Tennessee retailer Mark Amoroso’s piece at ICv2 about unfair retail competition may be about to have unintended results:
I just happened to order the book Ghost Pirates and other Revenants of the Sea Collection from the Diamond TRU system. The TRU site didn’t have much information about the book so I decided to do a Web search for more info. I was surprised to find a link to Wal-Mart.com.
Curious, I went to the site and found the book for just a bit more than what my discount price is from Diamond. I decided to do a search for “Diamond Comics Distributors” under “books.” To my surprise I found 2838 books that appear to be supplied to Wal-Mart by Diamond.
Wal-Mart sells the books at up to 37% off, with a .97 cent shipping fee.
Hands up everyone who immediately thought “I want to check out what Wal-Mart.com has in stock”…
December 29th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
looks like I will use Walmart now!
Lower price and lower shipping!
Thanks for the heads up
December 29th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
You know, it’s not any different price-wise then Amazon. Yeah the shipping is cheaper, but you get free shipping at Amazon for $25+ orders.
December 29th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
You know, it’s not any different price-wise then Amazon. Yeah the shipping is cheaper, but you get free shipping at Amazon for $25+ orders.
If I’m not mistaken, that’s only for ordering directly from Amazon, not from the Used Items sellers.
December 30th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
If I’m not mistaken, that’s only for ordering directly from Amazon, not from the Used Items sellers
That’s correct, but it doesn’t really affect me as Amazon has pretty much every graphic novel I want…