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Toe Knee

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    Thought this was worth posting: Want to keep LCS in business? Pick up your stuff

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    My local shops have forced me into getting my monthly moderns from dcbservice.com 40-50% off cover price and books shipped to me. If shops offered better incentives and discounts I'd buy local

    Problem with that 40-50% discount is I don't know of any LCS that has the volume that DCBS and Midtown have to qualify for the same discounts. Also, since DCBS's online store is a preorder-only service and you prepay for your items (typically around the 15th of the month prior release), they don't carry the same risks of unsold product that a normal LCS does.

     

    Maybe the LCS can offer a preorder service similar to DCBS and Midtown's so they can offer bigger discounts. The LCS makes a smaller profit per item but that profit is guaranteed and carries no risk as well as providing advance revenue to help with cash flow. That said, given rent, labor, etc, are fixed costs, they might need to make up for the lower margin with higher volume.

     

    My LCS has a preorder program like this and they give all preorder customers 30% discount off DC/Marvel and 20% off on all other pubs. Discounts are regardless of order size so whether you preorder 1 comic or 50, you get the same discount.

     

    I've approached 3 different shops in my area, none can even offer what you describe. If they did I'd have to consider it closely.

    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie thread for your reading pleasure

    in The Movie Forum

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    The fan score on RT is also starting to slide. It was in the mid 80's at the beginning of the week is now at 74%. This is worries me because the people that saw the movie last night were the diehard I must see this people. As we roll through the weekend the average movie goer come more into play.

     

    I do think this movie is almost bulletproof this weekend. I have seen a few analysts say the negative reviews MAY decrease sales in the ballpark of 10% from baseline. Box Office Mojo put their projections at $157 mil. to $185 mil. opening weekend. That seems accurate. What everyone is concerned with is that all important second weekend hold, and to a lesser extent Sunday hold especially with the holiday. I think it is safe to say 300 to 350 this weekend worldwide. But if they drop what MoS did second weekend (which was 64%) or worse, it make the high end earning estimates of 1 bil. plus hard.

     

    Couldn't agree more. Opening weekend will be big, not Avengers big. But word of mouth is what will carry the box office not critics

    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie thread for your reading pleasure

    in The Movie Forum

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    Saw it last night

     

    The movie isn't near as bad as the critics make it out to be. With that said this movie is too overstuffed for its own good. The problem with the shared universe super hero movie is when you try to introduce other characters or try to setup other franchises it takes away the focus of the movie.

     

    If the movie was 20-30 minutes shorter and more streamlined i would've enjoyed it more. It wasn't as bad as Green Lantern but is far from perfect.