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Mar 20 14 9:11 AM
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Robert White wrote:Five Years Later wrote:Some people would be happy with laws telling them how many times they have to poop each day and a gun carrying cop there to watch them. BTW $200 is a bargain for those GIT DVDs. Most include 500+ comics. That works out to $0.40 per comic which isn't unreasonable for scans of material that isn't 100% available through legal means. Clean digital comics are typically $2 each. If you don't like it then don't buy it. Nah, I would, however, love to see laws that put a curb to unethical behavior and greed disguised as "free market capitalism." I'm not communist, and don't begrudge rich folk, but it is amusing to me how ethics, and even morality, go right out the proverbial window if money is involved; even among those oh so wonderful Church going conservatives we all hold in such high esteem. And I have to take issue that it's a bargain since they were originally priced at around $40 bucks a piece. Apparently even GIT and Marvel felt that charging $200 bucks would be too much to justify!
Five Years Later wrote:Some people would be happy with laws telling them how many times they have to poop each day and a gun carrying cop there to watch them. BTW $200 is a bargain for those GIT DVDs. Most include 500+ comics. That works out to $0.40 per comic which isn't unreasonable for scans of material that isn't 100% available through legal means. Clean digital comics are typically $2 each. If you don't like it then don't buy it.
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Mar 20 14 9:21 AM
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Mar 20 14 10:05 AM
Five Years Later wrote:Robert White wrote:Five Years Later wrote:Some people would be happy with laws telling them how many times they have to poop each day and a gun carrying cop there to watch them. BTW $200 is a bargain for those GIT DVDs. Most include 500+ comics. That works out to $0.40 per comic which isn't unreasonable for scans of material that isn't 100% available through legal means. Clean digital comics are typically $2 each. If you don't like it then don't buy it. Nah, I would, however, love to see laws that put a curb to unethical behavior and greed disguised as "free market capitalism." I'm not communist, and don't begrudge rich folk, but it is amusing to me how ethics, and even morality, go right out the proverbial window if money is involved; even among those oh so wonderful Church going conservatives we all hold in such high esteem. And I have to take issue that it's a bargain since they were originally priced at around $40 bucks a piece. Apparently even GIT and Marvel felt that charging $200 bucks would be too much to justify!...Also, I don't understand at all how ethics come into play in my decision to list a price for a book. No one has to buy it. I'm not colluding with others to jack up the price like Apple did when they rolled out iBooks. I'm just putting a price out there and if someone wants it they can buy it...
Mar 20 14 10:21 AM
videofarmer wrote:Five Years Later wrote:Plus, these are comic books, not food or water. I put a first issue of Peter Panzerfaust on eBay at cover price and it ended up selling for over $200. Who should be punished for bad ethics?When I put a book on Amazon for an inflated price, it's usually because I would rather have the book than a lower amount of money. I don't see how that is unethical.
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Mar 25 14 1:32 PM
Five Years Later wrote:Guess who just sold his Doctor Strange MMW v.1?
Mar 25 14 1:45 PM
videofarmer wrote:Five Years Later wrote:Guess who just sold his Doctor Strange MMW v.1?Me too!
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Five Years Later wrote:The HC Doctor Strange vol 1 is junk. I sold it less than a year after I bought it.
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Mar 28 14 12:10 PM
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Mar 28 14 2:43 PM
MachineMan1978 wrote:Just noticed that the preview image I've seen for MMW: The Human Torch TPB release shows the cover as Strange Tales #107, rather than #101, which I thought was on the HC release. I don't mind the switch, as the Subby vs. Torch image is nifty, but I wondered how often just such a cover change has happened regarding HC to TPB Masterworks? Anyone know?
Mar 28 14 3:07 PM
JShilpetski wrote:MachineMan1978 wrote:Just noticed that the preview image I've seen for MMW: The Human Torch TPB release shows the cover as Strange Tales #107, rather than #101, which I thought was on the HC release. I don't mind the switch, as the Subby vs. Torch image is nifty, but I wondered how often just such a cover change has happened regarding HC to TPB Masterworks? Anyone know?Most of them are the same; a few that they changed (often for the better, in my opinion) include Spider-Man V4 & 7, Daredevil V3, and Fantastic Four V2 and 8. There may be more. So it's not very often, but often (especially Spider-Man V4) I'm shocked that the new cover wasn't the original choice.
Mar 28 14 4:25 PM
MachineMan1978 wrote: FF V8 (isssue #73) stayed the same, didn't it?
FF V8 (isssue #73) stayed the same, didn't it?
Mar 29 14 9:57 AM
King Nine to Firefly wrote:MachineMan1978 wrote: FF V8 (isssue #73) stayed the same, didn't it? Yes. DD volume 3 changed from 27 to 23. Tales to Astonish changed from #10 to 1.
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Mar 30 14 9:39 AM
Robert White wrote: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.
Why? Please explain why this is wrong in your eyes.
A seller can sell something for any price and if someone wants to pay a ton money for it, then more power to them. It is their choice. There is no "unfairness, unethical behavior or immorality" going on; no one is forcing a buyer to spend their money. Consumers also don't have an inherent right to own everything they want. Hell, I want a Lamborghini Countach, but I can't afford one. So what? The secondary market (or even the car manufacturer for that matter) does not have an obligation to make one affordable to me. If I want to buy something, then it is up to me to get a job, work hard, save money so at that point, I can decide if I want to spend a ton of money on a non-essential good or service.
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