Early days of eBay 8 8

[1950's war comics]

bumping a thread i plan on reading

[MB1952]

  will post later some more wins. Always kept records of my wins.

Remember waking up for work in 9-2001 and seen the towers on flames via America Online. 

Edited April 12 by MB1952

[maraxusofkeld]

I joined in fall 98 but did not send the confirmation email back until April of 99, but I was not 18 at the time. I had to use my dad's info to register. 

[maraxusofkeld]

On 6/18/2022 at 1:30 PM, october said:

eBay was incredible up until about 2016, then the air slowly went out year after year. 

I found so many good deals and got so many amazing leads that it hurts to think about. I bought five or six massive high grade OO Silver collections just from networking after a purchase. One ended up being a box truck load of 30,000 comics, Silver through Copper. Another was 1,000 virtually untouched SA comics...and when I say untouched, I mean it. The friggin distributor overspray was unbroken on some of the top edges. I was the first person to open them, ever, 50 years after printing. Tons of 9.6's and 9.8's. All sold off to finance my collection and other stuff. No regrets, just sorry the party is over! eBay is a shadow of a shadow of its former self now. 

Their anti seller sentiments have driven a lot of sellers to other avenues. 

[Professor K]

Back in the anything goes days of e bay I bought or won a 14 tape homemade VHS set of every Beavis and Butthead episode in order in 2000 or 2001. The guy told me he recorded every episode of the show from the very beginning. It was his original set.  After doing some research I realized what I had were the first showings/versions of all the episodes , many of which were later edited and even banned and only aired once or twice especially in seasons 1 and 2.  They had the original music videos (many were later changed) and all the edited parts still there.  I saw an interview with Mike Judge where he said he doesn't think those early episodes even exist in their original form anymore.........but I had them. I verified it from a very meticulous website back then which noted all the edits and changed videos, even the slightest little things.. They were all the original versions.

So I bought another VCR and made copies of the set and they sold for hundreds and some over a thousand per set. I was raking in the dough for almost a year selling a set every week in auction until I got a cease and desist letter from MTV.  E bay gave them my address I guess, either way they knew who I was and where I lived. They basically said if I sell one more set they would strike down on me with great vengeance (and furious anger). 

Some years later I downloaded the only torrent of the complete show and noticed it was copied from my VHS set. Had the identical vhs flaws and stuff. It was definitely copied from my VHS set. Someone who I sold a set to must have copied it digitally and put it out there on the net on the mostly now defunct torrent sites. It's known as the King Turd Collection. Pretty sure mtv ruined the original versions when they chopped them up because as far as I know they were never released in their original form. If that one guy didn't record them, and if I didn't become a criminal by copying and selling his set on e bay I think many if not all the original unedited episodes would not exist today, at least available to the public........uh, or something. 

Edited Monday at 12:09 AM by Professor K