 What's up everyone, Takedown here. Welcome back to another video. Today I'm going to be talking a little bit about my comic book selling business. I do sell other things as well but today I'm going to be focusing on comic books and talking about the first three comic book lots that I did purchase starting back in June or July 2021 and all the sales that I made from that point up until about the end of February 2022. Now out of all the comics, the total amount of comics was about 4,135 comics plus 25 graphic novels. So buying these lots I do try to find them and it's hard to find them at my price points but I tried to be around the 40 cents to 65 cents per comic. The reason I want to be there is because even if there's a lot of comments and lower valued ones, at least I should be able to get a dollar each for these comic books and for the most part I do sell them for a lot higher than that but that's usually where I want to be. So having over 4,000 comics to me in sales that's about $4,000 in sales if I do sell them at that price point so keep that in mind. That is why I try to buy lots that are lower. Now to find these lots that are lower priced is extremely hard because nowadays people know what their comics are worth or their collections are worth and or at least they know how to look it up whether it's eBay or Key Collector or other sites that they can find the value of their comic books. People know what they have usually so it's hard to find the lots what I pay for them so keep that in mind. It's not something that everybody can do because it's extremely hard and whenever you find things that are priced low you better jump on them because if you don't somebody else well. So whenever I buy these lots you have to remember I'm doing all of the leg work I'm looking at them I'm listing them I'm seeing what's in the collection I'm taking photos of them I'm meeting people I'm negotiating with people I'm having people message me and that's something that's the person that is selling them doesn't have to do that's why I'm able to sell them sorry buy them for so low because they're just selling it as a whole collection to me but even with that there's a lot of people that are selling 4,000 comics and they want $10,000 and they won't take a dollar less so it's really hard to find them at my price points but whenever I do find them I definitely do jump on them now whenever I do find them I don't know what is inside I know a gist of it I'll ask questions whether or not all the comics are bagged and boarded usually they'll tell me roughly how many are whether or not they're Marvel and DC usually if it's over about 50 percent of them that are Marvel and DC I will at least go and look at them and other questions as well but I don't know if there's any keys I don't know if it's all commons I don't know if there's any foil special covers anything like that and luckily I've been thankful because I did find some decently expensive comics in the mix as well now for all three lots that I did purchase again that's over 4,000 comic books and I paid $2,200 for them $2,200 and now to most people my girlfriend included that was a lot of money to drop now I didn't drop it all at once I did split it up between all three lots because it was three separate lots but it totaled $2,200 but there definitely was profit to be made one comic book which was Incredible Hulk 4 49 sold for $150 I did have an older X-Men comic I think X-Men 100 or 102 from the original X-Men sold for $100 I did have others that sold for around $50 and some that sold for $10 each as well in the mix so there definitely was a lot of profit to be made off of these comics here now out of the over 4,000 comics which was the total of the first three lots that I did purchase I don't have them all sold yet I have sold over 2,500 comics and I've sold all of the graphic novels there's still about 14 to 1500 comics left that I'm trying to sell pretty cheap so there's about a thousand that I'm trying to sell anywhere between $1.25 to about $2 each or list them and put them in my mystery boxes which tend to really sell greats they're a little bit cheaper than the price I just mentioned and then I do have about four to 500 comics that I am trying to sell for a dollar each and list them all together now if somebody were to send me an offer of let's say 400 I probably would take it just because I want to clear out space for the new lot that I did purchase so keep in mind what I've sold so far is not all the comics that I did buy from the first three lots it's what I've sold so far out of the first three lots which is about 2,500 comics so again I purchased them for 2,200 so far sold is five thousand and thirty dollars which leaves me with the total profit so far of two thousand three hundred dollars now again in the other room I still have about 1500 comics left even if I sold them at a dollar each that to me is insane to have spent two thousand dollars or 2,200 and I've already doubled my money and there's potential for about another thousand to 1500 dollars of profit to be made from those comics is insane so I've already doubled my money from the first three lots and there's still a thousand plus comics left so I'm hoping for about a thousand dollars extra profit on top of that price so to me that is amazing but it doesn't stop there since I've been selling a ton of comics and it's been really hard to find these lots I decided to look farther out of my area and I actually found an ads that I didn't realize it was four hours away from me and whenever I realized that I asked them questions they wanted a really great price they wanted 2,500 dollars for 4,000 comics the pictures looked amazing I asked