Remember though, basic eBay fees for books and magazines are currently 14.6% The downside here is that you'll have to take the time out to list each book, including photos as well as pack up and ship every book. Depending on the title you may gross very close to retail price. Sell the books yourself on eBay - You'll get a huge number of collectors looking at your listings, and as long as your item is priced correctly it should sell within the auction time. I'll list out your options in detail below: Other middle of the road options include putting your collection up for consignment, selling only part of it individually. The downside here is that you will get the least money, somewhere in the 50-60% of retail range. If you want the fastest sale, then you should sell the entire collection in bulk to one of the specialty King stores. The downside is that it will likely take a while to sell everything and there will be a lot of work packing, communicating with buyers, collecting payments, etc. If you want the absolute most money then you'll want to sell each book one-at-a-time yourself on eBay or classified sections of King sites (like this one). It all depends on what "best" means to you. Now that you've identified which books are valuable and which are not, what's the best way to sell the valuable ones? For non-book items drop me an email and I'll be happy to help you figure out what you've got. If it's a book you can likely find out everythign about it, including it's retail value by find the appropriate limited edition information page on the site.
As well as things that don't fit anywhere else, magazines, promotional items, etc. As well as anything that might have come with a slipcase or traycase of some kind - usually this indicates a S/L (signed/limited) edition or artist edition. Pile 3 - Anything that is signed by King or anyone else (usually in the front few pages of the book). If you're in doubt about a specific book, ask me.One last thing to mention, a book must have ALL the identifying marks to be a 1st edition, not just 2 out of 3, etc. Check out my online reference guide to help you. But there are ways to identify whether the book is a 1st edition or not. For very early books (for example The Shining, The Stand, etc) there won't be any number line. If the book is not a 1st edition add it to the first pile. On many of the books you can check the copyright page for a number line, if the lowest number is a 1 then you have a 1st edition and should hang onto it. Only 1st editions have any resale value in the collector's market. Pile 2 - Anything that was printed before 1990 - For these books you'll want to check to see if you have a 1st edition or not. You can expect to receive anywhere from $1-$5 per book in this pile (Any paperbacks also fall into this pile, even if they're older than 1990). In some cases they may already have too many copies of the book in their store, in that case I'd just donate whatever's left to your local goodwill/ charity. Your best bet is to take them to a local used bookstore and take whatever credit they'll give you. That means they're not really worth the time and expense of shipping these to any buyer, online bookstore or otherwise. Pile 1 - Anything that was printed after 1990 - These more recent printings, even if they're 1st editions, are usually not worth more than $20 retail and if they're later printings or post 2000 they're probably only worth $5-$10 retail. The first thing to do is to separate your books out into 3 piles.
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