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PostPosted: Feb 04, 2005 2:18 am    Post subject: Re: Borders is fucking over Mike and Brian Reply with quote

Andrew--
what sucks about that setup is this (at least with borders):
their corp computers say it exists. the store level computers don't. a computer glitch.
so once they figure that out then part two of the problem is that the book is not a item that they are planning to stock regularly (which sucks for the guys) but the other 6 volumes you can get if you walked right into the store.

corperates...hate them.
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PostPosted: Feb 04, 2005 2:23 am    Post subject: Re: Borders is fucking over Mike and Brian Reply with quote

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sooo long story short here folks.
the last couple of months i have been (indirectly)working for borders for the xmas season. Now the one thing i have learned about borders and Barnes is that if they don't get the trades the day diamond ships them it takes about two three weeks to cycle through.

well for other reasons (and a seperate long story) my order that included vol.7 of powers never got to my shop in time. I didn't think anything of it, i could just by it at borders with my discount.

la la la the book ships dec.15th right? i wait till fucking the second week of january to call the main store (i work at the bastard stepchild-one of the outlets) to see if its in.
mind you they keep all of the other 6 powers trades on the shelf.

the fuckers tell me its OUT OF PRINT!

so i email mike who checks into diamond (who happens to supply borders...) and there is like 15,000 copies of Powers v7. so i talk to the store again telling them that the computer is wrong...that i talkedto the fucking ARTIST of the book and this is what he is tellingme.

the manager of the store told me i was lying. that i couldn't have possibly talked to 'Mr. Oeming'. I even showed her his fucking emails. so im really pissed now, and RC checks amazon.com for me. now i was told that there was no way to get this book through borders or its subsidaries. Amazon.com is borders website folks, and you can buy it there for like 13.57. now if i had my debit card, i would have bought it and said screw it. but i don't and i can't use my employee discount on amazon.

so i went up the chain of command all the way to fucking ann arbor MI head quaters bitching and moaning. Now im pissed that this book isn't even on the shelf---which means the guys are loosing sales. after bitching to corperate on sun 1/20 something i get a phone call the next day from the manager at the main store saying that the book was on order for me and they would call me when it came in.
i don't want it.
not now.
not from them.
but......

i would have gotten that book a few days ago---on monday. if you walk into any borders they tell you they can get a book that's in print within a week.
i still haven't gotten a phone call saying that my copy is there.
you know what im doing? tomorrow morning im calling the HQ again, and tell them i went through with my thread of posting the problem on the board. that they can fuck them selves if this is how they treat a customer and employee.
now if the book comes in, i can't use my discount---my store closed over a payperiod ago. FUCK THEM-- im waiting till i go to mega con and shannon is buying it with her discount at barnes for me.


so i ask---please don't spend your money there---and if you do, try not to spend much. Check your local borders and see if powers vol 7 is avaliable to order. because now im told (from corperate) that its only avaliable on a order to order basis. why? WHY THE FUCK??? when they have all of the other volumes on their shelf? i know for fact that the chicago to milwaukee stores are saying the same thing that mine did (i called each and everyone of them).
fuck them
ok done ranting.
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PostPosted: Feb 04, 2005 2:25 am    Post subject: Re: Borders is fucking over Mike and Brian Reply with quote

Murdocks Girl wrote:
JoshuaFialkov wrote:
Honestly, it's probably Diamond. They have max orders for bookstore market. Maybe the orders bumped up against that. Or they just have a computer glitch, which happens all the time.

Sounds like a Diamond problem to me.


no i know for fact its not diamond's fault this time (mike put me in contact with some diamond people). this is sooo borders. in the store level the book is listed "out of print" and in corp level its says they have like a bazillon copies.


I can tell you for 100% sure that it's something quirky within your store or area.. I am in charge of special Orders at a Borders here in Florida, and I have personally ordered several copies of it... I haven't had any problems getting it through Ingram or Baker and Taylor.. if Push comes to shove, let me know and I'll order some and do a store to store ship to you...

