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Issue One for sale on eBay
Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 6:19 pm
by Iain
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
Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 6:28 pm
by Iain
It just finished at £111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Madness! Is there a bubble in retro mags and is it about to burst??
Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 7:38 pm
by Andy Haywood
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.
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 12:05 am
by gordon
Oh and now I'm just *so* glad I threw mine away.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Jesus.
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 4:06 pm
by Iain
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!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:02 pm
by salem
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
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:33 pm
by So Long Ago
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...
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:52 pm
by gordon
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...
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 11:00 pm
by Mayhem
More understandably, an issue #1 of C&VG went for roughly the same price just now too...
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:55 am
by Lloyd Mangram
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
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 6:56 pm
by Iain
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
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:22 pm
by gordon
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:51 pm
by Iain
I'll give you £3 for it!
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:14 am
by robin hogg
I have a rather special ZZAP! Issue 1
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:00 am
by Lloyd Mangram
robin hogg wrote:I have a rather special ZZAP! Issue 1
How come?
Were you the one who paid 111 bps for it??
