Terms of Sale

Last updated: November 10, 2026 (version 2026-11-10)

These terms apply when you buy comics on this website. Comics bought on our eBay store follow eBay’s rules instead. Nothing in these terms takes away any right the law gives you.

Who you’re buying from

You’re buying from Republic Comics.

Address: 145 1/2 Church Street, Unit 5, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y4, Canada
Phone: 416-706-7576
Email: republiccomic@gmail.com

We sell to customers in Canada and the United States. Orders ship from York, Ontario.

What you’re buying

Our comics are pre-owned, and most are one of a kind: the copy in the photos is the copy you get. Each listing describes the comic and its condition. Grades are our own estimates from the book in hand, not certified grades, unless the listing says the comic was professionally graded.

Prices, taxes and currency

Prices are in Canadian dollars (CAD). The price you see at checkout is the price you pay, even if we change it later.

We don’t add handling, payment or other fees. Only two things are added to the price of your comics, and checkout shows both before you pay:

Shipping, set by how many comics are in the parcel and where it’s going. The full table is on our Shipping page, and the cart shows your exact price.
Sales tax (GST or HST) where it applies, based on where the order ships. Orders shipped to the USA have no Canadian tax.

Shipping to the USA includes duties and import fees, prepaid, so there’s nothing to pay on delivery. If a carrier or customs office ever asks you for duties or import fees on one of our parcels, contact us and we’ll pay them.

If your card is in another currency, checkout may show and charge the amount in your currency, converted by our payment processor, Stripe. Your bank may also charge its own fee.

Payment

Payments are processed by Stripe. Checkout shows the payment methods we accept. We charge you when you place your order, and we never see or store your full card number.

With Hold My Shipment, you pay for each comic when you buy it and pay shipping once, when your box ships.

Placing an order

Before you pay, checkout shows your whole order: each comic and its price, shipping, tax, the total, the delivery address, how it ships and the latest delivery date. You can change or remove anything, correct your details, or leave without buying. Your order is placed when you press the button to place it and your payment is approved.

Your copy of the agreement. We email your order confirmation as soon as you order. It’s your copy of our agreement: your name, the order date, what you bought and the prices, shipping, tax and total, the delivery address, how it ships, the latest delivery date, our contact details and a link to these terms. Please keep it. If it hasn’t arrived within a day, check your spam folder or contact us and we’ll send it again.

If we can’t fill your order. Our comics are also listed on our eBay store, and once in a while a comic sells there at the same moment. If a comic you ordered has already sold, we cancel it. If we find a fault that the listing doesn’t show, we email you before shipping and you choose: take the comic as it is, or cancel it. We may also cancel an order we reasonably believe is fraudulent. Whatever we cancel, we refund in full, plus the difference in shipping (all of it if nothing else ships), to your original payment method within 7 business days.

Shipping and delivery dates

Every order ships tracked from York, Ontario, through Chit Chats. Chit Chats hands each parcel to a carrier for delivery: Canada Post or a courier in Canada, and USPS in the United States.

Ship date. We ship within 2 business days after you pay, and email you the tracking number. Business days are Monday to Friday, except Ontario public holidays.

Latest delivery date. Your order should arrive by its latest delivery date: 12 business days after you pay for a Canadian address, or 17 business days for a US address. Checkout and your order confirmation show the date on the shipping line.

Combining orders. If you order again within a day of your last order, before we’ve packed it, checkout may offer to ship both together, and you pay only the difference in shipping. To buy over several weeks, use Hold My Shipment.

If we’re running late. If we can’t ship on time, we email you a new date. You can accept it, or cancel and get a full refund within 7 business days.

Your right to cancel a late order. If your order hasn’t been delivered within 30 days after its latest delivery date, or after a later date you agreed to in writing (for example, by replying to our email), you can cancel it at any time before it arrives. We refund everything you paid for it, including shipping, within 7 business days. If the parcel reaches you after you’ve cancelled, send it back within 15 days and we’ll pay the return postage. This right ends if, after those 30 days, you agree to accept the delivery. A parcel counts as delivered if you refused it, or if the carrier tried to deliver it on a day you’d been told about and no one was there to receive it.

Hold My Shipment

Hold My Shipment lets you buy comics over several weeks and pay shipping once. This section sets out its terms; the Hold My Shipment page explains how it works, with examples. You agree to these terms by ticking the box at checkout when you choose Hold My Shipment, and the version you agreed to is saved with your order.

Who can use it. Customers with an account and a delivery address in Canada or the USA. It’s never chosen for you: you pick it at checkout. Comics bought on our eBay store can’t go in a box.

Your comics. You pay for each comic when you buy it. From then on the comic is yours: we take it off sale and keep it in your box, bagged and boarded. Holding is free. We’re responsible for loss, theft or damage while we hold your comics, until we hand your box to the carrier.

