All great points
I guess I am just old school in my thinking. I like to be patient and scope the landscape before making a choice. Zavvi have a distinct advantage in selling marvel releases doe to the cheap shipping. IMO, without this, the playing field would be much more even.
I think like anything these days is just thinking out of the box rather than tunnel vision. Always try to put your shoes in the other parties shoe, why did they do this, or that, or purchase it? Why? There's always a reason. It took my a few years to come to up with that theory which I feel explains why UK Marvels are more highly sought then the other WWA versions, and even more profit than premiums, a lot more profit as well.
It all started off back like years ago when I first started collecting 6 years ago I bought an Iron Man DVD steelbook as the only Iron Man Blu-ray steel available was the old highly sought grail old fashioned blue banner Future Shop steelbook. It was going for crazy prices back then, IF you could even find one for sale. The Iron Man DVD was a replacement for those that cannot afford or source the Future Shop version.
Anyway I bought the Iron Man DVD, it was an import but at the time didn't even know. Threw the data sheet somewhere in a box. Decided to auction it on ebay as I just couldn't stand the G1 size steel and decided to get the Future Shop version. I took photos of the steel but not with the data sheet as I thought I lost it. I listed it as 'UK' version and surprisingly got bids over £30 when it cost me about £20. So I made a small profit which was good as I was expecting this to go for less than £20. So buyer paid and I found the data sheet in the box as I double checked. Put the data sheet in and sent it.
The buyer received and said to me that he thought he bought the UK version even though the steelbook is exactly the same. But he saw the data sheet had foreign texts lol and then asked if he could return it. I was like WTF? You are returning this because I added a data sheet in? I was thinking if I never added the data sheet it would had been fine. I kept thinking why the hell does it matter about the data sheet?
It goes back to what I was saying. Regardless of the WWA steel, collectors want the 'official UK English version'. It's weird but I can understand it. I see it as more of a traditional thing to have this at your country of origin. But then I later realised that UK never even released the G1 DVD steelbook LOL
What a complete mess up that was. Buy an Iron Man DVD thinking it was the UK english version when it was an import. List it as the UK version when it should had been a USA/CA release, put the data sheet in when I didn't even include this in the listing, and for the buyer asking to return it as it wasn't the UK version when there never was!
He did return it and myself and the buyer wasted around £3-£4 on postage costs. What a funny story...
