UPDATE! – Apparently this was too good to be true and if there are comics on the Mile High site that have been reduced as the news stated, I couldn’t find them.  As of now I can’t recommend.

Bleeding Cool has reported that Mile High Comics, Chuck Rozanski’s famous comic book store, will make a large change in it’s business practices tomorrow.

Known in collector circles as loose with grading and overpriced, Mile High’s business practice was a deliberate plan to keep comics in stock with the flexibility to run sales to generate cash flow. The upside is you could usually find what you were looking for in their inventory, albeit at price higher than Overstreet Price Guide. Tomorrow that is all set to change.

On February 14th the news is Mile High will be reducing prices closer to guide, and with the special code “SWEETHEART” you will receive and additional 50% off. The sale is set to run for 3 days.

It sounds like things may be busy in Colorado for a few days!

You can visit Mile High at www.milehighcomics.com

Do you want to buy comic books for deep discounts on E-bay? Here are a few tips.

Misspell the Title
If a seller misspells the title there are usually very few watchers, nobody can find the comic! This is your chance to find a deal. I doesn’t happen often, but when it does you could be a winner.

Bid at the Last Minute
This is also know as sniping. If you bid early you give other bidders a chance to outbid you or force you to bid more. If at all possible use an auction sniping program and set it an forget it.

Look for Auctions Ending at Odd Times
Is an auction ending at 4:00 in the afternoon on a weekday? Most people are at work. Is it ending in the middle of the night? Most people are asleep. Either get up and bid or better yet use a sniping program as mentioned above and take advantage of the lower competition.

The Comic Book Crash Course offered below (it’s free) has many more comic book buying tips. Check it out!

Want to save money on old comic books? Here’s and interesting strategy for collectors to consider.

Abandon the Local Comic Book Store

Many of us miss the days when you could go to the local comic book store and pick up nice looking books for a reasonable price. unfortunately, due to the Internet and E-bay, those days have pretty much come to an end. Unless you are lucky, many small town dealers are overgrading and therefore overpricing their comic books. What they are selling as a NM may in fact only be a Fine or Very Fine-. Here’s where the strategy comes in, plus a cool tool just for you readers.

A “Special” Search on E-bay

If you are creative you can overcome the problem mentioned above. Instead of buying a “raw” ungraded (and many time overgraded and overpriced) comic from a local dealer, make sure you check E-bay for a CGC graded copy. Once you get it, just crack it out and enjoy! You get the bonus of the CGC certified grade, plus their excellent restoration services. Collecting and investing habits have changes, especially with the poor economy, and many times you can find mid to low grade CGC comic books at or below Overstreet guide.

So how do you find them? Here’s One Strategy

You want to use a few tricks while searching E-bay. First, you want to search for CGC comics, so include that in your search terms. Next you want to use a little known and under-utilized search function, the negative search. If you were to search for all the lower grade copies it would be a pain, but with the addition of a simple “-” sign, you can exclude certain returns. I would exclude 9.8,9.6,9.4,.9.2, 9.0. Below you’ll see an example of the search for all lower grade comic books.

Enjoy the trick!

Here is the link to an RSS feed of the search if you want to save it in a reader.