them they said most of them are all bagged and boarded all of them was from the early 80s to the mid 90s which is great that's usually what I want all of them are marvel and dc there was one long box that was image everything else is marvel and dc and how can you pass that up whenever you're a reseller and you're getting a great price to begin with so I started messaging him saying that I don't know when I'll be able to make the four hour drive just because that is a really long drive for me especially with work and they responded back that they were willing to meet me halfway in a small town called tweed Ontario and to me that was amazing I jumped on the opportunity now the only thing with this deal was the seller was a little bit worried that we weren't going to show and I'm honest and I probably gave him a little bit more too much trust in a way because I did offer him an extra hundred dollars for gas so that equals out to be a total of twenty six hundred dollars plus I decided that day to send him a one thousand dollar e-transfer that way he knows that we are going to be there we are going to show up and we are committed to buying the comics once I sent him the money then he wasn't worried anymore we decided on the day and we decided to go meet him that day now again that's a lot of trust I gave him that's a thousand dollars that I already sent him that if he didn't show up he already has a thousand dollars for my money and I am out luckily that didn't happen and I knew that wasn't going to happen or I had a good idea that that wasn't going to happen because I was talking to him and he's seen genuine and everything but again that can happen now while we're 30 minutes out I sent him the rest of the money the reason for that is by the time that we did both arrive he'd be getting the money and we wouldn't have to wait 30 minutes for the money to be deposited which sometimes does happen with e-transfers so I sent him the total amount of money before even seeing the comics once we got there and he arrived he checked his phone and the e-transfer went through I grabbed the boxes started loading them up in my truck we drove the two hours home and once me and my girlfriend started unloading them I would take one off the truck simply take off the cover and look through it looked beautiful box after box after box because what was inside was all comics was mostly Marvel there wasn't much DC it was mostly all Marvel mid 80s to early 90s and it was all beautifully done all bagged and boarded all taped up all looked gorgeous like I'd be able to put them in my collection as they sit but they were to resell so perfect condition everything was great and on top of that easy to go through because it was a full box of fantastic for two full boxes of X-Men a full box of Punisher and it just kept getting better the more boxes that we went through so the equivalent to be about 12 long boxes and maybe two or three short boxes so again four thousand or probably a little bit more than four thousand comics I did pay $2,600 for but I also in this lots and including the gas that it took to get there and back which was about a hundred dollars so in total for these comics here I did spend $2,700 when I take into accounts the extra hundred that I gave him for his gas and a hundred dollars that I spent on gas to get there still is a pretty decent deal because after looking through the comics even though I haven't been through all of them yet but just a brief brush over all of the comics there is in my opinion anywhere from ten to fifteen thousand dollars sitting in the other room and I paid under three grand for it so that to me is insane that is hopefully going to be over ten thousand dollars profit is what I'm hoping for right now but that is insane and it just goes to show that you can find these lots but it is extremely difficult to find them at this price point this guy here knew nothing about comics I'm sure if he looked them up he would have known what he had and would have known he could get a lot more for them and I just happened to see the ad and jump on it send of the e-transfer meet him a week later and got the comics because they were perfect comics perfect condition and definitely worth the money and definitely worth hopefully ten thousand dollars profit or more that's what I'm expecting from them now with this guy here the reason he didn't know anything about them is because he's not a collector he literally had these in storage since he was a kid so he was collecting back whenever these comics came out and he just left them in storage for years and years stumbled upon them and decided to list them all together and sell them just because he needed some extra cash so he did get twenty six hundred dollars from me which is great that helped him out man finding a lot where it's this many great comics and I got it for really cheap I think it equals that to be sixty five cents per comic is insane when I know what I can sell them for on average it's about three dollars per comic I'm going to be making a ton of profit off of these so this here hopefully is going to be mostly sold within the next six months it is going to take a lot of work and hopefully with work lowering my hours a little bit because I requested that hopefully I will be able to make a lot of profit off of these comics and then after that move on to the next lot move on to the next thing and just try to keep this business going so a lot of great profit to be made and I will be sharing that in future videos if you guys want to hear about my comic sales let me know down in the comments below but I'm going to leave this video here please take care and I'll see you guys in the next video peace