trading venues
I presume everyone, or most people here know about Bartertown. if not, well check out www.bartertown.org
Trademaster Adam\'s been running it for years, and althogh there is a lot of crossposting of ads lately, which makes for some excessive noise in the various categories, it is a great avenue to explore.
Ebay is good too, but personally I like going through Bartertown more. Its a grass roots thing. I\'ve been using it since 93 or 94 when it was on the falcon.ukans.edu machine (iirc)... I\'ve only had 1 sour deal in all that time. He also has a good/bad trader reference db there too... long before ebay was even extant.
Also, Ebay is set up exclusively for sales, where bartertown is an open forum, so negotiating trades works too, which is a good thing, in my opinion.
There are also a lot of fiendish collecters there, so you can often get top dollar if you happen to have some popular OutOfPrint figure.
just my $00.02