Bravest Warriors Tales from the Holo John sells half a mill...wait. wut?

[Firespitter]

 

Did I miss a memo? I opened the Comichron for this past month to show someone how much Star Wars is selling, and completely expected it to be #1. Now Secret Wars as #1...not totally surprising (okay....a little surprising). But the #2 seller for the month?!?!?

 

-Terry

[domogotcomics]

They distributed a ton of copies through Loot Crate, hence the higher numbers.

[gambra-migration]

Yeah LootCrate automatically adds like 500k to any book that gets put into it's monthly boxes. Bravest Warriors was only selliong about 4k when it was a regular before. It's why stuff like Orphan Black gets to #1 every so often.

[Firespitter]

Okay. Whew. I was thinking it might somehow translate to the 6th or 7th sign of the apocalypse.

 

 

[The Less Blob]

Yeah LootCrate automatically adds like 500k to any book that gets put into it's monthly boxes. Bravest Warriors was only selliong about 4k when it was a regular before. It's why stuff like Orphan Black gets to #1 every so often.

 

wow, so there are 500,000 people who subscribe to that?

 

i'm guessing loot crate gets the books at cost to the publisher as it is basically advertising?

[ComicConnoisseur]

Wow! LootCrate really jacks up the numbers!

[THB]

Now lets see if anyone wants any earlier Bravest Warriors issues.......

[Awax]

Now lets see if anyone wants any earlier Bravest Warriors issues.......

 

Can't give them away.

[Firespitter]

I hadn't noticed other months that bumped a comic so high on the list. So I gather that "Loot Crate" is basically a spoon-of-the-month club.

It appears that you pay them $40/mo. and they send you random cheep junk every month, whether you want it or not.

Now that I think about it, I already have that. It's called a DC pull list.

 

[ItsJustRyan]

I hadn't noticed other months that bumped a comic so high on the list. So I gather that "Loot Crate" is basically a spoon-of-the-month club.

It appears that you pay them $40/mo . and they send you random cheep junk every month, whether you want it or not.

Now that I think about it, I already have that. It's called a DC pull list.

 

It's $20 and they usually include a t-shirt and some other "neat" items.

 

They have nearly 300,000 subscribers, so they must be doing something right.

 

But yeah, to address the OP, when you order 300,000 comics for your customers it's going to jack up the numbers for the month

[The Less Blob]

it actually sounds like a pretty cool concept, although with shipping i wonder how it pays off. i just have no room in my house for another box of junk every month. i have to sort out and triage the boxes i already have. otoh, young people nowadays often live in covens and what not (because that's the only way they can afford to live outside their parents' basement), so i can see someone subscribing to this and among their 11 roommates there will be something for everyone.

 

 

[The Less Blob]

there is also something called nerd block, which does something similar.

 

cool idea. i just wonder how many of these they ship a month. if it is really 300-400,000 that must be a pretty big operation!

[F For Fake]

I have enjoyed Loot Crate in the past. I've gotten stuff i actually kept/used (shirts, toys, variant comics) and other stuff I didn't care about that I was then able to sell. Never lost money on it, considering it's less than $20. But I don't subscribe from month to month, because there are often box themes that I don't care anything about.

[The Less Blob]

wow, i would have thought the stuff would be hard to sell when 300,000 other internet savy people got it that month

 

other than getting the discount for an annual subscription it does seem like there is no urgency to it as you can order earlier months' boxes.

 

i'd think that right off the bat the t-shirt is probably worth $5-$10 or more to someone who wears t-shirts a lot

[F For Fake]

wow, i would have thought the stuff would be hard to sell when 300,000 other internet savy people got it that month

 

other than getting the discount for an annual subscription it does seem like there is no urgency to it as you can order earlier months' boxes.

 

i'd think that right off the bat the t-shirt is probably worth $5-$10 or more to someone who wears t-shirts a lot

 

This is true, but there are oftentimes randomly inserted variants (primarily the vinyl toys, not really the comics) that command a premium. It has been a few months since I bought a crate, so I'm sure you're right about the pool of sellers growing exponentially. But there was definitely a time when you could pay $20, get something fun in the mail, keep about half of it, and sell the rest of the junk to cut the price paid down even more.

 

And yeah, if there's a shirt or something practical in there that you like, it makes it that much more of a value. My wife still wears the Groot socks that came last year.

[The Less Blob]

if my son was not so totally undeserving of getting this (seriously, he is 9 1/2, does he really think just because it is summer he gets to stay up until 1 a.m. watching t.v. on a work night...and does he really think he can yell at me for half an hour demanding this privilege?) i would sign him up, but frankly, we have enough k*rapo*ola in the house as it is. and because i have two kids i would need to get two of them because if the little guy saw the big guy getting something...well, you know.

[Bird]

if my son was not so totally undeserving of getting this (seriously, he is 9 1/2, does he really think just because it is summer he gets to stay up until 1 a.m. watching t.v. on a work night...and does he really think he can yell at me for half an hour demanding this privilege?) i would sign him up, but frankly, we have enough k*rapo*ola in the house as it is. and because i have two kids i would need to get two of them because if the little guy saw the big guy getting something...well, you know.

 

Buy one for the little one and explain it is a bonus for manners.

 

Bam! Two birds, one stone.