That’s my new strategy. Wait for something to get hot and see if I can find it at my shop. The downside is that they always order heavy on cover As and very few variants. For something like pumpkin spicy it’s a hit or miss if I find it there. Will have to visit multiple shops to get lucky.
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The WW 25 Sampere sold out pretty quick at MCS, it would seem.
Did it ever get listed???
Not sure. Forgot to keep tabs on it, but I think I logged in when books typically go live +/- 15 minutes. All the other books were there but it was not.
I received the notification email for books in my want list, got the links for most of the books released today but not for the WW 25…
Found one at my online honey hole
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Looks like MCS listed the WW25 at $15…I doubt it was ever available yesterday at cover…Shady?
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No. Unless they canceled someones order and relisted it. They dont have to sell a book for cover price.’
These stores are not under any obligation to sell people a book for cover price so they can flip it for more money.
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Stores don’t have to do so, but it looks sleazy if retailers are trying to spec and then they end up with a bunch of unsold inventory.
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To me thats their problem. I just dont see how they are under any obligation to sell books for 25% of what its currently going for. If you just want the book for the PC, just wait until the hype dies.
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For the record, I think these online sellers should just limit them to one per customer. Small local stores should do whatever they need to do to keep the lights on.
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That’s entering dangerous territory. You start hiking prices as the “retailer” who’s buying at wholesale prices only to turn around against your customers to sell at secondary market prices on the day of release, you deserve to go out of business if you ask me.
Imagine if Apple sold you their latest iPhones on secondary market prices or Nike sold you those Jordans for what people are selling them online for? Everyone would be screaming and boycotting…
I want to support my local businesses but when they start hiking prices cause they’re bad at running a business based on wholesale/retailer prices, then well…
You gotta give customers a chance at new releases. Hold a few back if you must and sell at the secondary market prices a few days later or week later after supplies run dry… but the day of, I won’t be shopping at your shop!
We are talking about variants here. You can buy the other covers cheap. And comparing a multi billion dollar corporation to a business that struggles to keep the lights on is completely different.
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Once again, these businesses are under no obligation to make you money.
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As are we are under zero obligations to buy their merchandise.
But I didn’t realize it was only pertaining to a ratio variant, my stance stands on regular issues. But I also don’t pay over cover for a variant myself. 99 times out of a 100 you lose money doing such things…
Maybe they should go into another line of business if they don’t want to make their money based on low priced paper products with a cover/retail price printed on the actual merchandise… 
This also goes into the line of, retailers start chasing ratio variants, buying up more regular copies they can actually sell based on their existing customers just to hike the price of the ratio variant in hopes it offsets all the copies that will sit on the shelf… it seems to happen all too often with some shops and that’s just a terrible way to run a business.
If you qualify for the ratios based on pre-orders and shelf copies ordered for your shop, great, you got a ratio variant for the same price as the regular cover and hopefully you can sell at the ratio going price or even secondary market price if it heated up prior to release but don’t go chasing ratios if you’re a retailer in hopes you can sell at a higher price.
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Retailers dont have the luxury of seeing what ends up being hot. If they want to charge a price that someone is willing to pay for a variant more power to them. We all have the opportunity to preorder these books, usually under cover price.
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