[cidman911]

ClevComicMan's rant was a little depressing to read.

I'm all about nostalgia but I still don't feel too bad when a few of my childhood comic shops, record stores or video rental places went out of business. A lot of my memories of those places was pretty crappy so I'm happy my future kids don't have to deal with stores that won't accept a refund because the CD has a minor scratch, $5 per day late fees on a video game rental, and comic shops that won't exchange an item because we opened it and something was wrong so now we're stuck with it. People like corporate owned stores because it's easy to get an exchange or refund on something like $3,000 tv. Pretty much no questions asked if want to return a tv I had 2 days from wal-mart. If I try return a $20 toy that came factory damaged to a comic shop...well...we already know what most of them will say.

I'm finding myself caring less and less about comic shops, there's maybe 3 in my area that have decent service. I'd like to help them in business but with high prices and snobby service, I can't justify giving them my money.

And the Free Comic Book Day with me was just stupid. I wanted 2 books...just 2. No more. And they gave me attitude about buying an annual membership ("You come in here a lot...you need it anyway"). That's what pushed me over the edge to stop giving Comics N Stuff in San Diego my business.