Random Used Comics, Coming and Going
February 20, 2006 | 5 Comments
Sara and I drove up to Haverhill, NH Saturday to pick up a box approximately 50 comics someone was giving away. Jenny tipped us off about this. Clearly we had no idea what to expect, but overall I was quite happy.
There were 20 or so sports comics which I didn’t even know existed. There were a pile of early 90’s Image Comics, some mid-80’s Marvel, some beat-up 60’s-80’s DC stuff, and some other random whatnot. The only thing I wanted for myself was a pair of Spectacular Spider-Man books. As far as I’m concerned those alone were worth the trip.
At this point I decided to look at what I could do to unload the ones I didn’t want. Ebay seems to have so many people dealing comics that they are hugely undervalued, especially for anything post-1980. (Of course this led me to spending way too much buying up some Spider-Man back issues, but that’s another post for another day.)
Then I found the “We Buy and Trade” section of myComicShop.com. These guys make it easy to lookup the stuff you have against a list of comics they are interested in buying. I found some surprising prices on some beat-up back issues. In short, after pulling out some stuff of my own I’ve been looking to move for years, I sent them out 30 or so comics for a pretty substantial store credit.
They didn’t want everything I had, but it was still a great experience, highly recommended. Certainly look into this if you have a lot of stuff that you have little to no personal attachment to, or that you have no preconceived notion of value.
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Video Game Auctions
October 4, 2005 | 2 Comments
As most gamers know, you end up buying a lot of games for consoles that in the long term you stop playing. This is natural and common. In general, your choices were to either hold on to these older games or sell them back for real cheap to someone like EB Games or GameStop. Of course EBGames and GameStop would then just mark the game way up and throw it back on the shelf. This always bothered me because the next gamer would come along and pay an unreasonable price. So, my solution has always been to just hold on to games, sharing them with friends who wanted to try them out and eventually handing them down to my classic game collector friend, Tom.
Now there is a better solution: Game Swap Zone.
Game Swap Zone is basically an EBay for gamers. Prices there are set by gamers with minimal markup. Finally a solution I can support, a solution that keeps game costs down for all gamers.
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