So, by inheritance or old-fashioned good fortune, you have come to find yourself in possession of a comic book collection. As much as you may like to keep the books, they take up too much space and from what you have heard the collection could be worth a great deal of money. More space sounds good. More money sounds great. It is definitely time to sell the comic books.
Now, the problem: how to sell comic books ?
How can you convert all those colorful pages into the muted rainbow that is a substantial stack of Canadian dollars? You begin searching online for “sell comic book collection” and you discover you have a few options.
You could sell the books yourself online. You could pack the books up and lug them to several different comic shops hoping that at least one store will buy them for what you think they are worth. You could contact Toronto Vintage Comics.
Sell comic books yourself
Selling the books yourself could be the most profitable way to liquidate, but you need to know the value of your collection. Appraisal is a complicated exercise, and accuracy relies upon experience. With no understanding of the current comic book market, and little experience evaluating the condition of collectible comics, the learning curve is very steep and very time consuming. In addition, listing comic books for sale online often leads to frustration in dealing with pushy buyers, and adds up to countless hours of “lost time” if you are trying to sell books that are in fact not worth what you think they are. Most importantly, mistakes in undervaluation can be very costly because once a book of high value is sold at a low price there is no way to reclaim the loss. If you have the time and the stamina, D-I-Y selling is an option – but ensure you have accepted the inevitability of learning from your mistakes.
Sell comic books to a shop
Taking the books to a comic shop is likely to be far less profitable than selling the books yourself, but it does offer a hassle-free way of ridding of your collection quickly. However, comic stores have a great deal of overhead: rent, staff, and business loans keep the pressure on store owners to ensure a large margin in all transactions. Having worked at a “brick-and-mortar” comic store that regularly purchased collections, we know that buy-out offers typically equate to 10-20% of a collection’s total value (IF the comic store owner is present AND in a generous mood, which tends not to be as often as one may hope).
Sell your comics with Toronto Vintage Comics
Toronto Vintage Comics can compete with the typical buyout prices offered by comic stores, but we also provide appraisal and brokerage services that result in you recouping a greater percentage of the collection’s real value. By contacting us to help liquidate your comic collection, you can save time sorting through the collection yourself, you can avoid errors of miscalculation, and you can eliminate all the complexity of managing individual sales – all this while gaining the opportunity of earning double, triple, or many multiple times more than any store would offer. Our experience and proven selling system can be put to work to your benefit. So stop searching “best way to sell comic book collection” and reach out to Toronto Vintage Comics.