I'm often amused by how people are easily swayed into believing things are a "collectable." Yesterday, I had someone come up and ask if we had the new Sports Illustrated magazine with Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre on the cover. He apparently is the magazine's choice for Sportsman of the Year. She needed to get a copy because -as she said - it was going to be a collectable. Her and the husdand had been looking for it, and mentioned that one store had sold all its copies to one person.
I told her we had yet to recieve our weeklies, and knowing that it was in there, I told her to call back later in the day (it was after, that I should've gotten her name and number).
I was amused that she thought his issue would be valuable. Maybe here in California, because we're not in Wisonsin or the surrounding states there, but its never really going to be worth anything. In the upper midwest, especially in Wisconsin, you know that Sports Illustrated printed (or shipped) more than normal. Plus, there are a lot of Packer fans in Illinois (like my brother-in-law), so you know the Chicago area got more than usual of this issue.
The only true way this would be considered a collectable is if SI deliberately printed less than normal copies of a typical weekly edition. And I don't see that happening. Yeah, again, the copy might become sparce here, but all you got to do is call a bookstore in Wisconsin and have them ship it to you.
But she and many others, are lured into this false hope that they have a magazine that will make them rich in later years. And really, the only way it will be valuable is after Favre kicks the bucket and every Packer fan in Wisconsin some how loses this issue.
Now, that is not to say some things are made to be a collectable. Recently, I wanted to find a copy of the new comic book for the TV series Angel, which like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, is doing its next season in this format. Dark Horse Comics knows its audience and shipped the new Angel to its suppliers as an out of print title. Essentially, they made a limited number of volume 1. Thus, as most comics are, the first issue (and noted as volume one) becomes a true collectable, much like first printings of books (I mean, if anyone still has the first printing of the first Harry Potter book, well then, you have something worth some money).
Sure they'll do a reprint, but it will not be half as vaulable as the first. So would be the SI edition with Favre on the cover, if the magazine did it this way. And I don't think they did. It's a weekly magazine, and does not have time to reprint, so as much as this lovely lady thinks its going to become valuable, it will never be.
I told her we had yet to recieve our weeklies, and knowing that it was in there, I told her to call back later in the day (it was after, that I should've gotten her name and number).
I was amused that she thought his issue would be valuable. Maybe here in California, because we're not in Wisonsin or the surrounding states there, but its never really going to be worth anything. In the upper midwest, especially in Wisconsin, you know that Sports Illustrated printed (or shipped) more than normal. Plus, there are a lot of Packer fans in Illinois (like my brother-in-law), so you know the Chicago area got more than usual of this issue.
The only true way this would be considered a collectable is if SI deliberately printed less than normal copies of a typical weekly edition. And I don't see that happening. Yeah, again, the copy might become sparce here, but all you got to do is call a bookstore in Wisconsin and have them ship it to you.
But she and many others, are lured into this false hope that they have a magazine that will make them rich in later years. And really, the only way it will be valuable is after Favre kicks the bucket and every Packer fan in Wisconsin some how loses this issue.
Now, that is not to say some things are made to be a collectable. Recently, I wanted to find a copy of the new comic book for the TV series Angel, which like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, is doing its next season in this format. Dark Horse Comics knows its audience and shipped the new Angel to its suppliers as an out of print title. Essentially, they made a limited number of volume 1. Thus, as most comics are, the first issue (and noted as volume one) becomes a true collectable, much like first printings of books (I mean, if anyone still has the first printing of the first Harry Potter book, well then, you have something worth some money).
Sure they'll do a reprint, but it will not be half as vaulable as the first. So would be the SI edition with Favre on the cover, if the magazine did it this way. And I don't think they did. It's a weekly magazine, and does not have time to reprint, so as much as this lovely lady thinks its going to become valuable, it will never be.
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