Hey, Folks!
Welcome to the first EDitorial of the year!
Of course, I really don’t have much to say this week. After achieving the BEST MONTH EVER in December and adding everything up for the year and discovering that Brian and I achieved the BEST YEAR EVER I will admit that I have been taking it easy. I have also been living in mortal fear of what my 4th quarter estimated tax payout is going to be since the we did so well at the end of the year. If you hear a blood curdling scream tomorrow afternoon it will be finding out how much money will be shoveled into the gaping maw of small business taxes.
But let’s focus on the good times…lol. I have been working very hard for the last 3 years in our transition to a “back issue” store and I finally feel like all of the hard work Brian and I put into the new stock in the last year is paying off. We have, in recent weeks, put many of the juiciest comics from the BG Collection out for sale and the response that we have received for them has been, in short, amazing. I honestly had no idea that we had quite so many customers looking for these kind of comics, even in the sometimes extremely low grades. It has been occasionally stunning, but I’m glad that we were able to place them in the hands of folks who will love them. The BG Collection has many more treasures yet to be unveiled and I will be doing some wheeling dealing today in order to secure some more stuff to be posted before the end of the week. None of these books will be part of the Post-Holiday Sale, however, and will be boxed separately and be behind the counter. Always feel free to ask me or Brian to let ya take a look at the current books we have ready to go.
Additionally, I am working hard at getting the rest of the Jersey Collection sorted, priced, and on display. Unlike the BG Collection, the Jersey Collection will be available under the terms of the Post-Holiday Sale, although the newest material will be boxed on the counter and will be going for the 20% off discount. This will change as the month goes on if I am as quick to sort through them as I was at the beginning of this adventure as I will run out of room on the counter and the books will naturally migrate to the 50% off boxes. Stay tuned!
Okay…back to work for me. I’ve got a million things to do today including helping Brian rearrange the store a bit, finish my Lunar FOC, head over to the storage unit to get some more Jersey boxes, and so on.
Have a great weekend and I will see ya next week!
Eddie