Posted in : Comics , Current News| Tagged : rhomb , lunar
In the last few workweek , Bleeding Cool has covered issue that laughable book retailer have been sustain from Diamond Comic Distributors delays .
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roi : Our Diamond ordering for 11/27 release was part into 5 box seat . Two boxful arrived days apart , fume of smoking like they ’d been sit in a burning storage warehouse . One box had browned and slightly unfreeze house of cards wrapper inside it . A third box was so damage at the UPS Memphis fix that it was reelect to Diamond from UPS instead of continue on to us . Two boxwood still unaccounted for . Diamond had no melodic theme that there was some sort of ardor / smokey surround , so it could be that UPS has n’t gotten around to inform customers . I learned about it from tail the packages .
BJ terms : No clue here . I got an bill today that evidence what should be come , I distrust , but only the Funko products have a trailing number arriving tomorrow . I have no clue yet when to carry the other invoiced items or when anything else is shipping , including some items I was have a bun in the oven over a week ago . It feels like they should just keep out down invoicing and hit up the bank accounts randomly at varying clip for amounts that do n’t rival any one or more invoices we can identify so far until they have this sorted out . I ’ve actuate other bills pay to a personal checking account just because I have no clue what Diamond ’s operate to automatically take out or what day it ’ll happen .
Peter F : I’m a comics retailer that address with Diamond and has for the last 19 old age . I see this retailer ’s frustration . The shutdown of the Plattsburgh location was a entire cataclysm , and Diamond could n’t get their act together logistically . They must have know that their lease was up at this emplacement , you would think they would have figured things out . I mistrust they are bleed money , and that ’s why this consolidation happened . The consignment for Nov 27th and Dec 4 were a total good deal . I was supposed to get 5 box last workweek , and I buzz off 3 on Monday , 1 on Tuesday and 1 on Wednesday , and I had no clew when this order actually was showing up . I had to call the load company to bump out . I have move almost everything away from them as quickly as I could . They ca n’t be trusted to get us retailers our merchandise on time . The price of freight is through the ceiling , and damage books are normal for them , as I had a few title last week . Next week , Dec 18th books from Diamond will be deep again , consort to an email they institutionalize out today . Diamond has been done for a while , but the last few workweek have really shown they are totally out of their depth . Other distributors are doing thing a lot estimable than Diamond , and I do n’t see them around much longer .
vacuous : Our last two dispatch both had invoices . Everything was listed as reorders , though , which confused the hell out of my co - proletarian who was tasked with opening and classify the box . funny about what tomorrow contribute since , according to our freight flattop , we are only hypothesize to get Lunar ( probably from last and this hebdomad ) and the common boxes of surprises from Random House . Weird . Our bill are there and have not disappeared ( see pic ) . They had / have those " Pending this week " false invoices that unremarkably get delete once the actual account go live ( which for the last three weeks was recent , yes , but normally we got them by Friday , IIRC ) . Ca n’t say that our comic strip arrive destroyed . Quite the antonym . They improved a muckle since losing most of the freehanded publisher . Merch and expensive oversized hardcovers still get damaged quite often , though .
But hey , do n’t retrieve that Bleeding Cool are just down on Diamond . Not everyone is happy with Lunar either … as one source writes in ;
" I ’ve been following your Diamond reportage , but I ’ve been surprise there has n’t been any Lunar reporting . At least 3 entrepot in SW Pennsylvania have not received their Lunar saving on time or at all . Last week , two stores finally got their Lunar deliverance on Wednesday and my LCS did n’t get theirs until Thursday . Today , those first two shop only got a pocket-size percentage of Lunar stuff . No Absolute Batman . No GI Joe . No Transformers . My own LCS did n’t get any Lunar stuff and the assistant handler said they have no mind when they ’re getting it . "
Now some the great unwashed above and elsewhere , have asked if Diamond is run bankrupt . That does n’t seem probable . sure not now . Diamond is owned by Geppi Family Enterprises , which own many linked company , and as Bleeding Cool luff out , Geppi expanded Alliance Games Distribution to take on much of the slack when it lost its monopoly over the with child funny script publishers . DC Comics and Image Comics drop dead exclusive with Lunar , Marvel , IDW , and Tokyopop , and now Boom has gone exclusive with Penguin Random House . And Oni Press , Ahoy Comics , AWA , Fantagraphics , Drawn & Quarterly and more share distribution , non - exclusively . ball field still dissemble as a third - party distributor for Marvel , Image , Dark Horse , IDW , and more , which , to be fair , has caused many of the problems that stores are presently undergoing . Many computer storage have stuck with Diamond for third - party distribution because of economies of exfoliation , cargo ships schedules , and simplicity . It may also be worth considering that Geppi also own Diamond UK , which still pass on Marvel , DC , Image , Dark Horse , IDW , etc , to the UK , which makes up an forecast 10 - 15 % of the verbatim marketplace . Diamond is downsize to adjust to the market fracture , but it has n’t lost nearly as much byplay as it might otherwise look .
Merry Christmas , everyone . And give your mirthful book retailer some quag if they ca n’t quite fulfil Santa ’s dismission .
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