I hear you! I took great pleasure cutting off all the tags of some beanie babies I got as a present a few years ago. Made quite a lot of people cringe. And I have read all of my autographed comic books almost to tatters. I know a 15 year old girl who has received very expensive barbie dolls since she was very young. Her mother never let her take them out of the boxes. It drove me crazy. One year she gave one to my little sister as a christmas present and was appalled to find her actualy *playing* with it a few days later. Bah. I am definately a collector of toys and comics. But sell my collection? Never! They are going to my future kids, so they can play with them as much as I do.

rebecca

--- "M. Mitchell Marmel" <marmelmm@drexel.edu> wrote:
>At 8:01 AM -0400 5/5/02, Don Rosa wrote:
>
>>Collectible. Coll-ecch-tible. Ugh.
>
>I refer to 'em as "Collector Weasels", myself.
>
>On a semi-related tangent, I've bought so-called "collectors items" in the past, and I always get an extra frisson of pleasure in using the items as intended, knowing their so-called "collector's value" is being destroyed. 
>
>For example, I have Number 120 of the first 1000 Walther P-22 .22 calibre target pistols ever made.  Do I give a fig over a low serial number?  Nope.  I take it to the range, it works great, very accurate, I enjoy using it and I enjoy envisioning the weasels' agonized screams of "Noooooo!  YOU'RE RUINING ITS RESALE!"  Whoopty-fraggin'-doo, Mister Weasel.
>
>Don, I intend to meet you face-to-face someday with a stack of your comics in hand.  And I want you to inscribe in HUGE LETTERS ON THE FRONT OF EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM BAD BOYS, "TO MITCH, DON ROSA."
>
>The aitch-ee-double-toothpicks with 'collector's value'.
>
>And to blazes with the collector weasels.
>
>-MMM-
>
>(Apologies to any decent, honest mustelids out there.)
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