I also just received my Eniac copy from 3rd eye and couldn’t be happier. No extra charge on bags and board or to be shipped in a Gemini mailer. I’m a happy customer 
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So by that logic they’ll let you bend their own personal copies or they’re speculators?
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My Eniac #1 from Third Eye also arrived just fine
25 copies of Star Wars High Republic Adventures #2 from Westfield arrived fine as well. No bags and boards but they were one of those 99 cent specials so I didn’t expect them anyway
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Third Eye Comics - I got 2 shipments from them this week. Great packaging, quick shipping.
Westfield - Im really starting to like them. I have done 3 orders for 20+ books so far and haven’t had any issue. Heads up though if you order the 0.99 cent books they don’t come bagged and boarded. I got all the Star Wars High Republic Adventures 1 I ordered but they came in one stack bundled together. No damages though.
Midtown - got my copy of Eniac from them. Came perfect in a cardboard shipper.
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When do these $0.99 sales happen at Westfield?
Weekly really. Some are pre-order and some are new releases
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They always have a few preorder issues for .99cents. I don’t know how they pick them or how often they change them. I usually look go to their preorder page and set if for the max listings and then just search 0.99 and go through each page. Its usually about 5 pages of preorder stuff so it doesn’t take long.
so far Ive ordered that Star Wars book and silk 2 in quantity from them.
Yea right now SIlk #2 is up for 99 cents so I bought a bunch of those
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I grabbed 20 silk 2. I think they do the .99 cent thing to presell some comics they want the incentives of. Like HR 1 and silk 2. They currently have the silk 2 Rose Besch incentive that people are talking about for sale at $45. It’s a 1:25 and I normally don’t like to pay over ratio for incentives but based off the hype and presell prices on eBay I grabbed 2 of them.
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Yeah. Seems like if there’s a big series with a lot of incentives they’ll do a 99 cent sale just to clear out some stock and order more incentives.
I check Westfield every few hours everyday for the 99 cent deals. So far I managed to preorder hundreds of the 99 cent deal for star wars high republic,1,2,3,4 and SW adventures 1 and 2. All the books I got don’t have bags but are borderline 9.8. They have perfected safe packing of hundreds of books with no bags.
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The only order I got from them of 99 cent stuff was when they sent me the wrong high republic, and it was only 10 copies. (Or 15, can’t remember.) I’d be curious to see how they pack the super big orders without bags and boards if you ever take photos of the whole unboxing process.
I will take a pic of my next westfield order. I have another 100 SW adventures coming.
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I can tell you how M&M Comics does it for large orders with no bags and boards. They use magazine size bags and fill them with comics, about 25 or so per bag and then tape them shut but very snug so there is no movement in the bags. Then that goes inside a larger sized gemini type mailer and then that gets put in a box surrounded by the packing peanuts that get all over the place.
Oh yea inside the bags they also place a buffer like 3 or 4 backing boards or damaged comics on at least one side. Sometimes it’s the marvel or dc catalogs they use as well. I always forget to take pics of the boxes and packaging before I open them.
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Westfield and M&M pack pretty similarly. Books always seem to arrive in good condition too.
Unknown comics order came in perfect. @RipCityGamer these are bagged and boarded but this is how I see loose comics ship from places as well. They use the priority envelopes but you can even wrap them in brown paper like your guys do sometimes. Bubble wrap on all 4 sides
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So many stores seem to be using the free priority supplies in ways they aren’t supposed to be…
But thanks. The biggest change there seems mostly to be bubble wrapping every stack (which I’ve brought up as a suggestion) and different types oof peanuts that probably don’t shift around as much given their shape.
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I use them myself but I’m also not a business and sell as an individual.
If I was a business, I would probably not use USPS free supplies for such things. To me, seems like it would come off as unprofessional. I’d probably use more neutral packaging options or something with my business logo on them.
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I understand for individual sellers and even to a degree for a small business who only has to ship things every now and then and it’s way easier to just grab some stuff at the local PO. But if most of your business is on the Internet, and you’re using free postal supplies for ways they aren’t intended to be used, and ordering the free supplies in bulk knowing that you’re using them that way, that’s just a bad look to me. It’s not a huge amount of lost money or tax dollars in the grand scheme of things but a lot of little things like that add up.
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I think it actually ends up being a huge amount of lost money and tax dollars because we probably have thousands of businesses across the country doing this and not just comic shops.
Well I had to check the label to be sure but at least he did ship the box priority so that’s at least better than using the supplies for shipping things media and first class.