One Week Later

So the real problem is time.  I work a full time job at a pharmacy and I have three children and I was able to list four things on Ebay in the past week.  These comics I listed were guaranteed to make some cash quickly and it was fun to watch the bids go up.  However, most of my collection will go for pennies on the dollar, which is fine, but what I wonder is how do people end up with hundreds of listings on Ebay?  Is there some secret I am missing about listing items quickly?  Then after the items sold I spend the better part of my lunch hour packaging them to make sure they were not damaged in transit.  I have to get a system down and just hit my goals if this is going to continue.

Aside from all that.  I am not sure if I had made it clear in my previous post, but I still love comics and not just comics, but the world of comics.  So the different blogs dedicated to comics and more recently I have been trying to find some blogs on people who sell comics.

I have been reading Progressive Ruin for a long time and have never made one comment. I enjoy reading about what it is like to run a comic book store.

Another blog I go to frequently is Update-A-Tron which makes it easy to see which blogs have been updated.

This morning while I was thinking about all of this I read an write up on The Comics Journal and I share in this person’s plight about how these comics just sort of pile up and before you know it they are everywhere.

To sum it up, it isn’t just the comics themselves, but it is the collecting, the selling, the back stories of the artists and writers.  The comic gossip being posted on Bleeding Cool.  It is really it’s own little world and you really do get to choose how deep you go into it.

 

So it Begins…

So why the blog?

To tell the truth, I have absolutely no idea.  However, here is what I do know…in 25 years of collecting I have amassed a collection of comic books.  I started collecting when I was 9 and up until about four years ago I used mostly disposable income to continue my hobby through the years.  My income stopped being disposable around the time I got married in 2010 and had children shortly afterwards.  Life has brought changes that I am grateful for and I feel that the appropriate response goes something like this:

Scale back my collection of books and random nonsense that I have accumulated over 25 years. 

So how many comics are we talking about?

I don’t have an exact number but it I know there is more than 50 short comic boxes that are all full of comics mostly dating 1989 to current.  I tried long boxes at one point, but moving had to be the most backbreaking experience ever.  Almost exactly two years ago I moved the collection into the loft of our garage which included the 50 short boxes and I vowed that I would never do that again.

So to answer the question…this blog is like an accountability partner.  Through it I hope to chronicle how I go from owning over 8000 comics to maybe around 2000.  That is a number I have set for myself as a goal.  The obvious place I will be selling a lot of my books will be ebay.  I know that comes with its pros and cons, but more on that later.  This is not an advertisement for my ebay sales (although I will go through the thought process on when and how something is listed.  I already know we are talking about pennies on the dollar through ebay, but the fun stuff to sell on ebay are the exceptions that actually generate real money of which I am attaching a picture.

“Copra” is a book by Fiffe that is one of those exceptions…the money will come easy for this book in its current listing and while I loved the book, the money is more valuable.

I have set a goal to post at least once a week…we’ll see how it goes.

Cheers

-Adan