And again, if you want to read a book there are plenty of other covers available at cover price or less.
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Also, if weāre talking about the WW#25 Sampere variant, that seems to be an open order cover. So, yeah, that should have been cover price if you ask me. The shop did nothing special to qualify for those except hitting the āorderā button. Sure the shop can try to sell it at whatever price they wantā¦ Iām not shopping there though. If itās a few days later or week(s) later, by all means, hike that price up to secondary market prices. Still not shopping there and I donāt encourage anyone else to enable shops doing such things!
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We will have to agree to disagree. It was open order so anyone on this board could have preordered it. The customers could have just āhit a buttonā as well.
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I agree at least the first day should be at cover price. I can stomach after that it goes to whatever you want to sell it at. The retailers get the option of buying anything, especially open order, at wholesale cost, I donāt. If the retailer is allowed to sell it at whatever cost they want then let me order direct from the distributor up until FOC at wholesale price. The retailer already gets to charge me retail for every book I buy, every single book, but they still want to get greedy when something hits big.
To me, retailers are crazy to hike the price on NCBD. Cool, you made a few bucks more on 10 or so books (probably less) but you risk guys like me starting to wonder why Iām dealing with a retailer that hikes the high spec books but never, ever, ever lowers the prices on NCBD for my pulls that he has extras of.
Short-sighted greediness is what puts comic book stores out of business. You have to at least give the illusion that you are a valued you as a customer, especially those with pulls or constant business.
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You guys are free to open up a store. pay the overhead, and then you can order all you want at wholesale.
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Sure, I"m just saying, I also donāt have to buy from that shop. Itās just bad for business in the end if you ask me when retailers start playing secondary market games on day 1 of releases and jack up the prices against their customers, the weekly loyal ones and even newcomersā¦ So like I said previously, instead of Nike selling their shoes at secondary market prices, imagine if the shoe retailers hiked up the prices on day 1 of a new release? Most consumers would be upset at this practice, so we are also entitled to frown upon such tactics from comic book retailers.
again, comparing a billion dollar corporation to a small business that barely makes any money is disingenuous.
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Im out of this argument, this isnt the thread for it and I dont want to spam the board.
I updated it to the retailers who might be selling the shoes since Nike doesnāt really sell directly the the public. Same sameā¦ doesnāt matter if theyāre billion dollar corporations or brokeā¦ the notion of hiking up prices based on what others are selling them for before the public even can touch them is sleazy practices in my opinion and I wonāt support such retailers who do such things.
No reason to get all offended over itā¦ everyoneās entitled to their opinions. But I do agree, we should get back on topic.
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One of my shops in my area does this. He pulls out hot books on day of release off the shelves (ie first Tosin). If a book gets hot before Wednesday, you will not see it on his shelf come release day. He also chases ratio variants to sell at market price so people know he has tons of copies of the open order covers but somehow are never on the shelves. He also pulls them out of his subscriberās boxes to sell at marked up prices to people who ask for them.
Not surprisingly, this is the only comic store in my area that has gone out of business. All the other shops in the surrounding area has recovered from Covid and has a thriving loyal customer base.
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This is unforgivable IMO unless the pull box has been sitting a few weeks.
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I appreciate the lively discussion. We just happen to disagree. But ya lets get back on topic. Sorry for hijacking the thread for a bit.
Absolutely. Garbage retailer.
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Shops can do what they want. But if I go there on Weds and new books are marked up over cover price, Iām finding a new shop. Thatās why incentive books exist.
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so let me get this straight shops should not sell books day one for above cover price ,
but you can sell it for 5 times that on day one ?
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He pulls them out on release day from pull boxes 
Imagine if youāre a Black Panther subscriber and have issues 1 and 2 and now looking for issue 3 but itās magically gone from your pull box, however you see the 1:25 on the wall for $600.
Heās also the same person that buys collections from people who bring in boxes of comics to sell. Heāll tell moms that their collection is worthless and will give them $10-20 for the box and later after sorting it he āmagicallyā finds copies of uncanny X-men 266, New Mutants 98 etc inside. Heāll tell the employee that works there āhey look what I foundā 
The employee who Iām friendly with at the shop always rants on him with me when heās not at the shop. Heās so sick of his antics. Real scummy retailer.
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Shops are free to do whatever they want. I just need predictability. Shops that mark up brand new books? Shops that donāt price their back issues and check ebay before you buy? Yeah, Iām just not spending my money there. Iām loyal to my shops because they are loyal to me. Predictability is important for me.
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Going to a few different shops today. Will report back if I see any WW 25 for cover price
I got one WW 25 for cover price (plus shipping) my LCS was out of them last night (pre-orders on their website). They do a good job of pulling hot books for me and usually multiple copies.
Going back to the conversation from @Torgo:
Absolutely. Retailers can do whatever they want. Personally if I was a retailer and only had limited copies of a book that was hot Tuesday night, I would pull them behind the counter and hold them for regulars.
Prime example. I went into a shop on Wednesday that Red Hood came out. Got 2 cover a, a Jae Lee, and the 1:25. Cool. This is my honey hole I hit regularly and not my LCS. These guys message me when they have new collections in that they know they can unload some to me.
Anyway I go back the following Wednesday and said ādid you sell out of your Red Hoodsā he said āno, we left them out for a couple of days and have been selling some on eBay for $25 eachā. He then goes on to tell me I can get two additional cover A if I want. I said hell yes. Another regular asked if he could as well. Retailer said yes. He literally gave up $100 in online sales to earn more money from loyal customers every week.
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found one WW 25 along w/ a Nightwing 130 pumpkin spicy variant at a small shop by me who does more card gaming but has new books. WW 25 def hitting the top 10 lists
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