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| As some of you know, I've been selling graded books on MyComicShop. It's been going REALLY well lately. For 2019 I've already sold 50 books. Now, I know that doesn't sound like much to some of you. But you have to understand, I only have 84 there now ... so that was 50 out of 134. AND, in that time, I've also sent them 73 MORE comics. So really it was 50 out of ... I don't know. 80-90? (I've got a shipment of 36 heading there now, so I'll be back up soon.) Average price for these 50 was only ~$114, but for me that's pretty good. (After commissions: ~$103 avg.) How much did I pay for them? Well, it turns out, I'm terrible at record-keeping. I'll have to work on that. But my point stands. MCS is a GREAT place to sell graded books. Especially during Free Comic Book Day. Wow - that made a difference! I sold 4-5 comics that day, including an Avengers #28 at 9.0. (Sold for $400, bought for $124 plus C&P and grading fees ... so not too bad. I did record payment price for some of 'em. I just got tired of doing that, because I'm kind of lazy.) Also, I've sold one comic a day for the last five days: ASM 114 (8.5), Kamandi #1 (9.0), Batman White Knight #3 (9.8), Batman 428 (9.4), and Tarzan 223 (9.2). That won't keep up, of course, but it's a nice feeling. (Thanks to those World's Finest comics I put in the auction a couple weeks ago, I've actually sold one a day for over two weeks. But I rarely put comics in the auction, so I don't count those.) Well. For those of you who have a business selling graded comics, I would recommend them, at least for some of your inventory. The commission is the same as eBay, plus a buyer's premium of 3%. (I guess that 3% covers credit card fees, so it's still a wash.) Anyway, the one downside is, $5 is the minimum commission. So you don't want to go too much under $50. But the upside is, the commission goes DOWN to 8% at $300 and above, and down to 6% for $3000 and above. So it can actually be CHEAPER than eBay. Plus, you never have to pack and ship books! Except, of course, to send them to MCS. My recommendation would be to send 10 or 20 in at a time, and slowly build up your inventory over there. I was trying to do that, but more have sold lately than I expected. (Yay!) Another thing MCS does is: every single comic they have for sale on commission they also advertise on eBay. Their system just automatically adds the eBay fees and shipping cost, and then posts it there with free shipping. So you don't lose anything, and the system is pretty slick - posting eBay auctions just moments after you assign a price on their system. It's actually kind of weird how people still buy MCS comics on eBay. They could get the exact same comic direct from MCS for 10% or so less. But it happens a lot. The Kamandi and Batman White Knight above both sold that way. Anyway, I just thought some here would be interested in my (very positive) experience. Good luck!  |
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| Thanks for sharing. | ||
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 I don't believe this....and I know you don't care that I don't believe this.
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| congrats man and thanks for relating your experience! if there"s a book on ebay I want, I always check to see if the seller has website selling the same book. |
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 If the viagra is working you should be well over a 9.8.
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| I have some ready to go to MCS as soon as they approve the commission, coincidentally. | ||
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| I read they can pay you via check or PayPal. If you do PayPal, do they charge you an additional fee? | ||
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| @Tedsaid good comments but few additional comments. If there are multiple books for sale on the same book and with same grade , MCS will only list 1 of them. Could be yours - could be someone else's Reason people would buy via ebay is either a) not aware that you can buy directly from MCS, b0 they have ebucks to spend, c) they wish to retain ebay's protection for purchases I have sold a number of books (both graded and non-graded) via MCS, but reached the conclusion that for the majority of the books I don't benefit from selling via MCS. So still sending a few in but not as much as have done in the past |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Bronte Yes - 3% |
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| @poka Thank you. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Bronte No, they don't. I buy from them, too. MCS is GREAT to buy raws from. They undergrade always, sometimes by quite a bit. Edit: Oh, I just saw Poka's reply, and realized: I don't use PayPal at MCS. I use a credit card. I think of them as the same thing, and there isn't a credit card fee. But I don't know about PayPal specifically, although I can't imagine why it would be different. Edit #2: Okay, I just bought something on MCS, and used PayPal, and they did not charge any extra. The 3% extra is only on commission books, and it looks like it is the same no matter how you pay. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by poka Hi, Poka. Thanks for chiming in. Actually, I've listed multiple books at the same grade before myself. If you have a look, you'll see that there are often multiples of the same book at the same grade. Perhaps you are thinking of the auction? In case of an auction you are right - they don't allow the same book, same grade, same auction. But I don't think the auction is very good on the sale, usually. It can be sometimes, especially for a hot, hard-to-find book. But not usually. So I put most of mine on fixed price. If you were only doing the auction, I would change that, at least for some of yours. I much prefer fixed price sales. |
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@Tedsaid  Also think @Bronte was asking as a seller not a buyer with regard to PayPal fees  |
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Quote:Originally Posted by poka OH! Yes, the eBay listings. That looks to be different. I didn't check. Honestly, I never thought the eBay thing was a big deal. I mean, how many people will actually pay 10% extra when they can just go straight to the site and buy the same book cheaper? (I was so wrong about that.) Yes, you are right, I misread it. They can pay you via PayPal, but I HATE paying 3% for that service. Just send me the check once a week, I'll keep the money. I'll deposit it via my phone anyway, so no problem. One thing I really like with MCS over ComicLink is, ComicLink is sooooooooo slow with payments. Just forget about it, is the easiest way, because it usually takes, like, two months to get paid. MCS sends a check once a week. |
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| @Tedsaid it is ebay policy that a seller can not list same item in two differing listings | ||
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 Ima gonna steal this and look for some occasion to use it!
