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Mar 19 14 7:08 AM
Robert White wrote:Manicben wrote:Yeah, the Doctor Strange one is another I wanted. I can't fathom how this is good business for Marvel? I guess there isn't enough demand. I refuse to pay what the secondary market wants, some prices are just stupid. I could work on my Silver age collection for similar prices. I bought the Doctor Strange softcovers first, both volumes, because I knew they'd be the first of the first few waves to go out of print. It's a classic, and the fans are dedicated, but it's a much smaller demand compared to Spider-Man, X-Men, FF, etc. I agree that the secondary market prices are insulting and borderline unethical (And not just for comic collections). I can accept this sort of thing for collectors item originals, but reprints of classic works? I hope that someday there are trade laws passed limiting how much something can be marked up and inflated under the thin justification of "collectors/vanity items." Even those GIT DVD's that featured 50 years of various Marvel characters are selling for 200 bucks on ebay! I take a very dim view of something being doubled, tripled, if not more, over the original sales price, very soon after it goes out of print.
Manicben wrote:Yeah, the Doctor Strange one is another I wanted. I can't fathom how this is good business for Marvel? I guess there isn't enough demand. I refuse to pay what the secondary market wants, some prices are just stupid. I could work on my Silver age collection for similar prices.
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