eBay

[Stefan Persson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Rosa" <donrosa at iglou.com>
To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Sent: den 5 maj 2002 06:41
Subject: Re: DCML digest #914

> I mean, let me give you an idea about Americans and eBay... when I
attended
> American conventions, I would carry with me stacks of new Egmont comics
that
> the publishers send me (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, etc.) and give them away
> free to kiddies. When I started getting on eBay, I saw that right after
such
> conventions, people were putting those brand new Egmont weeklies onto eBay
> for $5-10 each (!!!), not to mention taking the free toys out of the bags
> and selling those on eBay separately for a similar amount.

That's insane! You can get one of those issues for $2 here in Sweden, and
second-hand issues are available for around 20¢-$1 each. And selling the
*TOYS* for the same amount of money as the actual issues.! Those toys
usually break the first time they're being used, sometimes they're already
broken when I receive the issue they're attached to! And they rarely work as
one would expect them to work. Well, *I* expect them not to work at all, and
that's exactly how they work, so maybe one could say that they work as I
expect them to work. 8-) Why would anyone like to pay $5-10 for an issue
that you can't even read?! I mean, how many Americans do actually understand
the Scandinavian languages? Sending any such issue from Europe to America is
*much* less expensive than buying them from eBay, it seems.

Stefan