What is Shortboxed?
Shortboxed is the most trusted marketplace and auction platform to buy and sell comic books. In addition to a thriving community with tens of thousands of buyers and sellers, there are also free tools and resources such as a price guide, portfolio manager, extensive data, and quality content to make buying and selling easy, safe, and fun.
How does buying and selling work?
For the marketplace, vetted dealers, comic shop owners, and collectors list their comic books for sale on Shortboxed while buyers browse and discover tens of thousands of comic books, both graded and ungraded. When someone buys a book, the seller receives an order confirmation with a pre-paid shipping label. Sellers get paid once the book is confirmed delivered. Our seller fee is a flat 10% - no hidden fees or shenanigans. Super simple!
For event style auctions, approved sellers send in their books to Shortboxed before an auction is curated. Once the auction event is live, buyers can bid on items until the closing time. Once an auction event ends, winners will receive an invoice to pay before receiving their items.
Shortboxed Features
Sell raw or graded comic books - you can submit raw or graded comic books for sale on Shortboxed, with all raw books verified by Shortboxed before being delivered to the buyer. Buy and sell with confidence!
Quick and easy submissions - take a couple pics, add a price and any additional info as needed, and that’s it. We take care of the rest, including exposure to tens of thousands of potential buyers across the U.S., Canada and U.K.
We handle customer support - have an issue with an order? Our attentive team will take care of any questions or order issues. No more endless back and forth between buyers and sellers - we take care of everything so you don’t have to.
Fair Market Value data - make informed buying decisions with our fair market value range, sales history, and indicators that show you if a book is a good deal.
Portfolio Manager - manage your For Sale inventory and your Personal Collection all in one place with the Portfolio Manager. Organize your collection and track the value of your Portfolio for free.
Price Guide - look up recent sales history with our free price guide featuring over one million recent comic book sales across multiple platforms. Did we mention it’s free?
Amazing content - check the app often for new content from the community, how-to guides, collector spotlights, free giveaways, newsletters, and more!
Ready to buy and sell?
Please read the FAQ in-app or on Shortboxed.com for a complete list of all the buying and selling policies.
Download Shortboxed today and connect with our community on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @shortboxed and on TikTok @shortboxedcomics.
Looks good but there are somethings that should be addressed. For one signup put a space at the end of my name then had error stating “letters only” and clicking create does not pop up an error saying what’s wrong. Maybe use a method to remove spaces from input, and put better validation notices for the user. It’s clear this app wasn’t tested for different sized phone screens. Some words get cut off from my phone (iPhone 6), most likely you are styling containers based on set pixels and not percentages in the css. The icons on the bottom don’t say what page they route to, I really had no idea what icons route to what page, it’s unclear. Lastly, although this isn’t a UX/UI issue, some prices are outrageously high. You can get much better prices for the same cgc slabs elsewhere. Other than that it’s a solid app, but I feel it does need improvements and more testing on different screen sizes, I would suggest not making things hard coded in size but rather dynamic. Hint hint media queries and percentage styling via css.Edit: another issue I found is that when you click an image to see a bigger size, it blows up larger than what my screen will allow, however when I go to shrink the image a bit it just exits the image - it doesn’t stay at the size I would like to better examine the slabs. The image does allow me to move it around but then it redirects back to center rather than staying where I left it. It makes it hard to examine the slab..Edit: dev response deserves a five star, cant wait to see how this app grows
Developer Response
Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback! We're currently working on a new update to the app which will address most of these issues. We're constantly fixing bugs and improving the experience, so we appreciate you sharing your thoughts and they've been shared with the team. With regards to pricing, Shortboxed is a marketplace, so sellers are able to price freely. While some books may seem overpriced, many are listed below fair market value and those tend to sell very quickly, of course, and the majority of books are listed within fair market value range. We're also building new features to provide some pricing guidelines and historical data.If you have any other feedback or feature requests, please don't hesitate to reach out.
