The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for December 27, 2014
December 26, 2014
December 28, 2014
Transcript:
Brutus: Your Ginkolas, the battle elf action figure, is still under the tree, unopened... Brutus: Don't you want to play with it! Wilberforce: I can't - if I open it, its value as a collectible on the secondary market will decrease!
Ol Skool over 9 years ago
ahhhhh, ebay mark up, good thinking
Barker62 over 9 years ago
And they start learning this stuff younger and younger…….sigh.
Charlie Fogwhistle over 9 years ago
Right. Like all the Beanie Babies, Cabbage Patch Dolls, and McDonalds Happy Meals wrapped toys have done. Check out a First Edition of The Bridges of Madison County on E-Bay. Under $4.00. If they make a gazillion of something, you’re going to have to wait past your lifetime before all the others have broken or been thrown away.
KEA over 9 years ago
One of today’s great capitalist scams.
K M over 9 years ago
I was holding onto a “Will Riker” figure from ST: TNG because the package identified him as “Lt. Commander Will Riker.” Riker, OTOH, was a full commander. So I was figuring the misprint would be worth something — until my wife opened the package and put the figure in the transporter set piece someone had given me. Oh, well.