03 @ January @ 2007 @ Monitor Duty

January 3rd!? Oh my gosh, I forgot to buy “PvP: The Series”!

Posted on January 3rd, 2007 thehutch No comments

Dangit! I just realized that I forgot to buy a subscription to PvP The Series before the end of 2006!

had it on my Christmas List, but it was a late addition. My wife already bought me enough stuff from my list, like the Kensington Trackball, “America Alone” and the “Government Manual for New Superheroes“. And when I didn’t get the Homestar Runner merch on my list, I bought the Instant Fan Combo myself. So our spending is all maxed out and I wasn’t going to buy anything else I didn’t get from my list.

But the price of the PvP subscription jumps $10 if you don’t buy it before the end of 2006. And I didn’t. Completely forgot. Nuts.

Oh wait! I just went to the site and it’s still $20. I don’t know if this is an oversight or I missed an announcement about extending the deal. Welp…spread the word, I guess. Just, not too loudly.

P.S. Here’s something weird. Yesterday, BEFORE this post was up, I saw “America Alone” as one of the four books in the ad generated at the top of the site. I don’t believe I’ve ever mentioned that book before…though I have mentioned Mark Steyn a couple times. Still, you wouldn’t think a couple mentions in the entire history of the site would be enough to affect the ad. Frankly, I don’t get how Amazon’s generated ads work. All too often I see an ad for a book called “The Green Lantern” and it’s a Stalinist Russian romance.
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What’s a brother got to do to sell a rare Batman poster?

Posted on January 3rd, 2007 thehutch 1 comment

It’s bizarre, but I can’t get any takers for this rare Batman poster on eBay. I’ve run the auction twice and not gotten any bids, so now I don’t get reimbursed for the charges of listing it twice. I’m really surprised no one’s bidding on it.

It’s a poster that was created only for a Campbell’s giveaway, and 100 of the 125 posters were given to young kids and are presumably in bad condition. This poster is so rare that I cannot FIND it on the entire Internet. Even Campbell’s web site didn’t show the poster when they ran the contest. At the FallCon auction where I got it, the bidding was fierce. I figure I overpaid in the end and wouldn’t make the money back if I sold it, but that was fine with me since it was for charity. Still, I didn’t think there wouldn’t be any takers.

So now I’m selling this thing with a starting price of only $20. I hadn’t promoted this auction here, and maybe in retrospect I should have, but I don’t really want Monitor Duty to become “Michael Makes A Buck Central”.

(Well, not any more than it already is. By the way, be sure to visit our aStore and check out TooManyLongBoxes.com)

Also, 25% of the auction price will go to Operation Gratitude, a charity I’ve been supporting for the last two years.
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