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| Ever wonder how much a dealer would give you for your books? What is the real value of your collection to that dealer? Well, you know that buying from dealers or ebay is market price or replacement price. But how much would a dealer pay you? I found this today and wonder what you all think. Let me warn you, it is my expectation that they are not much different then anyone else. Hence the reason you never want to sell to a dealer if you can avoid it. http://www.milehighcomics.com/buying/mv-buying-df.html
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I knew I would never sell books to a dealer just from watching transactions when I first started collecting. I used to hang out at the LCS and chat with the dealer way back in elementary school and was always surprised how little people got.
I understand it (not so much than), but I would feel like I was giving my collection away. Nowadays it doesn't matter, I'll never sell my collection to anyone.
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Comic dealers are like lawyers.
They'll take you for everything you got.
I'm coming for you Fantastic Four #48!!!
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| hmmmmmmm. All I can say is my personal collection is worth more to me then someone else. JJ
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| A dealer won't be in business long if he pays market value and sells at market value. They have to make a profit to stay in business. And an entire collection will be full of books that can't be moved immediately, so there is 'cost' in having them in inventory for any extended period of time that must be taken into consideration. If you were to sell your entire collection as one auction on eBay, you probably would not make much more than a dealer would offer you for a lot of the same reasons. Unless you're selling individual books yourself (which takes more time and work on your part) you won't get anywhere near 'market value', and then only for hot, key or popular books.
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| You can do the same over at Mycomicshop.com. They allow you to list all the books you're willing to sell and you can see when Lone Star needs a book you have since it is added to a sell list. The prices they'll pay are pretty small for most books (about 30 cents for most moderns), but they seem to have decent prices for some indi material ($1 to $2). You're not going to get rich, but for modern material you're not likely to do much better on eBay. I just traded in about 850 unwanted/duplicate comics for about $1,100 in store credit. Then turned around and filled in my early Amazing Spider-Man collection. They are not currently offering cash back, but for my purposes that was fine. I'm sure I could have made more for some of the books if I was willing to spend the time posting them on ebay, but most of the stuff I sold were single issues duplicates moderns or parts of series I picked up for cheep at local comic shop sales before I started running out of space. These types of things don't really do well on ebay. Anyway, they have a decent set up. Like Mile High, they allow you to submit a book at a particular grade and then they'll grade the book themselves and allow you to choose whether you'll accept there counter offer or have the book returned. I found they accepted my grade in a bulk of my submitted books, but they seem to be stricter in their grading then I assumed based on books I'd bought from them.
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coffeeman27 (10/15/2009)
The prices they'll pay are pretty small for most books (about 30 cents for most moderns), but they seem to have decent prices for some indi material ($1 to $2). You're not going to get rich, but for modern material you're not likely to do much better on eBay.
You ain't kidding coffeeman27. They are offering $24 for a NM Walking Dead #1. That's about 10% of what you'd get for it on ebay. But that store credit thing is appealing. I wish that my LCS had that.
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The prices they'll pay are pretty small for most books (about 30 cents for most moderns), but they seem to have decent prices for some indi material ($1 to $2). You're not going to get rich, but for modern material you're not likely to do much better on eBay. You ain't kidding coffeeman27. They are offering $24 for a NM Walking Dead #1. That's about 10% of what you'd get for it on ebay. But that store credit thing is appealing. I wish that my LCS had that. TEX My point was that I was able to sell off a lot of low value maderns that I wouldn't have been able to get rid of otherwise. I may not of gotten much for them, but I likely wouldn't have gotten anything for them if I tried to sell them off on eBay or my local dealer. Now I certainly wouldn't recommend selling off high value moderns or most bronze age or earlier books which do still hold their value and are in demand on eBay. I certainly wouldn't sell them my copy of Walking Dead 1 even if I wanted to get rid of it  I am also holding off selling them individual issues of larger series were I have the complete sets. While I might make a little on the one issue, I'd end up getting stuck with the rest of the series. At some point I plan on selling of some complete sets or large runs on ebay. I still won't make much, but at least I won't be stuck with incomplete runs.
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where does everything here sell yalls books?
i post at the CGC forums and i not sure about ebay and comic link and such....trying to sale my FF 5 but im not having luck at the CCG board
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Smallville417 (10/14/2009)
I knew I would never sell books to a dealer just from watching transactions when I first started collecting. I used to hang out at the LCS and chat with the dealer way back in elementary school and was always surprised how little people got.
I understand it (not so much than), but I would feel like I was giving my collection away. Nowadays it doesn't matter, I'll never sell my collection to anyone.
The only way to maximize the value of a transaction with your friendly neighborhood LCS dealer is to trade. Period. And even then, you lose. I learned that the hard way too. If I'm moving comics to a dealer in this city, I've managed to maneuver myself into a position where I'll get 75%/80% of the value of what I'm giving him in exchange for my stack... and that's good. Most of them will give you 50% in cash and 60% in trade, which is ridiculous, but they justify it by saying that because they have the storefront to actually sell the comic much more easily than you can, that 40-50% margin is warranted.
I eBay my comics, if and when I sell them, and I only sell full runs, 1sts and keys when I find something in better condition to replace it, and the process of running the auction, paying the fee, shipping the comics and sometimes getting far less than you'd hoped for in the open-ended auctions to be extremely tedious. For a dealer, he/she has the marketplace and the access to more on-site customers than we as independent collectors do, so they pay peanuts and charge, from what I've seen, about 5-10% more than a comic is worth in whatever grade it's in.
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