Hey, Folks!
Well, Brian and I have successfully completed two weeks with our new opening hours on Monday. There hasn’t been much traffic at this point, but I’m going to give it through the end of February before deciding whether or not to continue the practice. It was getting to be a concern for me when I was closed on Monday because so many people showed up whilst I was in the store doing paperwork and stuff between errands I had to do because of my guardianship for my dad, but now that those responsibilities have ended it just seemed to make sense to open the doors since I was here anyway. In any case, either Brian or I will be here on Mondays between 12-5.
I’ve just about had it with Diamond Distributors. I’ve resisted writing anything in my little blog negative about the behind the scenes stuff one deals with when running a comic book store because I thought it was entirely too much negativity and I figured you folks didn’t want to read a whole lot of complaining about stupid industry stuff. This recent problem with securing Previews magazines for January, however, has me steamed up. The January Previews that was originally supposed to be here on 12/28/22 and I did pay for along with crazy shipping charges never appeared. The box apparently went missing and now, three weeks later, the Previews are supposed to be here this afternoon. This isn’t very helpful, however, since the February Previews will be here next week and my initial Diamond orders will be due in a week. This will, of course, occur before I even have a chance to get this issue of Previews in front of most of you. I will also be charged full price for the damn things AND get charged shipping on the box again as well. This means that I have to make a hard decision in the near future regarding whether I carry the catalog at all. I am seriously considering merely ordering a handful of copies for the folks who use it to special order stuff every month because the information is mostly available online at this point and it feels like most of you are more interested in the D.C. and Marvel catalogs which won’t be affected by this decision at all. I think I may be a bit too angry by this and other problems that I have been having with Diamond lately so please, by all means, let me know your views on this subject. Do you, oh, Loyal Customers, want me to continue carrying the Previews?
Brian is starting to get a bit backed up with evaluating comic collections again, so please keep on mind that if you have stuff you want to sell or trade to us then you may have a week or two wait to get an offer. He will, of course, get to your books eventually, but there may be a slight delay as there will likely be one or more people ahead of you in the sorting line. Thanks in advance for your patience!
That’s it for me this week. I really have a lot of stuff to get through this week, including preparing initial Diamond orders in a month where I couldn’t get catalogs in front of anybody. I hope everyone has a great weekend and that we don’ t get the prophesied crappy weather on Sunday and Monday…lol.
Eddie