For Sale and Sold

Who Has It

The For Sale page is part of the Vinyl and Acrylic plans by default. Plans and Limits shows what your plan includes, including how many things you can have listed at once and whether multi-site listings and full fee tracking are included.

Listing a Copy

• From a collection entry's page choose + List for Sale, or use List for Sale in the ⋯ menu on its My Collection card.
• Choose the copy, set your asking price and the date listed, and say where it's listed: a marketplace (with a link to the listing; for eBay, just the item number is enough and the short link is made for you, and a long eBay link is shortened when you save) or this site. Your copy's condition, photos and what you paid come from the entry.
• Your listings appear under Listed on the For Sale page, with a pill showing how long each has been up.
• You can change the price at any time; the price history is kept. The asking price is the one every figure uses (expected profit, bundle shares, totals). A site can also have its own price when it differs (a little higher on eBay to cover fees, say); leave a site's price empty and it follows the asking price. When you lower your price, change the asking price, and also change any site that has its own price. Each change gets its own line in the copy's Sale History ("Asking price lowered", "Price lowered on eBay"), and the first line keeps what each site asked when it was listed.

Listing Some of Your Copies

If an entry has several copies, you can list some and keep the rest. The entry page shows "2 of 5 Listed for Sale" and you can list more later, even on a different marketplace or at a different price. Each listing is sold, returned or ended on its own.

Offers

When a buyer makes an offer, record it so the page can keep track.

• The Offers tab shows every listing with an open offer. An offer is Pending until you respond, Accepted, Countered (with your counter amount), or closed (declined, expired or withdrawn).
• The summary at the top counts each kind and works as a filter: click Pending, Accepted or Countered to see only those.
• Every change is kept in the offer's history, shown on the listing, so you can see what was said and when.
• An accepted offer becomes the price when you mark the item sold.

Marking Something Sold

• Open the listing and mark it Sold. Enter the price you got, the date, the marketplace and the shipping.
• The copy leaves your collection and moves to the Sold tab, where you can still edit the details later.
• If a buyer returns it, mark it Returned; the copy can go back into your collection, and any return shipping you paid is included in your figures.

Bundles

When one buyer wants several of your listings together, the Bundles tab keeps it as one deal. Bundles are part of the Acrylic plan by default.

• Click + New Bundle Offer, tick the pieces, and enter the buyer's offer for the lot. It's shared out between the pieces by their asking prices; change any piece's share as long as the shares add up to the offer.
• Accept, counter or decline the bundle offer as a whole. A counter is for the whole bundle too, shared out the same way. The pieces show on the Offers tab, but the bundle counts as one offer.
• When it sells, click Mark Bundle Sold and enter the price, shipping and fees once, for the whole bundle. Each piece is recorded as its own sale with its share of everything, the same buyer and the same order number, so profit and the yearly download stay right per item.
• Sold On Site lists where the pieces are listed first, then every other site, or choose Other to type one in. A piece that wasn't recorded as listed on that site gets that listing added, so its sale still shows where it sold.
• Choose a Fee schedule (picking the site picks its schedule) and the fees are worked out once for the whole order, the way the marketplace charges them, so a per-order fee is only charged once. Each fee line is then shared out between the pieces like the price. The box at the bottom shows the bundle's net proceeds, cost basis and gain or loss before you save.
• Nothing is locked: a piece in a bundle can still get its own offers, be in other bundles at the same time, or be sold or withdrawn on its own. When a piece sells or is withdrawn outside a bundle, the open offers on every other bundle it's in are marked Expired automatically, which archives those bundles. Record a new bundle offer for the pieces still listed.
• Listings in a bundle with an open offer show a Bundle pill. When a bundle's offer is declined, expires or is withdrawn, the bundle is archived: the pill goes, the pieces go back to the Listed tab, and the bundle is kept under Show Archived Bundles with its offer history. Each piece's own offer list keeps its share of the bundle offer too. Record another offer on an archived bundle to bring it back.
• Delete Bundle removes a bundle that hasn't sold, with its offers. The pieces stay listed. A sold bundle stays as a record of the sale.
• You can note a multi-item discount % for your own records.

Fees, Shipping and Profit

• On plans with full tracking, the site works out each marketplace's selling fees for you from the site's fee schedules. Your own seller discount and promoted-listing ad rate, set on My Profile under Selling, are applied automatically.
• Profit is what you got, minus fees, shipping and what you paid for the copy. A copy you received free counts as zero cost, so the whole sale is profit. A copy with no price recorded has an unknown cost, and its profit is left blank rather than guessed; the summary tells you how many are affected so you know what to fill in.
• Selling for someone else? See Selling for Someone Else below.
• Marketplace usernames on the Selling tab are for your own reference and kept private. Your default carrier pre-fills the shipping field when you mark something sold.

Selling for Someone Else

Put their pieces on a list marked Someone else's items in My Collection's Manage Lists (see Lists), with their name and what you keep when one sells. On any plan with For Sale, their sales stay out of your profit. Working out your share and what's owed, the Whose picker, Sold for Others and their own export are part of the Acrylic plan by default.

• Your share is what the list's rule says you keep: a % of the sale total (sold price plus the shipping the buyer paid), or a % of what you paid for the copy, rounded to the cent. Returned sales have no share.
• Each sale keeps the rule it was sold under. Changing a list's rule later only affects sales from then on, so past amounts owed never change.
• Owed to them is the sale's net proceeds (after selling fees, shipping, supplies and any refunds) minus your share. A negative amount means they owe you: for example, a piece you paid $29.99 for, at 30%, is a $9.00 share; if it nets $1.72, they owe you $7.28.
• Their cards show For and their name, your share and what's owed. Profit on this page counts your own sales plus your shares, and says how much of it came from others' sales.
• Sold for Others (under the summary, and on the Yearly Summary) lists each person: sales, received, net proceeds, your share and what's owed. Show narrows the page to them; Export CSV downloads their sales for that year to give them.
• The Whose picker (at the right of the summary at the top) shows everyone's, only your own, or one person's pieces on every tab and the summary, and the Yearly Summary's Export CSV follows it. The spreadsheet has For, Your Share, Share % (the percent that sale's share was worked out with) and Owed to Them columns. Manage Lists under the picker opens your lists in My Collection, with a Back to For Sale button. Bundles show which pieces are someone else's.

The Summary and Yearly Download

The summary at the top of the page shows what you've listed, what's waiting on offers, how long things take to sell, and what you've sold this year. On plans with full tracking you can download a year's sales as a spreadsheet (CSV), handy for taxes and your own records. The site's figures are a record-keeping aid, not tax advice.

Do My Sales Affect Values?

Yes, anonymously. When you mark an item sold, its price can count toward that item's value, shared out per copy when you sold a lot. A piece sold in a bundle counts at its share of the price, as a Best Offer sale. Nothing about you is attached to it. Returned items, items sold without a price, and copies you had signed yourself are left out. See Values.

Selling on eBay? Add the listing's eBay item number (the 9 to 15 digits on the listing, or paste its link) when you mark it sold. Our pricing team also records sales straight from eBay, and the number is how the same sale is only counted once. An eBay sale without it is left out of values (it still counts in all your own totals): a sold card shows Add eBay # until you add it, and adding it later through Edit sale counts it again. The number is only used for matching and is never shown. Bundles sold on eBay don't need one.