{"id":5869,"date":"2009-01-14T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:08:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:08:11","slug":"175000-comics-in-california-yard-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/14\/175000-comics-in-california-yard-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"175,000 comics in California yard sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/thumb_1231913518859_0p27120717067239597-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291185752958382354\" border=\"0\" \/>Under the heading of secondary market activity you just can&#8217;t track by watching eBay&#8230;  Bakersfield, Calif. station KGET reports a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kget.com\/news\/local\/story\/Local-man-holds-yard-sale-for-175-000-comic-books\/9Y4Tz7aSAUGSC2H8_KQwtg.cspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">local man holding a yard sale for 175,000 comics<\/span><\/a> this weekend. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Scott Hudlow<\/span> is described as history professor who&#8217;s worked as a dealer for 15 years, including as a mail-order dealer out of his home for the past 12 years (timing which would match the timeline in which many 1990s stores closed, sending many retailers into mail-order with their inventory).<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t read or sound like the standard liquidation story: &#8220;he figures a yard sale is the best way to build a client base and let people know he&#8217;s open for business&#8221; \u2014 though there&#8217;s no mention of an impending storefront, brick-and-mortar or otherwise. In any event, prices start at 25\u00a2, and the dealer certainly seems enthusiastic (the broadcasters at the end certainly think so). And you can&#8217;t do much yard-sale buying in the weather most other places this weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the heading of secondary market activity you just can&#8217;t track by watching eBay&#8230; Bakersfield, Calif. station KGET reports a local man holding a yard sale for 175,000 comics this weekend. Scott Hudlow is described as history professor who&#8217;s worked as a dealer for 15 years, including as a mail-order dealer out of his home &#8230; <a title=\"175,000 comics in California yard sale\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/14\/175000-comics-in-california-yard-sale\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 175,000 comics in California yard sale\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[124,60],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mail-order-sales","tag-media-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5871,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions\/5871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}