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- Posted: November 17, 2016 2:07:23 pm
- As a community we need to decide the best way to accommodate pricing variants (or if we do at all). Virtually EVERY comic from the 80's will likely have a US price, Canadian Price and even a Pence price. Throw into this the possibility of a Direct vs Newsstand cover and we could have 5 versions of Doctor Strange #50. Lets use this topic to discuss possible options for how to handle these.
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- Posted: November 18, 2016 1:33:51 am
- For me I like to keep things simple. While I have nothing against variants per se, the whole thing is being overdone in comics today, but that is an entirely different matter as companies try to maximize their sale totals. Back around 1979 - 1980 when comic shops began to proliferate Marvel and DC and others began to ship to the direct market while still supplying comics to the drugstores, etc. I own many bought via the direct market and many bought off news stands and I do not see any difference in them, nor do I see any reason they should be treated differently. Honestly, how many books that fit this criterion have different values for the two types? If the price difference is only for different markets I also would not worry about that, and I would never worry about overseas currencies here on this North American website. Comics are sold all around the world but this is not the time nor the place to worry about that. Back when Marvel, for example, was testing the market to raise prices and printed up a small sample size of an issue that cost five or ten cents more for a few months, those are true variants. The others not so much, imo.
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