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While we have no contractual agreement to hold off on selling residual copies, in good faith we wait several months to avoid becoming competition."Īnd here are the full Scout Comics terms and conditions for retailer-exclusive covers, as they stand now. We are currently creating contract templates with variant retailers to avoid any future misunderstandings. We are formalizing existing policy to reflect this brand new revenue stream that helps both our creators and company, especially during a worldwide paper shortage. Retail shops are also active on WhatNot and many are seeing great success there. Our participation in the highly successful and quickly growing platform known as WhatNot has caused some increased scrutiny. We do not sell the retailer variants on our website (one of our biggest revenue streams) and none of our policies have changed over the past few years. Participants in our retail variant cover program are advised that overprint issues of their cover will be sold in the shop as well as some issues given to the creative team. It's a comic shop that only sells Scout Comics and has been open since May 2018. As many people know, Scout has a retail showroom at Scout HQ in Florida. We actively promote these shops and are constantly looking for ways to help and collaborate with them. To the contrary, we are providing them with access to our titles in a way that is profitable for them. Scout is not competing with or undermining our retail partners. Where it has come to our attention that some retailers feel our actions are not what they anticipated, we are concerned that personnel may have independently negotiated these retailer variants and failed to follow our presentation protocols in regard to explaining how we determine the entire print run. Scout strives to behave fairly and treat others as we wish to be treated. In our response to the few retail partners who have expressed their discontent with aspects of the program, we were equally disappointed to hear that there have been miscommunications that led to their dissatisfaction. As Scout has grown, this program has evolved from informal to where we are now in the process of formalizing it. "Scout appreciates the close relationships we've established over the years with our retail partners and we are particularly proud of our retailer variant cover program. When contacted, Brendan Deneen CEO of Scout Comics provided the following statement which we reproduce in full
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It seems unfortunate that the retailers who are angriest about this, are those most likely to order and sell high on Scout Comics titles. Those who raised this issue on the Whatnot app, during the sale of their own supposedly-exclusive retailer covers, found themselves banned from commenting further or seeing if any more of their exclusive covers were offered. It's severely undercutting our brand, our investment, and the property itself."
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If the print run is actually significantly higher, that may create a problem with the trust of collectors.Īnother retailer tells us "Various times we have been made aware by our clients that they bought our variants on Scout's Whatnot or another platform cheaper than the price I was selling them. It is also noted that often the price paid by a collector for an exclusive retailer variant cover depends on the declared print run, with Scout Comics exclusive runs often being limited to 250. These Retailer Variants have been showing up on Scout's various selling platforms, which include but not limited to their webstore, mystery boxes and more recently on Whatnot…" One retailer told me, "essentially, we have a silent partner we are funding to undercut our brand and market." Another retailer asserted to Bleeding Cool, "this overprint is not just the industry standard amount, but sometimes double or triple the print run. But instead, retailers have seen what they perceive as many more copies sold by Scout in competition with their own offering when they thought they had paid a premium to be exclusive. The Scout website states "These covers are limited-print runs that are EXCLUSIVE to the retailer (sans a few creator and Scout showroom copies of the print overrun)". Retailers state they were told that any overprint of the exclusive covers was restricted to comp copies for creators, industry-standard numbers in case of distribution damages and a few for the S cout Comics showroom which has been open since May 2018.
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However, Bleeding Cool has been contacted by a number of comic book retailers, upset that Scout Comics seemed to be selling the variant covers that they thought were exclusive to them, through the Whatnot app, directly to readers and collectors, in competition with the retailers in question.