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Venting about buying from your local comic book store (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by neku@discuss.tchncs.de to c/comicbooks@lemmy.world
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Today's Marvel Day and my local comic book store promised to get me my free comic last Saturday. He then tried to scam me into buying overpriced coffee and take part in a manga themed event in order to get my free Dr. Doom copy. I said that I will come next Saturday (which is today). He has planned another event but today and didn't even have the Dr. Doom comic even though he is listed on the official stores who are partaking in this event. Last year's Marvel Day he didn't want to give my friend a 2nd copy of the free X-Men comic and basically told me to piss off. I ordered manga there and my new Berserk manga that should be in a (at least) good condition came completely creased on each sides and some pages had small but recognizable tears you can call me everything you want but a new book should be at least 98% perfect (small imperfections are ok). He also didn't want to take it back and me me sign so much shit. I ordered a lot of comics (omnibusses) with Amazon and never had the same problem. I'm sorry to say that I'm no industry plant nor a Bezos fanboy (he can eat shit as far as I can care) but I never experienced the same with Amazon. I also order from comic book shops that are more than 150km away from me and they also deliver my comics in good condition. So for everyone who is kinda ashamed to buy from Amazon...just do it some local comic book shops don't deserve our good will.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

There are lots of small, local shops who sell online that are not Amazon. The only hitch is shipping delays.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Amazon doesn't, either.

Order from those further away conic shops, in this case. Local conic shops are better than Amazon but that's a generalization. Order from a good place that doesn't support billionaires.