Is it worth it for me?9329

Originally Posted by etapi65
I'm reading this strictly from a "does slabbing make me more money" perspective. The answer is probably "no". Keep reading for why if you want.
Grading costs $18/book. Shipping to CBCS is...$20ish for 10ish books sending it securely priority mail (with insurance, which you'd want to do). Shipping back is a little over $40. So $24.00 per book investment. a 9.8 first doomsday CBCS BIN of just under $59.00clickable text 6 sold, 6 more available. $15.00 shipping and handling. So you bring in $74.00...paypal/ebay take about 10% of that total ($7.40). SO you make $51.60 total on the comic..graded...if it's a 9.8. subtract the $24.00 you spend getting it graded. You got $27.60. So you went through the trouble of grading, waited minimum 6 weeks for the turn around...if it then grades a 9.8, you've made less than $28.00 on the First app doomsday. Spawn #1 if it came back a 9.8 might be worth it, but remember, this is spreading out the shipping there, and back among 10 comics. If you're only submitting 1 comic, so the entire cost of shipping is comic out of that one comic. You'd make $40-$50. I see a lot of Spawn #1s posted for $75.00+, but I don't see anything of them selling. There are several in the $50-$60 range that seem to sell. I see a BIN for $86.00 clickable text For people saying stuff sells on ebay for "50% value"...a comic is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. I don't go into my LCS and spend $400 for a book available on ebay for $200...so it's worth $200.

Originally Posted by ZosoRocks
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Originally Posted by etapi65
I'm reading this strictly from a "does slabbing make me more money" perspective. The answer is probably "no". Keep reading for why if you want.
Grading costs $18/book. Shipping to CBCS is...$20ish for 10ish books sending it securely priority mail (with insurance, which you'd want to do). Shipping back is a little over $40. So $24.00 per book investment. a 9.8 first doomsday CBCS BIN of just under $59.00clickable text 6 sold, 6 more available. $15.00 shipping and handling. So you bring in $74.00...paypal/ebay take about 10% of that total ($7.40). SO you make $51.60 total on the comic..graded...if it's a 9.8. subtract the $24.00 you spend getting it graded. You got $27.60. So you went through the trouble of grading, waited minimum 6 weeks for the turn around...if it then grades a 9.8, you've made less than $28.00 on the First app doomsday. Spawn #1 if it came back a 9.8 might be worth it, but remember, this is spreading out the shipping there, and back among 10 comics. If you're only submitting 1 comic, so the entire cost of shipping is comic out of that one comic. You'd make $40-$50. I see a lot of Spawn #1s posted for $75.00+, but I don't see anything of them selling. There are several in the $50-$60 range that seem to sell. I see a BIN for $86.00 clickable text For people saying stuff sells on ebay for "50% value"...a comic is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. I don't go into my LCS and spend $400 for a book available on ebay for $200...so it's worth $200.

Lol - uhm - maybe for the future investment bin?

Thanks for responding.

If you have not a premium membership...yep..
Upwards of $41.00 per book...round trip.

With a membership level...cost reduces.

And not to promote CBCS...but i have used them and CGC - and it is worth it for an investment.

Not everyone is on board i would imagine, - but I am a DC Doomsday fan...i may be biased a bit...lol

Originally Posted by etapi65
For people saying stuff sells on ebay for "50% value"...a comic is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. I don't go into my LCS and spend $400 for a book available on ebay for $200...so it's worth $200.