EBAY HAS A LOT TO ANSWER FOR!

philcom55 · Post by **philcom55** » 18 Oct 2007, 15:50

...and before they perfected airtight packaging the salt had an annoying habit of dropping out in a little damp pellet onto a bag full of soggy crisps! Ah yes, the good old days...

- Phil Rushton

felneymike · Post by **felneymike** » 18 Oct 2007, 22:31

I remember those from my late primary school days in the halcyon days of, er, 1994. I think they bought them back relatively "recently", the ad had Gary Lineker nicking them from some modern kids while dressed in 70's clothes and riding a chopper, if i remember rightly

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 18 Oct 2007, 23:12

Salt 'n' Shake have never stopped being on sale, have they? Now from Walkers rather than Smith's. Tesco is full of 'em.

It's not like you're talking about melt-in-your-mouth, crumble-to-dust-in-the-packet, Burton's Potato Puffs.

Kashgar · Post by **Kashgar** » 19 Oct 2007, 11:25

What's all this talk of 'Salt n Shake' with its' neat and tidy flat pack of hermetically sealed NaCl? No I'm talking about what Phil is referring to,
a pea-sized pellet of salt in what looked like a piece of twisted carbon-paper. Agh! Life's too short to continue with this as a topic. Damn you and your crisp packet Muffy!

Steve Bright · Post by **Steve Bright** » 19 Oct 2007, 11:58

Kashgar wrote:What's all this talk of 'Salt n Shake' with its' neat and tidy flat pack of hermetically sealed NaCl? No I'm talking about what Phil is referring to,
a pea-sized pellet of salt in what looked like a piece of twisted carbon-paper. Agh! Life's too short to continue with this as a topic. Damn you and your crisp packet Muffy!

Ray, I remember.

Leave these young whippersnappers to their pseudo nostalgia, ralax, and go punch a couple of triangular holes in the top of a can of beer. They don't know they're born!

Brendan McGuire · Post by **Brendan McGuire** » 19 Oct 2007, 16:59

You often got more than one of those waxy twists in a packet. I have allways wolfed my crisps down and once, having failed to evenly distribute my clump of salt, bit into a second twist as I munched on the crisps. Yeeuch!

Steve, you suddenly brought back memories of Party Seven. Two triangular puncture holes and Lo! Two minutes later you have seven pints of flat witch's widdle. Guaranteed to make any party go...elsewhere.

Peter Gray · Post by **Peter Gray** » 30 Dec 2007, 20:27

[img:276:400]http://i9.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/c0/03/8bbc_1.JPG[/img] amazing what you can find on ebay.
mind you a Monster Fun Badtime bedtime story might work to sell...

Ian · Post by **Ian** » 31 Dec 2007, 13:24

I have had both bad and good experiences.I find the grading to be the biggest problem.Dont expect a annual/comic described on e bay as near mint to be near mint it will be fine at best.Also beware of the descrition - Excellent condition considering its age,it will be poor.
In my hunble opinion e bay is great if you want to complete your collection at all costs and are not to worried of the condition of the comic or annual.
However if you are a fussy collector who is looking for annuals/comics in tip top condition you are better going to a comic shop such as 30th Century comics,You will pay more but you are less likely to be disappointed.

Comic sellers om e bay are not necessarily comic fans in fact I would guess most of them not so their description of the grade would not always be the description the comic fan would give.

felneymike · Post by **felneymike** » 31 Dec 2007, 20:46

I got a Sexton Blake Library with the pages falling out, and seemingly in all of them (though i only have 3 but it's mentioned in many more descriptions) the staples have rusted into tiny, dusty fragments.

Though storypaper fans should take note that the VERY FIRST issue of the SBL from 1915 is currently on Ebay, a snip at ?50 for a wordy Commando comic... though if you want to just read the story it's reproduced in the "Sexton Blake Detective Library" book from 1989, which is rather cheaper, and more common

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