Doing a math thesis for actual cost to retailers is irrelevant.
The FMV of a ratio is determined by supply of a ratio versus demand of ratio. There are many shops that sell more than 6 copies of a book so therefore they’re not factoring in their “cost to acquire” the ratios. Obviously high cover price can lead to lower supply, but that’s just one of many factors.
Not if you’re the retailer ordering and pricing them. The comment was about small shops selling prices.
What do you think small comic stores are going to sell it for ???
FOMO’s got nothing to do with it when ordering since FOMO hasn’t occurred yet. You can always find larger stores that sell enough of the covers that are required to qualify for an item that they can sell for less and about a year or so later you can also sometimes find them from the wholesalers dumping the leftovers at open order pricing.
Same thing happens frequently with the 2nd print ratio’s getting listed at what it costs to buy them. Cover price times 25 divided by 2. As always some stores will get that or not order, others will order hoping to get that and not sell unless they do and others will be able to sell enough of the 2nds to sell the ratio’s for less so someone else can try to sell it for them.
Yeah, which should lead that retailer to not stretching for the ratio. So it leads to less supply. A small shop can stretch and price the book for 10x FMV but that doesn’t mean they’ll ever sell it.
It doesn’t mean they will not either. It’s up to them to decide what they feel they can get, even if someone else can find it for less elsewhere, others may not even want to look elsewhere. You have to know your market and your customer base.
You wouldn’t feel terrible selling a ratio at 10x FMV to a customer?
Fair Market Value is irrelevant when ordering. If a customer wants X and I can get X and customer is willing to pay the cost of getting X in the door then that’s all that matters to me and that customer. The premise for this site is to buy and sell at a profit. If you’re running to shops to grab comics at cover price that are selling for $25 to $50 on E-Bay then you can easily say you’re at as much as 10 times fair market price gouging people for profit where if everyone just left them in the stores, more copies would be available for those people who show up late and are now forced to chase E-bay prices or do without.
MSRP or fair market price is printed right on the cover.
I think we all can agree if small shops are buying 20+ more books than they have consumers for just to attain an incentive, it’s likely a bad business move and done repeatedly will do them under.
Shops should also factor in when they “stretch” for that
Marvel ratio there’s a very good chance it shows up with bends up and down the spine…basically a VF book they just paid $100s they didn’t need to to acquire it.
Just like store exclusives, 99% of them are not worth the cover price…sure some are hits…but like gambling if you are not experienced and savvy enough to pick the needles out of the haystack, you will ultimately loose big and drive yourself out of business in severe debt.
No one should be chasing incentives unless you have the customers to move almost all of the open orders. If you can order 20 copies you know will sell, sure bump it up to 25. But you should not be regularly bumping up your order 2-5 times chasing a high ratio…especially if there is an even higher ratio above that eating away at the lower ratio values. At that point you’re become a speculator, not a business. Very risky waters to wade in.
My opinion, of course!
The premise of being a retailer is making a profit as the primary goal, or there’s not point in being in business. I understand that.
I just think if you’ve got a customer who says “I’ll pay $250 for this ratio that will have a FMV of $35 on release,” you should step in and offer to buy them them the book for cheaper from another shop since you have access to the internet and they apparently don’t. Mark it up $5 and you’ve made money and saved them considerably. It’s more money they can spend on other books worth buying.
$60 is now the cheapest
For anyone who grabbed some at TFAW, it’ll be a nice profit maker around that price if it survives FOMO. I think it was $17-18.
its going to fall fast
I don’t think even the big stores got many, relatively speaking
Unless people are buying for the cover, I think this is a bust.
First appearance of a new champion? Any confirmation that this officially happens in this issue?
Spoilers are up.
Last page cameo of the Cap character in full costume.
Meh. I’ve gotta believe the New Champions cover or the first full would be the thing.
Yes, those will likely be the best. Hard to say what would be best if FOC was still open on #7
