Here's a pickle. What do I do with 37 back-issues of US-version Shonen Jump?
Backstory: I subscribed to Shonen Jump from Issue #1 in 2003 until October 2005, when I cancelled to buy it locally and promptly forgot to do that with any regularity. I got behind in my reading, and when I decided to re-read from the start I discovered that Issue #2 was missing. By then, the market for back issues on ebay had dried up, so I could neither replace my missing issues nor sell the existing ones.
Do I accept the sunk cost and start buying individual volumes--five years' backlog or 18 volumes each of Naruto, One Piece, Hikaru no Go and maybe Shaman King? Import 27 back-issues, hunt down 9 out-of-stock back-issues, and keep going? Decide I can live without shonen manga and use the old issues for kindling?