Storage auctions meets pawn stars.

recently on the show pawn stars a guy game in a stack of 50 teen age mutant ninja turtle comics he supposedly found in a storage unit he bought. seller wanted $1000, pawn stars brought in an export appraised them at 300-400. seller was offered $100 and refused and no deal was made.  would you have taken the $100, or held on to them hoping for a better score?

I would have put them on eBay at $100 or $150 and watched what happened.

OR

I would have put them on eBay at Buy It Now for $400 (and accepted best offers). You can set that to automatically accept at a figure you determine, or you can just see what they are offering and make counter offers.

In my opinion, eBay can't be beat for the audience it has for specific items like that. What other venue would pop that name up and give "x" number of would-be buyers a chance to look at and bid on them?


50 comics in a stack don't take up much room, and if you're not hard up for cash, why not hold on to them for awhile.

I would put them on Ebay with a Buy It Now of $299 and a caption that said "As seen on Pawn Stars. Rare TMNT Comic collection. Professionally appraised AT $400."

I would put them on Ebay with a Buy It Now of $299 and a caption that said "As seen on Pawn Stars. Rare TMNT Comic collection. Professionally appraised AT $400."

good thinking what beter marketing than that, beats the heck out of the crap people put on ebay with the caption, bought at a storage auciton like people care where it came from

If the guy graded them like that I would get the slabbed and sell them on ebay.  Would bring more cash that way.

Heck - even with the comics, trading cards, etc. stuff in the toilet with this economy I still look for that stuff in units.  I'm even may go in half's with my thrift store buddy on a lot of comics one of his customers brought in.  For the price we offered we can make money now but may just hold onto them for a year or two.

We recently got a locker that had four boxes comics of Marvel and DC from 1983 to into the 90's. War of the Gods, The Uncanny X-Men, X Factor, Havok & Wolverine Meltdown1, X-Force, Alpha Fight, Cage and Iron Fist, Marvel Universe, and a very thick X-Men Vol. 1 Essential Comic book (total at least 300). Whoever previously owned them had almost all of them in their sleeves, maybe hoping for later that they would be collectibles. We decided to hold onto them for a while and do some research. Who knows, maybe one day we will be like that Dave guy on Storage Wars and his news papers or all those books he got in a unit and said he would make thousands from them! Hey a gal can dream can't she?   

We recently got a locker that had four boxes comics of Marvel and DC from 1983 to into the 90's. War of the Gods, The Uncanny X-Men, X Factor, Havok & Wolverine Meltdown1, X-Force, Alpha Fight, Cage and Iron Fist, Marvel Universe, and a very thick X-Men Vol. 1 Essential Comic book (total at least 300). Whoever previously owned them had almost all of them in their sleeves, maybe hoping for later that they would be collectibles. We decided to hold onto them for a while and do some research. Who knows, maybe one day we will be like that Dave guy on Storage Wars and his news papers or all those books he got in a unit and said he would make thousands from them! Hey a gal can dream can't she?   

If youve got the space, why not hold some things if you feel they will increase in value. Every now and then I store something away to sell in the future as in 10-20-30 years in the future. I make sure it's something with real value and not something thats a fad. It's kind of like a "Fred Sanford" retirement fund. "So you invested in stocks, bonds, etfs, real estate?" "Nope, I'm invested in junk, ahh I mean collectibles!"