HugeRosen

I guess if you snooze you lose. Kind of irritating I missed out on this Bedlam Phantom Variant by oversleeping an extra 15 minutes... Sigh... FML

You won't have trouble finding one. Third eye will put more up I'm sure.

Just made the rounds calling the stores. Most are keeping them for their customers, wont know till later in the week, or aren't open yet! Im optimistic still though! I will find one that isn't $20 each.

 

Third eye eBay store has them for $15 free shipping look at the link Rosen posted above, there's like 5 left. Just pull the trigger, Tates ain't getting these things.

I'll buy 1 for my own collection. These are not for flipping. There's going to be 2000 of these at least and if they keep adding new retailers as they produce more variants, the print run will be even higher on future 'phantom' variants. If you are lucky enough to live close to one of the retailers, maybe you will get it cheaper. Otherwise you are stuck ordering from the ones that have eBay or online stores at whatever they choose to charge.

third eye must be sold out too on ebay. dont see any other than 2 auctions

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bedlam-1-Phantom-Variant-/181008323581?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item2a24efd3fd

So everywhere is sold out already? I see none available on any of the retailers right now.

It appears Bedlam #1 is finally out of stock at Diamond.

 

Midtown cut their max order to 2 per customer.

Has your shipping fee come out yet mate?

It shows a shipping fee but haven't charged me yet.

I pre-ordered too. Not showing as shipped yet.

Loved Issue 4!

+1

im thinking of picking up three copies of issue #1 next week

Not 10?

I really have no dog in the fight as I didn't buy any. Facts are though, Image advertised 500 print run. NOT 500 available at the convention. I agree its kind of silly to bring up a lawsuit as well.

 

Using stock isn't a very good analogy. A reasonable person would assume when a print run is announced, its not subject to be changed last second. Unlike stock which a reasonable person knows is much more variable.

 

All the advertisements from Image I saw said 'limited to 500'. it didn't mention print run is 500 anywhere. Unless you saw something different from me. limited to 500 could mean 500 sold at nycc or 500 printed. everyone assumed printed.

 

 

As a customer, wouldn't you think of that as them insulting your intelligence?

Absolutely. I'm upset about it and think it's crappy for them to do that and I was like everyone else assuming that it's 500. But people start bringing up fraud and lawsuits, which is

I really have no dog in the fight as I didn't buy any. Facts are though, Image advertised 500 print run. NOT 500 available at the convention. I agree its kind of silly to bring up a lawsuit as well.

 

Using stock isn't a very good analogy. A reasonable person would assume when a print run is announced, its not subject to be changed last second. Unlike stock which a reasonable person knows is much more variable.

All the advertisements from Image I saw said 'limited to 500'. it didn't mention print run is 500 anywhere. Unless you saw something different from me. limited to 500 could mean 500 sold at nycc or 500 printed. everyone assumed printed.

EDIT: I did buy 3 of them so I'd prefer the 500 print run.

I practice English law, not US, but the idea that Image or any other publisher owes a legal or equitable duty of care to the consumer with respect to how many copies of a comic they print, or the price on the secondary market, is frankly a bit ridiculous.

 

In any case, people bought them at the con for what, $5? And they're probably still worth that now, even with the loads of other copies being printed. So where's the loss? Under English law, lost profits/lost opportunities are only relevant in certain limited situations - and this wouldn't be one of them.

 

 

Fraud is still fraud. Not only is it bad PR but they open themselves up to the posibility of a lawsuit from an upset customer.

 

Those of us who spent our valuable time at the Image booth to get the exclusive for $5 could have gone to other booths for potentially more lucrative exclusives.

 

The damage on this one seems minimal so far but it does set a bad precedent.

This argument makes no sense. If you buy facebook stock at $20 and it goes to $15 per share, you can't sue facebook because you lost money. And you can't say, "well I could've bought shares of apple and that went up in value". That's not an argument.

And before someone says 'well, they only printed 500 initially and then decided to print more'. Companies can issue new shares of stock if they want too.

There has to be something fraudulent about what they did. They said there would be 500 available at NYCC. From all accounts, they only sold 500 at NYCC. Nowhere does it say they won't print more.

I'm more pissed off they changed the WD 103 variant from 1000 copies to order whatever the *spoon* you want. That's a real kick in the balls. 500 or 1000 isn't that big of a deal to me. But yes, the bickering is annoying.

It's 500.

Or it's 1,000.

Or it's 763.

It's at least 500, but no more than 1000. I think everyone can agree on that?

Moderns from 7/2 (Florida SuperCon subs) are not shown as scheduled for grading

Not shown or now shown? Your smiley face leads me to believe you mean they are scheduled for grading. Which means I may actually get my books back before christmas. yay!

Has anyone seen this listing? Thoughts???

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Walking-Dead-11-1st-Print-CGC-9-8-NM-M-White-Pages-Adlard-and-Rathburn-Art-/150925590190?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item2323ddbeae

The chick from this listing joined the message boards:

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6084031#Post6084031

While I liked the issue, didn't they say this was a 'jumping on' issue for people who haven't read the comic or is it the next one? Because if I had just jumped on with this issue, I'd have no idea what was happening.

You say 500 and another boardie said he saw the boxes and there were 1000 copies ... would you please share with us your source?

 

I think it was HugeRosen...

 

 

 

According to a very reliable source (me) who has over 5 months of comic book experience and exactly 0 contacts in the industry have decided the print run to be 643 issues. You're welcome.

Sorry.

Please proceed with arguments while I enjoy my

I don't have an opinion but just based on Darrell's avatar logo, i'm going to disagree with him

If you really want to hurt me you can just quote me and say NC State and I will go cry in the corner again.

I didn't want to be too mean. Should be a good game on 11/24 though.

No, I messaged him about it and then just decided to cancel it. No use dealing with it or him so I offered it to the 2nd highest bidder.

 

Did the 2nd highest bidder agree to purchase it?

Not yet but I would rather relist it at this point if the 2nd highest does not want to buy it. Like I said, I never actually asked for him to go on the list since I didn't even think it was possible for an eBay transaction. I was venting last night so let it sit here and serve as a warning for people dealing with him in the future.

I don't have an opinion but just based on Darrell's avatar logo, i'm going to disagree with him

with all the NYCC fast tracks, i'm assuming they will still be on June 25th for the next 2 weeks.

Has anyone seen this listing? Thoughts???

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Walking-Dead-11-1st-Print-CGC-9-8-NM-M-White-Pages-Adlard-and-Rathburn-Art-/150925590190?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item2323ddbeae

I just want to know why shipping is $25

Is there a particular reason that they're making second printings now?

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