60% Off MOVINGDAY Sale - Comics and Books
Howdy!
The saga of our sale of our 56th Ave. headquarters building continues. Yesterday
afternoon at 5 PM was the deadline for us to sign the "final" agreement, after
which the buyer of our building was (at least theoretically...) supposed to be
bound to go through with the purchase. Not surprisingly, however, the legion of
electricians, plumbers, roofers, building inspectors, engineers, and surveyors that
the buyer had visit us during the past six weeks provided him with enough dubious
claims of deficiencies that he completely backtracked, reducing his original offer
to us by a whopping $277,000.00.
56th Ave. Warehouse
My Realtor's reaction to the buyer's exaggerated claims was to urge me to immediately
cancel the deal. He told me that he had two other groups very eager to purchase our
building at full value, and that we had no reason to negotiate. What occurred to me,
however, was that there was no guarantee that either of these other two groups that he
had waiting in the wings would not also nickel-and-dime us during inspections. So,
despite having severe misgivings, I insisted that we enter into negotiations to try
and find a middle ground. Long story short, we signed off yesterday on a blanket
$100,000 adjustment to the purchase price to cover all perceived shortcomings of our
building.
All of the above having been said, this is the point at which I have to force myself
to be pragmatic, and to give away some more of my precious
comics.
Simply put, the
$100,000 that I rebated to the buyer yesterday was the entire amount that would have
been left over from the building sale after our bank receives their money. With the
prodigious costs of moving
six million comics
coming due over the next seven weeks,
I have no other option but to immediately put into effect one last 60% off sale, not
only on all of our
back issue comics and magazines,
but also on all of our backlist
graphic novels and trade paperbacks.
Beginning right now, you can use the 60% off MOVINGDAY! codeword to purchase darn near
any of our
ten million back issue comics and magazines
listed on our
website.
This
includes all of our back issue
Marvel,
DC,
Dark Horse,
Image,
IDW,
Valiant,
Disney,
and
Independent comics,
as well as all of our
Golden Age,
Silver Age,
Bronze Age, and
modern back issues.
Only new comics, a few variants, and our CGC-graded issues are
excluded. Most comics listed in today's
New-In-Stock
and
Premium New-In-Stock
links
ARE included.
As regards our books, we have over 200,000
graphic novels and trade paperbacks
that we
are putting on sale for you today at 60% off, and about 50,000
hardbacks
that will be
priced at 50% off. These prices are reduced for you right on our
website,
so no codeword
is needed. This is your chance to purchase books for your library at close to our dealer
wholesale price, and sometimes even below wholesale.
A couple of closing thoughts about my new 60% off sale. First, please be aware that you
may have to wait a week, or two, for your order to ship. This is typically a slower time
of year, but 60% off is such a crazy generous discount that we still expect a large influx
in MOVINGDAY! orders. Second, this 60% off sale is being implemented pretty much entirely
to help us to cover our moving costs. Please do not expect any future sales of this magnitude,
as we cannot possibly justify giving away
comics
at these prices except in response to
exceptional circumstances. In all honesty, our primary goal once we've finished moving will
be to steadily build our online comics selection, not to decimate it any further with crazy
sales. 'Nuff said.
Happy collecting!
Chuck Rozanski,
President - Mile High Comics, Inc.
February 24, 2016
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