Is the variant bubble going to burst?2691
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Quote:Originally Posted by shrewbeer I would too, but we're not talking about golden age books. A Marvel book with a $3.99 price tag printed on the book shouldn't be marked up 13x what the cover price is on its release date. |
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| But the $3.99 is the regular price. You can't expect to pay $3.99 for a variant that is 100 times rarer than the regular book just because the publisher is lazy and reuses the same trade dress as the regular. It would be nice if they just left the price blank, but I suppose there might be some kind of legal requirement to have a price on it. | ||
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| @Studley_Dudley in an ideal world I completely agree it shouldnt have such a high mark up, but when the retailer has potentially had to lay down an extra $500/$1000 to obtain the numbers to qualify for the variant its unrealistic for them to be expected to drop it at standard price. The publishers are creating the buzz/limited availability for the book which is creating this demand among collectors/flippers but this shouldnt be at the retailers expense and we shouldnt expect them to obtain it for us without some knock on effect. | ||
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| Then the publisher needs to unfudge themselves and remove the cover price from the book. IDW does it and because of that, I understand when it gets marked up some. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by DarthLego I'm not so sure of that, as some publishers do ship their Incentive Variants with no price. Check an IDW 1:10 or higher next time you see one, you'll see the bar code/ UPC but the space you would normally have a price listed is blank. |
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Kudos to IDW for setting the bar  |
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