For comic, book, record, game and Funko sellers
A box of comics on your table and a phone in your hand. Shoot each comic, front, back, corners, up to the count you set, and move to the next. Point and Sell sorts the photos into listings from the order you shot them, crops the whole-comic shots in close, reads the cover, fills in the fields eBay searches on, and hands you the eBay and Whatnot files to upload. Fifty comics from a phone in half an hour: one real box, timed, below.
The other listing tools start from a form: you write the title, the description and the item specifics, one listing at a time, and a couple of them sell a photo-to-listing add-on on top. None of them reads a comic cover or checks it against a database, and none of them says it will take four hundred photos of a box and work out which ones belong to which comic. Here that is the whole job: the photos are sorted into comics from the order you shot them, each shot of a comic on the table is cropped to it, the cover is read, the fields eBay searches on are filled in and checked, and the file is validated before you upload it. All you have to worry about is the photos.
The biggest comic seller on eBay has millions of items sold, and most of their listings are a stock image, with the words Stock Image right there in the title. They can do that: a buyer takes their grade on faith because of who wrote it. Nobody else has banked that much trust, and the same listing without it loses the sale to whoever showed the buyer the actual comic. Showing the actual comic is the one advantage a smaller seller has, and almost nobody uses it, because the photos land on top of the typing. Here the photos are the data entry, so twenty of them cost no more than two.
Comics, books, records, games and Funko Pops each have their own eBay category and their own item specifics; a magazine or a graphic novel goes in the comics or the books category with its own format and its own postage. Each has its own way of going wrong. The product knows the difference; you do not have to.
Single issues and runs. The cover is read and checked against the Grand Comics Database, so the series, issue, year, publisher, writer, artists and cover artist are filled in and verified rather than typed. The barcode is read off the cover and cross-checked when the printed issue number is unclear, key issues are flagged against an audited price floor before you price them too low, and a lot's title names the issues it holds rather than just the first one.
Same comics category on eBay, different shape: no issue number, a collected title, and a spine rather than a staple. Shot and read the same way as a single issue, and the ones that are a complete run get a title that says so and your complete-series store category. A trade with an ISBN can go through the book path instead, which identifies it from the ISBN rather than the cover; that lists it in eBay's Books category, so it is your call which shelf you want it on. Shot in a comic batch it comes back as a comic row and you tick the format at review: a cover cannot say whether it is a trade or a hardcover, so nothing guesses.
Their own eBay category, their own 24 item specifics, and their own boilerplate. Author, book series, format, narrative type and audience are separate fields that eBay searches on. Books are identified from the ISBN, not the cover: type or paste a list, or photograph the back covers and let the barcodes be read. On a shelf of ordinary paperbacks that reads about two in three for free; the rest you type.
The one that quietly costs money. A magazine is a periodical full of third-party advertising, which is the clearest thing on USPS's list of what Media Mail is not for, and eBay will not stop you listing one that way. A parcel found ineligible is delivered short-paid and your buyer is the one asked for the difference. Anything identified as a magazine is routed to your parcel policy automatically, and the file is refused if it is not. What USPS actually says.
Shot front and back like a comic, and read for the things a record buyer searches on: artist, album, label, the catalogue number off the spine, the format (LP, EP, 7 inch single, box set), the speed, the country, and the year printed on the sleeve, which on a reissue is usually the original one rather than the date of that pressing. The genre and the style are filled in from what is known about the release rather than read off the cardboard. Anything printed that marks the pressing, a Reissue, a Promo or a Half-Speed Mastered, is carried through rather than invented, and a first pressing is never inferred. The barcode is copied when the back cover has one; a record barcode carries no check digit, so unlike a game's it is yours to confirm. A record is a sound recording, which USPS counts as media, so it goes out on the same default policy a book does. No record has been through a live eBay upload yet, and the file says so until one has.
Cartridges, discs and boxed copies. The title and the console are read off the case, the logo strip and the shape of the cartridge or disc, so a loose cart with no box still identifies. What is in the photo decides the title and the postage: sealed, complete in box, or cartridge only, and a bare cart is weighed as a bare cart. The barcode is read off the back when there is one, and where it matches, what a collector price guide has for that exact copy is shown beside your price. Games ship as parcels, never Media Mail, which USPS does not allow for a game in any format. No game has been through a live eBay upload yet, and the file says so until one has.
A Pop is named by the character on the front of the box and the number in the corner beside it, and both are read off your photograph, along with the series line, the franchise, the Pop line, the size, the item number and the UPC from the back. A figure with no box says so in its own title: Out of Box is what a buyer opens a case over, so it is kept there even when the name has to be cut short to fit. Nothing grades a figure or its box. An exclusive is only ever copied off a sticker on the box and never decided from the figure; a Chase, a Glow or a Flocked is a variant you pick on the review screen, because nothing is allowed to read one off a photograph. Nothing here prices one. Figures ship as parcels, never Media Mail: that list is books, sound recordings and printed matter, and a vinyl figure is none of them. Funko is the newest category here: no figure has been through a live eBay upload yet, and the file says so until one has.
Every category goes to eBay. Whatnot and Shopify take everything except vinyl records, video games and Funko Pops.
When you create a batch you tick where it goes: eBay, a Whatnot live auction, a Whatnot Buy It Now store, or any combination. One set of photos and one review screen make the eBay file and the Whatnot files (the show file with your opening bids, the run-of-show sheet, the Buy It Now file). After a show, paste the sold custom labels and the product hands you the eBay End file for those comics; drop eBay's orders report on the pick list and it names any comic that just sold on eBay while it was also in a Whatnot batch. The same comic is never for sale in two places without you knowing.
It will not list anything for you: you approve every row and you upload the files yourself, on eBay and on Whatnot. It will not price your comics: you type a starting price for the box, and the screen flags the ones worth more. It does not crosslist to ten marketplaces: it is built for eBay and Whatnot, which is where comics sell. How it compares with the crosslisting apps, side by side.
I built this because I could not find a tool that raised my sales and my output without big trade-offs and ever-higher costs. The item specifics eBay searches on for comics are filled in the way eBay wants them, each listing goes to one of your own store categories, magazines never go on Media Mail, and a lot's title names its issues so buyers can find it. Every rule in it is one a real upload taught me. I am confident you will love the time it saves and the money it makes. The whole story.
Your first 50 listings are free. A card goes on file before your first batch is read; nothing is charged until the 50 are used or 30 days pass, and cancelling before that costs nothing.