Comic Buying Question

[Phaedrus45]

For the first time, I'm really thinking of dropping my LCS and going online to buy comics. As most of you have probably seen, there is an ad in this month's comics, advertising mailordercomics.com. I finally checked them out, and their discounts and prices are pretty amazing.

I did email the company, because I still had a few questions, like when do the comics arrive, how do they do billing, and how can I request the different covers, especially when they are 50/50%.

Has anyone used this company or heard about them? My normal 20% discount is blown away by their lowest discount of 38%. Plus, there are a good number of 50% discounts, and they discount the Essential and Showcase TPBs 40-50%, of which my comic shop never discounts TPBs.

 

[Phaedrus45]

I did some tallying. I took a first batch of Marvel Comics that I would buy from my LCS. If I didn't get a discount, it would cost $127.66. With my 20%, I'm going to pay $102.13. If I went with this company, it would cost $73.72.

I really hate leaving my LCS, because I feel we should support them if we can. But, so many comics are now getting to be $3.99...and, there are quite a few comics, where you're only paying $1.49 per issue. I do like my shop, because they do there best to get many many of the variants...but, for those kind of savings, I could buy the variants if I really, really want them.