Anyone remember my rants for supporting comic shops & never using sites like DCBS?
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Interestingly enough, I just received an email from DCBS. Here is what it says:
"DCBS ALERT:
Although DCBS has not yet received its copies of STRANGERS IN PARADISE OMNIBUS LTD ED, we understand that this book will be heavily allocated. DCBS is currently taking requests for cancellation. If you are interested, please respond to this e-mail."
So please, anyone that ordered it do them a favor & cancel your order so I can get mine
"DCBS ALERT:
Although DCBS has not yet received its copies of STRANGERS IN PARADISE OMNIBUS LTD ED, we understand that this book will be heavily allocated. DCBS is currently taking requests for cancellation. If you are interested, please respond to this e-mail."
So please, anyone that ordered it do them a favor & cancel your order so I can get mine
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It looks like they're going to fill the orders in the order they came in, so you should be good Sessa. I'm boned.
I actually have all of the HC's, minus 4, so it might be cheaper for me to just buy those on eBay, than buying the Omnibu at full price. But then again, this is pretty much one of my favorite series of all time. Decisions, decisions.
I actually have all of the HC's, minus 4, so it might be cheaper for me to just buy those on eBay, than buying the Omnibu at full price. But then again, this is pretty much one of my favorite series of all time. Decisions, decisions.
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I actually have all of the HC's, minus 4, so it might be cheaper for me to just buy those on eBay, than buying the Omnibu at full price. But then again, this is pretty much one of my favorite series of all time. Decisions, decisions.
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I read the first Echo trade and I liked it. It's totally different than SiP, but there was enough there for me to latch onto. It wasn't amazing, but definitely solid. I just got the second trade from the library, so we'll see if it holds up for me.
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i was tracking the shipment today, and it is listed as 6lbs, but all that dcbs says is in it is Superman: new krypton 2 HC, Uncanny x-men: sisterhood tpb, and Ultimatum HC, that cant be 6 pounds right? then again the SiP set probably weighs more than 6 pounds alone...
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NEW STANTON, PA, US 10/02/2009 9:50 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
MAUMEE, OH, US 10/02/2009 4:07 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
10/02/2009 3:25 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
FORT WAYNE, IN, US 10/01/2009 11:40 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
10/01/2009 7:50 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN
10/01/2009 6:03 P.M. PICKUP SCAN
10/01/2009 5:17 P.M. BILLING INFO RECEIVED
...usually my stuff takes anywhre from 5-10 days to me, but New Stanton is like 10 miles from me...it should be here tomorrow...if not late today!!! that is 1 day!
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Got my shipment in today, & oh well, no SiP omnibus Very bummed, plus they charged me for it, so I need to give them a call. I wasn't really expecting it, once Diamond announced as a whole, they only got 500 copies, but I thought I might luck out, since I placed my order the same day DCBS put it up. Oh well, I'm just spoiled, I literally have every single Omnibus I've wanted so far, it just annoys me that I don't have this one now. Got the Astonishing X-men Omni in this order though, that was nice, didn't even remember ordering it. Also the first Fables Hardcover among many other books.
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Who really benefits from the production of only 500 copies of the Stranger with Paradise Omnibus? Certainly not the fans.
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Got my shipment in today, & oh well, no SiP omnibus Very bummed, plus they charged me for it, so I need to give them a call. I wasn't really expecting it, once Diamond announced as a whole, they only got 500 copies, but I thought I might luck out, since I placed my order the same day DCBS put it up. Oh well, I'm just spoiled, I literally have every single Omnibus I've wanted so far, it just annoys me that I don't have this one now. Got the Astonishing X-men Omni in this order though, that was nice, didn't even remember ordering it. Also the first Fables Hardcover among many other books.
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Hey, I'm mostly a lurker, but just letting you guys know...if you're curious about the SiP omnibus, DCBS has filled the orders.
They haven't been shipped yet, but if you're wondering if you got one, go to the site and check your order -- it should show up as fulfilled if you're getting one.
They haven't been shipped yet, but if you're wondering if you got one, go to the site and check your order -- it should show up as fulfilled if you're getting one.
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Hey, I'm mostly a lurker, but just letting you guys know...if you're curious about the SiP omnibus, DCBS has filled the orders.
They haven't been shipped yet, but if you're wondering if you got one, go to the site and check your order -- it should show up as fulfilled if you're getting one.
They haven't been shipped yet, but if you're wondering if you got one, go to the site and check your order -- it should show up as fulfilled if you're getting one.
mine still says no...
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When did you guys submit your orders? Mine was on 7/4 at 10:51 p.m. I'm wondering when the cutoff must have been if they're going first come first serve.
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Considering what OOP DC Absolutes and Marvel Omnibuses go for on eBay, I wouldn't be surprised if most retailers didn't even offer these to customers at cover price and instead sold them at a premium. Or sit on them and wait for the value to go up. (Not saying DCBS is doing anything like this.)
Terry Moore and Abstract screwed the pooch big time here. This should have been offered as limited to initial orders, and at least let set customer demand set the print run.
