How to Sell Comics on eBay (My Beginner Tips)

[@runeboyz7]

if you buy a lot of books off eBay then save the shipping materials. you will save money

[@thecatwrangler9448]

Most of us wouldn’t know to look that heavy in order to call out the seller on misleading descriptions, personally I’m grateful of you to use that as an example because that really brought it all together for me and even though I planned on being transparent I’m now going to be a lot more aware while buying books

[@ComicCulture]

My pleasure! Thanks for checking out the video

[@thenewyorker0042]

As a Top rated seller, I suggest only buy from people like us that take a minimum of 12 clear pictures per item.

[@jerrythejitterbugcomicbook4098]

The more boards the better. Great information thanks for sharing.

[@HisValor]

Well done, very helpful thank you!

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks!

[@EC-ol8nz]

That comic is a “Fine” 👍🏾 Sold a few of those W1 happy customers 😊

[@BrianLCS]

Station! I sell on eBay, and I did a similar video. I'm certainly not a grading expert, but trying to increase my knowledge, so I try and leave the grade out of the description, and allow the photos to speak for themselves. Agreed use all 12 photos. I did include some grades in my eBay listing and had a few returned. The buyer stated they were not the grade that was stated in the listing. So to avoid this I don't include my opinion on grades unless it's slabbed.

[@ComicCulture]

That's a really good point. The more you say about the "grade" the worse. But if you describe the books well they can't come back saying you promised a certain condition. Thanks!!

[@BrianLCS]

@@ComicCulture Agreed. Being honest with the description is your best bet.

[@michaelcooper9725]

Usually if I'm attaching a grade to the book in the title, say NM-, I will state in the description that this book is in the NM- range. Just by saying it's in the range of what you state gives you some room for error and you are not judged completely by your grading skills.

[@juselara02]

Awesome Guide. I will start trying to sell comics here in the Toronto Area. Got some cool 10/15 dollars books in different conditions and wanted to be very transparent an professional in my postings!

[@ComicCulture]

Absolutely! Glad I could provide some tips! Good luck.

[@actup805]

great video, very helpful tips. Have you done a video on selling and listing 20/30/50 books at a time ? How you would title it and do pictures and shipping ?

[@PasspointComics]

Just subscribed. Great topic. Love your video games in the back, awesome

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks! I appreciate you coming over!

[@blood.splatter.chatter]

Love these types of videos bro! Keep it up!

[@Steve_Bonham]

Just got a lot of 80s/90s comics from an estate sale back&boarded. Learning as I’m going but that first comic on the slate man👍🏻dug out an earthworm Jim #1 imma have sent out to be graded.

[@ComicCulture]

Oh that's awesome! Have fun going though it all!

[@anonanon7235]

the 20% ebay fee is going to hurt.

[@HisValor]

Thank you for the great info!

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks!

[@ComicCollectionComplete]

You picked a great book for a grading example. If that upper right corner bend was only on the cover and the book had no other defects easy NM. It is strange that the back had spine ticks but the front didn’t. The impressions on the interior of the book are often overlooked. I would probably have to send that book back. I wonder if EBay does any tracking of the number of returns a seller has and if eventually there are repercussions. 🖐🏻Station!!🖐🏻

[@ComicCulture]

Exactly. People overlook the back and interior pages when describing condition. If you overlook that as a seller you will have some mad buyers!

[@peterdomek601]

Yes Ebay tracks returns by reason and it affects the seller level (limiting their account facilities if they have bad returns rate).

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks for the tip!

[@BWalker8732]

Thanks for sharing this info.💯

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks for checking out the video!

[@ComicCollectionComplete]

Great video! My biggest obstacle is the shipping. It seems that the labels provided by EBay are not sufficient, and I don’t want the buyer to have postage due at delivery. When I look closely at the EBay generated postal label the weight and size were incorrect. When I went to the post office the shipping was at the $15 level. Does EBay have automatic presets for a Gemini mailer? Thanks bro!

[@ComicCulture]

If you add the size and weight in the shipping area ahead of time it will generate a $8-9 lable for you once they pay. Not sure about presets, I have to pick the package option and enter the info manually. If someone knows a better way I hope they let us know here. That's a good question to ask around the community though. Thanks!

[@mrtrent1967]

Thanks for the information.

