How are sales?

[NicoleIntrovert]

Just curious on how other distros or individuals are doing on selling zines lately?   I had a huge decline in November and it's barron over at Click Clack currently.  (Of course, could be partially my fault moving to a new website and being behind on some updates). 

 

How is everyone else doing?

 

Are you buying zines?  From individuals?  Ordering from distros?  Zine fests?

[tukru perkele]

vampire sushi's been busier than usual in the last few weeks, but that's probably because i closed it for almost two months due to my little roller derby injury and have only just re-opened and our regulars have gone 'oo they're open again, i shall buy some zines'. or not. not sure.

i haven't been really buying that many zines, but that's mainly cos i'm broke. not cos i don't want / need zines. x

[Marissa Fandel]

I just bought like 7 zines really recently. Have to keep myself occupied during the long winter months

[Erica S.]

I haven't gotten any orders for the past three weeks. Kind of a bummer. I haven't bought any zines either, but that's because I have a stack of around 20 that I need to read first.

[Fluxxii]

I haven't gotten any orders in a month or so, but I haven't been focusing on the site at all (moving, issues with work and school, the usual). A lot of people have been contacting me about it lately, though!

[Persephone Pomegranate]

I buy zines every now and then and I sell a few zines every now and then but mine are mostly in the form of trades.

[lizzy / marching stars distro]

I've accumulated a massive pile of zines over the past few months... mostly that I bought from individual zinesters after I read good reviews in zines or on blogs.

 

Business at marching stars has been a little slow... but that's likely partially as it was on hiatus for a bit, I've had some trouble with email and I've been a little behind updating. I'm not too concerned :)

[Harley R. Pageot]

My distro usually sells 2 or 3 at the concerts we table at.  I haven't had an Etsy sale in  months.  I did just order a bunch of Tukru's zines after not having spent money on zines in a long time.

[False Start Distro]

Business has been a little slow, but that's mostly because I'm planning a lot of zine and art events right now and that's taking up time and money that I'd usually spend on the distro.

I do also sell out of where I work (Meltdown Comics) and sales there have been pretty steady. I feel like some of the zines I carry are more appealing when you can flip through them, which is why some things sell way better at Meltdown than they do online.

[Erin H]

I've only been getting three orders a week, sometimes less. Which is fine, because my life is hectic right now. I'm definitely getting less orders than usual, though.

[stranger danger distro]

stranger danger's website has been down since november, so we obviously haven't been getting any orders since then. but now there's a temporary site -- http://www.strangerdangerdistro.wordpress.com/ -- to get us through until our regular site's back up. and i just got an order the other day (the first since the temp site went up!), so it's super exciting to be back up & running again!

 

heather/stranger danger

[Mae Undead]

i get 1 or 2 orders every month.

i haven't been buying any zines. i've been giving away more zines from my collection in zine grab bags rather than sellin' the zines i have on the distro. ha.