Something ridiculous happened! I found a San Diego Comic Con g sheet from 2014 on eBay! With doodles and signatures from Rebecca Sugar and Ian Jones-Quartey!
Let's back up. Okay, so I mostly just care about the art when it comes to collecting the posters that exist for Steven Universe. I was able to buy 2015 and 2017's g sheets no problem from mass merchandisers.
And when 2018's came out, I had no problem finding a "clean" one for cheap on eBay.
But it bugged me that I couldn't find 2016's. While I was digging around searching for one and only finding other people's signed poster photos, I came across a person who'd gotten a SDCC sheet signed each year, and one was from 2014. I hadn't even known there was a 2014 sheet.
When I posted my merch roundup last September, I included the posters I had and wrote that I was still looking for 2016's--and I wrote that I'd love to find 2014 too, but that that would remain a pipe dream.
A while later I did find 2016!
I was happy but still hoping one day I'd find the oldest one, the one from 2014.
It popped up on eBay a couple weeks ago. Signed by Rebecca and Ian with cute doodles.
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But it was auction style, not available for immediate buy, so I put in a bid and waited. The bidding started at $20. I could not believe I'd be the only one interested, so I set my top bid pretty high.
A few days in, someone bid a few times. My bid outranked theirs and they stopped.
They came back a few more times raising it 5 bucks at a time. My bid still outranked theirs by a lot.
I noticed the day before the auction expired that the auction had 5 watchers. Always bad news.
I was on the phone with a friend the night of the auction. I had an alarm set for when I should go sit there and monitor the thing so I wouldn't get sniped.
"Do you already have your top bid set at the highest you'll go?" my friend asked.
"No," I said. "I'd pay twice that for this."
"And you've only got 10 minutes left on this auction? Put your top bid in," he said. "Do it now."
I did.
Only a couple minutes later, the other bidders arrived. The price skyrocketed, bumping up EVERY FEW SECONDS.
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:bomb:
OKAY YIKES
When the auction reached the last thirty seconds, I wasn't sure if the person bidding was going to catch me, but it was getting close. At 10 seconds to go the price was still going up.
And then the auction ended. And the screen refreshed and said I had won, prompting me to pay now.
Relieved, I went and looked at the bid history.
35 bids.
The other person's final bid was the same as mine.
I only won because eBay's policy gives the item to the person who bid first if the bids are equal when bidding ends.
WOW.
(Weirdly, the person who lost to me found me on Tumblr and now we chat about collecting. They have some stuff I don't have, which is almost unbelievable.)
So now, here it is~!
Cute art and illustrations!
I have framed it.
I have now had to rearrange the art in my room to make room for this. I had to move a big poster, climbed my highest stepladder, and tried to climb down off of it thinking it was my smaller one and almost fell off, stepped down super weirdly and hurt my back. Then I immediately did the same thing again on my next dismount. Wow what is wrong with me.
Anyway, here are all five years of SDCC posters (with two signed ones).
And here they are on the wall.
I know it looks a little weirdly spaced. I'll readjust this soon because 2019's SDCC sheet is surely coming out soonish and I'll want to add it.
Hope you enjoyed my harrowing eBay tale. :wink:
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