Sometimes life is good.
I picked this up in my LCS today for 40% off the euro cover price (and like MartinNL's shop, USD = euro).
I am a VERY happy bunny today
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05-09-2012, 11:33 AM #2281Brian is ainm dom. :)
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My comic collection. Go on, have a look. You know you want to
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Going Green for St Patrick's Weekend!
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05-09-2012, 01:28 PM #2282Veteran Member
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Congratulations, you're in for a treat!
Every time I slide one of my Absolute Sandman's out, I can't help buy smile.
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05-09-2012, 02:19 PM #2283Formerly GarbageMan
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Absolute Sandman and Death are books I always say I'm going to buy....then buy somehting else....
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05-09-2012, 03:05 PM #2284Join the flock!
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Why does this happen? To cover import costs or something? Will the store accept USD?
Originally Posted by Nova2814.1
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05-09-2012, 03:12 PM #2285Senior Member
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I must be the only person in the world who didn't like Sandman. The Absolute was amazing, and got me buying more in that format, I just didn't like the book apart from the 19th(?) issue which riffed Midsummer Nights dream.
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05-09-2012, 03:18 PM #2286Senior Member
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I dunno, I'll have to ask ;) It's actually pretty good compared to most other shops I visit, where they add like 10% to the cover price. It's still ridiculous but what can you do? Only thing you can do is order online, but the number of online shops that offer good discounts are very limited when you take into consideration that the books have to be shipped also. You guys in the US are so lucky! Originally Posted by Awesome!
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05-09-2012, 03:24 PM #2287Veteran Member
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I had the same issue when the first 3 volumes came out, then I got a really great pre-order deal on vol. 4... once that arrived at my door I was in love. Within a month I'd picked up the rest. Originally Posted by GarbageMan
Moral of the story - stop procrastinating!
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05-09-2012, 03:26 PM #2288Formerly GarbageMan
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Its not that I don't want them, its just they've been in print for how long and have had how many reprints that I have little fear that they'll go oop so they're pretty low on my to get list....plus there's 6 books to get which is 300+ Originally Posted by SJNeal
I had the same issue when the first 3 volumes came out, then I got a really great pre-order deal on vol. 4... once that arrived at my door I was in love. Within a month I'd picked up the rest.
Moral of the story - stop procrastinating!
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05-09-2012, 03:31 PM #2289Senior Member
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Just ordered the Stormwatch HC, I love Authority/Planetary so interested to see how it started. Those pics a few pages back certainly helped me decide haha.
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05-09-2012, 03:52 PM #2290Junior Member
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So good, they are some of my most re-read collections. Originally Posted by NZ_InFerno
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05-09-2012, 10:14 PM #2291Junior Member
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That's Europe for you. Let's say a book is 100 USD in the US. Here it's first converted into 100 EUR, and the the store adds a percentage. Thus a US 100 USD book can be 124 EUR here. It's nuts. Originally Posted by Awesome!
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05-10-2012, 04:22 AM #2292Senior Member
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Similar to here, US price is doubled then 25-40% added on to get the NZ retail price. Its pretty crazy some of the prices I've seen tbh Originally Posted by slaine
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05-10-2012, 04:37 AM #2293Brian is ainm dom. :)
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In the case of Ireland the distributors have additional shipping costs, because the shipments are from Diamond US to Diamond UK and then distributed to shops in Ireland and the UK. My suggestion that books destined for Irish shops be parachuted out of the plane as it passes overhead hasn't gained any traction yet Originally Posted by Awesome!
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Plus the market here is much smaller, with 8 shops on the entire island of Ireland. And in general, commercial rents, wages etc are higher in Ireland than the EU average. So a retailer needs to factor all of that in, as well as some element of profit, when pricing a book.
Now you can see why the Bookdepository 10% discounts are such a big deal for us
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05-10-2012, 01:16 PM #2294Senior Member
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The Titan Version of the Hawkman Omnibus is 53% off at Amazon UK:
26 quid (32 EUR).
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05-10-2012, 05:12 PM #2295New Member
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I liked the first two arcs of sandman, but didn't really like the rest. Felt the other arcs/issues to be long and kind of boring.
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