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    Sanctuary Comics

    Sanctuary Comics

    2.8(6 reviews)
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    Visited Sanctuary Comics today on a Saturday. It's out of the way so we thought we would be the…read moreonly ones there today. However, Secrets of Strixhaven came out yesterday as the new set for retail. The shop was full of people and product. I have never been in a store so chock-full of product on sale. It had the vibe of an old hold in the wall library. In the back of the store was where the shop owner stood to take orders of cards and packs. He had literally every set of Magic Card packs I had ever heard of, which is definitely different than other stores. The prices were decent for them as well. The best part was they have a shop cat named Panther that greeted me as soon as I walked in. Soooo cute!

    Ok first off, the proprietor wasn't rude per se, but he seemed like he would have rather been…read moreanywhere than running a comic shop. If you don't like dealing with the public, perhaps a life in retail is not for you. The place itself is cramped. I liken it to the trash compactor scene in Star Wars. There are random piles of boxes, loose books, and totes in the already narrow aisles making it a difficult task to shop for comics. The comics themselves are all placed in alphabetized short boxes that are stacked upwards of 6 feet high on individual shelves. The boxes each have their lids on them so you have to pull each box down to look inside. Each box is packed so tight though, that you almost can't look through them without taking some out first. I didn't even bother with the bottom shelf if there was a randomly stacked pile of odds n ends in the way. The prices? Non-existent. The owner apparently looks up each book on Ebay for sold comps and goes with the highest price he can find. My son left most of the books he brought up to the register behind. And these weren't the latest hot speculator books. They were random All-Star Squadron books that sold for $7 the last four times they were purchased, though he went with the $15 sale even further back. The thing I take most offense to is that he doesn't look at the condition of the book he is looking up. He just looks up the price. Needless to say, when I got home and found that one of the corners of the $4 I bought was completely wrinkled, I realized the book was probably worth a buck at best. I can't imagine what he would charge for a damaged book that is expensive to start with. Would he even take that into consideration? We drove two hours to check this shop out and ended up spending more on gas than I did at the store. Total waste of our time. Bottom Line : I would not recommend this store to anyone looking for comics or fair pricing.

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