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Rhyno posted:Jefferson Point in Fort Wayne if you're ever in town. i will definitely check this out if i end up in fort wayne soon i have family that lives up there and it'd be sick to see a shop owned by a goon i'm from around lafayette btw so i'm pretty drat far away normally)
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I don't own it, I just work here!
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Jan 6, 2017 05:28
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Rhyno posted:I don't own it, I just work here! regardless! still cool stuff. comic book shops are a rarity where i live too. i only know of like, one in lafayette and its a pretty big area
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Jan 6, 2017 06:44
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I've been going to my shop for years, but if another shop opened in my area, I'd consider switching in a heartbeat. My local shop has such a hard time doing basic stuff like filling my pulls, it's getting to the point that I feel lucky if I go in on a Wednesday and they have everything on my list. And if they miss a few books and sell out of the shelf stock before I get there, forget about ordering them, because I bet less than 25% of the stuff I try to order from that place actually comes in.
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Jan 6, 2017 12:16
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Went to a comic shop about three blocks from my house a week ago to see if they had any Star Wars trades. They didn't. Not because they were sold out, but because they hadn't ordered any to coincide with the release of a Star Wars movie. I don't understand why so many comic shops don't want money, but three out of five I visit are just like this.
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Jan 6, 2017 15:02
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Rhyno posted:I don't own it, I just work here! Eliminate the owner. Then it shall be yours.
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Jan 6, 2017 16:03
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I am old enough to remember when you could buy DC and Marvel comics in supermarkets and drug stores, and my mom would rather buy me a comic than a chocolate bar when we went so at first i just got what looked cool, but eventually I'd realize that X-men or Spider-man or Batman were cool and would focus on them. As I grew older i went to one of the two comic stores that were around, one that was run by a douchey guy and the other run by an old guy who was not happy kids would be in the store. So I never enjoyed going to either one. Then a new store opened that was friendly, the owner was friendly and very much encouraged reading more comics. It was great and that store helped cultivate a love of comics that was there, but just needed to be fanned by someone who was actually pleasant to deal with. It's amazing how much an owner can effect how a store feels. It does amaze me how many comic stores are run by shutins who don't want to deal with people. Like why start a retail store?
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twistedmentat posted:I am old enough to remember when you could buy DC and Marvel comics in supermarkets and drug stores, and my mom would rather buy me a comic than a chocolate bar when we went so at first i just got what looked cool, but eventually I'd realize that X-men or Spider-man or Batman were cool and would focus on them. As I grew older i went to one of the two comic stores that were around, one that was run by a douchey guy and the other run by an old guy who was not happy kids would be in the store. So I never enjoyed going to either one. Then a new store opened that was friendly, the owner was friendly and very much encouraged reading more comics. It was great and that store helped cultivate a love of comics that was there, but just needed to be fanned by someone who was actually pleasant to deal with. Yup. I remember that, but it was mainly drug stores that my dad bought my new comics at.
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Jan 6, 2017 20:27
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Yeah not gonna lie many an hour was spent with my rear end parked in the magazine/comic racks of the grocery store reading sonic books while my parents shopped Glad i grew outta that one
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Jan 6, 2017 21:04
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twistedmentat posted:I am old enough to remember when you could buy DC and Marvel comics in supermarkets and drug stores, and my mom would rather buy me a comic than a chocolate bar when we went so at first i just got what looked cool, but eventually I'd realize that X-men or Spider-man or Batman were cool and would focus on them. As I grew older i went to one of the two comic stores that were around, one that was run by a douchey guy and the other run by an old guy who was not happy kids would be in the store. So I never enjoyed going to either one. Then a new store opened that was friendly, the owner was friendly and very much encouraged reading more comics. It was great and that store helped cultivate a love of comics that was there, but just needed to be fanned by someone who was actually pleasant to deal with. Aren't you from toronto? The silver snail has been dope for over 30 years
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Jan 6, 2017 22:30
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I've seen that they sell comics at Walmart now, but they're themed packages. And they're usually up front where the CCG packs and adult aimed toys like Walking Dead and Game of Thrones stuff are.
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Jan 6, 2017 22:36
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Turns out that the new comics shop offers a worse discount than the one I usually go to, and there's very little parking and more crowded traffic, and it's kind of a pain in the rear end to get out of. So I guess it's not really worth switching over unless the one I go to already severely fucks up.
