 So hey guys, welcome to come again if you're new make sure you hit the subscribe button and the little bell Comment below hit the like button and maybe even share with your friends Good job. We have cookies and milk might be semen. I'm not sure Hey guys, welcome back again back with the collecting 101 Today's episode is why not to eBay I love to use this example I could put a pencil on eBay and put a hundred dollar price tag on it So worth a hundred dollars. Hell, no, it's a deal a number two pencil But that's what I'm asking for and people will buy it Some idiot will probably buy it. Let's be think some special issue So and you put anything in the description like this pencil was used by Stan Lee to draw the X-men Yeah, people don't even look so I don't see away or anything like that So what we do here is if I have to use eBay Like if I can't use where I use a comics price guide calm If I can't find the price on there or even the comic on there, I'll go to eBay I'll scroll into the options to where it says completed transaction And then I'll look to see what it's sold for Bad thing is a lot of people and Billy can put that up They'll use stock footage as opposed to their actual book They have so you don't really get an accurate description of the condition of the book Like this is not in the greatest condition whatsoever But it is still worth $20 now you can go online and probably find the same book from multiples of money I just want on here for $65. However, what condition is it in they're saying a six and I Yeah, so they're using the stock photo so a six could be well look it up comics price guide calm And so this one had the best condition still really old still, you know, pretty looked after and it's like dollars But the stock photo you can't actually see now you will get occasionally people on there who post their books the ones you might be able to trust would be say the Graded ones with the hardcover, but you want to do your research if you find a book on there for four like any big Book like four point one Well, we had $65 is what the guy online was charging for this at a six And we looked it up for a six is Roughly between $20, which is what I have that's graded and non-graded. It's the same price a non-graded book then a non-graded six is the exact same price as a graded book so You may not necessarily the source you want to go to you always want to go to your local comic book store If you feel that they are ripping maybe ripping you off I don't know at first ask them why is it, you know like that can you show me? You know and the main response is probably going to be because well, they do need to make money Yeah, I need to try staying open within reason It's like taking like this book three dollars and put an extra zero on it is insane. That's yeah That's not gonna keep you in business But if you wanted to take the three dollars on reason to say somewhere between five and eight that would also be reasonable Condition on the condition if you think you can do that that'd be fine That would keep your store going, but if you're just collecting three dollars for that book just fine. Yeah I think it's actually a dollar in reality, but again, yeah, do have to make a little bit of a profit on me So I bring that up because yeah, you go on eBay and these people are jacking up the prices because they can shipping all that There's a difference between jacking up the prices from three dollars to 20 25 $80 then a dollar to three dollars. Yeah My suggestion again, you know, go check out the comic store. If you're not happy with their prices there are various comic book websites Grand Parker comics midtown comics You can try mile-high comics, but they're kind of the example of the comic store that overprices their comics No, that's not overpriced. That's just straight up ridiculous. Yeah Well, they're the largest comic book They're the largest comic book dealer in the world The also the largest store. Yeah, I forget where they're located, but I can't remember But yeah, I wouldn't mind visiting there. I wanted because Massive amount of books and boys. I'm sure the prices wouldn't be as much No, they are online because again shipping. I want to go to capital up in Chicago. Yeah, that would be awesome I mean, I missed that story. I've never been in capital. It's so cool Um, it's like we have a rinky thing store here and they could take this right here that we have this small amount and turn it over like that Of course that's the city They could buy they can sell this and there are certain sites you can trust like I said I've ever had issues with uh, grand cracker midtown Dbs dcbs Um That's a short But it's sites like ebay auction sites, um, you really do take your chance. Uh, my comic book store might not bookshop is actually pretty decent um So there you go. I mean, uh, just be just be wary. Be careful. Um always living if you if you feel you have to have that one book that's right there in ebay because it's a You know, it seems like it's a decent price. Check out the seller. Yeah, and his you know his rating his rating his profile Okay, um Just because they have a hundred percent feedback a positive feedback Look at see how many people have actually bought for anyone because it was one person Yeah, it's probably um, and if and if I can't stress that if there is a negative read the negative Yeah, because some people are spiteful So But there you go. I mean, uh, not really much to it. Just kind of use some common sense Um, my superpower Don't stick your finger in life sockets You did that the other day. It was fun though. See I like that tingly feeling Anywho, so stay tuned for more come again. We got some awesome reviews coming up with toys and books Hit that subscribe button make sure you hit the like