Haha…right on!
I’m super excited! I don’t buy a ton of copies of each…but I tried to get at least one of each cover & variant (I don’t care about store exclusives though).
Really looking to new adventures and characters from a time we’ve only heard very little of.
Fun time to be a SW fan!
And I won’t have to go too far to get it… my pre-orders (and I told you people to pre-order 2-3 months ago) from TFAW will arrive as I buy from reputable retailers who fulfill pre-orders without normally cancelling on people due to “hotness”… sorry, couldn’t resist. 
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Honestly I miss going to News stands or being able to buy your comics at the pharmacy or or Wal-Mart. Funny cause no one in my area pays attention to the comics at the Wal-Mart so its always easy pickings.
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Since everyone’s talking about it I’m going to chime in. I’m back and forth on comics raising prices on day of release. On one hand it sucks for readers because if they don’t have a pull list or have preordered a book they’ve gotta pay a higher price. I don’t feel to bad for speculators who’d go in and buy all the copies or multiples at cover or less and turn around and sell for multiples of what they just paid. I’d rather see the shops get that money and keep their doors open. I think a combination of limits on hot books unless they want to pay the marked up price on the other copies they want. Idk but I’d much rather a shop see the profit off hit books rather than someone who’s speculating.
Can we get a drug themed High Republic? You know follow death stick manufacturing, transport and sales? The seedier side of the galaxy if you will.
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For sure - this is where the “1 copy per customer” comes into play if it’s a book selling for a ridiculous markup on the release date… your idea of one copy at cover and any additional copies at markup isn’t bad at all actually.
As for High Republic, def looking forward to the read but also wondering if I should get the novels and if so, what the reading order is. I assume google has these answers by now.
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The “High” Republic.
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Anything Star Wars for me is Speculation. I enjoyed the movies as a kid growing up but there’s just to much to keep track of. I haven’t seen any of the new movies except Rogue One which I enjoyed. Since I’m not heavy into SW it makes selling them much easier.
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Exactly!!
The only problem with that is potential logistic issues. Two different prices + rules means you’re basically tracking two separate inventories. And what do you do if you have allocations from Diamond, or damages/shortages? Even if the spec person who bought 100 copies bought them all before 100 people bought 1 each, if you fill those orders first people are going to get rowdy on social media about the shop catering to the higher spender vs the longtime customers.
As someone on the retailer side, the issue of pricing “hot issues” like High Republic is something that is discussed a lot. People are pretty familiar at this point with the fact we (TFAW) don’t change prices based on hype/spec. It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation. More and more stores are in that practice now, so I don’t think there would be as much backlash if we did raise prices a few dollars or removed discounts on some hotter books. But at the same time, I view those things being cheaper at our site and something people know about as a form of marketing that brings people to the site who end up getting other things. And like poyo has said, there’s something to be said as a retailer about being able to regularly sell through inventory and not have a ton of stuff sitting.
At the end of the day, some stores are going to limit quantities per customer, some are going to raise prices, some are going to do both, and some are going to do neither, and we’ll just have to see long term which method(s) seem to be the healthiest.
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I’ve started to focus more on content over collection.
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@drunkwooky I’m leaning the same way. Even when it comes to these varied “spec” books. At the end of the day, I come home with a stack of these books (back issues, not new issues) that are popular, but I don’t sell them anyway (I’m only selling graded, higher ROI type stuff at this point for my trip)…it looks and sort of feels great at the time “Look what I got!”,…but they just go in a box with the other keys and firsts and do nothing for me.
I’m starting to feel better about taking those same dollars and buying less books, but higher (in my eyes) quality items.
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@RipCityGamer That’s what brought me to you guys… cheaper ratio variants exclusives and such. If I order early enough I catch the same discount %30 so it works out.
Quality over quantity. I’ve been there. I’ll be there again.
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That’s where I’m heading myself. I plan on focusing on the silver/bronze keys of my favorite characters, maybe a few of the modern keys for some, everything else will eventually go.
I disagree, there are plenty of console collectors out there I used to be one
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I am a console accumulator, does that count? XD We just recently ‘inherited’ (i.e. not though death but downsizing before a move) an original NES, with power pad, PS1, and original Game Boy.
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Oh, I know a crap ton of console collectors.
So according to Bleeding Cool, HR 1 topped 100,000 copies and Marvel was happy with that. And that is with three covers, each in the 30K-40K per cover print run. My, have the standards fallen. I initially thought 25% of the 2015 print run would be reasonable so 200k - 250k. Then after discussions with LCS owners I thought 150K-200K since they did not order big. Now just scraping by 100K copies in total and Marvel being happy? Wow.
The number does correspond to the number of cases that were shipped. For cover A, I am hearing from LCSs that the label says 198 cases, which at 180 books per case = 36,540.
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100k seems rather small for such a hyped book. Maybe that’s just me though
I mean, honestly this book was not marketed alot until about 2 weeks before release, well after the FOC deadline. So I can see it.
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