Maybe it's just me but I fail to see why. It's a $1 starting bid so it's not like the seller set the price.
Someone intentionally leaked the bad issues and they were marketed as a collectible, more or less. The comic is not out yet, so it's not like someone found them on the shelves.
Still not seeing it...
Aren't ratio variants, convention and retailer exclusives pretty much marketed as collectibles, too?
Those are intentional and known. These are unintentional and are typically discarded.
What's to stop publishers from intentionally making "errors"?
Then maybe reserve the pitchforks for when it happens again.
Uh, it just did. That's the whole point.
Errors get destroyed by the publisher, right?
Well this publisher is selling them on eBay and calling them special editions.
The seller is the publisher / co writer.
I remember a Wytches exclusive variant error where the copies weren't destroyed and were being sold as rare collectibles by the person who ran the variant program. Glass houses, eh?
The copies weren't destroyed? Go on, I'm listening.
http://www.recalledcomics.com/Wytches4EhRecalledVariant.php