You must be in the comic book mafia… Monopoly jackson I agree with you on everything… You are awesome.
No evidence pre FOC talk impacts anything. And even if it did have an impact, it’s likely minimal and spec site like this help with providing free information on so much more…
So, IMO, the benefits of sites like this far outweigh any cons (if there are any…which I don’t think there are as long as it’s not pump & dump).
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So much flexing in this thread I think I need to go to the gym now.
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That is not even half of what they ordered…
Like I said earlier, the smart stores are fine with selling to the spec crowd at a discount as it benefits them.
I am skeptical of all this. I don’t know wholesale. Maybe $1.50? So let’s say the retailer makes $500 profit. But they give up 40 x $70 in incentive variants? That is a naive seller IMO. Not to mention about 100 x $20 in the 1:10 variant.
But good job if you get a deal like this.
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So again, you repeatedly talk about how “low” you think the print run is, but you present evidence that retailers did order heavy…
You are a hypocrite and are trying to pass along misinformation to better your investment.
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Fair enough
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I’m fine with brick and mortar shops profiting just like everyone else on hot new releases. I’ve made up my mind on the subject.
So the people with the biggest overhead should profit the least is what I’m hearing from some on here? They should be satisfied making a buck when everyone else is selling it for $30? Seems pretty stupid to settle for a buck an issue when they could get much more.
I also believe a lot of shops make their money on back issues so raising prices on new releases isn’t necessary.
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Monopoly Jackson, I agree with you, there is no way that guy made a ton of money off of all those 1:25 and 1:10’s because the 1:10’s are just selling for $15 and there is no way they ordered over 40 X 25 cover A’/are a retailer because the picture of their comics were on a carpet. So they are a regular customer so they paid the regular price of around $60/copy of the Sway.
The market will determine what happens with any particular business, including comic shops. If you don’t give good customer service, the customer leaves. If you don’t give the customer what they paid for, they leave. If you charge too high of prices, and the market has other options, the customer will go elsewhere.
There are instances where a brand or fad keeps people coming back, but those eventually fade if the three things above happen regularly. One person or group of persons don’t drive a market, its all supply and demand…regardless of what anyone thinks.
In this case, there IS a demand, and anyone can take advantage of it, but after the dust settles, which customers are happy and which customers choose to go to a different comic shop for their collectibles in the future?
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Exactly. There’s nothing wrong about jacking up prices, but you will lose customers.
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I’m not saying that at all myself. All the books that don’t “heat” up are all being sold at cover. It’s what you accept when you are buying wholesale product for $2 that has a cover price of $4 or so.
Imagine if the publishers or Diamond saw the pre-order numbers increase over a few days or weeks, then they started to raise the prices on retailers? Fair, by your logic it is? I’m sure the retailers would be the first to cry foul if found themselves in the same situation.
Imagine walking into Barnes and Nobles cause there’s a new novel out you want to read. Now imagine the sleeve inside cover has $24.99 as it’s price so you grab it, walk up to the counter to pay and they ring it up and tell you, that’ll be $89.99. You reply with, but, the sleeve says it’s $24.99. They reply with, “well, you see, it’s going for $89.99 on eBay so that’s how much that book is now”… but you reply with… “but it just came out today”.
Fair right? You’re gonna pay them $89.99 right? When every person claims what retailers are doing is perfectly fine, you have to agree across the board in all markets that it’s fine for retailers to just “raise” the price on you because it’s selling for more elsewhere or not… What’s stopping anyone from price gouging?
I don’t know, I can’t see the logic in any retailer who buys wholesale products that come with a cover price sell at jacked up secondary prices when they were almost guaranteed a copy when they ordered it while consumers are not guaranteed a copy since they don’t hold a wholesale account.
I’m done with this debate though… it’s tiresome. Buy at secondary prices if you want on release day… I’ll shop at retailers who respect their customers who aren’t trying gouge prices for their own gain.
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All I’m saying is if all of us can profit off of hot new releases the shops can as well. Is it a sound business decision? Idk. It seems like there’s a few big shops that do this and they’re still going strong. Shops can do what they feel necessary as far as pricing. They can impose limits but what’s stopping your friend or spouse from picking up additional copies for you? You’ve said to wait a week before they raise up prices but by then they’ll all be sold out or the hype has died down.
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They should be trying to sell volume to cover the higher overhead, where a speculator can hold. That’s really what I’m saying. It just bad business, not necessarily wrong.
No High Republic for me. My LCS only got 10 copies in. I ordered 3. 1 of each cover. Hopefully eBay prices drop so I can get a copy. Unless someone here wants to hook me up with one?
But we’re not buying at 50% off cover and we have zero gaurantees to actually securing a copy (unless we pre-order through a retailer) and even then, with the amount of cancellations going on around the interwebs, that’s not even a guarantee.
I’ve also said I’m fine if a shop owner holds back a copy or two he has extra of to sell later at secondary prices.
As for my spouse walking in or taking my friends with me, well, I consider myself a pretty ethical and honest person and if a shop limits to 1, 2 or 3 copies, I only buy 3. Just today, there was a stack of HR on the shelves at my shop. They limit to 3 per on new releases. I could have easily taken my kids with me to buy 9 total copies but that’s wrong to me. I want others to get a chance as well.
Sometimes I’ve walked into my shop to find hot books still available for sale. Sometimes a week later, sometimes 3 weeks later. Sometimes months later. Just today I saw my shop still had Darth Vader #2 available, which is selling for around $15… I just left them be…
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I have long boxes of bad spec books where as my great sales are far fewer…
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You can have one of my copies… 
Nice… Thank you