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 almost 10 years ago
ahhhhh, ebay mark up, good thinking
Barker62 almost 10 years ago
And they start learning this stuff younger and younger…….sigh.
Charlie Fogwhistle almost 10 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 almost 10 years ago
One of today’s great capitalist scams.
K M almost 10 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.