Nathan is mad... ( very old thread )
POSTED BY: CTParker333
UPDATED: Friday, June 13, 2008 16:37
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I bought 3000 copies of Issue #1 and I have had stores buying up copies, at full price. People buy 100 at a time. Its crazy. I am selling First print Issue #1 for $4.00.
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RON GLASS AUTOGRAPHED COMIC COVERS FOR SELL ON MY SITE FOR A LIMITED TIME ( Limited to 258 Copies )
https://258west.com/category/item.php?id=60
Serenity Comics, Action figures, RPG, Books, Trading cards... Everything Serenity can be found at my store.
http://www.bigdamnstore.com
Thanks for you support
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Well..I live in Edmonton, and I once shopped at Warp 1 comics. I don't anymore, Patchy is the reason, don't get me wrong,it's a great little shop, but the guy who owns it, Darryl (Or Patchy as we call him) is a complete and utter waste of skin. When he hands the business over to Lynn (The longest person employed by him and thank you God for such a wonderful woman) I can't wait to see what she does with the place and the prices..cause ole Patchy is a price gouging MF who wouldn't know a good business deal if it bit him in the butt.
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I got it at Forbidden Planet. They had the jayne and inara covers. I only bought the Jayne cover because there were other things I wanted to get too.
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I'll eat your flesh.
I'll sew your skin into my clothes.
If you're very very lucky, I'll do it in that order - TheReaver
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(Bump)
...Captains Orders.
I got Jayne & Inara covers at Starbase 21. I ordered Mal from 258 West.
"We had ties that could not be broken, except by the passing of time. Like a rock. A broken time rock. And you're very special to me, my broken time rock people." - Nathan Fillion
StillShiny's Firefly Fan Shop R.I.P 
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I apologize for the lateness of my obligatory "rip 'em a new one" reply. I shame myself to have missed this one, but alas stress lately has kept my mind occupied (see blog). So, without further addddooooo.....
*ahem*
Oh Captain, my Captain, how sh%t has come. Alas, that TMTCJ was not there to tip this sorry, worthless, waste of human space to the downward portions of a camel's nether-regions. Although I am sure that I will not be visiting the Great White North anytime soon, I shall be sure to go DIRECTLY to this store, and proceed with reading every, single mag they have.
IMMEDIATELY after eating a good sized portion of barbeque wings, provided some are easily aquired. To that, my response to any inquiry would be "Whedonesque Pork around the corner charged me $20 for my wings, and I don't want to waste the sauce on anything substandard."
Wearing, of course, a Blue Sun t-shirt, with a "Can't Stop the Sauce" bumper sticker firmly tacked to my rear portions...............
Orrrr......I am sure that I can re-wtch every single episode of The Simpsons with all the great prank calls and call that number....profusely. Jerkey Boys comes to mind also...
Tethys----The Irate BrownCoat Enforcer
"I aim to misbehave"
I am: http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warriorshtm/bigcat.htm
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This was posted on www.buffy.nu from the livejournal log of an employee at the store
Quote:
From Livejournal.com/users/ivica - 2005-08-1st
A work-related tale. It’s actually good. Read it.
A little bit of a preface here: The ’Serenity’ comic has been hot property. We’ve sold out of it four times, and this is only the first printing of the first issue, which has been out for two weeks now. We’ve been getting calls from Calgary to see if we still have any copies left. Yesterday, joy of joys, we managed to wrangle one in, with a sticker price of $19.99 because, of course, we had to go through the not-Diamonds secondary market, and we don’t want to sell it at a loss either. Incidentally, it was the Captain Malcolm cover, which was the first to go off our shelves initially.
Capt. Malcolm.
In comes a customer, and he was intending to buy the very expensive comic. Only he does not want to pay the $19.99. He wants to pay the US cover price. Prices stand firm, heated discussion takes place. I’m working the phone, so sadly I don’t get in on the details. The customer leaves, unhappy and comic-less.
