More stuff sold on eBay, this batch being possibly the most lucrative and cost effective. Having learned not to put a Buy Now price on these items, I’ve already saved 50p a time. And as long as I’m happy to part with the tokens of my childhood, and I’m not feeling any pangs of loss yet, then it seems job lots of 10 to 20 comics at a time will make at least a fiver, and as much as twenty quid.
Captain Britain has been the biggest seller, these being originals rather than reprint comics (though the fact that people will pay for old British reprints is heartening, as I have many more boxes of those to plough through). No 8 was the biggie, who knew?
I feel the need to keep a tally as I go along, to make some sense of whether this is a time wasting exercise or not. It feels great when money comes in, but I may be kidding myself that it’s not more bother than it’s worth. (Can I say, I’m finding it great fun dammit).
SOLD since Feb 11th:
Captain Britain No 7 & 8. £42.00
Captain Britain 24. £29.10
Captain Britain No 1 £27.67
20 x Strip comic. £20.00
20 x Spider Man weekly £16.51
17 x Spiderman weekly £12.00
22 x Spider Man weekly. £10.50
Comic Rock magazine £10.00
Valiant Summer Special. £9.62
3 x Cor!! Summer specials. £9.60
Flexipop + 3 mags. £8.61
Big Numbers no 1. £7.55
20 x Spider Man weekly. £7.50
16 x Rampage weekly (inc no 2). £7.50
4 x Mad mags Starsky. £6.51
10 x Planet Of The Apes. £6.50
3 x Capt Britain 16-18. £6.00
6 x Mad mags Rocky. £5.87
NME 1983 x 5. £5.55
19 x NMEs £5.50 (expensive to post, slight loss)
4 x Cracked mag. £5.50
12 x MWOM inc No 100. £5.50
3 x Capt Britain 36-39. £5.50
3 x Capt Britain 10-12. £5.50
3 x Capt Britain 13-15. £5.00
2 x Capt Britain 22,23. £4.20
8 x audio cassettes various. £4.00
Dr Who Classic comics £3.50
3 x Capt Britain 19-21. £3.20
8 x Speakeasy. £3.20
9 x Cor!! Comics. £3.20
4 x audio cassettes (Blondie +) £2.70
4 x audio cassettes (Kate Bush+). £2.50
10 Years with Maggie cassette. £2.50
Desperate Dan figure. £2.50
Starburst mag No 2. £2.50
Radio Times 1975. £2.50
Krazy Kat book. £2.50
Marshal Law special. £2.50
5 x Marvel UK various. £2.50
4 x Mad mag Omen. £2.50
3 x Capt Britain 29-31 £2.50
3 x Capt Britain 33-35. £2.50
Captain Britain No 2. £2.50
Dan Dare special. £2.50
Dr Who special C Baker. £2.50
Dr Who Special T Baker £2.50
TOTAL taken (excluding postage, and before eBay have taken their percentage)
Feb 11 - 20: £342.59
So, again, equivalent to a day’s work. And has it taken a whole day? Quite possibly not. When it’s cost effective, it pays. However, there is time wasted with unsold items to take into consideration, sheet music being the current loss leader. I have a mountain of sheet music and hardly any takers yet. I think those will be going into bigger job lots shortly.
UPDATE: Captain Britain keeps selling.
I said everything must go and everything Captain Britain related in my collection has now gone (subject to one buyer, who bought most of it, paying and his stuff going in the post).
Here’s the tally that closed between the 20th and 22nd of Feb (which I’m maybe totting up to make myself feel better about getting sod all work done. Next week the schools kick in, so there’ll be no more of this nonsense for a while).
Tamagotchi £21.00
Spawn 1. £20.00
8 x Hulk. £14.08
Revolver 1 + Romance. £13.00
2 x David Cassidy annual. £10.00
9 x Rampage. £9.01
Phantom Stranger 10. £7.50
2 x harmonicas. £7.00
Capt Britain 16-18 £6.00
Capt Britain 36 - 39. £5.50
Songs of Robert Burns. £5.50
5 x Conan. £4.71
Binoculars £4.70
Capt Britain 22 & 23. £4.20
Capt Britain 19-21. £3.20
6 x Sheet Music Carousel. £2.50
Masonic music. £2.50
Capt Britain 32-35. £2.50
Capt Britain 29-31. £2.50
Capt Britain 2. £2.50
TOTAL. £147.90
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