Vent: Saw a guy wreck his collection at a con in Cleveland

I was at Great Lakes Comic Con in Cleveland last Saturday and watched this dude totally destroy a key issue he was flipping through. He wasn't even being careful, just flipping pages with greasy pizza fingers and bending the spine back hard on a copy of Amazing Spider-Man #300. I tried to say something like 'hey man, maybe handle that a bit gentler' and he just shrugged and said it was just a book. The vendor looked sick to his stomach but didn't say anything because the guy was about to drop $400 on it. Has anyone else run into collectors who treat expensive books like they're reading a newspaper at Starbucks?

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morgan31616d ago

Were you close enough to catch if that $400 was gonna clear his lunch budget for the month?

jake19116d ago

Buddy of mine tried to cover lunch for three people with $400. Thought he was being generous. Realized after he forgot he had bills due that week.