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Are the Canadian buyers back??

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1Cool

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Anyone else noticing a strong increase in buyers coming from Canada? After a year long hiatus it seems like the buyers from up north are finally back buying books. Of course it could be a rouge group of 5 or 6 buyers that forgot to not buy books anymore but after not getting one sale in close to a year to getting 5 in 1 week seems strange.

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VintageComics

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They may be starting to realize that this new exchange rate is going to be here for a while so if they want comics they'll have to pay the piper.

 

 

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cheta42

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I have bought 3 books this year. Previously I was buying that in a week.

When you are buying a high end book and have to pay 1.28 times the price its just not worth it. :screwy:

Unless the person real wants a book , and has the funds to pay , I don't see it being like it was when the dollar was at par.

I could be wrong though..... (shrug)

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Anyone else noticing a strong increase in buyers coming from Canada? After a year long hiatus it seems like the buyers from up north are finally back buying books. Of course it could be a rouge group of 5 or 6 buyers that forgot to not buy books anymore but after not getting one sale in close to a year to getting 5 in 1 week seems strange.

 

An increase of some over none, too be sure. It may have taken this long to digest not only the exchange rate, but doubling/trebling of the postage rates.

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VintageComics

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I have bought 3 books this year. Previously I was buying that in a week.

When you are buying a high end book and have to pay 1.28 times the price its just not worth it. :screwy:

Unless the person real wants a book , and has the funds to pay , I don't see it being like it was when the dollar was at par.

I could be wrong though..... (shrug)

 

It's up to 1.34 now.

 

But the book is only valued in US dollars. :baiting:

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thehumantorch

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Anyone else noticing a strong increase in buyers coming from Canada? After a year long hiatus it seems like the buyers from up north are finally back buying books. Of course it could be a rouge group of 5 or 6 buyers that forgot to not buy books anymore but after not getting one sale in close to a year to getting 5 in 1 week seems strange.

 

An increase of some over none, too be sure. It may have taken this long to digest not only the exchange rate, but doubling/trebling of the postage rates.

 

Yep, exchange rate hurts, shipping has increased . I typically had a package coming from the US every few days, now I'm rarely buying.

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greggy

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Greggy is a buying machine
You can't score unless you shoot the puck.

Did you say that or Wayne Gretzky :jokealert:

I said it after I stole it from him.
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Anyone else noticing a strong increase in buyers coming from Canada? After a year long hiatus it seems like the buyers from up north are finally back buying books. Of course it could be a rouge group of 5 or 6 buyers that forgot to not buy books anymore but after not getting one sale in close to a year to getting 5 in 1 week seems strange.

 

An increase of some over none, too be sure. It may have taken this long to digest not only the exchange rate, but doubling/trebling of the postage rates.

 

Last time I sent a book to a Canadian boardie I was shocked to find it cost $15.00 as opposed to $4-5 in the US. Hardly seems like a foreign country to me...

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