{"id":1307,"date":"2012-10-10T22:57:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T06:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2012-10-10T22:02:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T06:02:41","slug":"how-not-to-display-a-comic-picture-on-e-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/selling-comic-books\/how-not-to-display-a-comic-picture-on-e-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Display a Comic Picture on E-bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you see a mistake on E-bay that provides a special &#8220;teaching moment&#8221;, a mistake too good to pass up.  <\/p>\n<p>While searching for some key books I came across a Star Wars #1, 35 cent variant.  One of the high priced keys of the Bronze Age.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance all looks good. Take a look at the cover scan:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1308\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/starwars1-35cover-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"starwars1-35cover\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/starwars1-35cover-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/starwars1-35cover-711x1024.jpg 711w, https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/starwars1-35cover.jpg 1112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Decent picture of Star Wars 1 35 cent cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But then the seller does something I recommend you never do.  Remember, condition is everything!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1309\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/starwars1-35spread-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"starwars1-35spread\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/starwars1-35spread-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/starwars1-35spread-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/starwars1-35spread.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don&#8217;t spread your copy of Star Wars #1 like this!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Live and learn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you see a mistake on E-bay that provides a special &#8220;teaching moment&#8221;, a mistake too good to pass up. While searching for some key books I came across a Star Wars #1, 35 cent variant. One of the high priced keys of the Bronze Age. At first glance all looks good. Take a look&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/selling-comic-books\/how-not-to-display-a-comic-picture-on-e-bay\/\">Read the rest of this entry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-selling-comic-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}