The Big Issue - Will It Be Worth More Later?
- by Paul Summer
Sounds great! You buy the mag and help the poor at the same time; keep the mag and sell it later for more than 50 times its value. Mind you.. I’m no expert, but I have watched a few daytime TV shows.
Last week’s “The Big Issue In The North” magazine could be worth something in a few years time. Why? Not because Daniel Day-Lewis is on the cover, it’s just that there’s a spelling mistake on the front cover.
In this day and age of computerised spell-checkers, it’s hard to find spelling mistakes, but to find one on the front cover of any magazine has to be one-in-a-billion. It is very very rare, in any day and age.
The word ‘homeless’ shows on last week’s front cover as ‘Homless’. This is why I think it would be worth something in the future.
An organisation as big as THE BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH would squirm at the very thought of misspelling ‘homeless’ on any page, let alone their front cover, as the magazine itself is designed to help these very people.
But I don’t want to focus on this. Instead, I want to put to you the idea of keeping hold of last week’s copy dated 18-24 February, 2008. So you can make a bob or two in a few years to come.
Must be rare - surely?