Reading more about how Diamond Comic Distributor has such a ridiculously bad monopoly as a distribution company for the comics industry, watching a youtube video recently where a comic shop owner tried to question a couple people from Diamond at a panel and was treated very rudely and with such weird contempt, talking to someone from my lcs in which they get tons of damaged product from them. There is even a subreddit about how Diamond sucks.
Diamond seems like one of the worst businesses and I do not understand how they have a monopoly the way they do. I can understand how it might be difficult for someone to step up and start a whole new distributor, there used to be another distributor but they went into bankruptcy years ago.
What I am wondering though is that with how bad Diamond is, if there did happen to be another distributor that came up, Diamond would lose so much business so fast just because I can't see people really wanting to stick with them with how they've been treated over the years. As soon as some other company came up, so many comic shops would drop Diamond immediately I would think.
I can see it being difficult starting up a new distributor but why don't some people interested in starting a new distribution company get together and start a Kickstarter project for it? Can you imagine the number of people that would support such a thing? So many comic readers, collectors, so many comic shops, just everyone who knows how there is such a need for this and it would reach it's goal in less than a week probably. You could set the goal to be raised at like a million dollars and they would still get it within a week I bet. If not, it would surely reach it's goal within a month.
The people involved would have to know what they are doing but I am sure if the right group of people wanted to do this, they would be heavily supported by the comics community. And can you imagine just how many comic shops would pop back up if they were not having to deal with Diamond who has put so many comic shops out of business over the years with how they keep sending crap products, charging shops to send back damaged crap, and one of the worst things, forcing shops to order a minimum amount of product every month. If the new distributor just cut out that part of the situation, they would definitely have people jumping ship to them. Me personally, I would like to start a comics shop at some point but I wouldn't as long as Diamond are the only distributor for the majority of comics.
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