Hello,
Jim, your dream is very nice, I thought of similar ones several times but it's probably more unpractical than imagining a perfect country follwowing Plato's or Thomas More's ideology...
I try to bring more and more collectors to our mailing list, so we can at least share our education with them. Maybe it won't work on some, but it will definitely be useful for a good % of them.
Just to be the Devil's advocate as usual... about Mayor's "Loom" auction, from the description I can tell it _is_ a brand new item, complete: it's the OEM version, shrinkwrapped, hence no box.
On the Martian Memorandum one, at least he mentions that it's a compilation... you wouldn't dream the amount of sellers on the biggest portuguese auction site (www.miau.pt) auctioning pirated copies and saying they're originals...
All the best to all of you,
Pedro
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..is to help educate people like this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1370275065
He admits there is no box and the contents are incomplete, yet he asks a Buy
It Now price of $70.
I look forward to the day -- probably about 2 years from now -- when
collectors all over the world are:
1. Unified in their usage of grading terms
2. Within reasonable estimates of the value of an item
3. Don't try to pawn off garbage with punk-ass wack auction listings like this
(or this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1370272675&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1
-- it's a compilation CDROM, not the original package, yet he displays the
original packaging)
Then again, I am probably dreaming. In fact, I know I am.
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