The market value stuff only holds true if it works in their favor. The minute the price drops, most of them still will want the pinnacle price.
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That’s crazy. I would never shop from them again. Plenty of other places to spend your money.
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That is a great way to make a small short term gain and lose a long term customer. Truly silly, especially for a book that has such a small chance of holding its value, imho.
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Wonder how long my shops copies will be on the wall at $40?
Can’t wait for static in the MCU, maybe during Kang Dynasty 
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$13 and some change 18 in stock $7 shipping up to 10 comics
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I sold one of the two I got for $25 plus shipping.
season 2 comes out next week.
thats why
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I disagree, if these comic bookshops have not inserted themselves in between you and the news agent where you normally got them from or the supermarket, you would not have to pay 10 times the amount for something that should be marked up at cover price, I wouldn’t expect to have to pay 10 times the amount for a new car, just because they had sold ouy, i expect the dealer to sell it to me for the price the manufacturer had agreed with them beforehand… This kind of nonsense only happens with comics it seems to me.
Yep. Everyone knows concert tickets and Super Bowl tickets get flipped for a profit but Ticketmaster doesn’t mark the price up the day the tickets go on sale. They don’t hold back a bunch of tickets with some bs excuse to only flip them a week later. Comic shops that jack up the price the day of release stink.
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Or you’re at walmart buying a toy and the cashier says they have to charge market price for any collectibles. It kills stores seing others profit from someone other than them
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Yeah. Because they tack on exorbitant fees. Cure tickets were $25 with $30 in fees.
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I got Cure tickets too!
(Followed by a refund)
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Same, got my Cure refund too! Can’t wait to see them in the ATL!
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Not here. The cheapest ones where $400. So the wife and I decided to pass.
I completely get your analogy. Unfortunately, TM started dabbling in both of these things around 2018-19 and it exploded post-covid. Mark ups are the most widespread. Anything you see as “Official Platinum” is Ticketmaster scalping their own tickets, with the artist’s blessing, and significant swaths of tickets are priced as Official Platinum in presales and Day One onsales.
It sucks when TM does it, and it sucks when comic shops do it.
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So you’re going to compare Walmart and TicketMaster to a local mom and pop shop?
A local shop that’s just basically scraping by and taking all the risk to keep us nerds in comics and related stuff.
Those same shops that watch customers come in, buy up all the hot books and turn directly around and get 10-30x more for them.
Why in the world shouldn’t comic shops see at least some of the money from those hot books?
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