So looking to significantly thin out my collection. I’ve got a lot of books I picked up over the years that didn’t pan out…and willing to let go for under $5 we’ll say. Most I’d be happy with taking home LPA thing you were asking about the other day $2 after all fees.
I’m not in a rush or in dire straights to move at bulk either. I’m still into this hobby, but I just would like to move more books out than I’m taking in volume wise.
After some thought, I’m not interested in setting up at shows or flea markets. Basically what I’m leaning to is setting up an online store.
I think I could put less effort to get that same $2 take home, as long as my prices are low enough (basically clearance) and its easy/accessible for people to search through my online listings and combine shipping…incentivize to buy multiple books.
The key is, it has to be easy for me to list. I find Taking and manipulating pictures, and writing the listing to be 90% of the work.
95% of stock would be NM or better and modern (with bar codes). So at bargin prices picks and descriptions should not matter to my audience.
I’m thinking a eBay store, and/or Atomic Avenue . But would like some feature where I can scan and list. No pictures,
Minimal effort in the title. If I need to purchase a scanner or app I’ll do so.
I’m going to look into Atomic Avenue as all their listings are pretty much that. Stock photos and basic listings of a sellers stock. And you can set minimum $ amounts for sales.
But are there any other sites out there like this? Does ebay stores have feature which allow you to scan and list quickly?
Does anyone else do this already? I want to minimize the manual labor involved in listing as much as possible.
Not sure if this helps or not but there is a comic shop on Ebay (Pleasant View Comics) that keeps showing up in my Ebay sold searches that sells quite a few low end books regularly, 300-400 a day. But. They list most of those lower end comics between $8.99 and $9.99 and only charge $1.99 shipping for as many books as you buy, and they run a coupon or sale pretty much all the time. The books they are selling are typically $1/$2 bin books with some better. Right now they have a 20% off sale. They have almost 300,000 listings. I’m always amazed to see how many books they move on any given day.
You instantly killed the flea market / comic show idea. I sell a lot of bulk at flea markets for $3.
Also. Could do a comic yard sale and put the books outside on a spring Saturday listed at all comics $3 each and have people come to you. Make sure you tell them that this is all you have.
The reason is I don’t want the stress and work of hauling long boxes back and forth, and having to watch over my stock to prevent thieves, while being distracted by questions or a sale…
After gas and fees what do I net selling $2-$3 books? Maybe $1?
I’m an introvert…although I can do it, making conversation with people is exhausting to me. Live Sales is not my thing.
It’s also why I haven’t dabbled into eBay live or Whatnot.
If you enjoy sitting/standing there, having conversations with people and the above doesn’t stress you out…I can see it being attractive. I think I’d be miserable, saying to myself “I’d rather be on the other side of this table” the entire time.
I may even just take what I have (that I don’t want to deal with anymore) and see if anyone will for take it off my hands for $1/book. That’s an option too.
But mostly Im wondering about how fast I can upload stuff and get it live. The ability to do this on my schedule and efficiently is what’s most appealing.
You could just package it up as premium bulk stock to see if one person wants it. You won’t get $5 per book or anywhere close, but if ease of sale is a priority, that might just be worth it.
I tend to do the same. I have a buyer who takes my extra stuff. I know I could get more with more effort. But, I just want to be rid of it and get SOMETHING in return.
Looking deeper into atomic avenue. Seems like it uses inventory from comicbase to list items. And I think I can use a scanner to add inventory. Scanners are about $100.
Anyone here use comicbase? Seems I have an account…probably last logged in 15 years ago, lol.
But I don’t see any fees as of yet. Although I’ve spent all of 10 minutes researching.