A better comic buying and selling platform
chefhomielee
I’m an active comic collector, I buy and sell comics on a regular basis. I’ve used almost all the online platforms for this hobby, from eBay to Craigslist, from Facebook Marketplace to Instagram. Those platforms are all generic in that they were made to sell anything.Shortboxed is different. Shortboxed is better. It was developed by comic collectors for comic collectors. Their passion shows in the details. The app is a pleasure to use. It’s clean, intuitive and convenient. There are filters to help you find what your are looking for. They have a “Make an Offer” option. There are great original content in the form of articles and also collector spotlight interviews. Did I mention the Deal of the Day feature? Yeah, even bargain hunters can score amazing deals in graded books via the Deal of the Day.Buying is a breeze. And selling is pretty simple too. I’ve done both on the app. It’s the most enjoyable and trustworthy comic buying and selling platform I have used. What I love the most though, is the sense of community that they are building. Comic collectors share a “magnificent obsession”. The Shortboxed app understands this and delivers a magnificent experience. I look forward to seeing how the app will grow over time.-OhManComics
Best app to buy/sell comics!
elfesco
I’ve been collecting comics for a very long time and is one of two online marketplaces I participate in and trust. The Shortboxed comic book collecting app was created by comic book collectors, and it shows. It’s the only way for me to buy and sell my books. It instills trust and provides collectors the safest way to participate in this wonderful hobby via the internet. It has been the closest experience to going to your favorite neighborhood shop, where the books are the centerpiece of it all and the experience is immediately welcoming and personal. That’s a testament to the clean UX design and periodic spotlights of their employees. The staff is quite accessible as well and are always available to answer questions and help to make a deal happen! They resolve any issues immediately, and make sure the buyer and seller are accountability and protected throughout process. It has been a breathe of fresh air! Other marketplaces like FeeBay are cold, rigid, impersonal, and wallet-crushing with their nickel and diming tactics. You always feel like you are buying comics out of a trunk in a Walmart parking lot at 2 a.m. and you’re about to get scammed somehow. The final straw was when FeeBay took money out of my checking account 2 months after a transaction was terminated for additional shipping fees that the fraudulent seller couldn’t cover because they were long gone — they took my money without my consent to cover it! On FeeBay, there’s no sense of loyalty, understanding or respect for the hobby, and the fact that you can’t interact with a human being ever to resolve issues has made me ignore the Dreaded marketplace completely. Shortboxed is one of the most human comic book collectors app — simple, secure, welcoming, aesthetically pleasing, and passionate about the hobby and it’s customers. Thank you Shortboxed for existing!!!
Great selling platform!
ernmusicman
Been using ShortBoxed for selling and buying. The ease of use and always innovating the platform by the creators who are collectors themselves. If you follow them on social media they have clear intention in building a platform to sell and purchase safely. I like the good deal feature on a listed book. It’s either a green dot next to the listing to showcase the books listing price is below current sold prices. And they just released an update where you can buy and sell raw books now!! That’s great news. I do love slabbed books but I’m a little old school in owning raw books (not certified rating by a third party and encased in a sealed plastic). So I’m definitely be looking forward to this update!! And their comic convention was awesome!! It was held in Silicon Valley, California and had just comic books. For us oldies that appreciate more comics to choose from than nowadays at conventions when comics have to compete with cosplayers, cards, toys. I just love an old school comic convention!
New in this release:
- Homefeed is now Featured — see all auctions ending today (with previews), plus highlighted auctions and Marketplace listings in one place.
- My Listings (Beta) — create and manage your listings from one hub (under More). You can still manage listings in Portfolio as usual.
- Auctions page updates — new Trending and Ending Soon sections to surface the most active lots, plus a complete view of all upcoming auction events.
Version 4.4.0
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The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
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Information
Seller
Shortboxed LLC
Size
58.4 MB
Category
Shopping
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.