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Pay Your Way At San Diego Comic Con

Published Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:00:11 -0500

San Diego Comic Con costs a lot to attend. But can you actually make it pay for itself?

1. Have you booked to take part in the Walking Dead Escape Event? Tickets are sold out at a ball busting $75 each. But you get an exclusive Escape Walking Dead #100 variant, currently successfully sold on eBay for $140.

2. The Big Bags. Get one of the San Diego Comic Con big bags, free on entrance, courtesy of Warner Bros, and fill it with free stuff. Doorknob hangers from the hotel rooms, flyers, masks, hats, all the handouts. You can eBay that for $30-$50 easy. DC Comics and Marvel always give away stuff. Get grabby. Also Big Bang Theory bags will always be in more demand than Pacific Rim.

3. Exclusive Up! Hit the likes of Avatar, Image, Zenescope for their San Diego Exclusive comics. You have to be canny but these can also be strong flippables on eBay. Try and get discount for picking up multiple comics.

4. The H.I.S..S. Tank. Some kind of GI Joe/Transformers thing from Hasbro, exclusive to the show. It will be on sale for $65. It has already been sold by some for $200. In fact all the Hasbro and Mattel exclusive toys have been going for ridiculous mark ups on the San Diego slae price. If you wait in the right lines at the right times, you can make a four figure sum, easily.

5. Don't forget the small toys either. A $40 Ant Man HeroClix figure has been getting bids close to $100.

6. And don't ignore the likes of Hallmark either. 4-Lom and Zuckuss, going for $35 has sold in advance for… $130.

7. And then there are Darryl's ears on a string, free for the first hundred who preorder next year's Walking Dead console game. I cannot emphasis how much this is a real thing.

8. Got a couple of hours to kill? Not totally bored from being in lines? Why not line up for someone outside Hall H for $10 an hour? You get to meet some fun people, enjoy the sunshine and kick back…

9. Sell your body.

10. Get in a fight with a major comics celebrity, or rather get them to fight you, take the blows, sue them and settle.

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