Increased price of variant covers

[sharkbait]

I'll happily pay a little more at my LCS so that I don't have to slum with the slime on fleabay for a book.

[Lazyboy]

This will continue to be a trend I think. Even mail order services have jacked their prices on variants. I am quite sure its not to cover their increased cost. Even DCBS does it now.

 

Eventually this bubble will pop. One of my local shop is buried in variants. They have boxes and boxes of DC and Marvel variants. This is one area of comics I steer clear of. Its full of snake oil salesmen some of them are on this board.

 

DCBS is in an ironic situation. They were happily buying into the variant craze, increasing their orders, until they realized they couldn't anymore. They don't even solicit most of the incentive variants that are available for some titles now because they don't qualify for them. Star Wars is one of those titles.

 

That's odd though they haven't lost business have they? They picked up all of mailordercomics when they went under. Or is Diamond not allowing them to order some?

 

DCBS loves ratio incentive variants. 1:100? 1:200? No problem, they're already ordering 2000 regular copies.

 

The problem is the variants that were discussed in this thread.

[fastballspecial]

This will continue to be a trend I think. Even mail order services have jacked their prices on variants. I am quite sure its not to cover their increased cost. Even DCBS does it now.

 

Eventually this bubble will pop. One of my local shop is buried in variants. They have boxes and boxes of DC and Marvel variants. This is one area of comics I steer clear of. Its full of snake oil salesmen some of them are on this board.

 

DCBS is in an ironic situation. They were happily buying into the variant craze, increasing their orders, until they realized they couldn't anymore. They don't even solicit most of the incentive variants that are available for some titles now because they don't qualify for them. Star Wars is one of those titles.

 

That's odd though they haven't lost business have they? They picked up all of mailordercomics when they went under. Or is Diamond not allowing them to order some?

 

DCBS loves ratio incentive variants. 1:100? 1:200? No problem, they're already ordering 2000 regular copies.

 

The problem is the variants that were discussed in this thread.

 

Now I understand. Thanks

 

[rjrjr]

This will continue to be a trend I think. Even mail order services have jacked their prices on variants. I am quite sure its not to cover their increased cost. Even DCBS does it now.

 

Eventually this bubble will pop. One of my local shop is buried in variants. They have boxes and boxes of DC and Marvel variants. This is one area of comics I steer clear of. Its full of snake oil salesmen some of them are on this board.

 

DCBS is in an ironic situation. They were happily buying into the variant craze, increasing their orders, until they realized they couldn't anymore. They don't even solicit most of the incentive variants that are available for some titles now because they don't qualify for them. Star Wars is one of those titles.

 

That's odd though they haven't lost business have they? They picked up all of mailordercomics when they went under. Or is Diamond not allowing them to order some?

 

They don't qualify for many of the variants because they would have to increase their orders so large in some cases, it makes no financial sense to do so.

 

I'm not sure if they lost business. I know I now use another online store for my variants and DCBS for my regular issues.