shadroch

MCS is not the only consignment shop that has suspended operations.

So he was half right.

Is this really any different than a dealer missing a few shows? When I'm having a slow month, I throw stuff into the auctions so its a steady income.

Say you had some $50,000 in merchandise out on consignment and regularly sold $2500 a month over the last year and a half. Now those sites are closed. I won't sell any books so no check this month, but the books will still be there when they reopen. Would you consider this lost income?

Hopefully, these were insured. I had three storage units in Henderson until last year and my home owners insurance covered a break in. The storage units I used insisted you have insurance or buy theirs.

Pick up a couple of past overstreets, spaced about five years apart. They are dirt cheap.

Use a magazine box and make two side to side columns instead of one front to back.

I'm slowly semi-organizing my modern stock., with modern defined as when books hit $2.99. I was surprised how many I had, ten long boxes and a dozen short. I bought them mostly at auction, for pennies on the dollar, and had no idea how many newsstands were in it. Very,very few, as it turns out. I only checked Marvel and DC and it was less than one percent.

Had two internet auctions close today. The results were mixed but not as bad as I was expecting. Three items got sold at about what I was hoping for, and one didnt meet the minimum so I get it back. I bought a half dozen things and only lost one item I really wanted. With two minutes to go, I was high bid at $14, and it ended up going for $ 165 in a violent three way dance.

There is a huge gap between wanting a smaller Bill and wanting 15-20 books a month. Most shops make their monthly nut off of new books. Eliminate half the books and how do they make up that steady income?

How would a shop pay the rent off of 15-20 monthly titles?

If you strike a deal with a man, does his wife have veto power over it? I'm pretty sure he couldn't sell their house without her permission, and imagine what would happen if she sold the art without consulting him? That might make a fun Peoples Court.

I've never predicted the demise of the entire comic industry. I have been saying the industry has a malignant tumor called Diamond preventing it's expansion. Rip the freaking bandaid off and get on with the post Diamond market already.

First rule of business used to be having three months working capital put aside or that you could easily get to.

If the general public thinks that, perhaps its because comics have little to no public exposure. Comics have not been for kids for the last forty years. Many people don't even know comics still are made. They think they went the way of the 8track.

That seems like an easy issue to fix. Does Walmart sell R rated movies?

Marvel bought a small distributorship that had serious problems to begin with. Marvel went bankrupt because its owners picked it clean, walking away with hundreds of millions of dollars. They didn't care about the company, or the product. If Disney chose to so, I'm sure they could get shelf space at every Walmart and major retailer with the slightest of arm twisting. Heck, now that Diamond is in default on their payment agreements, Disney could take over the entire industry by making all their product EXCLUSIVE to Walmart. There is no way Diamond or most LCS's survive that, but it might be better for Marvel/Disney. The only question is would Marvel generate enough revenue per square foot to make it worth Walmarts while. Or how about an exclusive deal with a Krogers type of store. If Starbucks can put a kiosk in a supermarket, why not Disney?

If it's accurate, why delete it?

For the completest, there are different addresses on his bags, as he moved over the years.

Is it worth trimming a $4 comic?

I used to own the cover to Daredevil 111 but it "disappeared" from my back room. Am I the only one who finds it bizarre that someone slabbed a letter page?

Normally, when the herd says BUY, I sell. When it says SELL, I BUY. In this circumstance, I have to agree with them.

I don't know any comic shop that keeps the same slab on the walls for years. What would be the point?

Walk it off!

I had struck a deal with a fellow comic store owner to sell me stock from his back room for ten cents each if I spent a thousand dollars. I made the deal with the understanding I'd take 4000 books today and he would store the rest for two months. I drive over and go into his basement. The two of us go box by box, with him vetoing a good bit of what I select. There isnt enough stock that he is willing to let go for me to get 10,000 books so we renegotiate on 5,000 books for $550, all to be removed within a week. Hours go by and the books are assembled. We are done and relaxing when he lets me know he wants two cents per comic for the bags. It might not sound like much, but it adds twenty percent to the deal. When I object and say he should have said that in the first place, he goes off about how much money he is losing and how I'm wasting his time. What had been a friendly atmosphere suddenly turned adversarial. He went on and on about it only being two cents more and I'd counter with it was $100 more and it was an extra twenty percent. I was pretty sure they would move pretty quick at fifty cents, and some of the books I knew I could get a dollar for, so I offered to split the difference and he refused. I walked and it was the end of what had been a decent relationship. A month or two later, he called and said the boxes I'd picked were still there and his offer was still good. I told him I'd pay his price, if he had them delivered and that was the end of the discussion. A few years later, I heard he sold his entire basement stock for ten cents each to an out of town dealer. i