Sale Price: $14.99 Fees:$3.75 Profit: $11.24
My 50% cut of the Profit: $5.62
Chris moved recently and when he did he realized he had far too many comics and books and asked me to sell a large pile of them at 50% commission. I spent the day photographing, packaging and listing them. This was the first sale, within minutes of posting it. I almost didn't list this one because it was hardly worth my time, but figured it might eventually sell. It is a series of short essays on 60 comic book artists done in 1983. An interesting book, but eBay has a number of copies, some as cheap as $8 and some over $100. I priced mine at $15 figuring it would sit for a while. I have a theory why it sold so fast when so many other copies exist, and many cheaper than mine. I listed all 60 artists included in this book in my listing - no one else had done that. I bet that the person who bought my copy had a keyword search saved for an artist's name, probably a less well known one, and they didn't know this book existed or didn't know that this artist was in it. When my listing came up on their saved search they just bought my copy as opposed to looking for a cheaper version. It is just a theory, but the only thing that makes sense for why someone would buy my item within minutes of being posted when others have been listed for longer for cheaper. Anyways, glad to have made a sale for Chris, even if I only made him $5.62. He likely spent $5 on this at VV, so he made back his investment.
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