New Variant Ratios on TFAW

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#3595

Got so many great books of this thread I had to share this one. Nice House on the Lake #1 (of 12) 1:25 Card Stock Variant

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#3596

No discount. Is TFAW moving away from discounting ratio incentives? I know there was no discount for SIKTC 16 either.

#3597

Iā€™ve noticed that on a few books where they have an exclusive there was no discount on the incentive. Not quite sure why but this is the third one Iā€™ve noticed after Siktc 16 and Wonder Girl 1.

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#3598

Wonder girl 1 campbell variant was also the same. Hopefully its just for some of these variants they got a good number of copies of since they also had exclusives.

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#3599

DC Horror Presents the Conjuring the Lover #1 (of 5) (Inc 1:25 Gary Brown Card Stock Variant)

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#3600

Batman #109 (1:25 Riccardo Federici Card Stock Variant)
Crush & Lobo #1 (1:25 Christian Ward Card Stock Variant)
Batman the Adventures Continue Season II #1 (1:25 Andrew Maclean Card Stock Variant)

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#3601

Up on the site for anyone interested.

Basilisk #1 (Riccardi TFAW Exclusive Variant)

#3602

Theyā€™ll never be above ratio price (unless itā€™s a graded copy that gets transferred to the web from our stores months and months after release). But we have turned off the discount on ones before if theyā€™re super popular once FOC has passed. May try to play around and have a 10% level for those ones in the future but that would require a lot of manual changes.

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#3603

Damn batman 109 already gone :rage:

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#3604

Iā€™m out unless they are destroying copies to get it down to 500. Manufactured scarcity. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

#3605

Thatā€™s an interesting take on it.

In fact, I am no longer on eastern standard time. For now on Iā€™m on D-Rog time.

#3606

Are you perhaps thinking of DC and Marvel with 2500 and 3000 respectively?

I was under impression Boom store exclusives had smaller print run.

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#3607

BOOM! is not Marvel, they make it so you can just order 500 copies. I think thatā€™s their minimum but I could be mistaken. Iā€™d imagine TFAW orders extras to handle damaged books.

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#3608

I think outside the boxā€¦ :wink:

#3609

Marvel exclusives essentially just ruin the spec on any of the good incentives.

#3610

You know, if retailers didnā€™t qualify for the ratio variants when they purchase their own retailer exclusives, that would be a start to fixing the retailer exclusives when it comes to Marvel (and others).

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#3611

Ding ding ding! You should charge consulting hours.

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#3612

Someone should point out to Marvel, hey, if they donā€™t get ratio variants from their own exclusives, it might make them order X amount more so they get ratiosā€¦ but I could also see this causing a lot of retailers backing out of doing exclusives. Either way, consumers win in all possible outcomesā€¦ :wink:

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#3613

As an example a DC store exclusive such as Nice House on the Lake alone (not counting regular copies ordered), a typical store exclusive with 2500 dc print run garners the store about 100 copies of the 1:25 variant. Thats a large number of ratio copies multiplied by each store doing an exclusive.

In most instances the demand simply is not there for that many copies of the ratio not titled Batman :rofl:

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#3614

I was under the impression I was telling a joke. Iā€™m not serious.

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