So my advice is to set aside a large chunk of time, take a big pile of comics and carefully examine each book and practice, practice, practice your grading until you are reasonably confident that you have perfected it. One that is done, assign a grade to each of your books. It is only when you actually have a qualitative and quantitative idea of what you possess, that you are ready to list on eBay. Of course, there are untold numbers of people out there that just list any old thing any way they please, and, in fact, they are probably the majority, You don't want to be one of them.

One last thing about the refund policy. DO NOT use it as a "crutch" or an "out" to make up for over-grading! Many, many sellers out there PURPOSELY over-grade their books and use their refund policy to get them off the hook for the relatively small percentage of folks who take advantage of the return policy. If you know how to grade, refunds will be miniscule! But if you do refund, re-imburse the customer's return shipping as well. By offering a refund you are implicitly admitting some fault in the process, so don't penalize the customer. Just take note of his/her name so that they don't repeatedly take advantage.

What are yu looking at selling off. .... from which era I mean.



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Youe auction format should depend on how valuable your books are. The less valuable, the more books to one auction you should have. If it is an expensive book, it can have its own auction listing. If you have any books of significant value up for auction you will need front and back cover scans. For many later in the run books you should group them together. I would round up to the next dollar on the shipping costs. If it tends to cost you $6 to ship something, charge $7. If you have a group of books that is a large lot (20-50 books), just flat rate ship it. Charge $10 and use the USPS flat rate box. Start listings off at 99 cents. Only have them end Sunday thru Thursday between 8 and 11 est.

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Yeah, I was wondering the same thing but maybe he meant to say end Thurs - Sun.  I personally like to have most of auctions end on Sunday night, well my comic auctions that is.  The majority of the stuff I sell on ebay I have ending throughout the week around 9pm, I use the Buy It Now option so it doesnt really matter when they end.

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