[@lyonssonssportscardscomics1513]

Great information

[@ComicCulture]

Station! If you have any other tips that might help people, leave them here!

[@DaleofSuspense]

Great video! Very informative!

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks! I really enjoy putting out beginners stuff since I'm still learning and I want to pass on my knowledge to others.

[@ImproveCollectingComics]

Thanks for the guide. It helped me spruce up my listings! I noticed that my auctions aren't getting as many views as some other sellers (Unless it's my imagination) Any tips to increase visibility? Or does that come with more sales? Thanks again!

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks for watching! Sometimes it's the title. What I like to do is find one that sold recently that's clean and precise... Not a lot of fluff. You can copy and use that. There's also "promoting" but that costs a small % of the final sale I believe. Then sometimes it's the books you're selling. Supply and demand really.

[@jambocomics9862]

Thanks Nick . Just subbed your channel

[@ComicCulture]

Station! Thanks. Loving your content

[@skyebird55]

Very productive video!

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks! I appreciate you watching.

[@TMNerdy]

Station!

[@joenicklo]

Some (a lot) of my listings don't even get views. I don't understand why. I'm using the right categories, I'm using decent titles...but even a book like for example, "Spawn #6" is getting 0 views. Is it because nobody cares about that book?

[@ComicCulture]

It could be the demand for that book is really small. What I would do is search for sold listings and see if you can copy one of their titles for ones that had a lot of bids. That way you know it was at least historically well searched for and you can copy that format. The other thing to do is sacrifice a little bit of the percentage of the sale to a sponsored item and that will showcase it in front of others. The other thing you can do is search for the listing yourself and see where yours falls with the other ones and then compare the titles and see if you can get ahead of them somehow.

[@joenicklo]

@@ComicCulture appreciate the advice

[@ComicCulture]

Absolutely. Good luck!

[@21Million]

Nothing worse that low resolution photos on comic listings.

[@ComicCulture]

Lol right? And like a single zoomed out pic of the cover and that's it... SMH

[@mauisam1]

What shipping method are you using that is only costing only $1 for shipping? You mentioned $8 for the mailer and to charge $9 for shipping. That leave only $1 for mailing? Also a link to where you buy your comic book mailers should be nice.

[@ComicCulture]

I get my mailers from the official Gemini site. You can get 50 mailers for $60+shipping. Then you can use ebay's postage discounts based on predetermined package size and weight. So you always know the size of the package since it's the same for every mailer... Then you just mock weigh 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 books +mailer to know the oz per tier. Then you enter that information in eBay when you lost under the shipping section. It will come to about $8-9 usually. I use priority shipping as well as media mail doesn't cover comics.

[@comicjourney]

Hey Nick, great video and very useful. What do you feel are the best target days and tines to list the Comics?

[@ComicCulture]

Great question. I typically list on Sundays mid/late day. Most people are around to bid late and it makes shipping easy the next day.

[@comicjourney]

@@ComicCulture Do you follow eastern are western times. I'm in NY and have struggled trying to times it for all regions

[@ComicCulture]

Yeah I would aim for 8-9pm EST in that case since the rest of the country is a few hours behind. Also 8-9pm local time is not too late for the Eastern folks to bid.

[@ComicCulture]

I end mine usually around 6pm central. That way it's afternoon/evening for everyone and gives me time to pack if needed and prepare for shipping the next day.

[@comicjourney]

@@ComicCulture That makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to answer

[@vertualvice]

You should differentiate between high value and low value books. No way I would take that may pictures for $3 books.

[@ComicCulture]

Yeah it's a good point. If it's a cover price book, I usually just take one picture of the front one picture of the back and call it a day. But once you start getting into $15 (ymmv) or more, people tend to care more about the tiny imperfections that can only be seen when add more pictures.

[@thenewyorker0042]

Bad advice. Always worry about a glare. Simple fix only use natural light. It's the best picture quality

[@ComicCulture]

If you want to show off defects that you can't really see, the glare helps 😉

[@thenewyorker0042]

@Comic Culture if you want to be honest and show all the defects you do. And with natural light you have no glare. Also its impossible to show a defect that isnt there. That plan nonsense. I am a top rated seller with 100% positive feedbacks. I know what I am saying.

[@RandomResellers]

Thanks for the video

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks for watching! Happy NCBD