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| @Tedsaid I certainly agree MCS is quicker to pay than CL. But I believe the the eBay listing is big deal. There is a huge amount of additional exposure of your books when on both MCS and eBay. the additional exposure is a good thing for sellers. Those that buy on eBay instead of MCS aren't really the book owner's concern. The buyer has no idea to whom the books actually belong to. As for payments to sellers, MCS does not send money friends and family. So if you chose to get your payments for books sold sent to your PayPal account, you will be charged - by PayPal - the 3% fee. If buying from MCS on their site and using PayPal or credit cards, there is no surcharge. But then MCS does charge a 3% buyer fee on consigned books) MCS does consistently under grade consignment books. But in my experience that super strict grading doesn't hold true for books MCS actually owns. Likely a return thing. Doing all they can to avoid returns of consignment books |
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Quote:Originally Posted by IronManI have experienced this literally a hundred times and agree. Auction books are strictly graded as opposed to stock items tht in my view are questionable or borderline. ..I have determined from my own point of view that possibly MSC purchases and stock utilize one group or person for grading whereas Este in the consignment area uses a stricter grader. ....perhaps Este herself..unsure what is fact but yes Iron Man nailed this |
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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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| @Tedsaid Quick question about the books sold recently. Are these mostly moderns, silver age? Please let us know more about what has been selling. |
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 I bought a meat grinder on amazon for $60 and it's changed my life.
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Quote:Originally Posted by drchaos I would like to know this as well |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town Hmm ... I wondered about that, but have never noticed this myself. In my experience there hasn't really been a difference between MCS stock and consignments. They do have a LOT of graders, though, to handle the massive amounts of comics that go through there every week. I suspect they are trained on the "acculmulated defects" method, rather than the holistic method. That is, they deduct for every noticed, tiny thing, rather than the CBCS / CGC / Overstreet approach of first looking at the book as a whole and then using noticed flaws or virtues to refine a rough grade. I'll bet they have a checklist of items, and if they see something, they note it, and pay very little attention to the extent of the flaw, or the overall look and feel of the comic. There's an app out there I looked at once, attempting to quantify every item like that, every single flaw. It doesn't work, and in the same way ... the assigned grade ends up being way too tight. I think they know they are too tight, but - as you said - it minimizes returns, and that's the goal. Besides, now that they have a reputation for being tight, and they have automatic algorithms that assign prices based on sales, they don't have to worry so much. "9.2" books that are really 9.6 will be priced at 9.4 or 9.6 prices, while they still get to claim it's "only" a 9.2. (Even though it's not and everyone knows it's not supposed to be.) It's like a guy on eBay saying "I always grade tight" (and thereby undermining his own claim). Except MCS doesn't have to say it ... folks just figure it out on their own. Anyway, as an example a while back I bought an Uncanny X-men variant cover (#4: Brooks) that was MCS stock, advertised as a 9.2. As I suspected, it came back a 9.8. (They have another copy on sale now, but their algorithm has increased the price, to $265. I bought mine at $130. $265 is a good price for a 9.8, but it may come back 9.6. Anyway, too high for me, I think, to make any profit, given the risk. But a good price if you want it for your PC.) But, I will watch out for other examples, of their own books vs. consignments. I don't think Este grades, though. I can't image she has the time. (She's awesome, BTW.) |
