Wow this just keeps getting worse and worse. Wasn’t gonna bother after I seen the price anyways, but definitely not ever gonna bother with that site. So sketchy.
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How does a brand new “store” that hasn’t even shipped a product yet pride themeslves on delivering premium product and experience to customers?
I’m actually kind of liking their idea of the extras being sent out as reader copies and damaged. The only problem with that is that you then need to order at LEAST 2x the sale run which means prices are going to be a lot higher. So it’s only going to work if the site/store is 100% trusted to actually DO that with the extra copies. And sadly to say, with a brand new store that looks like it was 100% made for a get rich quick scheme (their site feels like someone’s Geocities homepage) they don’t have that trust yet.
The fact they’re also starting with such a big cover doesn’t help.
The price itself doesn’t bug me IF what they say they’re going to do is what they end up doing. If sites that sell the entire print run of 3000 can sell sets for $40 each, selling a run of 600 for $80 each makes sense, even though they could have lowered the cost and not been as greedy with the profits to make it look more appealing as a first release.
On the bright side since I did want this cover for my collection there’s a decent chance now I can pick it up for under cost in a few months.
(Unrelated to their business practices, but as a former editor I can’t stand when people just keep changiing between spelling out or using numerals for basic numbers like they do…)
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This has " Savage Burn" written all over it.
I have an idea. Just tell us how many copies you have and sell them all.
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It doesn’t bode well that “destroyed” is in quotations.
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Especially if they’re paying to print them all still, anyway. Real Star Wars fans would want as many copies as possible to be able to get to fans not create artificial scarcity and bump the price.
Now if they said they were selling 2500 and destroying extra copies after holding for damages, I’d believe that.
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Yup, they’re trying to create a false demand. Let’s tell’em there’s less of them so we can bump the price of them up to make up for all the ones we plan to “destroy”…
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I’m saying this here more to hold myself accountable, but I’m not going to buy this variant. Either at release on comicbookEXXXCLUSIVE.com/patreon or aftermarket. The original Filoni Clone Wars cover is cool. However, I don’t think it’s iconic enough to demand that I own this cover. Seeing as I already own Clone Wars 1, I’ll always prefer the original to homage. ASM 300 is also iconic, but all the homages really cheapened that after a while and I could care less about owning the Spider-Gwen 001 homage to it now.
Homages are like Funko Pops. A new one gets announced and you look and say “huh cool.” Then you forget about it a few days later. By the time the Pop comes out and is available as in stock, you look at it and say, “Wow, the novelty really wore off on that for me. Glad I didn’t buy it.”
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Even at the stated “600 plus a read” dosnt add up to Marvels Minimum. I mean seriously, why do other retailers feel the need to be dishonest?
Every publisher has a min order. Some publishers will let you go below that number in print, but not in price. Marvel and DC are NOT that. Its the number stated, no bargaining to have it lowered.
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First up props to @RipCityGamer for referencing Geocities. I did a ton of websites on Geocities back in the day.
Second, first book out of a new store no one has heard of with a crazy price point is not going to sell.
Unless…
You have a built in audience on another platform where you can hype this up and get your readers to buy it.
So, which spec group is this new company attached to?
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It’s very obviously attached to CBSI as they have the XXXClusive news on who carried the variant.
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“So, which spec group is this new company attached to?”
Which ever one pumps it…imo
Then the question begs if this will appear on the Hot 10 lists which they do.
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i think its highly likely site is owned by one of them. there instagram is only commented by them lol
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I think Mile High is still using them… along with using Frontpage 98 to design it… 
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Their site is definitely Angelfire or Tripod based.
I make sure I have a glass of whiskey prior to any attempts to navigate Mile high…I always end up needing it.
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I do wish Milehigh would take a good long look at MyComicShop and copy how they sell online. I doubt the owner (Chuck) wants to spend the money. Funny thing is, if he bit the bullet and hired more staff to go over all their inventory and re-did the store website to bring an easier experience he would make that investment back in no time. He would probably increase his volume more than enough to justify extra staff to handle the product; which he has a massive amount of.
I doubt the business would lose a dime long term and it would probably see a nice increase in his overall profit fairly quickly. It really is a shame. MH could be one of the great online comic stores out there but now it is just one with an archaic game plan that holds itself back.
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The amount of inventory that Mile High has (in stores plus all their storage that no one gets to see) would give me nightmares in trying to find a way to go over it, re-create listings for series/issues, etc.
It would definitely be a fun challenge to try to come up with a better way for them to run things, though!
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Well, they must have some CSV file as they sell on eBay too.
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