Guides
Guides for people who list what they collect
How eBay's categories actually work for comics, books, vinyl records, video games, Funko Pops, DVDs and CDs, from a seller who lists his own long boxes. Useful whether or not you ever use the product.
- Start here: your first box on Point and Sell
Your first box, step by step: signing in, the free trial, the three things Settings needs, shooting a box on your phone, the review screen, and getting the listings onto eBay.
30 September 2026 - Which item specifics eBay actually uses for comic books
The 25 item specifics a raw comic listing uses on eBay's comic book category (259104), what to put in each one, the 65 character limit that refuses a row, and the column names that create a custom field instead of filling the real one.
11 September 2026 - How eBay's bulk upload works for comics, with a template
What eBay File Exchange is, how a comic listing file is laid out, the Add and Revise actions, the errors it returns and what each means, and a comic template with the right column names in the header.
11 September 2026 - What a box of comics actually costs you in time
Three real boxes, measured: 25, 49 and 78 comics, what each step took, the step nobody has timed yet, and the two mistakes that cost one upload all 24 of its rows.
13 September 2026 - Photographing comics for listing: the setup that works
The mat, the light, how many shots per comic and why the number matters more than the gaps between them, and what makes a photo unreadable to a buyer or to software.
13 September 2026 - Whatnot bulk listing: how to bulk upload comics with Whatnot's CSV
Whatnot bulk listing is a CSV upload. What Whatnot's bulk file takes, the twenty one columns and the fact that none of them is an item specific, whole dollar prices, how a show file differs from a Buy It Now file, and the weight column that quietly costs you money.
13 September 2026 - Listing comics on Shopify from a batch
What Shopify's product CSV takes, what its import dialog really does with it, why the file has a row per photograph, and the four things one real import of 27 comics settled that the documentation did not.
13 September 2026 - Pricing back issues without a price guide
What actually moves the price of a back issue: supply against demand, the grade you call it, and whether it is a key. Written by a comic seller who prices his own boxes.
14 September 2026 - Listing a crate of records on eBay: what a photograph can tell you, and what it cannot
The item specifics eBay's Records category wants, Goldmine grading on two axes, why the printed year is not the release year, and what a photograph of a sleeve will and will not give you.
16 September 2026 - Listing video games on eBay: the UPC, and what complete in box really means
Why the back of the case matters more than the front, what CIB claims and what a photograph can support, and how to get the platform and region right.
16 September 2026 - Listing books on eBay from the ISBN: what the number gives you, and what it quietly gets wrong
ISBN-10 against ISBN-13, what a barcode on a book is really telling you, which catalogue fields to trust, and why the year a lookup returns is often the wrong printing.
16 September 2026 - Listing Funko Pops on eBay: why the box number is half the identity, and what a photograph can never tell you
A Pop is a character plus a number, the number is on the front of the box, and the thing that moves the price most is the one thing no photograph is allowed to decide for you.
16 September 2026 - A second copy of a comic you already have live: eBay's duplicate listing rule, and what to do instead
What eBay's duplicate listings policy says, why a second copy of an issue you already have live counts as one, and the two honest choices: more quantity on the live listing, or a listing that is genuinely different.
26 September 2026 - Uploading records to Discogs with an inventory CSV: the columns, the release ID, and the grades
The columns Discogs' inventory upload takes, why the release ID is the hard part, how the media and sleeve conditions must be spelled, and what Point and Sell's Discogs file does and leaves out.
26 September 2026 - Listing a comic book lot on eBay: the issues in the title, the price, the weight and the photos
How to list a run or a stack of comics as one eBay lot: a title that names every issue a buyer might search, the item specifics a lot needs, a price of its own, a weight that matches the parcel, and the group shot.
26 September 2026 - Listing a graded comic on eBay: the label, the title, the photographs and the box
How to list a slabbed comic on eBay: what on a CGC or CBCS label goes where in the listing, checking the certification number, photographing through the holder, pricing by grade and grader, and shipping a slab.
26 September 2026 - Custom labels for comics on eBay: a label on every comic that finds it in the box
How to use eBay's Custom label (SKU) field for comics: why every comic gets its own label and not the box's, a box and slot shape that sorts into a walk along the shelf, pick lists, End files and relabelling.
26 September 2026 - eBay store categories for a comic store: planning the shelves, and the number the upload needs
How to plan eBay store categories for comics (by publisher, era, keys, lots, graded and complete runs), why a bulk upload needs each one's numeric id and not its name, and where to find the ids.
26 September 2026 - Key issues: how to spot one in a long box before you price it at a dollar
How to spot a key comic in a long box before you price it at a dollar: first appearances, origins, deaths, first issues, small print runs, newsstand copies and famous covers, how to check one, and how to title it.
26 September 2026 - Variant covers on eBay: ratio variants, virgins, second printings and how to title them
Variant comic covers on eBay: cover letters, ratio variants, virgin covers, second printings and newsstand copies, how to tell which one you have, and how to put it in the title where buyers look.
26 September 2026 - How to sell comics on eBay: step by step, from pricing to item specifics to shipping
How to sell comics on eBay, step by step: sort the box, bag and board it, label it, photograph it, title it, fill in the item specifics, price it, weigh it, list it and ship it, with what eBay charges and a guide for every step.
27 September 2026 - Selling DVDs, Blu-rays and CDs on eBay: the format word, the back of the case, and the empty case
What goes in the title of a disc listing, why the back of the case matters more than the front, what an empty case costs you, and what eBay's fee takes.
27 September 2026 - Cross listing on Whatnot, eBay, Shopify and Discogs: how cross posting works, and the sale that has to come down everywhere
How cross listing on Whatnot works today, with no direct Whatnot link: why each marketplace wants a different listing, how one custom label keeps an item the same item everywhere, and the step that decides whether crosslisting makes money: taking a sold item down.
27 September 2026 - Grading vinyl records for eBay: the Goldmine scale, eBay's nine grades, and what to do about EX and Poor
What each Goldmine grade means in plain words, how it lines up with eBay's Record Grading and Sleeve Grading lists, what to do with eBay's Excellent and Worn and its missing Poor, grading the sleeve on its own, sealed records, and the same lists for CDs and cassettes.
27 September 2026 - Comic book grades on eBay and Whatnot: the ten point scale, raw copies, slabs, and what each field takes
The ten point comic grading scale from 10.0 to 0.5 as a converter: CGC's code, the name, eBay's Grade value and the Whatnot condition for each grade. How a raw comic's grade goes into an eBay listing, the eBay fields that only take a slab's grade, and Whatnot's condition ladder.
28 September 2026 - Discogs eBay integration: how to list records on both sites and keep them in step
Is there a Discogs eBay integration? Neither site describes one. How to list records on both, keep stock in step, take a sold record down and compare fees.
15 October 2026 - How to pack and ship comics for eBay and Whatnot: the box, the wrap, and the scale
How I pack comics for eBay and Whatnot: 12x8x2 and 12x8x6 boxes, a tape gun, double bubble wrap, backing boards out on big stacks, ship fast and weigh it.
17 October 2026 - What I learned from my own eBay comic store: 6,566 listings by the numbers
Price points, decades, publishers, lots and quantities from 6,566 live listings in a working eBay comic store, counted from its own report.
16 October 2026
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