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glennsim
09-07-2010, 10:14 AM
There are times when I go in to a comic shop with the intention of buying a bunch of back issues. I have my list of what I want, and I'm prepared to dig through their inventory to find it.

What drives me crazy is when they will have, say, their Batman books, and then a section behind the Batman books that is an unsorted hodgepodge of various Batman mini-series and one-shots. So if I'm looking for Batman: Orpheus #3, I've pretty much got to go through the whole stack to see if maybe they have it.

I realize that retailers may not always have time to do really detailed sorting, but my question is, is that system actually benefitting any customer? Are there a significant number of people who go in just wanting random Batman books and therefore don't require any sort of order to what they are looking through? Just curious.
zryson
09-07-2010, 10:49 AM
heres an idea - why not ring up the store beforehand (maybe a few days in advance) give them a list of the issues you are wanting and then ask them to put them away for you so when you come in the process will be better? :smile:
dumbstruck
09-07-2010, 12:53 PM
I find stores who organize their misc. Batman books in such a way usually have that misc section in alphabetical order. They just don't put a title card for each individual title.
thwhtGuardian
09-07-2010, 12:55 PM
that's kinda weird, my lcs sorts most books by issue number, or if it's a one shot or miniseries box it's in alphabetical order.
SUPERECWFAN1
09-08-2010, 06:56 AM
My LCS is one where I was given and kicked back a lot of back issues to organize the back issues. I was given em for free and the fact I was getting 1st shot at 10-20 long boxes of back issues , gave me a shot to score some old stuff.

I found a lot of 1970's DC/Marvel goin thru the boxes organizing.

Sadly once the LCS guy started getting more help (and friends there) he let them do the organizing . And the job sucks...a lot of what they have is scattered all to hell in other boxes and its clear the guys are cherry picking the good back issues and not really putting any of it up.