Talk about anything you want, so long as it's about comics!
|
stuartc92 Posts: 3
1/20/2016
|
Hi folks,
I'm new to the site, mainly joining because I inherited a reasonably sized DC Superman comic collection from a family member. I sifted through some of it today, plugging in some issue numbers for rough valuations so I knew where I stood roughly. The comics range from 1960's through to the 90's, which condition varying.
From what I can establish from the price guide on this site, most sit around the 8.0-9.4 mark, but in some have yellowish pages or minor creases, with some older ones having tape on the binding, graded at about 5.0 or so. All in all, as it stands tonight, the collection sits at 553 titles, but I still have some few boxes left to add.
I'm just wondering, as I'm looking at selling the comics, is it possible to link my collection that I have on this profile to a sales advert under the classified section, as I only seen an option to connect an ebay listing. Also, what are the main differences between RAW and GRADED values?
Thanks for your help,
Stuart
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
netstuffers Administrator Posts: 239
1/25/2016
|
stuartc92 wrote:
Should I use this valuation with a pinch of salt, or is it a more reliable basis to work off?
Price guides are always the latter. At the end of the day, a comic book is worth only as much as someone will give you for it. We could list a book for $5, but you could happen upon a serious collector and the book you have is the only book missing in his collection. So he offers you $200 just to make sure he gets the last book. Does this mean the book you sold was actually worth $200 in the open market?
No... it's probably, on average, still going to sell for $5.
Use what you find here as a starting point for negotiations and adjust based on the situation you're in. A dealer is almost always going to offer you less, a super fan probably more, and private collectors always in-between. 
|
|
|
+1
link
|
