That is what I thought
I mean, I like this idea in general. But for $20?! Hell no. For $20, you should get 3 books in the bag.
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For $20, I better be getting some 1:100 and up ratios…
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Rare is a poor choice of wording here… I’m willing to bet many of these books are Diamond returns that were once open to retailers for cover price or less.
However if they were full of Sonic 1:25s I would be buying them…
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Not really that new right? At least this marketing format of putting books in bags and selling at discounts, probably as long as I’ve been alive.
Yeah, history shows most ratios from indie books, especially Image will drop in value over time. The only time they shoot up is if it’s a #1 ratio that takes off due to popularity or movie (those are brief too).
When my LCS was getting most ratios and setting out for cover price, I would always grab the Image ones and just sell immediately for the $10-$30 they were commanding at release time. The ones I couldn’t sell or didn’t sell for some reason, I couldn’t even give away weeks, months or years later.
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I am going to invest in selling all my bad spec books in blind bags 1:50 will have an actual book worth money.
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You don’t even have to put in anything special. Just giving people “hope” they might get something good is all that’s required for the masses to spend money on your utter shit… 
I will still guarantee “all copies 100% not bathroom read” but we know it will be a lie.
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Bathroom time is the only time to catch up on reading comics… nobody has time outside of potty time to read comics!
I’m doing it wrong. That’s why I can’t keep up with my comic reading…
Image must have a warehouse full of ratios. Dont see these blind bags being allocated…
Of course they do. I sometimes seriously doubt if they even other printing ratios based on the actual number of pre-orders. I’m sure they’re just putting in the orders with the printer company and have to specify X amount regardless of what the regular totals are. Ratios are likely not true ratios because it always seems like there’s more dug up after the fact…