I love 25-cent bargain bins. That just seems to be the best price…perhaps because even going back 21 years or so, bargain-bins I recall–mainly at Comics and Collectibles–were 25-cents. And because hey…it takes FOUR comics to each one-dollar.
By that logic, the 50-cent bins rack up the price twice as fast, where every 2 comics are another full dollar.
And typically I avoid the dollar bins…even though it takes 4 of these one-dollar comics to match a single contemporary comic, when one’s used to ’90s comics and such around 25-cents…$1 seems a bit much.
But…digitally, it seems that 99-cents (effectively that $1) is the magic price point. Because of whatever limitations or “politics,” I have never seen a digital comic SELL for less than $0.99. Seems there’s “Free,” there’s $0.99, then there’s most of the usual stuff ($1.99/$2.99/$3.99+).
While I don’t usually buy full-priced ($2.99/$3.99+) comics, every now and then I have, for one reason or another. With a tablet now, I’m far more likely, as I do contemplate a more drastic shift to digital.
But primarily, I’ve been a definite fan–and sucker–when it comes to 99-cent sales from Comixology.
Whether it’s been acquiring A Death in the Family, Batman: Year One, Batman: Year Two, and The Dark Knight Returns for a mere $0.99 per issue (all 4 stories for about the price of a TPB of only ONE of the stories) or random other issues–Zero Hour/1994’s Zero Month issues, small runs of Cable, some Rogue and Gambit issues, or X-Force #1 just for the heckuvit, etc.–I frequently find myself buying at least an issue or two from most of these sales.
Usually the purchases are fairly spur-of-the-moment, but I actually thought specifically on stuff before partaking in this past weekend’s House of M 99-cent sale. I actually considered splurging for the whole event; but I’m still holding out hope of finding the hardcovers for a decent price.
While I was out shopping, I bought an iTunes “gift card,” treating it as if I was paying the price for a single collected volume. Once I redeemed it, I snagged the entire “core” House of M series, along with the 5-issue Spider-Man: House of M mini. And I have about $2 left over for something else.
I doubt I’d’ve bought any of these for $1.99 each…but for $0.99…I’ll buy in “bulk.”
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