Comic shops, dealers and auction houses: put every book you sell in front of collectors who are searching for exactly that book. Free, read-only, and you choose how we connect.
Why list your store on Argus
Collectors searching for your exact book find it. Argus is one search across eBay, the major auction houses and independent dealers. A collector looking for Amazing Spider-Man #300 CGC 9.6 sees your copy next to everyone else's, with your grade, grader, cert, price and details.
Want Lists bring buyers to you. Collectors save the books they are hunting with the grade, printing, signature and price they want. When your listing matches, they get an alert the same day, with a link straight to your product page.
The sale happens on your site. Argus never takes a payment, holds inventory or charges a commission. Every result links to your listing. No fee to be listed.
Your listings reach AI assistants too. Collectors run Argus inside ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. A cited answer to “who has a CGC 9.8 Hulk #181 under $5,000?” can include your store.
Auction houses get the calendar. Sale dates appear on the public Auction Calendar and collectors who follow you get reminders before you open and before you close.
Read-only and respectful. We read what you publish, at a pace you agree to, and stop whenever you ask. We never write to your store.
OPTIONAL, FREE
Want more Google traffic? We'll get your store into Google Shopping
Most comic shops on Shopify or WooCommerce never set up Google Merchant Center, so their books never appear in Google's Shopping tab, in product results on the search page, or in Google Images with a price. If you want, we work with you to fix that:
We help you create or tidy your Merchant Center account, verify and claim your domain, and turn on the free product listings.
We help you connect your Shopify or WooCommerce catalog to Merchant Center and clear the usual disapprovals (missing identifiers, shipping and returns policies, image rules) so your comics actually show.
Once your products are flowing to Google, you add Argus as a read-only user on that same account and we read your catalog from there. One feed, two destinations: Google and Argus.
Read-only is enforced by Google, not just by us: a read-only user can see products and never change them. Pick “Google Merchant Center” in the form below and tell us where you are with Google today.
Three ways to connect. Pick one; we do the rest.
1. Submit a product feed from Shopify or WooCommerce
Best for: any shop that already runs a Google Shopping, Facebook or Bing feed, or can turn one on in a few clicks.
You do: paste the feed URL in the form. On Shopify, the Google & YouTube app or any feed app gives you an XML/CSV link; on WooCommerce, plugins such as Product Feed PRO or CTX Feed do the same. If you have no feed yet, we tell you exactly which free app to install.
We do: read the feed on its own schedule (usually daily), match each product to the comic catalog, and keep your listing current until the product leaves the feed.
2. Integrate with our Google Merchant Center
Best for: shops already on Google Shopping, or shops that want to be (see above).
You do: in Merchant Center, open Settings › People and access, add the Argus user email we send you, and set its access level to Read-only. Two minutes.
We do: read your products through Google's Merchant API within minutes of a change: title, description, link, image, price, availability, condition and identifiers. Nothing is written back, ever.
3. Let Argus read your site once a day
Best for: shops with no feed and no Merchant Center, auction houses, and custom sites.
You do: confirm your website address in the form and tell us where the inventory or auction schedule lives. Nothing to install.
We do: read your public listing pages in a real Chrome browser once a day at a gentle pace, honouring your robots rules. Shopify and WooCommerce storefronts are recognised automatically; for other sites we map the pages by hand.
Not sure? Choose “Help me pick” in the form and we recommend a path after looking at your site.
What happens after you submit
We reply within a few business days with the next step for the path you picked: the feed check, the Argus read-only user email to add, or a note that the crawl is set up.
We run a first read and send you a count of the listings we found and how many matched the catalog, so you can check a few before anything goes public.
Your books go live in search and Want List alerts. From then on your listings refresh on the path's schedule, and you can ask for a pause or change at any time.
Tell us about your store
Questions stores ask
What does it cost?
Nothing. Listing on Argus is free for stores, dealers and auction houses, and so is the Merchant Center help. You never pay Argus a fee or a commission; the sale happens on your site.
What does Argus store about my listings?
The title, issue, grade, grader and cert, the listing details you publish (page quality, signatures, restoration, variants), the link, the picture and the current asking price with the time it was read. Prices are refreshed on every read and removed with the listing.
Can I change my mind?
Yes. Ask us to pause, change or remove your store at any time and we act on it promptly. Revoking a Merchant Center user or removing a feed URL stops the reads on its own.
Do I need Google Merchant Center to be listed?
No. A product feed or a daily crawl lists you just as well. Merchant Center is for stores that also want their books in Google Shopping, Google Search and Google Images, and we help with that setup if you want it.
Already listed and want changes?
Ask us to pause, change or remove your store at any time through the form above or at bizdev@rvkholdings.com. We act on it promptly.