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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > BSS: Bisexual Super Son > Building a Better Comic Shop - The Retail Thread!
 
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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Rhyno posted:

Currently Marvel outsells DC. Our DC sales are composed of 70% Batman books.

Talk about reflecting the market!

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Heathen posted:

The place I shop at has a really nice old man running it. He's been there for 30+ years and has a pretty good group of regular customers. He is also friends with a good number of other local and not so local shop owners. I read a fair amount of new books, but I love collecting the old stuff. The sheer number of Golden and Silver Age books he can get a hold of is astounding.

One of the nice things he does is that he'll let you put stuff aside for a long time until you get it paid off. The bad part is that he'll hold on to stuff for a really, really long time. He likes to joke that if everyone would come in and pay off what they owe him he could retire tomorrow. He puts a post-it on the back of the bag saying who wants it, when he put it away and how much they owe. After a year he takes the post-it off and gives his regulars first dibs. He could resell them for full price, but instead you pay off what's left and they're yours. I picked these up for a total of $320.



Thank you random dude who stopped paying for his comics.

Isn't that ASM worth thousands?

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Teenage Fansub posted:

He's just on the Geoff Johns diet.

He wasn't eating bullshit.

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
 I am mildly disappointed you weren't let go for giving a perv/creep a cradle piledriver

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
 Our local shop have funkos but they make up a small portion, dunno if it's just prescience on the owner's part or they just aren't that popular.

Our EB games otoh, is like 50% those things.

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