The Re-seller sucktitude

[BearLeeBadenaugh]

Jeez, didn't realize MtG cards had hit that high. I was into it for a while, have a couple linear feet of cards left. I should see if anything's worth much, pretty sure all I have is Revised edition and some of the expansions that were out around that time.

Lol, just scanned a little bit of the buy list at star city. Kinda funny to me how valuable some of the cards are. Looked for a couple cards I know I have in the revised edition, namely Shivan dragon and some of the lands. Got a chuckle, the Shivan is only worth a quarter now. Sold one for $20 back in the mid 90's. Then theres the rare lands, didn't realize those were worth so much now. I guess I'll have to pull my card storage and make a list.

[XCashier]

Beanie babies. I never quite understood that one either. I have a family member, who is in her 50's who has several tubs of them. "Because they're an investment" um no, sorry, they are not.

So many people have no idea how the collectibles market works. They buy tons of useless crap because the commercials say "they're collectible", or they pay ridiculous prices for "collectible" coins on QVC that they could buy at their local coin store for probably less than half of QVC's price.

If they would only do the research, but no, so many folks want to get rich quick, and think that selling "collectibles" is the way to do it. While you can make a decent living selling real collectibles if you know what you are doing, you will not get rich quick.

[VicSilver]

I worked in a Toys R Us when Tickle Me Elmo and Furby came out. I hated my life then.

We had collectors hang around on truck days to sort through the boxes of Star Wars figures and Hot Wheels as soon as they hit the shelves, and they drove me just as nuts as the people who'd try to buy 40 cases of Similac at a time. Nooo, not suspicious at all.

[Kanalah]

I have a nice little collection of Breyer Horses. But I take them out of the box and give them nose-kisses. I just buy the ones that appeal to me. I'm not expecting to retire from selling them.

[Deserted]

Same here, me and comic books. Over the past 30+ years, I've probably spent around $20,000 on comics. Do I expect to ever get that money back? Or more? Hell no, I buy them to read them.

[drjonah]

Same here, me and comic books. Over the past 30+ years, I've probably spent around $20,000 on comics. Do I expect to ever get that money back? Or more? Hell no, I buy them to read them.

When I was young I did the same thing. My neighbor was just aghast that I was buying comic books and READING them instead of wrapping them up in air tight plastic to just sit in a closet

[Deserted]

Well... I do have a few that I keep safe. First issue (and all alt covers) of McFarlane's Spider-Man, a handful of autographed comics, some Silver Age comics... but most of them are beat to death. There's a few I've bought multiple times because I literally read them to pieces.

[Kagato]

Dunno why, but whenever I hear about collectible comics, my mind always goes to this image