I am at a point in life where I want to sell my comic collection and I have been mainly using ebay and mercari. What other options are there to sell a collection. I have not used criagslist or facebook marketplace. any insights appreciated.
Looking to sell it all at once or trying to piecemeal it out?
Posting key books individually so far on ebay because these are the easiest to sell. No idea how to sell the $1 books.
Hit up local shops and or do a craigslist garage sale ad to dump the rest. If they’re truly just $1, you just take the best offer… if there is one to be made!
I tend to just cut my losses on the worthless books and dump them off at Half Price. Sure you’re getting pennies on the original cost but if they’re books you know will likely never heat up, etc, it’s just an easy way to rid of them.
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Local comic store for things not keys or popular books. At that point, you are at the shops mercy and take what you can get. Also factor in that you don’t have to ship if you sell to a shop
Flea Market.
There’s always someone, somewhere, who wants the books you don’t want even if they’re not more than a buck or so
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If you in an income tax situation where you itemize your deductions, you can donate to a charity/Goodwill. Say you are in a 25% tax bracket and donating $1 comics, that $0.25 per comic tax deduction is worth more than a LCS offering you $0.10 a book. There is a $5,000 value limit before things get complicated.
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Give them out to the community. Spread some love. I find that it is not worth the effort to sell the non-key issues.
Oh. Do NOT give any of the #1 issues of Star Wars titles produced by Dark Horse away.
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I do this every year! Last year I donated 1200 comics to the library…and it helped a ton on my tax return last week. Everybody wins!!
…make sure to ask for a donation/tax form…to make it official.
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So i have been selling on ebay for the past couple of years on a part time based but still have over 50 long boxes. geeez how do i get rid of the comics faster at a decent price.
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Faster and decent price usually do not align when selling comics. If you want to sell fast you’re either bulking (by the box) them out or selling in groups / lots under value.
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Do small shows at $50 - $85 per table.
You may feel like the $50 - 85 is alot, but bear in mind those terrible Ebay fees; and then it all makes sense and easier to handle.
Not to mention the cash only, face-to-face sales which are both “final” sales and no 1099 issued at the end of the year with cash only. 
I shall say no more than that.
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@Bill is correct about shows being a good way to unload cheap books. Make some dollar boxes, get your table at a popular local show, make some scratch. Rinse and repeat.
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Those of you that do smaller shows, like VFW halls. If you bring a bunch of cheap books how are your sales? I understand lots of variables play into this, pricing, turn out, inventory, etc. I’m planning to do some smaller shows next year and just trying to get an idea. Is it a couple hundred or can you pull close to $1,000?
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I did $600 first flea market I set up at. All $3 books. $1 books didn’t do much for me. Second show I set up at I pocketed about $100 off $3 books after costs
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I just did a small church show in the Northeast 2 weekends ago.
I netted around $700 after table fees.
75% $1 - $3 books.
The rest were priced accordingly.
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So what do you put in $1 & $2 bins. Books from pre 2010 (I.e. cover prices $3 or less) or are you putting more moderns ($4 and up)?
Wonder what’s moving for you specifically.
Low grade common bronze superhero comics sold very well for me. ($1/$2/$3)
Interestingly I sold a whole lot of lower grade Gold Key & Charltons from the late 60s/70’s as well - Partridge Family, Harlem Globetrotters, Bobby Sherman. The guy thanked me for not carrying so much Superhero books. 
There were definitely 2010 timeframe issues in there as well.
I find a lot of silver and golden age low grade books for a dollar or less, new bag and board, pepper them in from time to time, I am personally selling failed spec books or more recent books I got for less than a dollar
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