Well I just got conformation, I just won my first figuart, Shinken Red. I can't wait for it to get here.

SHF Gokai Red + darin, some custom helmets and guns for my lego minifig army, Wild Force Rhino Zord

I'm so jealous. One of these days Mandrake is going to get in the three remaining Gokaigers I need with their darins (Blue, Red, and Yellow) so I can completely my team.

The box I was awaiting from Den-O did arrive yesterday, as expected.
4 more new Eaglemoss DC Chess pieces, including the suddenly hard to find Riddler and Batgirl, and the first of the new Batmobile Collection, also from Eaglemoss.

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Yay! It made it! You'll have another box of awesome shipping out on Monday as well :D

I'm really not getting what you're saying here. I don't work at a comic store, so I don't know what "doing their jobs right" would entail. Gotta remember that.

The numerous times I've been there, I've never seen anything like a magazine people can order from.

My bad. Previews is a publication that's meant for the public, for customers. Every comic shop (if doing it correctly) is supposed to order quantity of this magazine and sell it to their customers. We give our copies away as a thank you to our normal customers but by no means do all shops do that.

But the whole point of it is to solicit items 2 months in advance. That's how the ordering system through Diamond comics works. Every order is placed 2 months ahead, like in January we ordered stuff for March. Well the only way to accurately gauge what to order that month is for that book to be in a customers hands. It even has a customer order form in that you can fill out so that you can take it back to your shop. Then they know exactly what to order for you, item codes and all.

If they were using Previews like they should then they'd be selling it to customers when it comes out (the first week of every month) and then you'd get to look through and see what you'd like them to order for you. It always baffles me when a shop either doesn't carry Previews or doesn't distribute it. It's just a really great courtesy to your customers and it makes the ordering process so much simpler.

And it all makes perfect sense now. Thank you. :)

Maybe I've just missed it before. But then this was the first week of February and I was there at the start of the week and saw nothing. If they aren't distributing them to us, it really is a shame. And as the only comic shop in town, I'd think they'd want as much business as they can get. But then they also seem to get most of their business from Magic the Gathering players, so who knows what their priorities are.

Man, thinking about all of this really makes me want to go buy a Figuart though since I haven't in so long haha.

I feel like I need to buy something from Den-O to properly be a member of the site :lol

You're very welcome!
Do it! :D Fund my addiction, please?