lol. Yeah…that is so not driving to the root of the problem
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File this under mildly inappropriate children’s toys…
Kids didn’t buy it but it was the #1 toy bought by moms in 1984 they “forgot” to give their kids for Christmas.
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Preference of white or no white of the board showing at the bottom of a bagged and boarded comic? I’ve been storing them without caring and wondering if it even matters.
I remember seeing them in the Universal studios gift shop on clearance in the late mid 80’s for a couple of years. Whenever we would have family visit and they wanted to go to the park there was that toy in the shop next to where the Conan the Barbarian live action show used to be. I was too old for toys but still liked to collect a few every now and then, but even as a young kid, I was like, there is something funny about these… Not haha funny, though. I think they were around twelve bucks or something like that so I wish I did muster up the courage to buy one even if it meant a bunch of stares from strangers and a long talk from my father when we got home.
Spent Sunday on the baseball fields. Was out at 8 AM getting the field ready for my 12U team. We played until 11 and then over to the local high school that was having a 16u tournament my older son was playing in. Joe went 4 for 9 with a big double and 3 RBI’s. Came in to pitch in the championship. Only one strikeout but rolls those kids over into pop outs so that his 15U team took home the gold against 16U teams. As always, love comics but would sacrifice them all for one more day on the field with Joe and Sam.
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Really cool snapshot of printing, creating and collecting comics in 1995. Starts with a look at the Quebecor printing plant, then visits with artists Sid Couchey (Richie Rich) and inker Ray McCarthy (DC), and then ends with supercollector Christine Farrell’s massive collection going back to the '30s. Heritage is going to auction some of her books later this month.
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Question for you sellers. I’ve found that the hot books I put on ebay sell in a flash, and the rest tend to linger on collect cobwebs. I do sell a rando book here and there, but not often.
Do you ever pull the crap you don’t sell down or just let them renew forever? I have some books that have probably been up at $8 for 2 years. They aren’t going anywhere. I’m tempted to clean house and pull a bunch of that down.
Thoughts?
If you don’t go over the max each month, it shouldn’t hurt anything. You never know when something might sell. You may still get offers
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This 
%. The only problem I have is when one does sell that’s sat for years, can I find it? Fortunately 99% of my eBay listings are in one of two short boxes.
The other thing is that someone may buy one thing from you, then browse your listing and ask if you would discount/combining shipping.
Best to keep all your options open until eBay requires you to pay just to keep the listing active. I never hit my 250/month limit.
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I do this all the time. If I’m about to buy something from someone on ebay, I have a look at what else they’ve got. It’s hit or miss if people will combine shipping or not, but if there’s something else there I’m interested in, it makes it easier to jump on it.
The worst I saw recently was someone had a bunch of small auctions set up for a handful of older books each, but each auction was staggered from the others by about a day. They had several auctions I was interested in, but what a hassle to have to consider ‘if I won this auction will they hold it another day until that auction ends and again until the next one?’ It wasn’t a great deal price-wise but if they were timed to end within an hour or so of each other, I might have still bid on several auctions just to grab them all up and combine shipping. I ended up not bidding, no one else bid, and they still sit there on new auctions.
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I’ve been thinking about this lately. I do have some books there that has 0 views going on for a year or 2 but it’s cover price fodder stuff. I’m thinking of just selling things as a lot.
However sometimes the most random stuff do sell out of nowhere. Was buying stuff from $1 sales at my shop and saw some Street Fighter swimsuit edition. Thought what the hell, I’ll pick these up for a $1. Started cleaning out stuff recently and decided to list these and see what happens. Sold within a few hours.
Recently I had someone contacted me about combined shipping. He wanted to buy about 25-30 books from my listings. He wanted to buy 7 copies of Batman 125 (first Failsafe design variant). I had about 25 copies of this and had sold them for $20-$30 each in the past. Had about 10 copies left that weren’t selling, didn’t mind selling them for cover price since it had just been sitting there and I’ve already made my money when they were hot.
He looked over my listings and bought all kinds of random junk from me and books that were hot in the past and are no longer like Grim from boom. Also bought 2 copies of New X-men 27 Momoko cover of Maystorm for $42 each.
Altogether bought a lot of stuff that was just sitting there, so I was happy to get rid of them. So happy with the sale I waived his shipping cost and I threw in 2 free comics. He told me he was a Batman collector so I threw in Detective Comics 27 facsimile and a Batman 442.
Love these sales when a buyer goes through my stuff and puts it all in the cart. I only have about a 100 listings so now I’ve been thinking about taking selling more seriously and listing more of my stuff. I know a lot of you don’t like ebay but I really enjoy the aspect of just taking a few pictures and let the listing sit there until it sells.
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According to scooper @MyTimeToShineH’s latest scoop, “I can reveal that [Robert Downey Jr.]'s Doctor Doom will have a role in Spider-Man 4.”
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I loved that game so much
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I have anywhere between 175 and 200 listings at a time. Like having variety up and not have pressure to list a bunch more. Also have a bunch of listings on Mercari. From time to time older stuff movies. Just sold a 2023 NYCC exclusive that has been up for two years.
I would have 175-200 listings but the stuff I list keeps selling 
. I like having a mixture of hot books and random fodder, a big mix of stuff. I’m on vacation this week and I’ve already had 8 sales. Would’ve had another 6 more as someone made me an offer for 6 different sets of Groo books and tpbs. It was a lowball offer so i declined all 6. I’m talking about a 25% offer of my listing. 
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Amen, bro. I remember going back and forth between Shinobi and Operation: Wolf at the convenience store.
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Finally, after I think 2 years, I got notification that TFAW is shipping my “What’s The Furthest Place From Here #1” with Vinyl 2nd Printing… 
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