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#1
General / Crazy eBay pricing? Or the new normal?
17 September, 2023, 08:30:56 AM
So, the time has come when I need to start offloading my rather sizeable comics collection (and magazines, and any other "treasure" I have accumulated during my life of semi-hoarding).

I have (finally, my wife would say) come to the conclusion that, er, we just don't have the space for all this - my diminishing dream of having my own library type room in a house has gone with the different dream of my 3 kids coming along over the years.

Plus my oldest is going to uni next year and we want to be able to help him out as much as possible.  We have other expenses coming up and looking at some of the *sold* prices on eBay it seems now is as good a time as any.

Also I am looking for a bit of space (and the money) to feed my other whim for an AtGames 4k Pinball machine when they are released later this year to go along with the retro arcade machines...

Of course I'm under no illusion; the bulk of the stuff I have is next to worthless, but some of it seems to command a pretty penny for what it is and although I'm not wanting to join in the silly pricing game TOO much, I certainly don't want to be just giving the good stuff away.

I assume much of the pricing for fairly innocuous "normal" things, outwith the first few progs with the free gifts, like TPB's are just because they are out of print now?

I have to say, much due to my semi-hoarding nature I just bought a lot of stuff on a whim and it just sat there on the bookshelf, or still in the packaging, never read or maybe lightly skimmed through once.  I thought my kids would follow me and get into Tooth, but although they've read some stuff, it's all been digital on their tablets, and it's much easier to be a digital hoarder especially with the Humble Bundle deals etc.  They also like Marvel stuff a lot more than I ever did, and again, it's pretty easy to subscribe to the Marvel app and get enough comics for a lifetime on the tablet.

Obviously the sold items list is where to look as there are some crazy buy it now prices - Strontium Dog for instance - it seems these can go for £30+ each even though some speculative sellers are currently listing at double that or more.

Same with the Case Files - some pretty high prices in those sold listings.

I've been buying and selling on eBay for over 20 years now and I am still swithering about what prices to put on my hoard, whether to sell individually or in bundles?  Buy it now or try to attract some fever with an auction?

I do have some genuinely good stuff that to be honest I would probably keep til the bitter end - the aforementioned early progs with free gifts (I'm sure these are in VG+, maybe even FN condition going by the way I've seen "phil-comics" grade stuff), a few of the rarer hardbacks that seem to command a premium (the Ltd Ed Zenith collection, still in the cellophane, some IDW books, The ABC and Ro-Busters HB's, as well as the TPB Ace Trucking vol.1 in near mint - although a lot of what I'd consider the other run of the mill TPB's are first printing's and most of that stuff would have to be considered near mint as well).

And that's before I even think about the mass of other stuff, complete run of Action and Battle as well as 1980s Eagle with annuals and specials, and complete run's of some of the short lived 1980s comics, Speed, Wow!, School Fun, Spike, Champ, a fair chunk of Buster, Whoopee!, Whizzer and Chips etc etc, most with the early free gifts and mostly not worth all that much, except for the space they are taking up!

I'm not here soliciting for offers btw, most of this stuff is still carefully boxed up from when we moved home 6 years ago and I lost my box room storage from my previous place.  A lot of it is now in my mother's spare room and understandably she is on my case a bit about it now.  It's just so daunting the prospect of sorting it all out.

Sometimes I feel like I should offload it all to Phil's Comics, but I remember reading somewhere that his cut is about 40% to cover the fees and commission, although he does seem to attract a following that will pay a LOT over other sellers.  I'd only be listing when I get some kind of deal, which for me seems to be the 70% off the fees every couple of weeks.  That will limit me to 100 items a time at that offer so it would be slow and steady if I don't want eBay to siphon off a chunk of it.

One man's treasure etc...

Any thoughts?
#2
It does seem that I just delurk to come on here and moan, but hey-ho...

Anyway, subbed immediately to Monster Fun when it was announced that it would be an ongoing thing last year - for me natch, but my middle son is a BIG old IPC/Fleetway fan, having devoured all my old comics and annuals in rapid fashion.

