yeah I guess books are diff because you have uncorrected proofs and waiting for any additional art work or art for cover plus they often put some sort of reviews on back cover... it is not like you can say this is the lipstick but we might 'correct' it a bit o.0 ... tho bpal does have working versions at their monthly events so those come in same bottle but plain label and will say V2 or something. Ah well it is just me thinking it rots to have somebody sell off an entire collection tho honestly I don't think of it as a journalist or bloggers set I always think of it as somebody swiping it from factory floor or you know a counterfeit. I tend to buy all my stuff directly at mall or mac.com or mac freestanding. I have only purchased cosmetics on aftermarket less than a half dozen times and then from spectra-mites and once from ebay and that is over umm been wearing makeup for over 30 yrs. So I am weird that way I guess. I don't even really swap on MUA tho I have been a member forever. Hmmm come to think of it once on MUA but still under half a dozen. I can easily pull out the stuff I got second hand from my coll.
I hadn't thought about that; it's entirely possible.
I get what you're saying, I don't find it weird, maybe because I'm the same, lol. I only bought once from eBay, and it was something on eBay ahead of the release date, and when I googled the seller, it was a journalist.
Quote: interesting thing also about books... they put a number on them so if you do sell it on ebay they can track down which reviewer pawned off the book prior to publication. Big Deal to release a book in advance