thank you. you worked there before right? any idea why there doing this?
No idea for sure since I havenât worked there in like 4-5 years. But I would imagine, like any business closing, it just has to do with profit not being high enough. Profit was always tough to get with the discounts, margins, and hours needed to fulfill comic orders. That was a big part of why when I was there I was trying to do new things that they hadnât done before (exclusives, creating new merch, etc.).
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Their physical stores will stay open, so Iâm not sure that they need the fire sale. Theyâre just stopping online orders.
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The physical stores might want to take anything new. But theyâre largely operated independently in terms of inventory. The stores are almost always full to the brim of inventory, and most of whatâs in the warehouse is older and stuff that wouldnât even sell online with all the discounts that ramp up as items stay in stock (up to I think 30-40%?).
I would imagine thereâs VERY little in the online warehouse the stores will want to pull. The one exception possibly being TFAW exclusives that are being shipped in (and already paid for) that Universal might want for tourists.
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Well, I canât say Iâm surprisedâŠ
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I still have a Last Boy Adam Hughes and 2 Tula Lotay Penthouse books they still need to ship.
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I am looking forward to working with the new shop going forward. Sure they would kill to get their customer email list.
But I think Tfaw couldnât handle the mail order portion any more. They grew huge in volume and had to keep getting more and more warehouse space. They had to hire on more staff. We were sending tons of customers there each month.
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Yeah we were at one point, until they failed to meet the demands⊠one would think in that situation, your business is growing so fast, hire more people to keep growing but they decided to go a different route and now look at them? They could have taken on the likes of Midtown or the other bigger ones if they took advantage of the traffic during the boom⊠oh wellâŠ
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Oh and FYI, I still had one pending pre-order from 3 years ago and it let me delete on my own.
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âOh and FYI, I still had one pending pre-order from 3 years ago and it let me delete on my own.â
I was able to do the sameâŠfelt liberating!!!
Not to pile on but when I was first ordering online before I became a retailer I was a big TFAW fan. However I ran into shipping issues, ordering issues and worst of all poor customer service. It would take days for someone to get back to me. I then moved on to MCS and got a better discount, free bag n board, cheaper shipping and responses from customer service within hours.
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I guess I wonât be getting my Ascencia 29âs
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Iâm not sure any of us are going to see that issue. I first pre-ordered back in October 2024⊠and with the Diamond stuff going on who knowsâŠ
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Same
Glad I went the route of abandoning them a few mo the ago for good. I had a couple books still waiting processing, but otherwise had moved on now that MCS can keep up.
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Preordered Ascencia 29 at MCS⊠
Midtown will have it, MCS might have a few copies leftâŠlol
Wonder what the inventory was from a couple of weeks ago. Thatâs why they skipped a week shipping.
They have to run inventory usually at least once a year for accounting. I wouldnât be shocked if that was just a regular planned inventory and people doing the day to day work had no idea this was coming yet.
For clarity - does this mean any book with an on-sale date past 4/9 they wont be shipping AND they are likely not to ship any backorder?
Where should I go for preorders! Help!!! I have things set all the way through the fall with these guys!
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