RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books The time honoured tradition of pimping my comics for sale on ebay

...continues!

http://www.ebay.com/usr/stewa0644_foeuh

Got some Avengers, some Batman, some indie stuff, most of it is hardcover...

Cheap as all get-out and free shipping.

Will add some more next week.

Man, I'd buy more comics this way but I end up getting killed in customs fees.

They charge you customs duty on imported comics / ebay purchases?

...huh. Retailers here want that to happen but how that would be administered I'd have no idea.

It's pretty arbitrary. Even if it's not been declared as a purchase (like second hand books being sent as a gift,) they still charge customs duty. And there's the luck of the draw, sometimes you end up with corrupt post office employees who hold packages until you pay bribes (this is most rampant when in less developed areas where they expect that people are more likely to just suck it up and pay instead of finding someone to complain to.)

I remember during the Incandescent postcard days when B7 sent me an illustration. The post office asked me to pick it up at the local office and charged me 500 pesos (you can usually tell it's tacked on because it's always an exact round number) for storage fees or something...and more recently the comics that Kahlia sent me, where I had to pay around 4-5 thousand pesos in customs charges for a small box with 70 single issues of Superman and a small plush doll.

It used to be that FEDEX and UPS were safe methods of delivery, as the customs charges were settled on the sender's end, but UPS recently changed policies in here and they now settle the customs charges on the recipient's end by default (there is an option to settle customs charges on the sender's end but they have to specifically ask for it, I think.) FEDEX, I don't know. Haven't tried it for years.

Man, corruption just sucks. We just don't get that sort of thing here. You'd go to jail for pulling shit like that.

Similar stuff happens here but not as bad. One time I bought on Amazon a huge Calvin and Hobbes box set that weighs about the same as 5 year old kid and I didn't get any custom charges, then I bought some CDs and they charged me like 80 fucking dollars.

Speaking of Amazon I don't know if it's the same in other countries but over here, they started charging a custom fee on their end. At first I thought it was bullshit but now I never get any shady custom charges on Amazon stuff, and Amazon even returns the fee to your card if it's not used. I guess they have some sort of deal with the customs people, because they don't want the usual customs bullshit scaring away potential buyers.

Sold them all. Pretty happy with some of the prices. Will list some more very soon.

I've been looking at Daves' eBay profile from time to time and there's always no items on sale. Are you selling invisible comics?

Dave, make sure to mention that the third Invisibles series is numbered backwards, because some dum-dums start with #1. Some dum-dums who eat dogs.

hey, I'm not a dum dum.

Had a massive Paypal problem and had to cancel the transactions!

What happened? Didn't you want to pay the custom fees?

SoM is no dum dum.. He may be a liar, a pig, a midget,a dum dum, but he is *not* a porn star!

The shape of the gun in his right hand does not match the shape of the holster on his upper left side. Maybe he lost the gun that goes in that holster and pulled the gun in his right hand out of somewhere else.

No, Paypal won't let me take money, only pay it!