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twistedmentat posted:I am old enough to remember when you could buy DC and Marvel comics in supermarkets and drug stores, and my mom would rather buy me a comic than a chocolate bar when we went so at first i just got what looked cool, but eventually I'd realize that X-men or Spider-man or Batman were cool and would focus on them. As I grew older i went to one of the two comic stores that were around, one that was run by a douchey guy and the other run by an old guy who was not happy kids would be in the store. So I never enjoyed going to either one. Then a new store opened that was friendly, the owner was friendly and very much encouraged reading more comics. It was great and that store helped cultivate a love of comics that was there, but just needed to be fanned by someone who was actually pleasant to deal with. I think some comic stores are started by people with a little bit of capital whose only idea is "if I start a comic book store I can spend all my time reading comics and also make money" without realizing that owning and running a business actually takes work. Also, leases for business space will sometimes be for over a decade so if they're an old store they're probably paying a lot less per month than a new tenant would. That's what kills a lot of niche businesses, the lease expires and depending on how much gentrification has happened in the area the landlord wants between 2-10x as much to lease the same space.
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Jan 7, 2017 08:41
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Yeah my CBS often screws up my order or keeps insisting that I want to read Guardians 3000 or something. And every time I think about pulling the pin I go in there have a positive interaction with the people who work there and end up keeping going. Customer service can't be overstated I feel. To be fair, sometimes they just miss issues. But sometimes it's no their fault, living internationally means being left at the whims of Diamond. Also not reading a tonne of Marvel/DC can exacerbate the problem.
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Jan 7, 2017 08:57
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trashbuilder posted:Aren't you from toronto? The silver snail has been dope for over 30 years I grew up in Halifax, and yea, the Snail's pretty good, also is the Beguiling and others. My LCS is one of the Planet X locations which is good as well. Skwirl posted:I think some comic stores are started by people with a little bit of capital whose only idea is "if I start a comic book store I can spend all my time reading comics and also make money" without realizing that owning and running a business actually takes work. Also, leases for business space will sometimes be for over a decade so if they're an old store they're probably paying a lot less per month than a new tenant would. That's what kills a lot of niche businesses, the lease expires and depending on how much gentrification has happened in the area the landlord wants between 2-10x as much to lease the same space. That's what I figure that the people who started them in the 70s and 80s; "If i start a comic store, I can get my own comics at a discount and read comics all day" not realizing they're going to need to deal with kids, clueless parents, complainy pants adults and others.
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Jan 7, 2017 12:36
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Sorry about the shop, Rhyno. How did you keep your cool behind the counter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsUEZ1NG7YU&t=15s
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Jan 7, 2017 20:04
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Working in a comic shop requires a higher level of emotional calm.
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Rhyno posted:Working in a comic shop requires a higher level of emotional calm. My brief time working at my LCS, it took a lot patients to deal with pokemon kids, bronies and adults that literally smell like they pooped themselves.
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Jan 7, 2017 23:37
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twistedmentat posted:My brief time working at my LCS, it took a lot patients to deal with pokemon kids, bronies and adults that literally smell like they pooped themselves. I had a mentally handicapped dude poo poo himself and it splattered on the floor once. He was being brought to the mall by his agency caregiver and left to his own devices for 6 hours at a time.
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Rhyno posted:I had a mentally handicapped dude poo poo himself and it splattered on the floor once. He was being brought to the mall by his agency caregiver and left to his own devices for 6 hours at a time. Oh when I worked for Games Workshop in the mall I had to deal with the daycare kids. Yep, drop you kid off and go shopping, because we don't have anything better to do than entertain your child. Lucky we were real good with the mall security (as most of them actually played) and when this happened, we'd inform the parent that we are not a baby sitting service so any child abandoned in the store would be reported as loitering after a half hour and would be turned over to the mall security and they'd be called to the security office. This was an effective deterrent.
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https://twitter.com/Packrat_Comics/status/818961318694809600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Is this as big an issue at your shop?
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It used to be but now I'm a raging rear end in a top hat about delinquent pulls. poo poo I just canceled a former part timers pull list because I realized she hadn't actually been buying her subs, she was just getting one book off the stand when she was in.
