Maybe. But if I just showed up, I wouldn't have gotten the $15 deal. Plus, wasting gas money is worse. If ur gonna flip books, u can't waste money driving to shops that don't have books u can flip.
I don't even want my shop owners knowing what I am buying out of the dollar box, I have an employee ring me up whenever possible and try to disguise purchases of multiples out of there if they are something I hope to flip. I don't want the owner seeing what I am buying and deciding maybe he can squeeze more out.
Yeah thats the bad thing when dealers know you have a knack for picking up the books that turn hot. They want to see what you're buying and then you get the same dumb remark.."so how much are these going for on Ebay". It's hard for me to go in any shop in this area and buy anything...even if it's a book I need for one of my customers...I get that look...like they think I am trying to pull one over on 'em. I was in a guys shop last week going through his .50 blowout boxes...the owner wasn't there...I picked up 3 same copies of one book..and 2 same copies of another book...and the guy says "I can only sell you 1 of each of these." Out of a .50 blowout box!! I can understand the new comics,but damn...you're discounting these to try and get rid of them.