Big Tom Paterson fans as well, who wouldn't be, so surprised to see in the Issue 1 (or Easter Special as it appears to be) there was no sign of his work.

So getting the Thrill Mail this week I can say we are slightly put out to see there is a "webshop exclusive edition" with a lovely Tom Paterson cover and a Sweeny Toddler story!

https://shop.treasuryofbritishcomics.com/catalogue/MFU0013

Surely as subscribers we should have received this issue instead of the standard newsstand copy?

I've subbed to a lot of comics and mags in my time and subscribers always used to get special covers etc.

It's the same price as well so I don't feel I'd be asking for anything out of the ordinary.

Hopefully this is just an oversight and in the future loyal subscribers who've taken a chance paying upfront months ago aren't overlooked for these "exclusives".

Leaves a little sour taste in the mouth, esp seeing my sons face drop when his fave story is only available if we pay again for another copy!

Rant over, maybe I'll delurk to post something happy next time :D



"This limited Webshop edition of Monster Fun Issue 1 has an exclusive cover and a never before seen Sweeny Toddler comic strip written and drawn by Tom Paterson."



#3
Not sure if this is the right place (again) for this but anyway..

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/rebellions-masters-british-comics-featuring-judge-dredd-2000-ad-treasury-british-comics-books

First of all, what an AWESOME bundle for a mind blowing price.  My kids like to read all their stuff on the tablet so even though I have the vast majority of this stuff in print I am sure I can coax them into reading more great stuff this way.

But unfortunately a problem that I highlighted on last years bundle has reared its head here again.

https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=46829.0

The CBZ files are just too compressed and makes reading them quite unpleasant with jagged edges galore, especially on the speech balloons.  A couple of PDF's seem fine although I did only check a couple.

Hopefully this can be rectified as easily as it was last time.

Cheers all, lurk mode back on.
#4
General / Specials 2021?
06 January, 2021, 11:19:50 PM
Not sure if right place, but are there no plans for specials this year to complement the deluge we had in 2019 and 2020?

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/specials

My younglings and I have really enjoyed the specials on offer in recent years and I always coughed up for the pack in advance but i don't see any mention of anything like this for this coming year.

Sure the previous years were announced pre Xmas before so was just wondering?
#5
Books & Comics / Humble Bundle 2000ad
19 August, 2020, 07:58:33 PM
Not sure if this is the right place... anyway:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/judge-dredd-2000-ad-more-books

Thought I would treat the little people in my house to these complete stories as they like reading them in one book like these rather than week to week in the old progs.

Unfortunately the files offered are so badly compressed that reading them is going to be sore on the eyes.  The colours are ruined by the banding introduced by the small filesizes and the fonts and speech balloon are jagged and hard to read.  It's all very off putting.

Just to check - I usually buy the physical trades from the shop (I'm a sucker for all the old Treasury material) and it looks a hell of a lot better than this - so if I buy digital files do they all look as bad as the ones on offer in this Humble Bundle?
#6
Prog / Prog 1959 - Beat Cop!
28 November, 2015, 01:32:00 PM
Is everyone suffering from a Black Friday hangover?

Anyway, usual excellent Cliff Robinson cover, not had time to peruse the prog yet as I am still reeling from Thargs missive this week where he tells us about "THE 100-PAGE PROG 1961"....

And there it would appear is the 16 year old question answered!

Just to throw a spanner in the works, shouldn't prog 2000 really be moved back 15 issues now?  We all knew the xmas progs were really just regular issues and now it seems they are to be.

I've having a flashback to when prog 520 was the 10th birthday issue!!

#7
Prog / Prog 1915 - Fiends Reunited
24 January, 2015, 10:47:34 AM
The paper's back to normal, thank goodness!

Lovely cover by the Staples droid of our four best fiends.

Not read any yet, just glad that the tracing paper is gone.
#8
Help! / Can't post in certain boards?
15 January, 2015, 04:01:50 PM
Well, one board at least, I'm trying to decloak briefly to join the Mega Collection discussion in the "News" board - http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,41090.390.html - but it would seem I'm not allowed?

Can a mod help a lurker out here?

Cheers.