Originally posted by wndola1:
I've done ebay but unless you can buy bulk the postage kills you. I am lucky enough to live in Los Angeles where we have a convention at least once a month and a trade show 2x a week where we can find $0.25 boxes and oftet 5 for a $1 and sometime $0.10 each. There are also several stores with $1 and $0.25 boxes in the area. The hunt is very addicting.
There aren't a lot of conventions in Germany, and if there are any, the cheap boxes are seldomly cheaper than "1 Euro per comic". Very rarely you find some 50 cent boxes, and they are really full of junk. Considering that, German ebay really is a bargain for us, cause there are no 10 cent bins (I would LOOOVE those but hey, I would buy a lot of stuff I don't really need and there is only limited space in my flat...)
I could never visit the US because I would pay enormous amounts of extra lugguage fees on the way back