God I have no life.... Sad
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PostPosted: Feb 04, 2005 2:27 am    Post subject: Re: Borders is fucking over Mike and Brian Reply with quote

Ray FitzGerald wrote:
Murdocks Girl wrote:
JoshuaFialkov wrote:
Honestly, it's probably Diamond. They have max orders for bookstore market. Maybe the orders bumped up against that. Or they just have a computer glitch, which happens all the time.

Sounds like a Diamond problem to me.


no i know for fact its not diamond's fault this time (mike put me in contact with some diamond people). this is sooo borders. in the store level the book is listed "out of print" and in corp level its says they have like a bazillon copies.


I can tell you for 100% sure that it's something quirky within your store or area.. I am in charge of special Orders at a Borders here in Florida, and I have personally ordered several copies of it... I haven't had any problems getting it through Ingram or Baker and Taylor.. if Push comes to shove, let me know and I'll order some and do a store to store ship to you...

God I have no life.... Sad


thanks---but RC got a copy with my name on it at her store when i pick it up when i go to mega con.

wait...you are in charge of SP? is your store stocking the book or do you have to order it?

actually what pisses me off the most was how i was treated. i walked in there on seperate occasions- once as a customer and once as an employee and they told me to my face i was lying about talking to oeming.
bastards.
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PostPosted: Feb 04, 2005 2:29 am    Post subject: Re: Borders is fucking over Mike and Brian Reply with quote

I just wanted to say Thanks MG, for all that you're doing, here on the board and behind the scenes!!! Much appreciated!

The truth about what troubles me is that everybody here is at least a comic fan, and most seem to be Oeming fans, and yet many of you are having such craploads of problems getting this recent book...
But for me, this is my first novel, and I'm pretty damn proud of it...and I've got about 300 family and friends, that have never darkened the door of a comic book shop, looking to buy this thing and I have nowhere to send them until Amazon.com or B&N.com shift into gear.

So think about this, whatever any of you do, whatever cages you rattle, whatever pillars of heaven you shake, you're not really doing it for Mike and Bryan...
You're doing it for my mom! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Feb 04, 2005 2:32 am    Post subject: Re: Borders is fucking over Mike and Brian Reply with quote

BJLG wrote:
I just wanted to say Thanks MG, for all that you're doing, here on the board and behind the scenes!!! Much appreciated!

The truth about what troubles me is that everybody here is at least a comic fan, and most seem to be Oeming fans, and yet many of you are having such craploads of problems getting this recent book...
But for me, this is my first novel, and I'm pretty damn proud of it...and I've got about 300 family and friends, that have never darkened the door of a comic book shop, looking to buy this thing and I have nowhere to send them until Amazon.com or B&N.com shift into gear.

So think about this, whatever any of you do, whatever cages you rattle, whatever pillars of heaven you shake, you're not really doing it for Mike and Bryan...
You're doing it for my mom! Very Happy

hehehe
now that puts a new perspective on things.
im gussing mike forward my quioxte /i hate you two email....
hehehe if he didn't...yell at him to. it will make you laugh
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PostPosted: Feb 04, 2005 2:34 am    Post subject: Re: Borders is fucking over Mike and Brian Reply with quote

Andrewj wrote:
I work at B&N and it usually takes at least a month or two to get the trades past their Diamond release date. I don't know why but it just does.

Most of the time the book says it's out of print until I order a copy, then it comes in and the computer magically tells me there are plenty in the warehouse.



Are you able to order the Kabuki trades for your store?
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PostPosted: Feb 04, 2005 2:35 am    Post subject: Re: Borders is fucking over Mike and Brian Reply with quote

Murdocks Girl wrote:
Ray FitzGerald wrote:
Murdocks Girl wrote:
JoshuaFialkov wrote:
Honestly, it's probably Diamond. They have max orders for bookstore market. Maybe the orders bumped up against that. Or they just have a computer glitch, which happens all the time.

Sounds like a Diamond problem to me.


no i know for fact its not diamond's fault this time (mike put me in contact with some diamond people). this is sooo borders. in the store level the book is listed "out of print" and in corp level its says they have like a bazillon copies.


I can tell you for 100% sure that it's something quirky within your store or area.. I am in charge of special Orders at a Borders here in Florida, and I have personally ordered several copies of it... I haven't had any problems getting it through Ingram or Baker and Taylor.. if Push comes to shove, let me know and I'll order some and do a store to store ship to you...

