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Words to live by.

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Quite.

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I do love a good yard sale. Are they catching on in England yet? Car boot sales always seemed a bit pikey to me.

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I remember going to a garage sale when I was a kid. Bought a bunch of plastic army guys for 25p. That was 1989, so I'm sure they have plenty of them now.

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Car boots used to be great for comic book hunters like me. Sadly that's all been ruined by e-bay these days.

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There are a lot of people on there who have a strangely skewed sense of what their crap is actually worth.

I'm still waiting for that one person who thinks a Custom Shop Stratocaster is only worth $200.00, though ...

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What amazes me are the folk who try and haggle the sellers down from 50c for a plate or something. There's canny and then there's tight.

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The fun is gone. I mean, I can ebay for the exact issue / condition / whatever and probably get it, but to me the fun is sucked out of it. It's just shopping.
It's not like scoring a giant box of misc comics, rushing home with it and hunting through 'em to see what you got. :)

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This reminds me of when, as a kid, I had to brave the dank, seedy sex shop run by a very shady character to buy those little 5p Battle Picture Library war story comic books. He had stacks of them in between piles of Mayfair and assorted smut.

I was sad when it got knocked down though as I was an older teen at that point and a potential customer.

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Even ebay itself used to be more fun in the beginning, when it was all just people selling used gear. Now there are so many scammers on there it is harder to navigate. Almost to the point where you're better just going to Amazon since when you do find genuine items, they're mostly new anyway.

Now, I'm not knocking it, I got a PS3 and 10 games for a steal last summer and there is still a bunch of great second hand gear on there for when I have a bit of money, but it just takes longer.

When porn used to be something you had to pay for, or find lying around in the woods somewhere :lol:

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haha...there was always a bag of porn on the railway siding or in the woods.

I assume passed on by a contrite hubby whose irate wife had discovered his stash.

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That's just such an alien concept now when you can call it up on your phone for a quick spank any time you like.

Ah, technology ...

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yes, you don't get the thrill of wondering if your mum has looked under your mattress or found that loose floorboard.

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I always wonder how often they found it and just pretended they didn't.

I will never forget the time I was cleaning my son's room back when he was 8 or 9, and I found the page he ripped out of one of the Hustlers that our old boss liked to keep in the men's shitter at work.

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I was always fine with Mum's Janet Frazer catalogue lingerie section!