Issue One for sale on eBay

Post by **Iain** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 7:19 pm

Just browsing around eBay and I noticed a Zzap issue 1 at a current bid of £52!!!

Don't think I've seen one that high before, although with issue one of Retro Gamer going for £21, I guess it's not too suprising.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... egory=2243

Post by **Iain** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 7:28 pm

It just finished at £111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Madness! Is there a bubble in retro mags and is it about to burst??

Andy Haywood · Post by **Andy Haywood** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 8:38 pm

I was watching this item and was initially prepared to go up to maybe £30! It's INSANE what people are prepared to pay. I blame Edge Retro et. al. for giving items a false sense of importance. Or something.

gordon · Post by **gordon** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 1:05 am

Oh and now I'm just *so* glad I threw mine away.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Jesus.

Post by **Iain** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 5:06 pm

It's strange alright that Zzap's go for so much these days.

I guess some of the blame must lay at my door for having the website and getting people more interested in zzap.

But then again, you'd think the availability of the scanned issues would reduce interest in the paper originals.

I'm just glad I completed my collection a few years ago before all this madness!!!

salem · Post by **salem** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:02 pm

Would you believe I used to have TWO copies of issue 1? And I threw them BOTH out!!!

Curse you god for making me this way...

/shakes fist at sky

So Long Ago · Post by **So Long Ago** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:33 pm

Last year I threw out a small NEC word processor/laptop type thing. One of the two that a lot of the early ZZap's and Crashes were written on. There's a picture of Gary Penn eating one in one of the making of zzap type articles. Could of got at least £5 for that. Oh well...

gordon · Post by **gordon** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:52 pm

salem wrote:Would you believe I used to have TWO copies of issue 1? And I threw them BOTH out!!!

Ah, now I feel a little better...

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:00 am

More understandably, an issue #1 of C&VG went for roughly the same price just now too...

Lloyd Mangram · Post by **Lloyd Mangram** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:55 am

Uh-oh.
I threw out issues 26-89 in the early nineties.
Cost me a small fortune to get issues 1-50 back together. (in the late nineties)

But issue ONE I got for 50p or so, some garbageman from around Abingdon sold me a copy he found 'somewhere'.

Ta!
Rob

Post by **Iain** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:56 pm

So Long ago, you probably could have gotten a few thousand for that!

BTW, I hope there wasn't lots of disks with it that had all the text versions of every article in zzap?! :-E

gordon · Post by **gordon** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:22 pm

iain wrote:So Long ago, you probably could have gotten a few thousand for that!

Hmmm... I've still got the original brown C64 that was used in the photography department at Zzap! -- it even has "Cameron [Pound]'s 64" written on it.

That should be worth about £2.75.

Post by **Iain** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:51 am

I'll give you £3 for it!

robin hogg · Post by **robin hogg** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:14 am

I have a rather special ZZAP! Issue 1

Lloyd Mangram · Post by **Lloyd Mangram** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:00 am

robin hogg wrote:I have a rather special ZZAP! Issue 1

How come?
Were you the one who paid 111 bps for it??