Were you that important to the office or did they not want to pay unemployment for firing you?
Or, to use a Magic joke, entwine?
They won’t put their hands up and surrender.
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I was semi-important but everyone is replaceable… but the management I’d say was just that incompetent.
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I see Gleason posted about this ‘scandal’ on his IG - saying that the walmart copies of his exclusive variant are ‘rejects’ and that the one’s sold from his store come with the COA and so that will separate the ‘real’ from the ‘whatever you want to call it’ …
Here’s the thing though… I pre ordered a slabbed book from his store… 2nd print ASM 55.
I have the slab in hand right now - I don’t believe it came with a COA.
I could be mistaken but I don’t remember ever seeing a COA with this and have yet to find it… hmm…
** maybe I just lost the COA. Product page for the slab I got is still up and it shows a COA on there. NVM.
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On my Walmart trip, I did find two packs with the Star Wars High Republic 3 Walmart variant. Because CHU has been very helpful to me, I am willing to sell it to anyone who wants it. The pack is unopened. I cant vouch for the condition but I can describe or send pics if you need. I will ship it Priority Mail within the US only, between two pieces of stiff cardboard, in a Padded flat rate bubble mailer. I can mail it another way, if you prefer at your cost. Never sold within Paypal, but have done using Ebay. Would like to send this using tracking, so I put in the Priority Mail cost. The cost will be (the price of the pack + tax) $9.81 + $ 8.55 postage + 4% Paypal fee to cover my receiving charge - Total ~ $19.10.
Not trying to profit from this and I am doing this for the first time, so correct me if theres a better or safer way to do this. Any suggestions, please let me know; I would like this to be a simple, pleasant transaction. Please DM me if you are interested. Thanks !
Don’t do this. All the Walmart books in my area are now gone because people did this. Just pay for it.
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Seriously.
If you gotta do something like this (peel back the wrap without paying for the damn books) then you have bigger problems in life and should probably focus on those instead of flipping comic books. We’re talking about $10 here. $10!!!
No respect for this trash behavior. Sad.
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“Sorry, when I had it slabbed CGC did not return the COA.”
Problem solved!
COA’s are sometimes fancy, but aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. Still the same books coming off the press.
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Watching to see how far this bo will fall…not sure it’ll seek for $162….especially in VF/NM.
ASM 55 went from $80 about a month ago to $25.
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I occasionally buy a high ratio variant. I would be super-upset if any of those ‘rarities’ show up in a $10 pack at Walmart!
It’s quite an extraordinary situation for both comic retailers and customers who paid full whack. I wonder how Marvel are going to explain this?
Marvel doesn’t set the ratio premium prices though, that’s retailers. It’s not on Marvel’s hands but Diamonds or whoever is dumping the extras.
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Also, this likely proves one thing though, when Marvel sends orders to the printers, they’re likely doing a minimum number that makes it worthwhile. Imagine a book that has a 1:100 or 1:500 that only ends up having enough orders for say 100 copies of the 1:500 cause most stores just won’t order 500 copies of a title, only the heavy hitters.
We all know you get bigger discount on quantity ordered. So if Marvel only had 100 copies they needed to fulfill to retailers who qualified for the 1:500 ratio but it costs them more for such a lower number to get printed, we all know they’re likely putting in an order that saves them money by just printing more to accommodate damages at distribution level and so on.
Just like when I ordered CHU swag, getting 10 pint glasses made was expensive when broken down to price per pint glass but when I bumped it to 75 or so, the pint glasses became dirt cheap cause I was ordering in higher quantities.
Makes one ponder how many of those high ratio variants are printed up and either sit in boxes somewhere or handed out later on or sold in Wally World value packs… This is why print runs will always be guesstimates. Take them all with a very small amount of grain of salt.
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I seen someone state on a stores page that if a total order for an exclusive is 4k/5k add on 10% that Diamond produces for damages that they keep. So I’m assuming were seeing the 10% dump. 
Printers always print overages. It’s not like your printer at home where you want 10, you print 10. I’d guess print shops always do X% over to cover printing errors, ink issues, miscuts, etc. They then end up with a small stack of extras.
I’d much rather have these extras thrown in Walmart packs than tossed in the recycling bin. But, since so many people screamed about this, I’d guess we’ll be back to the trash B covers they couldn’t sell.
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I would as well and that’s one of the many reasons I don’t spend a lot of money on ratio variants. Most of the time, if I can’t get it at cover price, I just don’t even bother.
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Went to another Walmart and they wouldn’t let me look at then unless I paid for them. I couldn’t even step to the side 2 feet away and flip through the box or pull them out to check out the spine.
I get it, but at the same time why cant I take two steps to the left and not hold up the line?
No thanks! Someone else can deal with that. I’m out!!
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Some sellers on Whatnot are offering these up for sale now. Essentially a bit of blind bag purchase. You can buy one for $30 and they open it up live on the program/you get whatever it is. Just one I saw, others doing it as well for varied amounts.
So now comics are joining the sportscard breaking industry? Now I’ve seen everything!
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You talking about 9thWonder. Hes doing it this Thursday.