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Well, he is dead…

January 25th, 2008
Author Graeme McMillan

…Let the Heath Ledger speculator boom begin:

Wizard sell their Heath Ledger Joker-covered magazine for $31 on eBay.

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10 Responses to “Well, he is dead…”
  1. Erool Flynn Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    That’s a rotten shame. Wizard should be ashamed of themselves.

  2. Craig Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    Its only going to get worse.

  3. Jake W Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    “That’s a rotten shame. Wizard should be ashamed of themselves.”

    Why? The starting price was 99 cents. Wizard didn’t post the thing up with a $31 Buy It Now.

  4. Erech Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    Wow that’s tacky.

  5. Mark Engblom Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    “Wizard should be ashamed of themselves”

    That’s assuming they’re even capable of shame after all they’ve pulled over the years.

  6. NickT Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

    While they may have done something bad, they have other Wizard magazines up on Ebay for the same starting price.

    http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZwizarduniverse

  7. Mister Anonymous Comic Store Employee Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    We have more than twenty of those issues on our news-stand now. Why on Earth go to Wizard on eBay when you can drop by your Local Comic Shop and poke around a bit.

    While 30 bucks is too much to pay for an issue of Wizard, for me, 5.99 is about six dollars more than I feel any given issue is worth. But that’s just me.

  8. Dweeze Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 11:01 pm

    One hates to be in the position of defending Wizard, but the sentence, while technically accurate (Wizard was the seller, and it did sell for $31) doesn’t convey the truth of the matter. The sentence leads one to believe that Wizard listed copies of the issue at $31 in order to capitalize on Ledger’s death.

    In point of fact, Wizard listed this copy, as well as three other copies of the Ledger cover, for $.99 (with $4.88 shipping). (In addition, Wizard listed 32 other individual back issues of Wizard, also at $.99.) It’s the buyers who drove the price up to $31, a fact that supports the underlying point of speculators trying to cash in on Ledger’s death, but not supporting the main point, which is that Wizard is scum. And they are scum. They just don’t seem to have done anything scummy this time.

  9. Name Withheld Says:
    January 26th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

    Point of fact: checking their feedback and other auctions going on, selling individual issues didn’t seem to be such a heavy trend of theirs until after Ledger’s death. It gives the appearance that the other individual issues posted are meant to legitimize their sale of the Ledger issue. The Ledger issue sold is perhaps the only one that was listed for only a single day, as they appeared to demonstrate that their entire point was to profit from the death Ledger.

  10. Kevin Huxford Says:
    January 28th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    Did a little research on it that you might appreciate: http://www.shotgunreviews.com/2008/01/28/wizard-shamelessly-profiting-on-deathagain/

    and number 9 was me…I just didn’t want to publicly comment on this when I was still trying to get a response from Drew Seldin. I was looking to do an unbiased interview article about it, but no worries about being biased when the interview doesn’t look likely.

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