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Post by james on Aug 13, 2017 15:42:28 GMT -5
So i have been on a crazy Spiderman kick for the last few months and ive starting selling bits of my collection so i can add to my Amazing Spider-Man collection. Ive gone from about 9 issues to 167 issues. Im trying to go from say about 50-400. I recent sold my John Byrne Xmen and today ive sold issues 4 6 7 and 14 of Iron Man. Im seriously thinking of gutting my Iron man collection, about 70 issues, to build up my Spider-Man collection. Its like an addiction trying to build up my Spiderman run. Does anyone else do this?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2017 15:50:48 GMT -5
I've sold off bits of my collection (and even most of it at one point) a few times. Often I've traded stuff to get other stuff. For me it's turning stuff I have had for a while and likely won't have use for again for stuff I want. I traded my Iron Man #55 for a ton of credit to put together most of my Conan the Barbarian run for instance, or traded/sold some vintage rpg items for walk-around money at cons used to buy other stuff. If it's something I don't want or can replace in another format, I have no problem culling it form my collection and using it as fodder to get new different stuff. I have a limited budget for this kind of stuff and it's about making decisions and restructuring priorities on how to allocate resources from time to time.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Aug 13, 2017 18:47:26 GMT -5
I sell stuff I don't collect. And I often try and buy things to "flip" because some people out there pay $20-60 for variant comics and the like. Newer stuff is not my thing so I use this to my advantage. However, of the stuff in my collection, I would be hard pressed to say to myself "hey, let me sell all of this so I can buy more of that". I value everything that is in my official collection a lot and it is very hard to part with a book one I have read it, bagged it and catalogued it as one of my own.
I do understand your method though. I wish I could purge a lot of other stuff and replace it with some Spidey stuff because I am also close to a run from #50-400. However, I feel that I can keep what I have and just continue to peck away at it slowly over the years.
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Post by james on Aug 13, 2017 19:18:30 GMT -5
I sell stuff I don't collect. And I often try and buy things to "flip" because some people out there pay $20-60 for variant comics and the like. Newer stuff is not my thing so I use this to my advantage. However, of the stuff in my collection, I would be hard pressed to say to myself "hey, let me sell all of this so I can buy more of that". I value everything that is in my official collection a lot and it is very hard to part with a book one I have read it, bagged it and catalogued it as one of my own. I do understand your method though. I wish I could purge a lot of other stuff and replace it with some Spidey stuff because I am also close to a run from #50-400. However, I feel that I can keep what I have and just continue to peck away at it slowly over the years. I aleays try to sell new stuff before even thinking of touching my filing cabinet. I think today was a moment of weakness because ive been trying to get 124 and 125 1st manwolf. |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Aug 13, 2017 19:30:26 GMT -5
Love those two issues! Mine are on display right now on my comic wall 
EDIT: This should have been titled "Robbing Paul to Pay for Peter...Parker" |
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Post by james on Aug 13, 2017 21:04:23 GMT -5
Love those two issues! Mine are on display right now on my comic wall
EDIT: This should have been titled "Robbing Paul to Pay for Peter...Parker" Just got issue 125. Psyched! |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 14, 2017 6:09:07 GMT -5
I sold many of my Byrne/ Claremont X-mens for groceries in 2003.
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Post by james on Aug 14, 2017 6:24:33 GMT -5
Now that i think of it i did sell my first collection ,about 3000 comics, for rent, and car payment about 20+ years ago. Damn that collection was sweet! Still miss it i did vow to rebuild it and never have to do that again.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 14, 2017 7:31:32 GMT -5
I sold my copy of New Mutants #98 last year to replenish my hobby money stash (along with comic books, I also have an unhealthy love for Funko Pop figures, and I play Magic:The Gathering). Marvel had just released the $1 True Believer reprint of that issue, and so I still have a complete run of New Mutants stories while being $340 richer.
I do buy things to flip as well. I am currently sitting on a second printing of Batman Adventures: Mad Love, a copy of Harley's second appearance, and a copy of the Sam & Max: Surfin the Highway TPB, all of which I paid $6 total for and can reasonably sell on eBay for around $60. After fees for eBay and Paypal, I will probably net about a $45 profit.
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Post by MDG on Aug 14, 2017 9:07:49 GMT -5
When I was buying a lot of original art, I had a max of $150 out of pocket for any single purchase. Anything more than that had to be financed by selling something else.
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Post by brutalis on Aug 14, 2017 13:27:24 GMT -5
I have always sold or traded in at the LCS series which I collected and then either lost interest in or could collect in a trade. Sold tons of X-Men after Paul Smith's run. Sold lots of Iron Man and Green Lantern and Wonder Woman over the years. Used to have a local LCS that would have monthly bids on collector item issues or run's and would bid on them in hopes of winning cheaply for resale. Managed to do that with runs of Micronauts, Rom, G.I. Joe, Swamp Thing and others. Wishing that shop was still around  |
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