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Saw a guy at the Portland comic convention last Saturday buy a graded variant just to flip it on eBay before the show even ended.

Used to think speculators were just part of the hobby until I watched that transaction go down, and now I skip any line that has a price guide in someone's hand - anyone else feel like that ruins the whole point of actually reading these things?

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the_wesley2d ago

Speculator types kill the vibe every time.

ray6482d ago

wesley said it kills the vibe, and yeah, it's annoying, but I dunno if it's worth getting that worked up over. I saw a dude at a show in Denver pull the same move with a slabbed ASM 300 and made maybe $40 after fees. Like, congrats, you just worked a whole Saturday to make gas money. If someone's flipping a book mid-show, they're probably not even reading the thing anyway, so at least they're not clogging up the longboxes with their phone light.