According to the phone call to PRH this morning, all orders will show as “back ordered” right now because they haven’t packed and shipped out the initial orders yet so there’s no numbers the sales rep can check this early to speculate the odds of the order filling. He did point out that a 2nd print is already orderable which usually means the 1st print has sold out of A Cover or is expected to be even though the web site doesn’t reflect that yet. We should know more by mid week once the initial orders are out the door and they begin to release the leftovers and the ones held back for damage replacements.
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They are selling them I have picked up a couple and sold them on eBay and Mercari. Its like BJ said, they have issues of #1 in stock to hook readers when #2 comes out.
I’m going with the thought there’s two likely outcomes right now,
The book arrives with some 1st or great story that keeps precontent driven FOMO prices alive
or
The story doesn’t inspire or have anything of value but the supply just got horded so it settles in at around $10 long term for A cover.
They’ve done this with a number of other low print run titles before, especially some of the Spawns. Horde the supply and keep prices parked above cover. We should know Monday once the shipments start arriving or maybe this weekend if BC gets a copy early again.
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What store do you have?
When FOMO hits this early, retailers notice.
They will hold back copies…
As for the 2nd print, Marvel plans way ahead. Nothing to do with being sold out/available at the distributor.
There’s already a Ultimate X-men #1 2nd print & Miles Morales Spider-man #18/300 2nd print coming…
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Just sold an Avengers Twilight for $20 plus shipping
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Not many people like my ideas, till it’s too late!
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I always like them
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Nobody should be buying $4.99/5.99 comics and flipping them for a <$8 profit. Thats too much work for so little
It would have to be selling for over $30 for me to care
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If you think that way, you dont know where to look. I cant help you.
As for Ultimate Black Panther #1, this will be cover price at alot of places Tuesday & Wednesday.
FOMO this early only benefits retailers…
When you consider I have a shipping station at home and am shipping out a ton of other books, plus, I do it while teleworking at home in between tasks, I do pretty well with an $8 profit here and there.
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I think part of it is we all value our times differently. The same time your spending packaging the items for less than 8 dollar profit could be spent doing something else e.g. spending time with family, kids wife, , content creator on YouTube, watching tv, doing something you enjoy). Playing devil’s advocate I’m guessing the train of thought is I’m already making a trip to Post Office to ship these multiple packages, one more package is just icing on top. In addition, the extra 8 dollars add up and is nice padding in my pocket.
For me personally, I’ve been doing this since high school for extra spending money, buy an item, takes about 5-10 minutes to package, weigh, buy the label and later drop off to the post office. Heck in college, I use to make trips to stores to return and rebuy or ask for a price adjustment on dvds, blu rays, video games thinking the dollars added up but ended up spending hours doing this kind of thing instead of stuff I may have enjoyed. When I started working, I package the item in the work space, print the label and drop the packages off downstairs with the post office on the first floor while still working my day job.
Nowadays, with adulting, for myself I find my priorities have changed just a bit. Don’t get me wrong, I still speculate but more selective. No judgment here either way, just sharing some of my thoughts.
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Trust me, I never take away time from my kids to package up a book, I was at my son’s basketball game last night after taking him to the gym and working out (upper body day on Thursdays) and the night before was at my younger son’s band concert instead of getting spoilers out timely. But I do the shipping of comics during the day while I am working, either on lunch or a down time between checking cases for my workers. I don’t do shipping in the office. My mailman picks up the packages from me so I do not have to drive to the post office. If I can make $8 in 5 minutes time, shoot, I will do it all day long. Plus, I enjoy the buying and selling of books. Figure I paid $4.99 for the book. sold for $20, lost $4 in fees but probably made $2 back in shipping costs. so that $8 is actually closer to $13.
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UBP 1 back in stock at Midtown…lol…always holding back copies
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B cover only it seems.
B,C,D now. I grabbed some. What the heck.
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Completely agree…my threshold is $20, though, before I make any effort to go out and look for a book and/or make a trip to the P.O.
I’ll settle for $16 if it’s hot and I just happens to see it out and know it won’t take up space longer than a few hours and it’s the weekend (not a disruption to my work day).
I guess the good thing is if the book is this high going into Wednesday, people holding back copies will ensure the price doesn’t crash until maybe next week when the online orders show up. Buys some time to flip to FOMO’ers.
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