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It's not that simple Josh. Terry needed to pay for these upfront, and he looked to partner with Diamond to help with costs (which is a common thing), but for whatever reason that fell through. So he was taking a HUGE risk in printing up these very expensive books, not really sure if he would be able to sell them all. I don't blame him at all.
Things could have been done differently, sure, but he picked a road and went down it. And really, we aren't worrying about being able to buy this (we can), we're worrying about being able to buy this from DCBS at a steep discount.
Things could have been done differently, sure, but he picked a road and went down it. And really, we aren't worrying about being able to buy this (we can), we're worrying about being able to buy this from DCBS at a steep discount.
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Was it 500 total print run, or just 500 allocated to Diamond, and the rest of the 1600(?) print run allocated to other places, as well as Terry's own web orders on his website?
Remember when Jeff Smith did that HC of the 1300 page "Bone" collected edition? For a few weeks of its release, it was floating around $95-$120 (discounted), and then it went out of print, and the price doubled overnight and finally settled whatever its going price is nowadays.
Will this SiP HC also do the same, probably. I think I"ll just be happy with my HCs of the various collected editions (come to think of it, I think I still need 3 of the last HCs in the series).
Remember when Jeff Smith did that HC of the 1300 page "Bone" collected edition? For a few weeks of its release, it was floating around $95-$120 (discounted), and then it went out of print, and the price doubled overnight and finally settled whatever its going price is nowadays.
Will this SiP HC also do the same, probably. I think I"ll just be happy with my HCs of the various collected editions (come to think of it, I think I still need 3 of the last HCs in the series).
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Remember when Jeff Smith did that HC of the 1300 page "Bone" collected edition? For a few weeks of its release, it was floating around $95-$120 (discounted), and then it went out of print, and the price doubled overnight and finally settled whatever its going price is nowadays.
I've seen it go for over $400 on ebay. It's actually more rare than the SiP will be. This was a "retailer's thank you" from Jeff Smith. One edition was sent to each retailer in the country, no more were printed. Being that I consider Bone to be the greatest sequential story ever told (not my favorite comic ever, just the best use of the medium IMO), I will not part with mine, I was offered $500 for it.
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I don't remember it being a retailer "Thank You" edition, but rather an orderable item from Diamond, like the SiP HC, but it also had a short print run, and I kick myself for not buying it when it was near that $100 price on Ebay until they were gone. But truth be told, I was all "Boned" out by all the various TPBs in print at the time, and then later, there was the 1300-page Bone softcover where he didn't print to order (because he had to set the print run before the final order numbers came in, and I ended up with a 2nd printing, even though my LCS placed an order for it during its solicitation, but with Jeff Smith guessing low on the initial first printing, that hosed those of us who got their orders filled with 2nd printings).
Found a listing on dynamic forces for the HC version of Bone (original price was $125 retail):
http://www.dynamicforces.com/htmlfiles/p-C101871.html
Found a listing on dynamic forces for the HC version of Bone (original price was $125 retail):
http://www.dynamicforces.com/htmlfiles/p-C101871.html
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Found a listing on dynamic forces for the HC version of Bone (original price was $125 retail):
http://www.dynamicforces.com/htmlfiles/p-C101871.html
http://www.dynamicforces.com/htmlfiles/p-C101871.html
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Hey, be glad you have one of those Bone HCs, no matter how it came into existence.
I think the other mitigating factor (besides the price tag) was that I already had the other 9 HC volumes, so it felt like a waste to dump more money into a single collected HC volume. Of course, that was the short-sighted view of things. Grr...
And of course, history is repeating itself with the SiP Collected HC, I can try to get it at full price from Terry's website (unless it's sold out on there as well), but at least I have a fair share of them in the smaller SiP HC editions, just like I did with the Bone HCs. Plus with the economy being what it is, I'm trying not to spend as friviously as I've done in the past on collectibles. So in 5 years, I'll probably lament on passing on this current SiP collected HC edition. Double Grr...
I think the other mitigating factor (besides the price tag) was that I already had the other 9 HC volumes, so it felt like a waste to dump more money into a single collected HC volume. Of course, that was the short-sighted view of things. Grr...
And of course, history is repeating itself with the SiP Collected HC, I can try to get it at full price from Terry's website (unless it's sold out on there as well), but at least I have a fair share of them in the smaller SiP HC editions, just like I did with the Bone HCs. Plus with the economy being what it is, I'm trying not to spend as friviously as I've done in the past on collectibles. So in 5 years, I'll probably lament on passing on this current SiP collected HC edition. Double Grr...
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And of course, history is repeating itself with the SiP Collected HC, I can try to get it at full price from Terry's website (unless it's sold out on there as well), but at least I have a fair share of them in the smaller SiP HC editions, just like I did with the Bone HCs. Plus with the economy being what it is, I'm trying not to spend as friviously as I've done in the past on collectibles. So in 5 years, I'll probably lament on passing on this current SiP collected HC edition. Double Grr...