Diamond Comics Majorly Screw Comic Shops For Christmas

[@MutantGenius]

"This! This is the sign!" "Yeah, it's a sign, all right... 'Going Out of Business!" -- Janine Melnitz, 1984

[@daveassanowicz186]

"Picking up or dropping off?"

[@DanielThompson-v7h]

As a retailer, I can say 100% that diamond has screwed the pooch. Now, you can't even call them. They are a complete joke.

[@lupea8079]

I was at my LCS this morning talking with the owner. He was telling me that Dimond has all the dynamite comics and has not shipped them out yet.

[@patrickmel8728]

Took me 3 weeks to get books going back to Thanksgiving week. And BOOM! just announced they are leaving Diamond today

[@unclefrankscomics7916]

My lcs has gotten their books 2 weeks late and is now expecting new books on thursdays. This hurting the small business for sure

[@keng.2468]

Diamond are the true dinosaurs!

[@lupea8079]

They sound like shady east coast mafia guys. 😅

[@robertgray1365]

I can't wait to hear the news that Diamond has shut down. They had a monopoly on distribution for decades and took full advantage of that power to be as insufferable and greedy as they possibly could because 'what are you gonna do about it?'. Good riddance.

[@Eyrrll]

Sad part is, they were actually a GREAT distributor back when they had competition.

[@maxmazzotti6651]

What will replace them if that does happen?

[@reapersritehand]

​@@maxmazzotti6651 lunar/ penguin

[@sak2881]

Over here in Vancouver BC, our only Diamond Comics pick up depot was permemtly closed within the last month.

[@jaysherm91]

My LCS is the only one in Plattsburgh. They used to be able to pick up their order directly to save on shipping costs. Now they are getting some of their order 1-2 weeks late. Luckily they are also using Lunar or they would be completely screwed.

[@Charlie-m6r5v]

It's just depressing how far comics have fallen. I'm depressed already by so much. Still trying to get problems solved.

[@jaylucien669]

Mcs just sold over 18tons of comics for their annual "Booksgiving" event. But, obviously, those were mainly back issues. Point is comics are still in demand. The ones who apparently missed the memo on this are all the mainstream companies.

[@aqdrobert]

Modern LCS: We cannot provide you with comics you wouldn't read. Our pull list was not made for you.

[@charlesbaserap8088]

Our LCS in Maryland hasn't gotten books on time three weeks in a row now. This week we finally got last week's books...on MONDAY, and it'll be the same again. They said it'll be a few weeks. The reasoning they're saying is they planned on shutting down the Plattsburgh warehouse in January and were month to month leasing in the space when the owner of said space came to them and said they found a permanent tenant and basically bounced them early. So now all diamond stuff is late and comes randomly from the Friday after the regular date to the Monday. I actually only just got Venom War #5 this week. It's so annoying.

[@amess6232]

Anyone remember the days of Up an Coming, lots of retailers liked these guys.

[@BrianLCS]

Diamond has been late to my LCS the past 3 weeks.

[@Worldatwarcomics]

Z’s Comic shop in South Texas just told me he has not received his Diamond order for today Wednesday. Not only that, he has not been billed for his order, nor have they contacted him to let him know what is going on with his order. This is outside of the damage issues.

[@Worldatwarcomics]

Also, Lunar arrives Friday, the week before the Wednesday they hit the shelf!

[@AL-ws5yi]

My lcs said the Marvel and Indies will be late this week. DC is on time though.

[@comixfix9451]

I love how they have waited until TUESDAY afternoon, every week, to let us know books are late. Like, no shit!! But thanks for letting us know at the 11th hour, what we already know. EVERYTHING reported in this video is 100% true, and there’s more information given to us since.. and btw, no reassurance that things will be better next week, just “as soon as possible”. Opened an account with Penguin, I’m done.

[@aqdrobert]

Captain Harriman: Comics are delivered next Tuesday by the Enterprise B proceeding at sublight.

[@akaBoG]

I just picked up like 4-5 weeks of my pull list from my LCS - I definitely got some damaged titles.

[@stevehnatko1050]

Same thing happening at my LCS. It's bullshit. They know it's a weekly business and they seem to care less. My LCS used to do their own pickups until distribution centers shut down. It's a shitshow

[@reapersritehand]

One of the reason your stuff is packed like that (especially from the olive branch location) all the workers up until you get to big names with initials in their title are all temp agency workers, most kno nothing about the comic industry

[@Dev003x]

I get my stuff shipped to me from Midtown Comics and they are 2 weeks late on books. They just shipped stuff from 2 weeks ago.

[@kelpietales4503]

Our LCS has missed their Diamond books for the past three weeks, sometimes getting them on Wednesday and having to re-do collecting for pull lists as well. Saving Grace is they barely get much via Diamond but it's actually some popular books like Conan. Long before all this we have been hearing Diamond horror stories and you think they be better with actual competition but nope.

[@robertgray1365]

@@kelpietales4503 they were late last week, this week and today my LCS told me Diamond already told them next week would be late too. I wish Titan would switch distributors already. Conan books are so consistently arriving damaged that it's become beyond frustrating.

[@erickkorpi]

Plattsburgh didn't renew lease and didn't negotiate with diamond. They got a vacate notice as it was already leased out. At least this is per chris Powell who was posting apologies left and right.

[@jasonirizarry9619]

Comic Retailers should stop using Diamond Distributors and all their worries would end

[@maximumdistractions]

Boom is moving to PRH in 2025. Diamond is in troubled waters to be sure. I never had a problem with Diamond -- other than the shipping costs -- but I won't miss them either.

[@magmacmillan4400]

Hey remember their slogan from a few years ago.. " our comeback will be bigger than our setback "? Lol

[@PubeStache]

I'm still kicking myself for not buying a shirt!