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Quote:Originally Posted by kaptainmyke Sure! I'd be glad to post the info. You guys want prices too? I assume so. Probably wouldn't do much good without prices. I will download the info and post it in a little while. Mostly moderns, then bronze age, and only a few silver. My approach is, I generally buy what I like, so I don't really mind so much if it doesn't sell. But I also buy multiples of some comics that I think I can sell, Like Captain America (2018 9th) 2A, or Black Panther #1 Artgerm variant. Sometimes if something sells, I'll go on eBay and pick up 2-3 more raw copies. Not sure how effective that strategy is ... not enough data yet. But it seems to be okay. As an example, I sold a Black Panther #1 in December in auction. It only got $40.00. Two weeks later I sold another in fixed price for $70. Since then I've had another on offer - currently $65.00 - but it hasn't sold. It's been there maybe four months now. But that's fine by me, because raw it's only $4.30, grading it is $22 or so, and I love the art. I know I can dip the price even lower, or auction it, and get more than my money back. I don't generally have a record of the changes in prices offered, or how long they were on offer. Too complicated and time consuming to track that. But maybe you can get a sense of it. |
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| Do you guys want it in order of date sold, or alphabetically? | ||
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| Well, here you go. The dates are a little off. They tell me when they are "sold," then they later change the date to be when the customer paid, and then later change it to be when MCS paid me. So for example, those World's Finest comics I auctions off three weeks ago show three different "sold" dates: May 16th, 23rd, and 30th. Even though they were all auctioned on the same day. I'm pretty sure the ones marked 'auction' (with an 'X' at the end) are correct, but I had to guess based on memory. Item Price Date Auction? Action Comics (2016 3rd Series) 1000BULLET CGC 9.8 $84.95 Apr 04 Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 62 CGC 9.2 $193.00 Mar 14 X Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 114 CGC 8.5 $85.45 May 30 Amazing Spider-Man (2015 4th Series) 25UNKNOWN CGC 9.8 $119.99 Mar 07 Amazing Spider-Man (2017 5th Series) 800HUGHES.A CGC 9.8 $45.00 Jan 10 X Amazing Spider-Man (2017 5th Series) 800HUGHES.A CGC 9.8 $79.99 Feb 20 Aquaman (1962 1st Series) 43 CGC 8.5 $79.95 Jan 31 Aquaman (1962 1st Series) 48 CGC 6.5 $49.95 Jan 31 Avengers (1963 1st Series) 28 CGC 9.0 $399.99 May 09 Batman (1940) 209 CGC 7.0 $59.95 Feb 28 Batman (1940) 211 CGC 8.0 $89.00 Feb 07 Batman (1940) 253 CGC 9.4 $179.95 Mar 21 Batman (1940) 428 CGC 9.4 $79.00 Jan 16 Batman (1940) 428 CGC 9.4 $83.03 May 30 Batman (2016 3rd Series) 50ZMX CGC 9.8 $79.99 Feb 07 Batman Damned (2018 DC) 1A CGC 9.8 $149.99 May 23 Batman Damned (2018 DC) 2A CGC 9.8 $81.00 May 02 X Batman Damned (2018 DC) 2A CGC 9.8 $47.00 May 16 X Batman Damned (2018 DC) 2B CGC 9.8 $51.00 May 02 X Batman White Knight (2017) 3A CGC 9.8 $89.99 Apr 25 Brave and the Bold (1955 1st Series DC) 59 CBCS 7.5 $94.99 Apr 18 Brave and the Bold (1955 1st Series DC) 111 CGC 7.5 $64.00 Feb 28 Captain America (2018 9th Series) 2A CGC 9.8 $59.95 May 02 Captain America (2018 9th Series) 2A CGC 9.8 $79.99 May 09 Damnation Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider (2018 Marvel) 1C CGC 9.8 SS $110.00 Mar 07 X Detective Comics (1937 1st Series) 428 CGC 8.5 $59.00 Jan 03 Flash (2016 5th Series) 46B CGC 9.8 $69.95 Mar 21 Heroes in Crisis (2018 DC) 1D CGC 9.8 $242.00 Mar 07 X Heroes in Crisis (2018 DC) 1D CGC 9.8 $216.00 May 09 X Justice League of America (1960 1st Series) 138 CGC 9.4 $69.00 Apr 10 Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984) 8 CGC 9.4 $139.00 Feb 14 Return of Wolverine (2018 Marvel) 1NYCC CGC 9.8 $136.00 Mar 07 X Shadow (1973 1st Series DC) 1 CGC 9.4 $119.99 Jan 31 Star Wars (1977 Marvel) 1 CGC 8.5 $169.99 May 09 Strange Adventures (1950 1st Series) 205 CBCS 5.0 $294.45 May 16 Swamp Thing (1972 1st Series) 1 CGC 8.5 $315.00 May 02 Tarzan (1972 DC) 223 CGC 9.2 $49.00 May 30 Teen Titans (2016 6th Series) 12A CGC 9.8 $399.00 Mar 07 Venom (2018 Marvel) 1A CGC 9.8 $74.99 Jan 03 Venom (2018 Marvel) 3A CGC 9.8 $89.00 Feb 20 Venom (2018 Marvel) 3A CGC 9.8 $109.99 Mar 21 Venom (2018 Marvel) 4A CGC 9.8 $59.95 May 09 World's Finest (1941) 129 CGC 6.0 $62.00 May 30 X World's Finest (1941) 141 CGC 8.0 $69.00 May 30 X World's Finest (1941) 142 CGC 6.0 $129.99 Feb 20 World's Finest (1941) 153 CGC 5.5 $56.00 May 16 X World's Finest (1941) 212 CGC 9.6 $100.00 May 23 X World's Finest (1941) 213 CGC 9.4 $35.00 May 30 X World's Finest (1941) 219 CGC 9.0 $31.00 May 30 X |
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Maybe an image is easier to read |
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| This may have been mentioned already (TL,DR). MCS.com also keeps a list of WTBs. So if you list a book that someone has on their list they send a notice to the potential buyer. As of the last time I sold on MCS this marketing service was free, unlike eBay. | ||
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