Flipmode Comics on eBay and whatnot
Don’t ever buy a Marvel ratio. Shit publisher tanking their own product’s collectibility.
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Good info. Thanks.
Just wait until Marvel starts the backdoor blow out of the Midnight ratios…
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All publishers are printing more than you are let on… especially ratios. The more they print, the more they save. They’re likely not printing these to match the ratio pre-orders… we all know that, that’s just basic common sense.
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On what account?
Every publisher has internal comp copies and replacements for the distributor. Marvel is the only one printing thousands and selling direct to consumers on ebay and whatnot via a flipper.
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I would love to the know the backstory of how that came to be. I wonder if they split profits or if the flipper just buys Marvel out at whatever price.
Probably some mid-level executive being greedy and wants an extra $10k in his bank account at the cost of an entire ratio market.
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I’d be interested in knowing the amount of extras they are selling on a per issue basis. Thousands overall across all titles doesn’t really matter.
Follow the ebay and whatnot lives of the account I shared. They do full days with employees taking shifts and sell a ton each day. They’ll put a whole shortbox up for a single auction. These are arriving to them from Marvel via multiple pallets per “order.”
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I used to buy hundreds of incentives from Diamond back when they did their sales, miss those days.
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Diamond went from big company to dead within a year. So wild still.
Can’t say Crazy Joe didn’t warn them…
What type of back stock incentives are we talking about?
There are plenty of 1:100 ratios that don’t even fetch cover price out there. Is this good stuff or plain garbage?
Huh? I’m talking about 1:100s going for $10 and 1:25s going for $1. That’s from Marvel using Flip Mode to backdoor thousands. You know. You’re a friend of theirs.
Penny Pincher Collectibles was another Ebay seller that was pumping them out pretty heavy at one point. I just checked and don’t see anything currently listed there though.
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Yeah, he was one of the main backdoor accounts (also is better known as Nickel N Dime). He had three total eBay accounts that would auction countless books weekly. He’s stuck with the old cases.
Flip Mode is the new backdoor beneficiary.
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I can concur that Flip Mode is the new ratio dumper, I’ve watched a couple of their streams and mostly it is ratios that are legit worth a 2 or 3 dollars, but you see a few that could be tempting. Saw 2 Infinity Watch #5 1:50 go through for $1 and $2
They always have 2 of everything, so they run the same book twice. Last time I watched, there was a guy ticked off because he didn’t realize this and bid on the second one thinking his bid didn’t through the first time. He got both for $1 each. He was righteously angry about that extra dollar.
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