Anyone else dropping titles simply because of double-shipping?

[AaronStC]

I can afford it so I like getting books I enjoy more often but if you're on a really tight budget I could see how the high amount of double ships could cause a problem.

[fedup23]

I know its not a popular stance but I enjoy double shipping. If I am buying 12 - 15 titles a month that double ship in a month I am only dropping an extra 35 - 45 bucks a month or 8 - 12 dollars a week. Personally, if 12 bucks a week is "make or break" my budget I have no business buying comics. I am not talking about anyone elses situation so spare me your ire. ;-)

[DebkoX]

I dropped Uncanny X-force because I found the stories FAR too grim and dull and I wasn't willing to spend £2.95 a month just to read some pages of Deadpool :(

[USERNAME TAKEN]

I know its not a popular stance but I enjoy double shipping. If I am buying 12 - 15 titles a month that double ship in a month I am only dropping an extra 35 - 45 bucks a month or 8 - 12 dollars a week. Personally, if 12 bucks a week is "make or break" my budget I have no business buying comics. I am not talking about anyone elses situation so spare me your ire. ;-)

I suspect that your view isn't that unpopular as Marvel hasn't experienced any major decline sales since they started double shipping.

I can generally afford it, when i can't, i simply wait until i have free cash and get the books i missed.

It isn't really much of an issue for me.

[CaptainMarvell]

I like the idea of double shipping, more story, but I'm against it. Some people go by their budgets. If one or more of their titles has two issues in one month, it screws things up. However, if they reduced the price from 3.99 to 2.99 in months they double ship, that's a little more acceptable. I'm probably going to have to pass on Marvel NOW Avengers because its going to double ship every month. I can't blow $8 every month on one title.

[Imraith Nimphais]

I think that it is quite unnecessary. And seem to be erratic in its scheduling.
It's not that you are getting "more" story, per say...as writers have plotted their stories long before...you are getting it sooner.
Why ask the creators (both writer and artist) to push themselves past their threshold, thus giving us a seemingly rushed and substandard finished piece when we, the readers were quite contented to wait month to month for a story to unfold? Have you readers become so impatient that waiting a month is unendurable?

And for those who trade wait...where it does not even matter the frequency with which a title is released...Other than "flooding" the market for prized market/dollar share at the end of the month and which serves the company more than it serves us the consumer...it is pointless.

But wot ev. As with the 3.99 price hike...Marvel will do wot's in its best interest and you lot will just acceptingly follow along.

[Hulk_Is]

It seems everyone in this thread unanimously agrees that double-shipping is a bad idea and list various reasons for it.

http://forums.comicbookresources.com...r-top-10-books

I'm interested on the Marvel reader's take on Marvel's double-shipping strategy. Do you feel it to be beneficial or detrimental? Do you agree on reasons it affects product output negatively or positively, including how it impacts non-double shipped books?

As a Marvel reader I feel like double-shipping is beneficial because it enhances the reading experience.

[Paladin King]

As a Marvel reader I feel like double-shipping is beneficial because it enhances the reading experience.

Agreed. Nothing enhances the reading experience quite like having a different artist every month and emergency co-writers. And who needs that Brubaker guy, anyway?