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YKW (ad hoc)

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From: "YKW (ad hoc)" <ques...@moron.org>

Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:32:56 GMT

Local: Sun, Aug 10 2008 5:32 am

Subject: Re: New Marvel titles for $1.39 per issue, delivered

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"OhioGuy" <n...@none.net> wrote in news:g7khi1$tkd$1@aioe.org:

>> why would I want to tie myself down, sight
>> unseen, for a much longer period?

> Well, off the top of my head, maybe for the same reason that I have
> a 7
> year subscription to Green Lantern, 8 year subscription to Superman,
> and close to a 10 year subscription to Fantastic Four built up? In
> other words, because you like the characters.

> I also have something like 5 years of Detective Comics, and 6 years
> of New
> Avengers. Sure, the quality goes up and down a bit here and there,
> but I like to keep my favorites through the changes.

Mm-hm. I have favorites too -- but there are many times when they're so
poorly written or the books wind up being so poorly drawn that enough has
to be enough. I'd hate to get locked in to a book that's become
unreadable just because I liked the character four or five years before.
(Or, in a case like the abysmal CYBORG mini, just a few =months= before.)

> I also don't like paying any more taxes than I have to, and the
> subscriptions are tax free. With retail, I'd have to not only pay for
> gas getting there (road tax), but I'd also have to pay sales tax. It
> would add up to about a 10% overall tax for me, on an item that costs
> more than twice as much, retail than subscription.

> So that tax comes out to about 20% of what I'm currently paying -
> not very
> attractive.

I don't pay a dime of tax to get my books from DCBS. Unless you live in
Indiana (which, given your handle, I doubt), you wouldn't, either.

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