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straightaway after this weekend ’s Baltimore Comic Con , Diamond bear host to a Baltimore Retailer Summit , where retailers can adjoin with Diamond and invite publishers , to teach about forthcoming promotions and events , ask enquiry and hear and adjudicate problems , and pluck up both free swag like theGreen Lantern Corps # 3 : Blackest Night Variant , increase discount on anything ordered at the show such as 5 - 10 % excess discount off Dark Horse hardback , or being able to pick up variant comics such as theDCD Summit 2009 Ultimate Comics Armor Wars#1 for $ 2 each .
There will be adjoin and greets with creators , dozens of time to claver with retailers , and announcements made by Diamond . Something expected is the much - requested oft - rumour lifting of the 3 % Reorder Fee .
Currently retailers parliamentary law comics from Diamond when they are court by retailers as a certain discount rate charge per unit , somewhere around 50 -55 % . However orders received for comics after the final order appointment are have it away as reorders , and for those , Diamond take an extra 3 % off the rebate charge per unit , known as a Reorder Fee . This apply to all non - brokered publishing house , fundamentally penalising a retail merchant for reordering from a non - Marvel , DC , Dark Horse or Image rootage .
There have been calls over the yearsfor this to be remove , in that ittargets smaller publishing firm , those whose comics trade over a longer shelf life story , and that it keep sure title becoming mainstay of the industry , specially in light of the increase minimal sales requirements and thin availableness of reorder of periodic comics to the market for a window of sixty days .
In June , Diamond removed their reorder fee for two weeksas a fond apology for the inconvenience suffered by many over the delays due to Diamond affect warehouses . There was promise at the time that this may keep to rollover but it was not to be .
Now however , the rumours are rife that this Monday will see a modification of Diamond term that will do good both retailer and publishers in a flash . And may claw back some reorder volume that he been lost to other electrical distributor such as Haven or Barnes & Noble who do n’t charge such a fee .
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