Turns out that customer was Nathan Fillion.
Nathan Fillion.
Like I said, I was on the phone, so I missed out on little details like that (I didn’t recognize him, obviously. Hey, I’ve only ever watched one episode of Firefly!). Anyways, the story eventually finds its way to the internets, and whereas before we were dealing with one angry actor and his closest friends/family who he would relay the story to, now we get to deal with his fanclub.
There were a total of four messages on the voicemail. Two of them asked for an apology, and were calm and straightforward. One demonstrated the brilliance of internet persons who make good on their threats of action: "Hey Darrel, you suck." The final one was someone pretending to be from Dark Horse Comics (they publish the Serenity comic), threatening to not let us put any of their titles in our store. Advice to the anonymous woman who called: if you want to make us believe you, first a) leave a call-back number, because business is business, and b) know that we don’t deal with DH directly.
The kicker is that someone, possibly Rick R. Zimmerman, Assoc. AIA, needs to fix their fax machine, as it sent out around fifteen faxes, all the same thing. I’d hate to spoil the contents by posting it here. Ask me, because I asked Darrel for a copy (there were fifteen, after all) and I got one.
So now to end this on a high-ish note. Sadly, I suck at conclusions. I feel I ought to mention that the story’s been pepped up a little for comedic effect, and naturally biased, but it’s all true. Since this is the internets, no doubt the same stunning mind that brought us "Darrel, you suck" is going to find this and make a stink out of it. Sure, I could be reasonable and go into nice, calm explanations, but that wouldn’t make an interesting post, would it? And my LJ lacks in interesting posts.
The end... or is it?
I expect a few more messages on the voicemail tomorrow.
So he admits it happens but still doesn't address the jacking of the prices? As previous posts have stated the comic was located other stores in Canada for much cheaper price. Oh well.
Just thought I would share.
SF
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Interesting.
Apparently he does indeed have to go through a middle-man and pay the jacked up price because the comic suppliers will not sell directly to him.
Gee, they have no problem selling to OTHER comic stores in the region, do they now ?
I wonder if perhaps we're not seeing here the REASON that the comic suppliers will not, or will no longer, sell direct to this purplebelly.
He's also got no moral high ground when it comes to throwing insults around - he might have been a bit more subtle with them, but it's essentially his version of "No, YOU suck!" with a little whine and cheese on the side.
I say we convince the middle-men he's dealing with to cut him off as well, strangle his comic supply completely, then he won't have to whine about the high prices he has to pay for them, yes?
Soon to be
RIP
Warped One woulda-be comics.
Missing you, not so much.
-F
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Originally posted by slayerfan1975:
Like I said, I was on the phone, so I missed out on little details like that (I didn’t recognize him, obviously. Hey, I’ve only ever watched one episode of Firefly!).
This totally explains it. My comic shop dude knows every comic and comic-related movie and tie-in and whatnot. He's a fan. Anyone in that line of work who is not an active fan of Firefly/Serenity is a suit watchin' the ka-ching, and what more could you expect from him?
Warped one Chrisisall
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Couple things you guys might have missed.
Comic book stores dont buy from the publishers they buy through Diamond Comics ( who buys from the pubishers).
Now what the guy was saying about the jacked up price was, they had sold out of the comic 4 times and had to get the comic from another store.
I sold one store 150 copies @ full price. Not making excuses or agreeing with the bad guy. Just laying out some facts people are missing.
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RON GLASS AUTOGRAPHED COMIC COVERS FOR SELL ON MY SITE FOR A LIMITED TIME ( Limited to 258 Copies )
https://258west.com/category/item.php?id=60
Serenity Comics, Action figures, RPG, Books, Trading cards... Everything Serenity can be found at my store.
http://www.bigdamnstore.com
Thanks for you support
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Yeah, I think the concensus is that it was more about the attitude than the price.
And Darryl still has his job! I was worried about him...
Make mine Master of Kung Fu Chrisisall
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