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FYI: Sale going on at the Site Which Does Not Exist

TorchsongTorchsong Posts: 2,794
edited July 2012 in Comics Talk Community - The On Topic Forum
http://www.fearlessreadersonline.com/index.php

Through Saturday. 20% off back issues and $3 trades and graphic novels.

Not that any of this (or the link above) is real in any way shape or form.

You're welcome.
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  • KrescanKrescan Posts: 623
    Got your order in before you told us right? :)

    Not that an order to an imaginary place would do someone any good.
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  • TorchsongTorchsong Posts: 2,794
    Krescan, of course I got my order in before I told you guys! No moss growing on me! :)

    All I picked up were some Shi trades and a few how to draw art books, though, so the pickings are still ripe!

    If any of this were real, though... :)
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  • ctowner1ctowner1 Posts: 481
    so what's the joke about the site not existing about??

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  • TorchsongTorchsong Posts: 2,794
    Back on the old forum - and maybe even the forum before that - someone (not me) found this site - www.fearlessreadersonline.com - which sold back issues fairly cheap and had $5 trades, some as recent as this year. The people behind it scour stores and trade shows for deals, buy in bulk, pass the savings on, and make money off shipping (I'm guessing).

    I just ordered 10 books from them and paid less than $40 for them. $37.75 to be precise, with shipping included in that number. If you consider the average trade is $15, it would have been $150 minimum otherwise.

    Now, if you knew about a site that did stuff like this, would you broadcast it? Probably not. So someone on here (and this time it was probably me :) ) started talking about how I didn't just spend x amount of dollars for x amount of books at this site which doesn't exist (putting a link to that part of the text).

    And it took off from there. It became the site which doesn't exist, where we don't buy books at extreme discounts, and you don't know about it. If it were real at all. Which it isn't.

    Peter called us out on it once because he thought the joke was stupid...and maybe it is. But just because a joke is stupid doesn't mean we won't keep telling it! :)



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  • matchkitJOHNmatchkitJOHN Posts: 1,030
    Torchsong said:

    Back on the old forum - and maybe even the forum before that - someone (not me) found this site - www.fearlessreadersonline.com - which sold back issues fairly cheap and had $5 trades, some as recent as this year. The people behind it scour stores and trade shows for deals, buy in bulk, pass the savings on, and make money off shipping (I'm guessing).

    I just ordered 10 books from them and paid less than $40 for them. $37.75 to be precise, with shipping included in that number. If you consider the average trade is $15, it would have been $150 minimum otherwise.

    Now, if you knew about a site that did stuff like this, would you broadcast it? Probably not. So someone on here (and this time it was probably me :) ) started talking about how I didn't just spend x amount of dollars for x amount of books at this site which doesn't exist (putting a link to that part of the text).

    And it took off from there. It became the site which doesn't exist, where we don't buy books at extreme discounts, and you don't know about it. If it were real at all. Which it isn't.

    Peter called us out on it once because he thought the joke was stupid...and maybe it is. But just because a joke is stupid doesn't mean we won't keep telling it! :)



    Yes that's pretty much the story...if such a website actually did exist.
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  • LibraryBoyLibraryBoy Posts: 1,803
    Torchsong said:


    Peter called us out on it once because he thought the joke was stupid...and maybe it is. But just because a joke is stupid doesn't mean we won't keep telling it! :)

    Sometimes those are the best jokes of all!
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  • luckymustardluckymustard Posts: 927
    Torchsong said:

    The people behind it scour stores and trade shows for deals, buy in bulk, pass the savings on, and make money off shipping (I'm guessing).

    I hope they make a little off of me, on my orders, as I don't have them ship it... I'm in the same city as they are! In fact, from where I'm sitting right now, at work, I could be there in 10 minutes (home is 20-25 minutes away).
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  • TorchsongTorchsong Posts: 2,794
    I'm not 100% sure how they make any kind of profit, but they must for the biz to continue, I would guess. I'm not questioning the whys - I'm taking advantage of their existence as long as they exist! :)
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  • DoctorDoomDoctorDoom Posts: 2,586
    Torchsong said:

    I'm not 100% sure how they make any kind of profit, but they must for the biz to continue, I would guess. I'm not questioning the whys - I'm taking advantage of their existence as long as they exist! :)

    Which, of course, they don't, right?
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  • fredzillafredzilla Posts: 2,131
    edited July 2012
    Wasn't going to, but I found $80+ in trades for about $20. Wow. (Don't tell the missus) :-\"
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  • matchkitJOHNmatchkitJOHN Posts: 1,030
    Torchsong said:

    I'm not 100% sure how they make any kind of profit, but they must for the biz to continue, I would guess. I'm not questioning the whys - I'm taking advantage of their existence as long as they exist! :)

    Well I sold them about four or five long boxes this spring of stuff I probably couldn't give away. Bill gave me $100 credit. Now seeing all the money I saved with him the last three years I think I more than broke even but maybe made a profit. :) Really enjoy doing business with them.

    My only disappointment is not buying that Thor 171 that was in the silver age section over the last two weeks because its gone now! :(
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  • NickNick Posts: 284
    Thanks for posting this, found some of the Spider-Man HCs I need for $3.75 a pop. Awesome deal!
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  • ctowner1ctowner1 Posts: 481
    got it... thanks @torchsong!

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  • KrescanKrescan Posts: 623
    they're back up and running their sale, thought it was just through the weekend but still going on right now, i have all the Buffy Omnibus now and I think I'm out about 30 bucks
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