MyComicShop New Pricing Tool

[u/Revolutionary_Ice371]

Anyone get complete sticker shock today going onto the MyComicShop website and seeing literally ALL recent back issues in near mint condition uniformly go up to $10?!?! And very fine condition all go up to $8?!?! And so on.

Seriously. Go out and look. It’s their new pricing tool in full effect to fuck you over. If the issue is not the current issue of the series then the price automatically goes up to $10. Across the board. It is unbelievable. As soon as the newest issue hits then the one before it that was just selling for, say, $4.99 on their site is now $10.

If this isn’t a major fuckup on their part and is truly what they think the value of that comic now is, then I would hope all of you that use their site will send them an email letting them know what you think about their new pricing tool. I did.

[u/jackknightlight]

You are all describing the “market” of comics. Adam Hughes catwoman covers are selling fast. He’s always been a hot artist and he’s unfortunately not able to do any new covers at the moment. Amazing Spider-Man 1000 caused recent backissues to begin selling faster than previous trends. Spider-Man is hot? These indie books have really low print runs, hope I can buy them at cover 6 months after release. Me too, but what if you can’t? This is what the market trend looks like right now and mycomicshop is one measurement you can use to see it in action. You are not the only person trying to buy that book at that moment. While inventory is selling faster than you can replenish, the price must go up as the market demands. Too much inventory coming in and running out of warehouse space? Time to lower prices or have a big sale. The customer has every right to not purchase at asking price. The seller is under no obligation to lower their price because you want them to. It’s how commerce works. When the final thought is “there just aren’t any other shops or websites that will set up every comic from the past 2 years and sell every issue from every series for cover price and still have them in stock all the time” I hope saying it out loud gives you that oooohhh! Moment.

[u/Revolutionary_Ice371 → u/jackknightlight]

No, your comment just gave me that “ohhhh he missed the point entirely and got cocky wanting to mansplain to me about how economics works” moment.

I’ve been collecting for a very long time so I know how this industry works. I also understand basic economics of supply and demand.

That is not what is happening here. So let me walk you through it. As I said in other comments it’s not happening to the big publishers and it’s NOT happening to books that are selling out on their site. I’ve kept certain series on my “want list” and they are always there. Selling at cover price. All of a sudden those same issues just got jacked up in price 100%. From $5 to $10. All the prior issues of the series. All the same cost. #1 is the same as #6: $10 for a NM and $8 for a VF. Then the latest issue is still cover price $4.99.

It makes no sense. They can’t all be valued at $10 when all other sites still charge cover price.

So go look up any series from the publisher, Ignition Press. Example, the series Bad Thoughts. Issues 1-3 are each selling for $10. Issue 4 is the most recent and it’s still sitting at cover price. Go look them up at midtown. Still all selling cover price.

So if your “theory” was correct then MyComicShop would be lowering prices to try to dump these issues because they have been sitting there for me to buy at cover price for months. What? So now that they’re $10 I’m DEFINITELY gonna buy them now? Ok. 👍🏻

I’m just trying to be kind and give a PSA to people here that there is either an issue with their site or they really made a bad business decision. They’re going to be stuck with more inventory and less future sales because I won’t be buying the series at all if all the prior issues are $10. I’ll just go to Amazon for the trade. I like floppies more but at this point I’ll choose the cheaper option. Hell. Buying them off eBay is cheaper at this point.

[u/jackknightlight → u/Revolutionary_Ice371]

I was giving a 101 to your comments section, not you directly. You opened the typical box of “why can’t I get hot comics for cover price” and left it open without clarifying. You just wanted tar for your bag of feathers. Got it