God I have no life.... Sad


thanks---but RC got a copy with my name on it at her store when i pick it up when i go to mega con.

wait...you are in charge of SP? is your store stocking the book or do you have to order it?

actually what pisses me off the most was how i was treated. i walked in there on seperate occasions- once as a customer and once as an employee and they told me to my face i was lying about talking to oeming.
bastards.
MG


Our store is kind of strange when it comes to TPB's.. It's looked at as my specialty and it's pretty much up to my discression as to what is stocked.. We get several books in that they want us to sell, but they pretty much let me decide what else we stock, since what I pick usually sells quickly. I tend to order the Powers trades a couple of weeks before their street date, and we usually get them at or around the release date. We weren't sent any copies directly to sell, but we could have gotten them...

Not sure if that answers your question or not.. sorry.. I'm kind of sucked into King of the Hill.. Smile
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PostPosted: Feb 04, 2005 2:41 am    Post subject: Re: Borders is fucking over Mike and Brian Reply with quote

andrew--
i just reread your orginal post---

i would love to do a store to store ship....but guess what?

i don't work for the fuckers anymore...so im not helping them out.

DAVID----you should be happy---the chicago/milwaukee borders are always stocked with kabuki (now the wake up trade is something different...must tell shannon to order for me)
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PostPosted: Feb 04, 2005 2:48 am    Post subject: Re: Borders is fucking over Mike and Brian Reply with quote

It would also help Brian and Mike if you bought their books at a comic store. That way in 10 years they are not all gone.
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PostPosted: Feb 04, 2005 2:53 am    Post subject: Re: Borders is fucking over Mike and Brian Reply with quote

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It would also help Brian and Mike if you bought their books at a comic store. That way in 10 years they are not all gone.


sigh....did you even read my orginal post?

i always order my MOB books at my shops....and preorder everything everytime previews comes out (shit...i got the scarab panda and the 'i am your god' tshirt on order)

but what happened that month was a former friend was suppose to toss that order to the one of two shops i go to (now im back to one) and she didn't because she was mad at me.
even though i had given her the order weeks before she got mad at me...
anythoo so the order didn't go through that month with the order for the powers trade...if it did i wouldn't be posting this thread.
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PostPosted: Feb 04, 2005 2:55 am    Post subject: Re: Borders is fucking over Mike and Brian Reply with quote

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the last ronin wrote:
It would also help Brian and Mike if you bought their books at a comic store. That way in 10 years they are not all gone.


sigh....did you even read my orginal post?


MG


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PostPosted: Feb 04, 2005 2:57 am    Post subject: Re: Borders is fucking over Mike and Brian Reply with quote

the last ronin wrote:
Murdocks Girl wrote:
the last ronin wrote:
It would also help Brian and Mike if you bought their books at a comic store. That way in 10 years they are not all gone.


sigh....did you even read my orginal post?


MG


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PostPosted: Feb 04, 2005 2:57 am    Post subject: Re: Borders is fucking over Mike and Brian Reply with quote

BJLG wrote:
I just wanted to say Thanks MG, for all that you're doing, here on the board and behind the scenes!!! Much appreciated!

The truth about what troubles me is that everybody here is at least a comic fan, and most seem to be Oeming fans, and yet many of you are having such craploads of problems getting this recent book...
But for me, this is my first novel, and I'm pretty damn proud of it...and I've got about 300 family and friends, that have never darkened the door of a comic book shop, looking to buy this thing and I have nowhere to send them until Amazon.com or B&N.com shift into gear.

So think about this, whatever any of you do, whatever cages you rattle, whatever pillars of heaven you shake, you're not really doing it for Mike and Bryan...
You're doing it for my mom! Very Happy


Hey Bryan!
Not sure Mike told you of the B&N deal with Quixote, but hopes are that it will be fixed soon. Also, too bad you're not coming down for Megacon.

RC
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PostPosted: Feb 04, 2005 2:59 am    Post subject: Re: Borders is fucking over Mike and Brian Reply with quote

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a) mr. Fusion---borders and amazon are the same fucking company.


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