*UPDATED* Sometimes to find the cool stuff (especially in Australia) you need to be shopping online. Many of the regular retailers don’t carry some of the more collectible types of toys, and some of the comic and collectible stores are just too expensive. It used to be that the main haunt for collectors was simply eBay, and that probably hasn’t changed a lot. But there are many new online stores doing good business with imported products for the discerning collector looking for brand new products as well as rarities. One such shop is the Star-Wars-centric SAGA CENTRAL. (more…)

In recent years, times have been good. Wages have been good, work has been steady, and disposable cash has been available mainly because of a lack of discipline and proper household budget. Spending money on your hobby has been easy, or at least more easily justified. So now that the world’s economies are in the toilet and there’s so much uncertainty surrounding jobs, how do you keep the urge to hit eBay under control but your enjoyment up? (more…)