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Did Diamond Hurt The Comic Store In Your hereafter ? One store say tale and ruefulness of days of dispersion past .

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When Diamond was the only vendor for American amusing books , I thought that was limiting laughable book growth . If I did not have a comedian on deal and Diamond did not , I essentially could not get it and still deal it at a profit . My computer memory was essentially just an outreach of Diamond Comics . I also wondered about business concern that could not do business for whatever reason , with Diamond that wanted to betray strip . I used to joke that my options for selling comics were to deal with Diamond or not sell comics . I readGary Ray ’s Facebook post about Diamondannouncing they file away for Chapter 11 bankruptcy . He have Black Diamond Games in California and has been in business for many old age . Here is what he post on Facebook :

" This is sad for everyone involved . But this is also an example of what happens when a society has a monopoly on products , result in severe help , ridiculous policies , and a level of unparalleled hauteur . Diamond is the only company where I had to actively exit the account and tell them never to touch me again , otherwise they would witness some risible book to send me in an $ 8 UPS despatch . "

" Diamond was horrific . Their policy and methods were the reason many game stores shunned comedian . My succeeder in the plot swop is more about navigating unmanageable , rearward , inefficient companies than it is about experience some retail splendor . My Book of Job is more about removing sand for the machinery than building sandcastles . " If there had been more than one comical distribution seller other than Diamond for over twenty years , how many more vent would there have been for funnies to be sold through ?

The close my depot ever came to closing was due to a fallout with Alliance Games year ago , Diamond ’s sister troupe at Geppi Family Enterprises . It is a very recollective storey that may serve as a next article , but I would need to dig up the emails . In short , Alliance distinguish me they could have my terms with Diamond reviewed , even though it had nothing to do with Diamond , and everything for both company had been paid for . My lease was up in a few months , and I guess I was not going to be bullied . So I email something along the lines of " This is like if Walmart ripped me off and threatened to banish me from their computer storage . Why would I need to keep doing business with them ? " I think I would hobble along to the end of my term of a contract , not be able to sell any novel comics , and be done . In my intellect , it was harebrained ; a comic store was going to not be able to sell comic because of one gaming vendor , which was a sister troupe to Diamond . It go higher up , and we made peace . But I wondered how many other the great unwashed this had find to . Who would have joined or stayed in the comic book business if it was not just baseball diamond - or - nothing for comic al-Qur’an stores ?

I never sympathise why I could order game through so many distributors , but for cartoon strip , it was only Diamond . I do not need anyone to lose their jobs . I desire Diamond bounces out of Chapter 11 and is still in business . I do not need there to be only one seller for comics ever again . Competition inspire development and progress ; cause none can have the opposite effect , which can hurt the comic food market .

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