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Jan 11, 2017 08:14
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Jan 11, 2017 08:18
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The worst I have ever let a pull list go was 75 single comics. Hell I give weekly regulars crap if they don't clean out their entire file each visit.
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Jan 11, 2017 08:22
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Why would you keep pulling books for 3 months? This seems like a very questionable business practice.
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Jordan7hm posted:Why would you keep pulling books for 3 months? I'm sure that's from a bunch of people and the timeframe is just arbitrary. e: Or it's how many months worth of unpickedup comics it took to get over four digits. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Jan 11, 2017 |
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Jan 11, 2017 10:36
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Oh, yeah rereading it that way makes a bit more sense. In which case, uhh if 1500$ of saleable merchandise (which is committed to somebody and doesn't take up all that much space) is a significant threat to your business, your business is fuuuucked.
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What with the holidays and everything I haven't been to my LCS in weeks and you all got me feeling bad about myself/nervous as heck.
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Jan 11, 2017 20:56
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I recently went about a month without picking stuff up from my list because of unemployment/depression, but pretty much all the series I was following had ended so there were only like six books there when I finally went back. They didn't seem to mind, but now I feel bad about not saying anything 
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Jan 11, 2017 22:26
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You guys are jerks and you should feel bad!
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I'm pulling 53 comics and go in every week and buy everything, and maybe a few more off the shelf.
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Jan 12, 2017 00:29
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Roth posted:I'm pulling 53 comics and go in every week and buy everything, and maybe a few more off the shelf. You should feel good.
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I'm thinking of cancelling everything
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I went from 10 comics a week to now about 5 due to series i was following finishing and nothing has peaked my interest to replace it. I used to go in every week now i go about once every other or every 3 weeks. Am I ruining their business? Also $1500 of un picked up comics seems p good if you have a lot of pulls it looks about 1-2 comics per pull for a month. (if the shop is big or busy) or am i missing something and that was just that week?
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Do they know you only come in every few weeks? If it's consistent or you've told them they probably don't mind.
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My guys kinda know I come in sporadically so it's cool. I even asked him once and he said it's no bother. Plus, I pretty much always buy stuff off the rack as well as my pull and occasionally bring my kids who pick out comics too.so no one is really getting hurt here.
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If you can't make it in at least once a month the shop should have your credit card on file, you should have a mail order set up or you shouldn't have a pull list.
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Rhyno posted:If you can't make it in at least once a month the shop should have your credit card on file, you should have a mail order set up or you shouldn't have a pull list. This is how mine works. I'm a decent distance from my comic shop but I continue to go there instead of closer ones because they're rad. They know I come in once a month, I don't have a ton of books so it's not a lot of storage. The few times I've lapsed for more than a month they just run my card.
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The mall housing one of the country's largest comic shops, right here in Orlando, is closing in two weeks. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/consumer/os-artegon-marketplace-closing-20170112-story.html The shop, Gods & Monsters, only opened in 2014. They invested a LOT of money in making the place look awesome, bringing in theme park people for design and construction, and it took them a really long time to finally get the place open. They even have a BAR, a video arcade, an art gallery, and of course a whole huge gaming area. http://www.godmonsters.com/ I feel terrible for them, but the mall has always been doomed. It's on the edge of Orlando's touristy area, but just out of the way enough that it never got the kinds of customers needed to keep it afloat. Locals avoid that part of town whenever possible, and tourists (typically Brazilian tourists in that area) probably didn't provide any repeat business to the shop. There is a nice movie theater, a few anchor stores like Bass Pro Shops, and one of the only remaining Fuddruckers (although it has really gone downhill in recent years). But the mall was almost always empty, and they tried rebranding it a few years ago with small booths and kiosks for local artists and craftspeople -- kind of like a real-world version of Etsy. Needless to say, that didn't work either. The location killed it, and so did the demise of big indoor shopping malls in general. We're lucky to have a lot of incredible comic shops in this town: the Coliseum of Comics chain, Acme Superstore, A Comic Shop. I live and/or work near a few of those, but I just don't buy stuff often enough to become a regular at any of them, so I usually just hit them up for sales, or the rare times something I really want comes out. And even with all the friendly competition, if Gods & Monsters opened almost anywhere else, it could have been a local phenomenon. Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Jan 13, 2017 |
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