Toy Bender

I often say that I love my readers, and believe me, I do. You’re like my precious baby chicks and I’m your mama bird vomiting awesome in your fuzzy faces. Sometimes though, I get mails that are either ambiguous or a complete waste of my time. I’m going to share three types of emails that I get once in awhile just to share a bit of the magic that goes on behind the scenes here. Don’t worry, if you sent the mails I’ve generalized them so you’ll be protected from any kind of public shame.

Question: I own (or my kids own) X, how much is it worth?

Answer: Here’s a revelation: I’m not a price guide. Unless you’re asking about a toy that I’ve recently looked up myself, I have no clue how much things are worth on a day to day basis, especially toys that I don’t ever cover on Toy Bender. I may be able to provide you with an answer like, yeah that’s worth a fortune or that’s not worth anything, but usually I won’t answer you because I don’t know. No offense, but I’m not an appraiser nor do I desire to be.

Question: I’m looking for X.

Answer: And? I don’t sell toys, so if you want to buy toys from me then I’ll give you my Seller ID on Ebay, but I don’t sell anything here. There are a million places you can buy toys, why are you asking me what you are looking for. There are two inventions that you might want to give a whirl… Google.com or Ebay. Either place can get you what you are looking for, I on the other hand can’t and the only insight you’ll ever hear from me on where to get things not available in the stores are those two places.

Question: Hey, have you seen my really cool/clever T-shirt selection? Feel free to check them out.

Answer: Wow! Thank you! Your t-shirts are so unlike every other nerdy t-shirt on the web that I just shat myself. No, I’m only joking. I shat myself because I ate month old potato salad. Thanks for sending me emails about your t-shirts, but I cover toys here. Unless your shirt is directly related to toys or toy collecting in some way (i.e. the toy Transformers and not the cartoon) then you’re not getting any free pub here.

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