The Complete Zenith

[BPP]

A £100 non-transferable loan of the book would have solved your ebay distaste. Ya'know, like Apple does for iTunes.

Better call Saul....

[Hawkmumbler]

There is not enough rich daft people out there though

[Link Prime]

People should just wait for the inevitable paperback versions, the hardback got out there with no issues

No one else has mentioned this, so it's probably bullshit, but I've heard from a "reliable source" that the reason the hardbacks were posted early was to avoid pending legal action by Morrison.
Glad they were distributed by the way, as I personally think GM is in the wrong in this particular case.

Regarding the EBay controversy; if someone's dumb enough to pay £400 for a book, it makes me feel 75% less dumb for paying £100 for it in the first place, so Grud bless 'em.
I've no intention of profiteering from my (still undelivered) copy by the way, just commenting that I couldn't (or shouldn't) give a white shite about what anyone else does with their own property.

[hippynumber1]

I've no problem with your opinion but going by your thinking on this, my point was would it not also make those who buy it on ebay 'scumbags' since they're feeding the seller and this type of market? I don't think it follows that you can blame one and not the other.

Interesting question, and I don't necessarily agree with your logic, but I guess I would say that buying from such a seller is probably not the right thing to do.

No doubt genuine second-hand copies will start to appear soon, which will give people keen to obtain the book a better option.

I'm interested to know what you think about the copy that was listed at 99p and eventually sold for £395. There was no demand for an inflated price, people freely bid it up to that price, no-one was 'forced' to pay above and beyond the original £100 price-tag...

[Jim_Campbell]

No one else has mentioned this, so it's probably bullshit, but I've heard from a "reliable source" that the reason the hardbacks were posted early was to avoid pending legal action by Morrison.

Not sure why you're repeating it if you think it's bullshit. I'm pretty sure it is bullshit — Morrison's own words in an interview with arch-Mozza-apologist Laura Sneddon indicate that the legal issue is dead in the water.

Cheers

Jim

[Jimmy Baker's Assistant]

I'm interested to know what you think about the copy that was listed at 99p and eventually sold for £395. There was no demand for an inflated price, people freely bid it up to that price, no-one was 'forced' to pay above and beyond the original £100 price-tag...

I Still think the person who listed it is a scumbag as they bought the book with no intention of reading it. The poor sap who paid £395 may have been able to buy a copy from Rebellion had the speculators stayed away.

[Jim_Campbell]

I Still think the person who listed it is a scumbag as they bought the book with no intention of reading it. The poor sap who paid £395 may have been able to buy a copy from Rebellion had the speculators stayed away.

Welcome to the capitalist free market in action!

Cheers

Jim

[Jimmy Baker's Assistant]

Welcome to the capitalist free market in action!

Cheers

Jim

Several people have said stuff like that, although presumably not all are hardcore Thatcherites that believe in totally unregulated markets.

[opaque]

Surely they would be blaming Rebellion for not fulfilling the demand that the market has?

I'm very happy with it but the cost does make you think. If someone was to knock at my door now and give me £400 would I give it up? Maybe. I could buy a lot more GN's that way.
But it's a numbered edition!

[Richmond Clements]

Well, if anyone was being 'forced' to buy it, you may have a point...

I remember you've banged that drum already, when people bitched about the original price tag.

However, I don't agree with you. I think Zenith is too good to be restricted to a handful of readers, and in particular that this amazing edition should be enjoyed by 1000 genuine comic fans, not treated like a tradable commodity by opportunist sad acts who think they're Gordon Gekko.

Welcome to the real world.

[Skullmo]

I'm interested to know what you think about the copy that was listed at 99p and eventually sold for £395. There was no demand for an inflated price, people freely bid it up to that price, no-one was 'forced' to pay above and beyond the original £100 price-tag...

I Still think the person who listed it is a scumbag as they bought the book with no intention of reading it. The poor sap who paid £395 may have been able to buy a copy from Rebellion had the speculators stayed away.

Maybe this 'scumbag' originally bought he book with the intention of reading it, but in the interim period they were diagnosed with a terminal illness. Rather than setting up a meth lab to pay for their treatment they decided to sell all their unread books on Ebay.

[shaolin_monkey]

Well, if anyone was being 'forced' to buy it, you may have a point...

I remember you've banged that drum already, when people bitched about the original price tag.

However, I don't agree with you. I think Zenith is too good to be restricted to a handful of readers, and in particular that this amazing edition should be enjoyed by 1000 genuine comic fans, not treated like a tradable commodity by opportunist sad acts who think they're Gordon Gekko.

Welcome to the real world.

Yep. If we were living in an anarcho-syndicalist commune, things would be different, I'm sure. But we ain't.

[Frank]

Welcome to the capitalist free market in action!

Several people have said stuff like that, although presumably not all are hardcore Thatcherites that believe in totally unregulated markets.

I'm struggling to think of anything I've ever bought where the vendor imposed conditions upon the resale of the item. Even in the case of houses, cars and guns, the government only wants to know the name of the purchaser, rather than telling people how much they can charge or who they can sell to.

[Jimmy Baker's Assistant]

Welcome to the real world.

I liked my world better.

[Mardroid]

I bought my copy because I ran out of toilet paper. . . . Thankfully I got some more in the meantime! Although it is running low!

Do those cash machines dispense notes in fifties? ;-)