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lokyel wrote:

collectibleshop wrote:

have you asked Dynamite or Futureshop directly? go to the sources, they should know the truth. All I could find was some blog that said the season 3 steelbook dvd from Best Buy Canada had an Origins comic in it (probably a reprint?). The BG Origins issues here don't note a DVD insert version either. good luck on the hunt.

do you have a link to the blog?

had to search for it again. beware, the blog takes forever to finish loading, and tends to lock up my browser, so had to stop it and do a 'find' search. It's from 2008. http://galacticasitrep.blogspot.com/2008/03/

this is the pertinent post, and the link on the site to the Best Buy page is long out of date of course:
"In Canada, FutureShop has a few more copies of their “exclusive steelbook" edition of Season 3…and Best Buy Canada is bundling a free issue of the Battlestar Galactica: Origins comic book with the Season 3 package." of course there's no pic, and the comments don't want to load this year, so gave up waiting to see them.

Here's a thought--the blog says 'bundling a free issue of the Origins comic.' That doesn't necessarily mean it's an exclusive edition or variant, it could just be a regular edition that Dynamite or someone supplied them. In that case there's no reason to list it separately. It could also explain why that auction site has none noted with any of the season 3 steelbooks, or that maybe there just aren't any of the Best Buy Canada editions with the comic up for sale or sold at the moment. I tried multiple more google searches and came with nothing, so my guess is that IF there was a comic with that season 3 set, then it was just a regular edition.

this is Dynamite's contact info page with phone #'s and email addresses: https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/contact.html

mycomicshop doesn't seem to list it under the 2006 series or the Origins series either. You'd think after all this time someone would have it pictured or listed somewhere. done all the looking I'm gonna do, so have fun..
edited by collectibleshop on 6/29/2021

Fixed. Thank you

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Defiant1 wrote:

The most valuable thing a Golden Age dealer has is his customer list. Heritage sells high end & high dollar collectibles, so they attract customers with deep pockets.
Customers that spend a lot of money go back to sellers that have what they want and they go back to sellers they trust.
Comics shops that sell new comics every week used to say, they can't sell Golden age comics or they don't sell Silver Age well.
There's a reason. People who spend a lot of money aren't wasting their time with sellers who focus on new comics.
You have to build a clientele for expensive books before you will ever consistently sell expensive books.
I'd say Heritage has a clientele of buyers/bidders that will & can pay more for what they buy.

I understand Heritage themselves I guess I should've said I never understood the price these buyers pay. It makes no sense to me that buyers go on there and bid up books to ridiculous prices when if they had just took the time to look they could have bought the same book graded the same or even better for way less money. For instance one ASM 800 autographed book went for almost $400 on one of there auctions and that same book with the same autograph was up for sell on E-bay by multiple dealers for $180-$200 buy it now. If that is a book you want, why pay double and wait for the actual auction to start when you can just buy it immediately for less? Makes no sense. I understand it's Heritage's clientele that will and can pay more, it just seems like for rich people they aren't real savvy with their money. That's a low dollar book now think about how much money they are wasting for high dollar books. They will wait longer and pay way more on there for a book they could have just bought from A-1 or Reece or any one of the other many dealers that sell high end books.

lokyel wrote:

ok I have to take a moment to state that I would never ever give any of my business to A-1
While in one of there stores an 7-8 year old kid came in to find out the value of his grandfathers comics the owner did a slight of hand and ditched a very key issue under the counter and handed the stack back to the kid and told him they were not worth a whole lot. the kid left. a little bit later one of there regulars came in and he sold that book.
If a store is willing to steel from a kid what else are the willing to do.

a few months later 3 other comics shops were broken in to and all the stuff that was taken ended up in there store.

Wait you saw this and didn't speak up? I don't care who it is, if I saw someone steal from a kid I would have called them out on it. And I wasn't trying to advertise for them or say they are good I was just trying to point out there are plenty of dealers with higher end books for sale.

I think all of the first prints have it.