Thank you!
Good job. Def didnt catch that part. Crazy to even say that because most collectors order multiple copies so are we all flippers then? Well thatâs done good job providing the part
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Crazy that he would say that and offer 10 packs of all âhotâ books 
Itâs like heâs biting the hand that feeds him lol
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I ordered on FOC (7/27) so I should have had no issues.
Shouldnât but if you ordered from the wrong pre-order link, since they had duplicates themselves. Same type of scenario with Unknown. TFAW had a hiccup, probably placed FOC based on the valid pre-order link but not the other, now theyâre all in limbo.
Yeah, like I mentioned. Unknown should have just stopped after the 5 minute mark. Acknowledge your own mistake in your own duplicate listing and auditing, tell people youâre going to fix, say your sorry since you canât fulfill the orders and be done⊠by him going on for another hour and a half, he just opened more cans of worms for his own words to come back to bite himâŠ
I still think it was a mistake but yeah, gotta learn to shut up and move on or your damage control is now tainted by the flip flopping of the words coming out of your mouth.
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I bet the unknown thing is my fault. I got 24 copies of legends via their duplicate listing that was up 5 days before release. 24 copies for $100 shipped 
Well really itâs CHUâs fault because I would never have known about it if not for the members here 
Now you sound like my wife⊠everything is my fault. Everything⊠she can stub her toe at work 20 miles away and itâs my faultâŠ
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Right? Idk I think Poyo said it best the longer he talked the more dumb shit he said. I like when some business are faceless. I dont wanna hear u speak most times.
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And pick up some milk on your way home!! 
I told you all he cancelled months of my unfulfilled orders because I called him out on his shipping policy stated on his website he wasnât adhering to with my orders for regular covers being months after release with no shipping information updated.
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If you watched the video, he stated that 2018 was awful year for Unknown and actually owned up to their mishaps for such huge shipping delays and such. I gotta give the guy credit for owning up to that.
We all hate on shipping times but Iâm ready to kill my family after packing 11 orders itâs so time consuming and mundaneđ”
Oh I hate packing up books⊠thatâs the worst part about selling. The other worst part about it is, my only real space is out in my garage where thereâs no AC and itâs like 100 degrees with 1,000,000,000% humidity⊠during the summer months.
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I love the fact that I can make my hobby pay for itself but I could not agree more about all the packing, itâs very time consuming and aggravating. And I donât even sell that much stuff, just enough to support my habit and maybe make a few bucks here and there
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I can only imagine these stores that pump out 5 exclusives a week on top of regular and incentive cover online sales. But they know the beast they are unleashing and even with employees quitting pandemics and what not the most important thing is to get your product in customer hands in a timely matter if not youâre just a Comicxsposure clone.
You find some teenagers who are willing to work for minimum wage do your packing. You do the sorting when comics come in, make sure all the orders can be packed and shipped, print up all the orders, have someone pull to group, hand off to packer⊠assembly line work⊠if youâre doing 560 orders a week and lets say on average an order takes 5 minutes to pull and pack, thatâs what⊠12 orders per hour for 1 person⊠thatâs what, 46 hours total time for just pulling and packing books to ship off⊠so if your employees pull 8 hour shift, it would take one person almost 6 days if they average 5 minutes per order x 8 hour shift.
Add another employee to help out, cuts that 6 days to 3 days. Get someone else to help out, only cuts it down even more. But if youâre doing 560 orders per week (Iâm going by what Unknown said theyâre averaging or were averaging) and letâs just say for giggles, each order averages 5 books per order and for rounding estimates, most of the books theyâre buying for 50% off as retailer, theyâre making $2.50 per package. So if youâre paying someone minimum wage, which is what, still $7.25, if theyâre consistent in doing an order per every 5 minutes, after 15 minutes of work, the remaining 45 minutes is profit at that point. Say you pay your employee a little better, maybe $10 an hour, after 20 minutes and or 4 packages packed to ship, itâs profit from that point on (after the cost of the books of courseâŠ
And we all know with Gemini mailers, packing comics can be cut down. That 5 minutes is the sort and pull time estimated as well per order. If it takes you longer to look at order and go find the comics, thatâs on you. I would imagine if youâre doing comics and high volume, when books arrive, the first thing you want to do is sort all the books into groups so itâs just a matter of going to grab from box, etc.
IDK know⊠I like playing the numbers⊠these are mostly guesstimates but I do know one thing, if I was a teenager, Iâd rather pack and ship comics for minimum wage or $10 an hour than go flip burgers⊠so help canât be that hard to find.
I would love to work in a Comic shop I know the comic side and a lot of the gaming side. I could run Magic tournaments and know just about every key comic from looking at the cover alone. No options here for a Comic shop job, the one comic shop we have isnât much of a shop anymore but a corner in a used record store. I wouldnât open my own shop in fear of selling my collection to keep the doors open.
I wouldnât want to run a comic shop. Maybe if I amassed a huge collection and wanted to sit in my shop all day reading comics, slowly selling off my collection (hiring the teenagers to to all the grunt work)âŠ
I make plenty of money in the tech industry⊠comic books are hobby money. If I can buy some extra books to sell to buy more books and or save up for vacations, thatâs why I flip. I originally came to CHU to just find good books to read. I figured if they were hot, that means the story was likely good⊠boy did that turn out to be wrong in some cases. Even in the past 7 years of being on CHU, what was once a hot book based on the story and such is now just books being hot and speculated due to the âpotential first appearance in itâ and people going crazy for a character thatâs barely shown up in the issues or story yet (hrmm⊠cough cough⊠Punchline)âŠ