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Started by Funt Solo, 09 July, 2020, 10:34:30 PM

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Funt Solo

I noticed someone on The Ebay selling prog 216 as "1st Rogue Trooper (Preview) Issue" for (GBP) 25 + 17 postage.

This made me squirm as the only thing that's Rogue-ish about prog 216 is the teaser poster on the back cover, which you can see for free both in the Ebay ad for the product and on Barney and right here right now*:



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rogue69


Mardroid

I particularly like their description:

QuoteLame

Strikes me as counterintuitive if they actually want to sell the thing, and at that price! Maybe it's supposed to be a reverse psychology thing...

sheridan

Quote from: Mardroid on 10 July, 2020, 01:47:55 PM
I particularly like their description:

QuoteLame

Strikes me as counterintuitive if they actually want to sell the thing, and at that price! Maybe it's supposed to be a reverse psychology thing...


Seeing as the image is of a different ebay auction I'm guessing they got defrauded and, probably having no luck with ebay's complaints policy, have resorted to this.  Shame they used the 'l' word.

Mardroid

Quote from: sheridan on 10 July, 2020, 03:15:18 PM
Quote from: Mardroid on 10 July, 2020, 01:47:55 PM
I particularly like their description:

QuoteLame

Strikes me as counterintuitive if they actually want to sell the thing, and at that price! Maybe it's supposed to be a reverse psychology thing...


Seeing as the image is of a different ebay auction I'm guessing they got defrauded and, probably having no luck with ebay's complaints policy, have resorted to this.  Shame they used the 'l' word.

That makes sense.

And apologies for my comment  about liking the description, Sheridan! I was amused by the fact they provided a short negative single word description of something they were trying to sell and didn't even think about the connotations of the word they used.

rogue69

The Rogue Trooper seller also has progressed 228 the first Rogue Trooper story for £90 and other "first appearances of" including Judge Fish, Judge Dredd, Slaine etc.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000AD-PROG-228-1st-ROGUE-TROOPER-APPEARANCE-rare-key-issue-comic-Judge-Dredd/164277169680?hash=item263faeae10:g:-zMAAOSwS1BfAdzl

Tjm86

Seen this guy around for a while.  His pricing seems peculiar to say the least.  I'm wondering if it's the same guy that had some sort of charity / crowdfunding thing going not long back that seemed a bit vague in its objectives?  Possibly I'm thinking of someone else?

rogue69

There's a cell from the opening credits of the 1972 Batman Scooby Doo cartoon with Batman holding Shaggy up for $25.000 +$250p+p

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Scooby-Doo-1972-Bob-SINGER-original-Production-Cel-Main-Title-Batman-Shaggy/112803004670?hash=item1a439540fe:g:4JUAAOSwZfJae4SL

rogue69

 Batman Under The Red Hood TP by Jeph Loeb, Judd Winick (Paperback, 2011) condition used
the bargain price of only £13,990.00
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Batman-Under-The-Red-Hood-TP-by-Jeph-Loeb-Judd-Winick-Paperback-2011/192494632794?epid=138684835&hash=item2cd192ff5a:g:Hl4AAAzyZONSwYBL


rogue69


dweezil2

Quote from: rogue69 on 23 July, 2020, 10:08:24 PM
Batman Under The Red Hood TP by Jeph Loeb, Judd Winick (Paperback, 2011) condition used
the bargain price of only £13,990.00
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Batman-Under-The-Red-Hood-TP-by-Jeph-Loeb-Judd-Winick-Paperback-2011/192494632794?epid=138684835&hash=item2cd192ff5a:g:Hl4AAAzyZONSwYBL

Probably hoping someone mistakenly hits that "buy it now" button, similar to when you're spying on someone's Facebook profile and you accidentally add them as a friend!!!  :o
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Colin YNWA

Wayhey at last all this comic collecting has paid off - I'm rich see Mamma it was all worth it, it so was....

sintec

I note they're all up with the option to "Make An Offer".  You see this all the time on discogs.com with records. People speculatively listing stuff at insane prices but allow offers. I've always read it as "I don't really want to sell this but if you want to offer me a silly price then maybe I can be persuaded". Not sure how that works on ebay though given their fee structure.  It's free to list on discogs you just pay a % of any sales - last time I listed stuff on ebay it was still pay per listing so it'd seem dumb to list things that you probably won't sell.

Tjm86

I wonder how much of this though is trying to game ebay's algorithms?  Similar issues with Amazon IIRC ...