Alright you can all call me a hypocrite now. I did buy this exclusive, but recently sold one of the variants preorder for a little more than the buy in price making my copy super cheap/free 
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I hope they donât âfindâ some additional stock in the back of the warehouse before you deliver your buyer that preorder.
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I sincerely hope so too. My goal wasnât necessarily to make a profit with the other variant just to eat up most of the cost for my own copy to keep, which is why I didnât list at a ludicrous $150-200 price point.
Iâm a hypocrite toâŠIâm now in your club. I just see very big things for the High Republic and âifâ all promises are kept with this variant than it should be a good one down the road. My goal is to keep the one I like best and sell the other to pretty much pay for the pc copyâŠIâm pretty sure there will be a scarlet letter emoji made just for usâŠto be put next to our CHU display names for internet eternity.
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It may very well be they do exactly what they say they do, in which case good for them, and next time they have a variant that I like the art for Iâll probably bite.
But I donât want to be the guinea pig on a new Star Wars comic exclusives-only retailer that looks like they put their site together in an hour using an old version of Dreamweaver, popped up RIGHT when the hottest new Star Wars series came up for order (and never even did something like try to build up social media presence prior to launch or talk about any previous series), and doesnât have any sort of record or transparency in terms of whoâs running it.
The fact it first appeared in a spec group post and not somewhere like a Star Wars fansite or community also makes me feel like their audience is spec fans who think they can make money off of Star Wars, not Star Wars fans.
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I hear yaâŠDefinitely a bit of a risk. I do like to roll the dice sometimes. I really do like the cover too so that helpsâŠNot sure if it helps $80 worth but we will see.
I agree it was definitely suspect, but with a pre-order sold I feel alot better now - even if the variant never catches white fire I like it personally for my PC. And worse comes to worse, I used PayPal and PayPal is easy with refunds.
Thatâs red flags for me. If all you got for company information is an âemail addressâ for the contact info and your domain registration is âanonymousâ⊠nope, nope, nope⊠not gonna just give you money. You gotta make yourself look more legit as an online retailer selling things. When things go wrong and all you got is an email address, just turns into a freaking nightmare. So to avoid nightmares, I donât even bother doing business with such places/people.
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Somebody hit this on the nose, me thinks. Youâll get your copies, but that rogue âexclusiveâ website is a big red flag for me. Check to see how many of the 1:25 or 1:50 variants they have in stock. If the have more than 24x 1:50s, then that would lead me to suspect that they bought/ordered more than 600 copies (1200/50=24).
Edit:. I just checked and they are not selling the ratios individually, but, I noticed they included a 1:25 in one set. If they ordered 1200 books (600 each cover), then they qualified for 48x 1:25s. If they sold more than 48 âsetsâ that included the 1:25, then you know they ordered more than 1200 copies of the store variant. I donât have their sales numbers in front of me, but I highly suspect they had more than 48 sets of this book.
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Click more links leads to them claiming theyâre planning to fulfill damaged books first and then the rest will be destroyed and or piece of the cover cut off to be donated as âreaderâ copies⊠So we all know they got way more than 600 each coming their way.
Just seems sketchy, why destroy a perfectly good book? Just sell it. Trying to say thereâs only 600 copies to make it more âexclusiveâ is not completely honest since there will be another thousand or more âreaderâ copies out there⊠(thatâs if they are true to their words), albeit they wonât be minty fresh but itâs still counts as a copy out in the wild.
Iâll believe their bullshit story when they post a video of them, whoever the anonymous moderator is, destroying 400 copies of the virgin and 2400 copies of the trade dress, at a minimum. Does anyone believe that they would be willing to cut a piece out of 2800 books? How long would that take?
They are claiming that they are willing to throw away over $5000 dollars of their initial investment in order to charge you more for the remainder of their stock. That is the most ridiculous business plan I have ever heard of. Donât. Trust. For. One. Second.
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If itâs really the CBSI guys like some are saying, Iâm willing to bet most that went in on this will be selling their copies on the bay! But yes, saying youâre destroying books after returns or damaged solds are fulfilled is a crock of shitâŠ
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The CBSI guys promoted this book at the beginning of this weekâs Top 10 video on their Tales for the Flipside channel. Also gave away a set.
So itâs probably them for sure then⊠So if they have 600 of each for sale but gave away a set, that means they already lied as there are at least 601 sets out in the wild⊠
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I got no horse in the race here and I donât plan on ordering these. That being said, they do admit they are a part of this Comic Book Exclusive company or group:
I can understand the skepticism on their approach, but Iâm going to reserve judgement until this plays out. UNLESS these guys have a track record of untrustworthy dealings and pumps and dumps. If thatâs the case, tell me what Iâm missing.
OK, the TFAW accusations are ridiculous, but I would hope itâs a small minority of them. I donât know, maybe Iâm naive here.
I just canât trust a group that has to buy 3000 minimum copies of a book say theyâre just gonna flat out destroy the other copies to limit them to 600 each.
If they prove it by recording the destruction, perhaps showing them count out each issue to throw in the pile, then theyâll get full credit to claim their book is limited to 600 each (trade dress and virgin)⊠until then, itâs all hearsay and I wonât believe it.
Pretty sure each involved if they do destroy got their own stack to do whatever they want with.
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Fair enough. Itâs definitely a âuniqueâ approach to making sure these issues a rare.
I was just gonna post about how there is no direct evidence itâs them and then went to their website and saw this in one of their articles. It is 100% them and they arenât really hiding it. Written by Ben C. of CBSI.
**The Folks over at [ComicBookExclusives.com] (a new premium variant site I myself am a part of)
Whatâs weird though is that he writes half the article like he isnât part of the CBE website lol
CBSI is pure pump and dump garbage. They run an autocratic site where you have to agree with them or you are ostracized or silenced.
The fact that they felt they needed to create an anonymous site to sell this book, while already having an established website, just screams âscamâ to me. Why would they (the CBSI guys) feel the need to hide their identity while promoting and selling the book? Why not be up front? Sketchy, imo
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They do claim at the bottom of their site: âAll of these steps will be recorded and posted to the site.â
So yeah, that video better include proof of the amount of copies they replaced but the returned books should be in the pile for destruction (since they want to truly make this limited to 600 copies each). Then I want to watch the video of them cutting off the covers, one by one up to the amount they had to order (some type of proof should be shown of the total amount they ordered) and it should equal and balance out.
TOTAL ORDERED - 1200 = X (Where X is the amount shown in the video being destroyed).
If they canât do that, then I call âcrock of shitââŠ
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