I saw some and passed on it. May pick one up tomorrow. Here is the thing about books with no copies on eBay. You get to set the price yourself. Don’t just shoot for cover price.
Best title in some time.
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And just ordered an A and a B cover. Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre that is.
This could be the best week in a long time for winners.
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Same here. fantom comics.
Also grabbed a few more copies of A to be held at a shops I visit when visiting family. Not sure when I’ll pick them up, but hopefully it’s still desirable when I do.
Thanks for posting about this. Just got an A at one shop and A&B at another. I would have never known about this otherwise.
Used to be my LCS when they had a small setup at Union Station. Glad to see they are still around.
I checked the place out last year in a trip to DC. They’re a pretty small shop. Very limited back issue selection…and not well protected.
I walked away thinking new books probably ok, but not to order any back issues for them as they likely would be in rough shape.
Yeah, when they had the Union Station shop, there were barely any back issues. They must order for subs and a few extra.
I ended up shifting all my subs to Victory Comics over in Falls Church because it was a better store and logistically made more sense. Good selection and the owner is a cool guy. Has a good story about a Tec 27 he purchased from an original owner back in the day.
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I saw people paying $100-$150 for the metals limited to 10 and 15 on whatnot. People paying wild prices.
Thx. I was able to order a couple of cover Bs from two different online shops. First time ordering from both, crossing fingers they’ll actually ship.
Just throwing this question out there. Has anyone had issues with comic hub when checking out? I’ve had the “your cart has been changed message” pop up a lot. This is on sites I’ve ordered from too. I’ve called and they have the item in stock.so it’s not an inventory issue. I do think that message pops up on some inventory issues. I’m not sure this is related. I’m unsure what the issue would be, clear my cache maybe?
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I haven’t encountered that particular message, but boy, does Comic Hub make it hard to sign up sometimes. It’s like a race to enter your info before they decide the 4 digit code is invalid.
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Very true. I’ve been in a frenzy before. Ridiculous. Haha. I think I’m signed up on every shop so I’m ready to. It’s just a pain to have to sign in and out of shops.
I had the “your cart has changed” message for the first time last night but saw it for two different shops. I’m not sure what’s going on but plan on just calling the shops this morning to see if I can buy directly from them.
I only started using Comichub again recently with the DC KO and Indy FOMO (hey, that rhymes!). But I don’t have enough fingers on my two hands to list all the issues I have with that site. I even downloaded the app to see if I could get around them…but it doesn’t seem set up to order from individual shops like the website (issue #1).
But yes, many of the shops I used to order from now come up with that “error” when checking out (issue #2). Even shops that have multiple locations are inconsistent (pops up for one, not the other). I can tell you it doesn’t give you the error if you select store pick up as I ended up doing that for one of them (It might be a few months, but they’ve held them for me before).
So that is new and extremely frustrating because many have $20 ordering limits now…and so you spend a lot of time mining for books to get your total to meet the minimum…only to get that error at checkout without any warning. I’ve tried everything I can think of to clear it. Re-entering my information, logging out and back in, different devices, etc.
Another problem it has (for me) is that it will seemingly log me out while searching, adding to my cart, or even attempting to check out. (Issue #3). 50% of the time signing in just sends me back to their home page and still signed out (issue #4).
But the absolute worst is when during the order placement it (I.e., charging your card) it boots you out (issue #5) and you don’t know if your order went through or not as you may or may not get a confirmation…even if it did go through. And it doesn’t always get reflected in your order history if this doesn’t happen. If it does go though, I believe the shop still gets the order and the online stock is depleted by the amounts. But if they have multiples (and you are limited to 1 copy) you can’t rely on that as a mean to know.
This happened to me at one shop, and resulted in my account with them getting suspended…despite years of having an account with them. An order went through, but on my end I received and error. They still had stock, and my order history did not reflect it being bought. So I made a second attempt to order it, which then went through.
The problem was this store has a strict 1 per customer rule, which Comichub can prevent multiple orders of the same item from a shop. It prevents you from adding it to your cart, whether you ordered it 1 second ago or 5 years ago. So the system should not have let me add another copy. But it did, and so even though my history shows one order, the shop got two invoices. And the canceled both and suspended my account….no warning, no explanation, just an “FU” to a loyal customers.
I only found out when I could not log in…and when I called the shop they told me I violated their rule (which wasn’t even known to me other than what comichub doesn’t allow) and I’d have to speak to the manager. Which I have reached out politely through email (never responded) and stopped in the store (not around) since then to no avail. Nice way to treat a loyal customer. One strike and you’re out!
Getting long winded…but that last one is more of a complaint about how the shop has handled the situation…set up by comichub’s issues during checkout.
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Florida B cover still at Midtown as of this post. 1 per.
There was an issue yesterday on mobile that I couldn’t check out because it wouldn’t let me sign in for multiple shops.
