $250 Udon 2017 Street Fighter & Friends 2017 Swimsuit Special 1 CBCS 9.8 W Vampirella #1 cover swipe $50 DC 1977 DC Super-Stars 11 CBCS 9.2 W Zatanna cover; newsstand $216 Archie 1982 Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica 320 CBCS 6.5 W 1st app Cheryl Blossom; Canadian edition $250 Image 1993 Spawn 9 CGC 9.6 W 1st app Angela; newsstand $150 Topps 1994 Zorro 3 CBCS 9.6 W Adam Hughes cover; Lady Rawhide $40 Image 2014 Bitch Planet 1 CBCS 9.8 W Image Expo variant $40 Harris 1991 Vampirella: Morning In America 1 CBCS 9.8 W 1st Vampirella comic since magazine $75 Harris 1992 Vampirella 1 CBCS 9.8 W Adam Hughes cover $100 Harris 1993 Vampirella: A Scarlet Thirst nn CBCS 9.4 W Dave Stevens cover $100 Harris 1994 Vengeance of Vampirella 1 CGC 9.8 W Red Foil $85 Harris 1994 Vengeance of Vampirella 1 CGC 9.6 W Gold Foil $75 Harris 1994 Vengeance of Vampirella 1 CGC 9.8 W Green Foil $110 Harris 1995 Vampirella 25th Anniversary nn CBCS 9.4 W Frank Frazetta virgin cover $100 Harris 1996 Vampirella: Death and Destruction 1 CBCS 9.8 W Satin cover $100 Harris 1996 Vampirella: Sad Wings of Destiny nn CBCS 8.0 W Joe Jusko virgin cover $20 Harris 1997 Vampirella Lives 2 CBCS 9.4 W Adam Hughes cover $100 Harris 1997 Vampirella Lives 3 CBCS 9.6 W JSC cover $40 Harris 1999 Vampirella 21 CBCS 9.2 W Linsner Metal-Tex cover $75 Anarchy Studios 2001 Vampi 12 CBCS 9.8 W Holo-FX edition $50 Harris 2001 Vampirella: Mike Mayhew Sketchbook nn CBCS 9.8 W Red foil leather cover $40 Harris 2001 Vampirella 1 CBCS 9.6 W JSC variant $40 Harris 2001 Vampirella 2 CBCS 9.6 W Chiodo variant $40 Dynamite 2010 Vampirella 1 CGC 9.6 W JSC red sketch variant $50 Dynamite 2013 Vampirella Strikes 1 CGC 9.4 W Milo Manara variant $50 Dynamite 2014 Vampirella 1 CBCS 9.8 W Sharp Comics Blood Variant $200 Dynamite 2017 Vampirella 1 CBCS 9.8 W JSC virgin variant $100 Edwin Aprill 1967 Great Classic Newspaper Comic Strips 5 CGC 9.0 W Johnny Comet #1, Frank Frazetta art $40 DC 1971 In The Days of the Mob 1 CGC 6.5 C/OW Jack Kirby story and art $40 Warren 1965 Creepy 2 CGC 7.5 OW/W Frank Frazetta cover $50 Warren 1978 Eerie 97 CGC 9.2 OW/W Dinosaur cover $40 HM Communications 1977 Heavy Metal 1 CGC 9.0 W $80 HM Communications 1992 Heavy Metal 139 CGC 9.2 W 1st Julie Bell art $50 Quantum Cat Ent. 1998 Frank Frazetta Fantasy Illustrated 1 CGC 9.0 W Linsner cover; Q - JML $50 IDW 2002 Popbot 1 CGC 9.8 W $50 IDW 2002 Popbot 2 CGC 9.8 W $50 Image 2015 Black Magick 1 CGC 9.8 W Magazine edition $40 Marvel 1989 Wolverine 10 CBCS 9.4 W Sabretooth $50 Marvel 1990 Wolverine 27 CBCS 9.4 W classic Jim Lee cover $30 Marvel 1994 Wolverine 79 CBCS 9.6 W great Wolverine cover $20 Marvel 1994 Wolverine 82 CBCS 9.8 W great Wolverine cover $30 Marvel 1977 Avengers 161 CGC 9.6 W Perez cover of Antman vs the Avengers $75 Maximum Press 1995 Avengelyne 1 CGC 9.6 W 1st app Avengelyne $25 |
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