[@comixfix9451]

“Back the Comeback!” .. so glad we did 🙄

[@natemachado9113]

So I can add detail here as to why this has become such a issue with Diamond right now. They had a date they were expected to leave the Plattsburgh facility. The owner of the building found a tenant for it sooner then expected and told Diamond they had to get asap. So because of that Diamond has had to try and consolidate to their only warehouse on a faster schedule then planned and obviously was not prepared for that. Hence the reason behind these much more massive problems. This is probably going to make a bunch more retailers consider going to Penguin Random House, since Diamond was allowed to sub-distribute the Marvel product from Penguin Random House. And now that I am a retailer Wes, feel free to reach out if you care to have any discussions on this or other matters in the industry. WTF20.

[@comixfix9451]

100% true and they were stupid enough to admit so in their latest email to retailers. It’s what made us cut bait and say that’s enough!

[@divi6401]

I can agree with everything you're saying... My local LCS has not received any of my subscriptions... So, they say.... I have literally had to drive miles to a farther comic book store to get the comics I requested from my local LCS. I don't understand or get how some stores have certain comics that I have on my subscription list, and my local store didn't get thiers... They said they didn't get their shipment... I'm like thinking to myself, "Well, how the hell did other stores get their shipments, and you guys didn't..." They started to blame Diamond for the issue.

[@comixfix9451]

No loyalty, typical. 😂

[@loganradd2]

Diamond is a joke. They are also dishonest. They have totally screwed lcs's by grossly inflated shipping prices for years. They dont care about damaged books at all, even though book quality is of utmost importance to the customers of shops.

[@bumpkinstv6722]

If Diamond Comics is making any retailers so stressed that they can't sleep, then why are those retailers still ordering from Diamond? Yes, Diamond should be a reliable distributor and this is their problem, but at least a little bit of the onus is on the retailers for choosing not to order their books from a more reliable distributor.

[@bettergetdave]

So I spoke to my LCS about your video and he was perplexed as he had none of these issues. He actually praised Diamond and had bad things to say about Lunar. Idk what to think it's weird

[@EvandroACruz]

So many troubles the comic industry face in these days.

[@Leshil]

Geppi’s have 5-6 businesses and some of them are doing well, so they give less of a f*ck on the comic side of things with smaller margins.

[@jasonirizarry9619]

This is what happens when you support a gangsta like Diamond Distributors

[@bettergetdave]

Do these publishers print or just pkg and deliver?

[@namelesswhocares8648]

Basically, they are doing everything they can to destroy the comic book industry

[@chrissawyer1484]

Wow. Sounds like Diamond is doing to these LCSs the same thing they did to my shop back in 2016. Not sending product. No receipts. No way to ask anyone, and if you get someone, they just say, "what sre you gonna do about it?" Owners, you have options now. Use them. We didn't, so our store went under as a result.

[@wmwhitedevil]

Good video and topic, but there is no way in hell I'm going to hug my LCS guy or give him a "good game."

[@Doopy_Huckleberry]

Heartless bastard

[@WarriorsforInfoTV]

Diamond is fading away.

[@gnayr1305]

It seems like Diamond is owned & operated by corporate bankers. These complaints are the same that people have had with the banking industry.

[@gothamcitycomics6981]

Glad Boom finally announced they are leaving now we just need Titan and Dynamite to bail out from this sinking ship and we can finally start to conduct proper business. Too bad Dynamite is so far in bed with Diamond you wont even hear one bad word out of their mouth about them.

[@daveassanowicz186]

When FedEx, Amazon, and Chewy can get the stuff I order online to me in three days or less, that is pathetic

[@jaylucien669]

No Space Ghost for me this week. No Dick Tracy last week. Annoying.

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

As long as my comics weren’t damaged that’s what I cared about the most, if a corner was even slightly buffed it would drive me nuts. When I switched to the card stock DC covers I think they were better, I think, I can’t actually remember now haha. At least the card stock covers were much nicer, are they still doing those?

[@PureMaddnessOne]

I don't think they distriburate in mine country.

[@sidneyrivera3578]

Comic shop owner is a tough business to succeed at

[@unclefrankscomics7916]

Ok. I'll try to be concise...If your an LCS that sells 95% of books available from Lunar or PRH, why continue to use Diamond for your books? Is the odd indie title here an there worth it to your bottom line? just saying....

[@chrissawyer1484]

If this was back in 2015 or 2016, we definitely would have switched to Lunar and Penguin Random house. Diamond killed our store and many other stores in the area to the point where there wasn't a store within an hour of where I lived for several years. The only place now is mainly a card/back issue store.

[@TheCOMICCOMMANDER]

Titles are delayed EVERY WEEK.

[@Lanterns_light]

Ha… removing access to invoices… 🤡

[@MandatoryReporter2015]

Geppi is going out of business.

[@jasontodd8071]

I hope so!

[@RasslinRic]

Tired of Diamond. My LCS hasn’t gotten Marvel in new comic day for three weeks. One week they didn’t get them until the following Monday! I’ve actually started going to another shop that uses Penguin, which sucks because I’m usually loyal to my shop. Maybe this shit will force them to ditch Diamond

[@economicsincomics]

👀

[@WarBrer247]

Zero sympathy for any shop buying from Diamond.

[@jessr1698]

Yikes

[@dr.medieval1131]

Diamond has been a shit show for decades! How the industry has lasted this long with Diamond is amazing.

[@johnvankirk5328]

I came into my local comic shop today to grab my son's pull list ...The owner of my shop was going through new independent comics with awe he was so upset all the comics were damaged...he was so upset...he cares ...they didn't it fucking sucks