[Haze28]

Build up a relationship with your LCS and then they will most likely give you friend prices. Treat each other right and the LCS will want you to be a consistent customer. I got a $10 break on each box of Archives I bought.

I spent almost 2 grand in the month of Febuary at the shop three blocks from my house, spent many hours bs'ing with the owner, the buyer, and one of the guys that works the most there and when I finally started to see that they were way over priced and asked them for a little break they said no. They said those are rock bottom prices and if they lowered them at all they wouldn't make any money.

I had found a shop that had Lineage on sale for 43 a box and had bought 4 boxes from them before they ran out, the shop by my house still has Lineage priced at 99 a box and I told them about the sale prices and they said it was crazy. Needless to say I won't be buying boxes from them anymore. I still stop in and talk to them, buy toploaders and what not but they have gouged me enough.

The shops here in Chicago are ran strictly as a business to make as much money as possible, no breaks on price even to loyal customers.