Your box’s dates. Your box opens with the first comic you put in it. It must ship within 60 days after you bought the oldest comic in it: that’s your ship-by date. You can extend it once, free, by 30 days, with the Extend button on your box page; we record your choice and email you the new dates. No box is held longer than 90 days.

Reminders. We email you each time a comic goes into your box; once if nothing has been added for 14 days; and 14 days before, 3 days before and on your ship-by date. Each email shows what’s in your box, what it would cost to ship today, and your dates.

Shipping your box. When you’re ready, press Ship my box on your box page. Checkout shows the exact shipping price and tax for the whole box, and that’s what you pay. Shipping is priced like any order, from the table on our Shipping page on the day you pay. Boxes over 50 shipping units, or with oversize items, get an exact quote by email instead. You can add new comics in the same checkout. Once you’ve paid shipping, the box is closed, and comics you buy after that start a new box.

Delivery date. We ship within 2 business days after you pay for shipping and email you the tracking number. Every “added to your box” email and your box page show your latest ship date: 14 days after your ship-by date, plus 2 business days. Your latest delivery date is 10 business days after the latest ship date for a Canadian address, or 15 for a US address. If your box isn’t delivered within 30 days after that date, you can cancel as described under Shipping and delivery dates.

Where it ships. Your box ships to the address you choose when you press Ship my box. It must be in the same province, territory or US state as the address on your held orders, because the tax on your comics was charged for that place. To ship somewhere else, contact us first.

Taking a comic out. You can remove a comic from your box before it ships. Within 7 days after you bought it, we refund it in full. After that, we keep a restocking fee of 10% of the comic’s price.

If your box isn’t shipped by its ship-by date. On that date we email you a shipping invoice for the box, at the prices on our Shipping page, with a link to pay. You have 14 days to pay it, and we remind you after 7 and 13 days. If it’s still unpaid after 14 days, we cancel the held orders, put the comics back on sale and refund what you paid for them, less a 10% restocking fee. Hold My Shipment is then paused on your account; you can ask us to turn it back on.

Fees and refunds. The 10% restocking fee is the only fee, and it applies only in the two cases above. We may waive it. It never applies when you cancel under a right the law gives you, or when a comic is damaged or not as described. Refunds go to your original payment method within 15 days; we don’t give store credit instead.

Pausing the service. We may turn off Hold My Shipment for an account that often removes comics or lets boxes expire unpaid. Comics already in your box are still yours, and they still ship or are refunded under these terms.

After delivery. Comics from your box have the same 30-day returns as any order, counted from the day the box is delivered.

Returns and refunds

You can return a comic within 30 days after it’s delivered, for any reason. Contact us first with your order number and we’ll give you the return address. Pack it the way it came. You pay the return postage.

When it’s back with us, in the condition we sent it, we refund the comic’s price and tax to your original payment method within 2 business days. On a change-of-mind return, the shipping you paid to receive the order isn’t refunded. The steps are on our Returns page.

Damaged or lost parcels

Damaged or not as described. If a comic arrives damaged, or isn’t as its listing described, tell us, ideally within 30 days of delivery and with photos. We refund the comic in full, plus its share of the shipping, and we pay the postage if we need it back.

Lost. If your tracked parcel hasn’t arrived by its latest delivery date, tell us and we’ll ask the carrier to trace it. If the carrier confirms it’s lost, or it still hasn’t arrived 10 business days after the latest delivery date, we send a replacement if we have another copy, or refund everything you paid for it, including shipping, within 7 business days. If it turns up after we’ve refunded you, let us know: you can pay for it again or send it back at our cost.

Cancelling an order

Before it ships. Changed your mind? Email us as soon as you can. If we haven’t shipped the order, we cancel it and refund it in full within 7 business days. Once it has shipped, you can return it instead. Comics in a Hold My Shipment box follow the “Taking a comic out” rule above.

Your cancellation rights by law. Consumer protection law also lets you cancel an order:

within 7 days after you receive your order confirmation, if checkout didn’t show you the information described under “Placing an order”, or didn’t let you review, correct and accept or decline your order before placing it;
within 30 days after you order, if we don’t send your order confirmation within 15 days;
if your order is late, as described under “Shipping and delivery dates”.

To cancel, tell us by email, or in any other way that shows the date. We refund everything you paid within 7 business days. If you already have the comics, send them back within 15 days after cancelling; we pay the return postage.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. If you live elsewhere in Canada or in the United States, you also keep every right the consumer protection laws where you live give you, and you can bring a claim in your local courts where those laws allow it. These terms don’t require arbitration and don’t stop you from joining a class action.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms; the date and version at the top show the latest change. Your order is governed by the terms in force when you placed it. Comics already in your Hold My Shipment box stay under the version you agreed to, and you’ll be asked to accept any new version the next time you choose Hold My Shipment.

Contact

For questions about an order, a return or your box, email republiccomic@gmail.com, call 416-706-7576, or use our contact form. Please include your order number. By mail: Republic Comics, 145 1/2 Church Street, Unit 5, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y4, Canada.