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I’m downsizing my collection. I have zero comic grading experience and I can’t even find prices for these on Ebay to get an idea of what they are selling for. I am guessing my copies are somewhere between FN and NM since I bought them when they were released and have only removed them from the bags and boards to read through once. I’ve seen the TPB float around $30 here and there, but I never see the books listed to know what I should be asking for them. Planned to put them up on my Ebay and Mercari shop. I have seen the individual prices for some of the David Aja covers, but they can’t seriously be going for that, right?
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No one in their right mind is gonna pay that for the Psylocke cover. Since Ebay prices tend to be really inflated, on a lot of things, I don’t really know what is fair pricing on these. Anybody have wisdom to share?
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Well, for starters, you need to look at sold listings.

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Most of them appear to have the Best Offer accepted, though.


Never underestimate the people who have more money than brains, especially on ebay.

I did not know that was a thing! How do I do that?


This is true.

To find Completed or Sold Listings, if you're on a computer, look at the options on the left of your screen while searching. On mobile, hit "Filter", scroll down, hit "Show More", and then keep scrolling.

Thank you! I never knew that sold listings would show up in the regular search! I’d been using Ebay for 13 years and never came across it. lol.

Keep in mind if you list it to sell, what you list it for is not what you get. E-Bay and PayPal type fee's will eat up around 15 to 16% of the sale price and shipping you charge depending on the selling price and terms you're under.

The search results they display aren't complete. Many sold items do not show in the results and the ones that do only go back a short period of time. For scarce items that aren't getting a lot of sales the results can be misleading. Other information in the sold listing results can be misleading like displaying incorrect shipping charges as opposed to what was actually charged.

If you have any doubt, set your price on the high side of what you want or think it should go for. You can always lower it later but you can't get what you're afraid to ask for. You only get one chance to get it right.

I wouldn't jump on the first offer for less either. Give it time to see what can actually happen. I've had people try to low ball me and later the same day someone else buys the item for what it was listed at because I didn't jump the first offer. Just yesterday I had someone wasting time trying to get me to lower a price on a comic. It was priced at cover price plus E-Bay mark up and I bought it from Diamond at 35% discount at that time plus had to pay shipping to get it delivered so the bottom line was selling at the price listed would have only cleared about a buck in profit potential. Figure it takes about 20 minutes to fetch, pack ship, walk it over to the post office and back meaning I could do about 3 an hour meaning an income potential of about $3 an hour. I'd be willing to bet the person asking me to do it for less wouldn't dream of taking a job paying that little.

If you get a sale watch where it's shipping to. There are some scammers playing the system at E-Bay using freight forwarders. The claim item damage type and ship back an empty envelope types. The more valuable or scarce something is the more it attracts their attention. Google them before shipping when there's no name in the ship to part of the address. There's some that change E-Bay names over and over again as they get banned but come back using the same ship to address with each new account. When in doubt, Google them out.

Also, keep in mind how many other items you've sold this year. There's a very low threshold before you may end up with tax implications you may not want. If you don't want the headache it may be better to offer up in person thru another venue with a cash sale/trade.

Oh my goodness gracious! I hadn't realized how treacherous it was to sell things on-line! I don't know how anyone does it.

I’m in many different hobbies and know the woes of online buying/selling scams all too well. However, I had yet to hear of the ones using the freight forwarders. I appreciate the advice! A few years ago, a friend of mine ordered something really expensive off ebay and she didn’t realize where it was shipping from. I think it was something stupid like a hot tub (why would you buy something like that online when you have never seen it in person?). It was coming from China, so she had a few months to wait for it to get here. When her “package” arrived, she got a bubble mailer in her mailbox. They sent her a f***ing Lego brick in a bubble mailer! It was a package that had tracking and it was able to make the sale “go through the motions” to fool Ebay into thinking the “product” had been shipped. She had to file a claim and get her money back, but I laughed so hard when she showed me her new “hot tub” lego brick! When it comes to my sales, I usually check to see when my buyer’s accounts were created, if they have any feedback and what their shipping info is. I actually canceled an ebay sale for something not comic related that I was selling the other day because the buyer had made an account two days before the sale and had zero feedback. It was an auction-style listing and they still hadn’t paid after two days.

As for the 5 Ronin lot, I ended up selling them for $120 on Ebay. Could I have gotten more? Maybe, but to be honest, the books themselves weren’t that great of a read in my opinion, so I assume it is just cover art + scarcity = $ for these ones. I’m happy with what I sold them for. I usually have a good idea of the value of most things before I sell them, but I was a little confused when I saw the ridiculous amounts people were trying to ask for the individual books (mainly the Psylocke cover). Like….y’all never seen a naked and tattooed back before? I know it’s more than that, but I had to laugh a little. I’m happy with the price I got for the lot and if that person turns around to resell them, no big deal. I decluttered some books that weren’t getting any love any more. The Aja covers are nice looking, but if I just wanted the cover art, I could buy a print and frame it.