I couldn't find a single one. Not one of the handful of Melbourne comic shops seemed to have a site. Please, if I'm wrong or missed them, link me in the comments ASAP.
I found it incredibly amazing and rather stupid that these stores, in the 2000s, don't have sites. What the hell? I mean, they've got it tough as it is. Comic shops don't do very well down in Oz - I mean, they could be doing a lot better, y'know? But they sure as hell aren't helping themselves by not catching up with the rest of the world, both business and personal worlds, and getting freakin' websites! Even a free blog or a freewebs page - sheeit, even a google or yahoo page.Here's the thing guys - you delightful comic store owners out there - I was all like, "Awesome, I'm gonna give you guys money 'cause I wanna subscribe to books in your store, thus willingly linking myself to you guys as a customer for months, maybe even years!" and I couldn't even find you guys, couldn't even find a way to contact you, except via phone. I wanted to connect with you guys, but I couldn't. If I wasn't so damn dogged, you might've lost yourselves a customer.
Instead, I'm going to offer some help. My biznads, Green Rabbit, does killer websites. We even set up online stores and cool ways for customers to interface. It would be fun setting up some websites for these guys, so I'm a-gonna contact them and try to get them online.
Awesome!
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Are you serious or just trying to drum up some website work?
i ask this due to the fact that with very little searching at all the websites for Melbourne's two largest comic book stores can be found:
http://www.alternateworlds.com.au/
http://www.minotaur.com.au/
If the answer is that you are indeed looking for website work there are better ways to go about it than beginning with false claims.
And anyway, what have comic book stores got to do with subscription?
As far as i am aware subscription is carried out directly with the publisher, completely negating the need of the comic book store as 'middleman'.
Oh cool, Alternate Worlds. Nice. I saw Minotaur, but I was looking for the stores that specialise in comic books, like Classic Comics or the nice little one in Moonee Ponds. My main point was the lack of decent websites. Look at Alternate World's site...pox! But they do have some good updated stuff, so that's points.
As for subscription, I WANT to use the comic store as middleman. I look forward to getting to know the guys in there, going down and picking up my monthly or weekly haul. I also want to support them instead of cutting them out. And lastly, I don't know how subscription works, so my first stop is a local store's site to hopefully learn, but that just isn't there.
My point is, they ain't making it easy for a little dweeb like me to log in and find what I need locally. I mean, there's at least 10 comic shops in Melbourne, and you've found two with sites, one of them very old looking. That's not cool. They should all be online! Especially with the tight link between comic readers and the web.
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