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Post by azbatx on Mar 26, 2009 12:18:03 GMT -5
When I went out to NE to visit one of my buddies we stumbled on to this store. It, without a doubt, has the best discount on new books. 30% off all new books, 20% off trades/hcs, 20% off variants. All their variants are already low priced to begin with. Everything else comes at a nice discount as well. The reason why they have their books priced as such is because they are the store front of the website www.mailordercomics.com .Their back stock is small but is pretty nice. This store was about an hour from Justin's house and we went there 2 or 3 times while I was in town. I know he has been back numerous times since I left. I wish the place was here in VA. I really liked it. The staff while I visited was ok. I heard it is better when certain people are there for prices. I got to see the mail order section in the back. It was a pretty big warehouse. Nicely organized. I would like to see it all in operation on packing days. I'm sure it would be crazy in there. This is something I would like to one day have a hand at. Overall I would recommend this place to anyone. And if you do visit then you won't be too far from Omaha where there are some more cool stores waiting!
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Post by G on Mar 26, 2009 12:34:47 GMT -5
Thanks for the great review of this store Az! That's another state that has at least 1 store represented. Maybe years and years from now we can get all 50 or at least the lower 48 involved. That is the dream with this area. Sounds like a cool store. Anytime you can get 30% off no questions asked without having to be either a subscriber, or in good with the staff, that sounds like a good place to start shopping. And besides getting discounts through mail order, the best part is you're right there seeing it and you know right away whether you want it or not. Pretty sweet deal. The part you said about wanting to aspire to this kind of an operation one day (the mail order). It would be nice. I often wish of ways to be more involved than what I am. It just seems like even if you aint making a lot of money at it, as long as you can break even, pay the mortgage and bills and eat at your house, if you could do just that....then it sounds like it aint half bad because enjoying work is half the battle. I know I would enjoy working in some aspect of comics. Im sure its not all its cracked up to be, but Im sure it has its benny's too!
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