Our Founder

Soldster is the brainchild of Jon R. Warren and was founded in 2000. This is not Warren’s first foray into providing pricing information to sellers. He is an internationally recognized antiques and collectibles expert, authoring numerous price guides, including Wizard: The Guide to Comics, The Official Price Guide to Paperback Books, Warren’s Movie Poster Price Guide, and many others. He was the senior price guide editor for Wizard Magazine, Toyfare Magazine, and Inquest magazine from 1993 to 2003. Prior to that, he was the he was senior editor of The Overstreet Update, a market research guide for collectors of rare comic books. Warren founded Soldster because, “The internet has been missing a site that allows sellers to quickly sell to expert buyers without any fees or commissions whatsoever. We plan to make a market in just about everything…even road kill!”

Jon has had the collecting passion since childhood. At age 15, he had a rare stamp business, selling rare US commemoratives to collectors world-wide under the business name "Rarities, Inc." Collectors purchased thousands of dollars of rare stamps through the mail from Rarities, Inc. never knowing they were dealing with a teenager.

Jon is now president of 2nd Markets Corp., owner of this site and the I Collect family of collector sites.