The question is this.
If you want to sell off some of your books what would you consider being the best manner to do so to make the most money from your books?
I have been pondering this for some time now and am not sure of the correct manner in doing so.
The way I see it there a few ways.
1. I contacted Heritage auction the other day. They said send in a list of books as well as digital shots of the same. They will go over the list and let you know what they consider the best course of action. They also have a $10,000 minimum. That is to say the value of the books you want to sell has to add up to $10,000. When the sale is done they keep 15% of the total sale, you get 85%. This does not seem to bad.
2. Sell on Ebay. To get the most out of your good books you need to the valuable ones slabbed to get the big $. Sending it into CGC or PGX is not cheap. I have read online some stories about PGX that are none to flattering. But being online it is hard to say how much faith you can put into a story online.
What exactly does Ebay get from each sale? From what I understand they get fees upfront for putting the book for sale. They get a percentage of the sale, and now they get some of the postage?
So you sell a book for $100. How much does Ebay get and how much do get to keep? Does this fee increase if the value of sale is now $1000?
3. Bring them to your local comic shop. Here you get a fraction of the cost of the books, typically 40%-50%? Does that sound right to you guys?
4. Rent a table at a convention. You know they used to have those in Minnesota, but not so much anymore.
5. Craigs List?
Any ideas and thoughts? Has anybody anything that might help me and in turn everybody else out?
Yours,
B.