How to sell comic books?

segreto · 2013-10-26T12:49:39.000Z

I have read 10 or more sites giving advice on selling comic books, but I am still utterly confused by the best path to take. I have a stack of them from the 80's, and I looked most of them up on Ebay, and I have some, like GI Joes, that range in value (going by the current listings anyway) from $5.00 to $500.00 and up. I also have some random ones that look like I could list them for $5 to $10 and sell them in a lot maybe. I run into a quandary when I see the rated ones packed in plastic and displaying their grades. While this looks like the ideal situation, the cost of grading my collection does not seem price worthy. I see the benefit of having the 4 or 5 that are worth more than a few hundred graded, but the grading process is expensive, and I can only see where you can have them graded in sets or in bulk,and I don't have enough to make it cost effective. And the grading companies want you to buy a membership in order to accept your comics for grading. So, should I just grade them myself, post lots of pictures, and sell them like I would sell anything else, or should I go through the process a different way? I might go to my local comic book store and see if I can get my few costly ones graded, but it seems like a huge investment in time and money, and they also say that they only send them off to be graded in bulk. I just want to unload the ones I have; I do not want to continue to buy and sell them, so the membership in the grading companies does not really make sense. Any suggestions? Thanks,