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Ebay + Comics = a perfect combination
Jul. 30th, 2003 05:12 pmMy great grandmother is the one who got me into comic collecting when I was younger. Before I would just pick them and read them in the library, enjoy them and put them back. Until she gave me 3 comics one year during the summer in the cool little care packages she would do for me and brother (this is how I discovered the coolness that is roll on soap but that's another story). Those comics made me get more and took my appreciation for comics to a new level or respect. In fact it's one of my goals as a writer to have my own comic book someday.
The past two weeks I have been bidding like a rabid beast on Ebay, advancing my comic book collection by leaps and bounds for practically nothing.
So I go on Ebay and do a little searching around and I find so many good comics up for auction including newer ones like Smallville #3 the Lex Luthor special that has the Michael Rosenbaum interview in the front. The newstand price is $ 2.95 I believe, so why did someone have on auction starting at $3.50 when it's still available in stores?
Something I thought was funny is people paying out the ass for new comics and letting older comics that were cheaper just go. Any comic book collector will tell you two things 1) any comic in near very good to mint condition is or will be worth something in the future and 2) a the true value of a comic isn't the price tag, although some can get up there, but in the feeling; the connecting with your childhood or something else that has good memories and also comforting.
I collect because my first 3 comic books are the best thing my great grandmother ever gave me. And if she were alive today I'd tell her how much they mean, how reading them and learning more about them helped me become a better writer.
Flashy newness is not always better but there are a lot of people on Ebay who don't quite get that apparently. It works out for me because I end up getting pretty good deals but it's a shame that to most people new=better.
The past two weeks I have been bidding like a rabid beast on Ebay, advancing my comic book collection by leaps and bounds for practically nothing.
So I go on Ebay and do a little searching around and I find so many good comics up for auction including newer ones like Smallville #3 the Lex Luthor special that has the Michael Rosenbaum interview in the front. The newstand price is $ 2.95 I believe, so why did someone have on auction starting at $3.50 when it's still available in stores?
Something I thought was funny is people paying out the ass for new comics and letting older comics that were cheaper just go. Any comic book collector will tell you two things 1) any comic in near very good to mint condition is or will be worth something in the future and 2) a the true value of a comic isn't the price tag, although some can get up there, but in the feeling; the connecting with your childhood or something else that has good memories and also comforting.
I collect because my first 3 comic books are the best thing my great grandmother ever gave me. And if she were alive today I'd tell her how much they mean, how reading them and learning more about them helped me become a better writer.
Flashy newness is not always better but there are a lot of people on Ebay who don't quite get that apparently. It works out for me because I end up getting pretty good deals but it's a shame that to most people new=better.
