Copied from FOX8 website: 6. Silver Bullet Comics – Kernersville, NC – Both a bricks and mortar as well as an online store, this company has a pattern of complaints concerning failure to provide the product ordered, and pre-paid for, by the customer. Customers also indicate lack of response from the company to their frequent voice mail messages, emails and forum messages left on the company’s own website. Silver Bullet Comics has 5 unanswered complaints from 2008 and 36 total complaints in the last 36 months. BBB Grade: F

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I had communicated with you under that screen name before when we were tracking down court records.

I am a comic fan and I have opinions that are often ignored because I own a store. That’s the only reason why I used another name. Its similar to watching Batman last week- I more or less had a private screening on the release night so that I didn’t have to feel like I was “working”, which could have been the case if I had seen it with an audience. It may even be similar to a superhero having a secret identity.

Sorry for the rambling.

I’m not even sure why I posted, I don’t want to start a broken record- I’m just trying to defend myself.

I really meant no offense.

Do I think I’m being treated fairly? No, not at all, but that’s not the point of your site and you can do with it as you please.

There are a lot of things in this thread that are unfair towards me and I just get pounded for replying. Maybe that’s an issue for further discussion in the comics industry. Let’s face, the fans are not used to other people standing up to their lashings- whether they be artists, writers, editors, journalists, or retailers.

Forgive me for standing up for myself.

Sure, this is an awkward apology, but I think you and all the other people that seem to hate me know what I’m getting at. I have an awkward sense of humor, I want my store to be the best, I want to make money, I want to enjoy my work, I want comics to have a future, I have rules, and I don’t like to take S**&& online from a customer who buys multiple copies of books at my store just to re-sell them to the next shop over because they didn’t order enough Buffy #1’s or Sinestro Corps War tie-ins.

I’ll just get back to work and keep my nose where it belongs- in my store, which is the only comic shop in my hometown of Winston Salem, NC. It’s more frightening than boastful, but when I started my store I was the third store in town. Now, I’m the only one.

Johanna, take care and keep up the great work on your site.

If you’d have given your side under your own name, in an honest fashion, I’d have thought a lot more of you. Insult me and the site all you want – I think my readers have seen you trying to mislead them to benefit your business enough times by now to now what to think.

Gee, sorry if I wanted to defend my name against a “customer” who bought 20 copies of Buffy 1 just 2 days apart and then got mad when I wouldn’t sell them all my Sinsestro Corp Wars Tie-ins (6 or 7 copies of the same hot at the moment book) that I had driven to Charlotte to buy at cover price just so some of my customers could get this hot book. How’s that for selfish?

Johanna, I don’t think you’re an objective source on anything and that is incredibly obvious by reading the rest of your site.

No store is perfect, but they’ve got everything you could ever need.

If anyone has a problem with SBC just cal their store, it has been open for several months in Kernersville, NC. That’s what I would do if I had a problem with ANY bussiness establishment.

I mass email is going to be deleted, but phone calls are harder to dodge.

I blamed ssalefish for spreading gossip about a competitor about legal action that apparently never happened; I never said people weren’t being ripped off as well.

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Meanwhile, I’m hooked up to this lie detector, but all the lights are solid green . . . and I’ve been talking into it for HOURS.

I was one of the former SBC, Inc. co-owners and I can assure you that while Alan may not have been at the store when you shopped, he came in and worked the register every week.

I left the company in Dec. 2006, so I won’t comment on anything that happened in 2007 when this whole mess started.