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seanwalford
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Hey guys,
Fairly new to comic book buying. Not many local shops too me. In fact a decent 30+ minute drive into city centre for nearest so buying mostly online. Where's cheapest currently to buy comics?
I'm mostly looking at newer upcoming ones as well as those released in the past 10 years. I'll be hopefully getting a copy of the strangers comic, and dexter plus doomsday.1 when there released but would love to know where's best to buy!
Thanks!
Fairly new to comic book buying. Not many local shops too me. In fact a decent 30+ minute drive into city centre for nearest so buying mostly online. Where's cheapest currently to buy comics?
I'm mostly looking at newer upcoming ones as well as those released in the past 10 years. I'll be hopefully getting a copy of the strangers comic, and dexter plus doomsday.1 when there released but would love to know where's best to buy!
Thanks!
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http://www.disposableheroes.co.uk/
or
http://www.reedcomics.com/
Never had a problem with either of them and both are great with fast delivery. Also have a look at Ebay.
As a side note - How on earth do the comics shops make money? How many comics must they have to sell to even make the rent!?
(-ve) browsing the site, well it does fall well short of the disposableheroes site
The mark-up used to be roughly 25% per comic with better deals being available on bigger orders from Diamond (on massive orders you could get it up to 55% but your regular LCS wouldn't get anywhere near that, I don't think). Crux is that they're not returnable so unsold stuff, back-issues etc. are dead stock until someone takes them off your hands.
Comic shops buy bags and boards in big quantities which, depending on supplier, means the cost of bags to them can be whittled down to 2-4p per bag... Boards are a bit more expensive, my LCS has stopped boarding as standard.
I used to use A Place in Space and I never had any issues with them either but I prefer the pre-ordering method on DH.