@kustomizer99 wrote:
Prices on a lot of comic books (especially 1960s issues) have started going crazy over the last couple of years -- probably in large part due to the numerous good super-hero movies that have been coming out, such as Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, etc.
Another factor would be the reports of certain older comics selling for up to $2 million each (and climbing).
There's one eBay seller in the US who lists comic book auctions starting at 99 cents each, and most of them sky-rocket to well above guide price, often to multiples of their supposed 'values'. If he was to list, say, a $20 comic for a BIN of $100 people would think he was asking too much. However, that's the kind of result a lot of his auctions are achieving.
When I mentioned the combined BIN/auction listing strategy, that's only an approach I use on more recent lower value items. I think it's good for that..... but with older comics, auctions are definitley the go, now more than ever.
Ok, makes sense, thanks for explaining further.
Unfortunately, there isn't really a way around it on the Oz site if you're using the correct categories, so it'd be max 40 free listings per month (per ID, if you have any others) without a store, or none if you opened one.
Depending on the kind of volume you're planning on listing / selling, the min. $20 p/m store fee might not have made the slight FVF break worthwhile even if the insertion fees were 0. (It's 9.5% FVF on comics with a basic store, compared to 9.9% without), so even if you had a store and listed auctions for free, you would need to sell $500+ worth of comics per month before the accrued store and FVFs would be lower than without a store.
