ComicsPriceGuide.com Forums - CPG - Questions and Answers - Comic Price Guide as "Go To" for Comic Sales - Messages https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=12050 ComicsPriceGuide.com Forums - CPG - Questions and Answers - Comic Price Guide as "Go To" for Comic Sales - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:35:23 GMT Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:35:23 GMT https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=12050 Message from kds_comics Ronbatman wrote:
We've talked about something like that. It would be for paying members since our competitors often copy things on our site. Most people would be shocked at the number of comics bought and sold on CPG everyday. Those sales help us stay current with our pricing.

Pudding!



Should come up with a big sign saying "Pay Damn YOU!!!" Okay, maybe not.
And don't call me Shirley. Don't call me pudding either please.
edited by kds_comics on 4/9/2018]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:35:23 GMT https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=12050 Message from Ronbatman
Pudding!]]> Wed, 04 Apr 2018 14:55:41 GMT https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=12050 Message from kds_comics Wed, 04 Apr 2018 14:48:30 GMT https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=12050 Message from Oxbladder Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:56:31 GMT https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=12050 Message from Ronbatman
But I also think we've made amazing progress on our attentiveness. Everyone who has emailed, called or messaged us, knows that we answer and try to help. Oxbladder has a valid point about focusing on the core business and we've done that recently. On the other side of things, we need to keep dreaming and imagining what CPG could be. Maybe the auction isn't something we tackle in the next 6 months but after that, who knows?]]> Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:47:57 GMT https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=12050 Message from Oxbladder Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:35:01 GMT https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=12050 Message from expander
Say from the the top four or five contributors of ideas.

Let the creative teams hear first hand the excitement in our voices when we get going on an idea and bounce real time questions off of one another to really get some of these things rolling.

I know a lot of contributions to the site are made on a volunteer basis but for those who are actually employed by cpg lets work together on some genuine fixes.]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2018 04:08:10 GMT https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=12050 Message from Ronbatman Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:31:28 GMT https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=12050 Message from kds_comics Ronbatman wrote:
Robert, thank you for your well thought out suggestions. We will strongly consider everything you've said.

I have sold on eBay and realize how much money they take. Total fees for my personal sales were between 20 and 25%! (for July 2017- January 2018) That is painfully too much. We have a unique opportunity here because of eBay's greed. Currently, there are tens of thousands of books for sale on CPG and plenty of sales, but we want to expand this. Our short-term goal is to develop a feedback system to build buyer confidence. It would include an automated "responsiveness" evaluation. If someone makes you an offer and you don't respond within 7 days your responsiveness rating will be lowered. We do not plan to implement any kind of percentage. I agree with you completely, percentage kills sales.
Ron


A suggested alternative is to have a "once a month" auction for a few days. This will allow you regular time to do stuff with and limit your time/effort/overtime on the programming push for a few days.

KDS]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2018 09:10:38 GMT https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=12050 Message from expander Canadaguy59 wrote:

I am in the position of having 9,000 comics that I don't know where to sell upset I have them all catalogued on Comic Collector for anyone to view, but would like to list them here. How can I do that en-masse, without having to enter them one at a time? Thanks


Depending on how you want to sell them it's a simple matter of time/effort put into listing them versus simply liquidating them all at once if you want more $ out of them then it would be advisable to part out the more valuable books and key issues first then splitting the remaining books into lots or if like you said you want to sell them en-masse then contacting a buyer like mycomicshop.com or an auction house (local or otherwise) would be your best bet.

Either way you'll still have to come up with a general list of what you have. either a text document or excel spreadsheet that you can email to a potential buyer would greatly help you out as far as selling the whole lot.

try a few google searches on comic book auctions and see if some one would be willing to let you consign them to an auction. A local auction would cut out the added hassle and cost of shipping them.]]> Fri, 09 Mar 2018 05:33:13 GMT https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=12050 Message from Canadaguy59 expander wrote:
some one call my name????


JK

I Agree. Maybe in addition to this there are a lot of people who have no interest in comics who end up (here) with inherited collections.

Maybe we can offer a service that will find those collections homes either in the form of auctions or donations and, depending on whether they are sold as a whole lot or parted out.



I am in the position of having 9,000 comics that I don't know where to sell upset I have them all catalogued on Comic Collector for anyone to view, but would like to list them here. How can I do that en-masse, without having to enter them one at a time? Thanks]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:29:15 GMT https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=12050 Message from expander

JK

I Agree. Maybe in addition to this there are a lot of people who have no interest in comics who end up (here) with inherited collections.

Maybe we can offer a service that will find those collections homes either in the form of auctions or donations and, depending on whether they are sold as a whole lot or parted out.]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2018 03:55:18 GMT https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=12050 Message from Ronbatman
I have sold on eBay and realize how much money they take. Total fees for my personal sales were between 20 and 25%! (for July 2017- January 2018) That is painfully too much. We have a unique opportunity here because of eBay's greed. Currently, there are tens of thousands of books for sale on CPG and plenty of sales, but we want to expand this. Our short-term goal is to develop a feedback system to build buyer confidence. It would include an automated "responsiveness" evaluation. If someone makes you an offer and you don't respond within 7 days your responsiveness rating will be lowered. We do not plan to implement any kind of percentage. I agree with you completely, percentage kills sales.
Ron]]> Wed, 07 Mar 2018 11:29:27 GMT https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=12050 Message from kds_comics
Currently the obvious leader is eBay - due to volume.
There are also My Comic Shop and several other lesser know site like Comic Book Realms and Sell My Comics

Suggestions
1) Take the best features from the leader -
a) Organize by Modern, Copper, Bronze, Silver, Golden Age
b) Make the sales area searchable
c) Charge a small fee either for listing or for sales
d) Allow a sale page to link to PayPal via HTML.
2) Improve on the leader's model
a) Do not charge percentage - this kills sales. Just charge a small fee per completed transaction.
b) Total comic sales in ad must be over $7.50 (or what ever we think is a good minimum. Perhaps $4 price of a new comic) There is no money and too much junk on eBay for $1 each comics. Ridiculous.
c) Give the little guy a better chance. eBay is littered with dealers who have employees with little to do early in the day writing eBay ads. The purpose appears to be more for free advertising than real sales.
d) CPG needs to implement a system to certify sellers (or a rating). I give a money back guarantee. I am sure many others here would do as well. Most of us are collectors, not dealers.

What is good not that people don't know

3) I was able to link directly to my "make an offer" page for a specific comic in the classified ads. Perhaps you could automate this process to make it easier.
4) Facebook just does not cut it as a sales vehicle

Suggestion for improvement

4) Although CPG asks for minimum I will take - there is room for negotiation. I think you should revive the auction "one cent" minimum with a reserve by the seller. eBay has killed this feature with ridiculous fee for creating a reserve.

Have I used the term "ridiculous:" enough with eBay?

Okay - let's focus on CPG. Good luck. I am invested in the process and hope you succeed.

KDS (Robert)]]> Wed, 07 Mar 2018 09:51:18 GMT