CHU Flip Idea: Four Color Grails

So I put up the cover for the Four Color Grails Spider-Gwen cover and mentioned the boxes sell for about $30 plus shipping. I do not know why I didn’t think of checking this out before someone mentioned it to me. I checked eBay and think I might sign up for a second March box.
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So here is the idea. You pay $29.99 plus shipping per box. About $45 total, but remember, you get 4 individual comics packaged into the bookshelf packaging. There is also a custom outer wrap which is pretty cool. But lets put that all aside for the moment and look at what we know is inside.
Spider-Gwen #1 Four Color Grail Variant– has sold for as high as $75 pre-order, with most asking priced at $55.00
Descender #1 Four Color Grail Variant– Has sold for $35 asking priced about the same.
So just on two books on the low end, we are talking about $90 off two of the four books. The site also mentions that there is a chance for a free variant as well. Looks like it may be a win win situation. Selling two books from one box pays for two boxes, one to sell and one to keep. I shake my head at times and wonder why people don’t go to the Four Color Grail site, but I am not complaining

30 thoughts on “CHU Flip Idea: Four Color Grails”

  1. I signed up for this back in February (I wanted the Lady Mechanika variant and thought I would give it a try). I signed up for three months, so I’m excited to get the March box. I’ll let you know more details when the Feb shipment arrives.

  5. I went through the checkout phase and it didn’t add any shipping or tax but yet appeared to go through with the sale. Any idea?

  6. I placed an order for these variants and when I was finished it stated that a confirmation email was being sent to Mike@bootstrapheroes.com. That isn’t my email address. Did anyone else get this at the end of their order? I did check my email address but no confirmation as of yet.

    1. I got the same thing! I’m nervous now. Sent an email to their contact at four color grains. Hopefully they can shed some light on it! Let me know if you hear anything.

      1. When I first did it for some reason it wouldn’t take my main email address, but it took a different one and with in a few seconds they had sent me a confirmation email. Can’t wait to get these.

      2. Hello Aaron. I wrote them and they told me they are looking into it. I suggest you do the same thing if you haven’t already. So far no suspicious activity on my credit card but this raises some red lights as to how secure this company is with personal information.
        I hope they get this figured out quickly. On top of that they stated they didn’t have any other information that I ordered anything, so if you came across the same issue your order most likely hasn’t been taken.

    2. I did hear back from FGC and apparently it was a glitch of some fort. This is what they wrote me:
      “We looked into your account again and we have no information on file of your order.
      We do not save credit card information on our site, however if we did not received an order then it would mean the information did not go through”.
      So again, it looks like it was just a strange glitch. If anyone else had the same issue as I did promptly report it to FGC. I’m sure they want to rid themselves of ay and all glitches.

  7. Now, if they bundled two of each cover… I’d be all over it but for the collector in me, not worth it if I don’t plan on selling any of them cause I’d fall in love with some of them and just keep them.

  8. I see some flebay sellers selling 4CG variants ahead of the release date. In truth, the sellers haven’t ordered any boxes yet but are pre-selling “x amount” of comics to pay for the “x amount” of boxes they will order before the cutoff time. It’s a shady practice on one hand, but a good business tactic on the other.

      1. Yeah, I don’t sell until I have it in hand. You never know what could go wrong.

    1. Nope. I do not make any money off mentioning these. I do like them and was thrilled to see it. People had emailed me about them and I finally took the time to check them out. I actually don’t make any money off promoting this one, or comic Xposure, or third eye, or phantoms

      1. Oh, I was just curious. You should try to monetize the site more. I’m sure you could have gotten a nice deal with 4CG or others.

        1. I am trying. Trying to make the site my job full time would love to be a stay at home dad and do this full time. Sea horses unite (I can explain that one because no one will catch the scientific reference)
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  10. Ordered a set, got my confirmation email immediately. 2 great variants so far, plus the Ninjak one that I could give a crap less about. Here’s hoping the 4th one really sweetens the deal!

  11. so do they combine the shipping if you buy more than one? I’m really thinking hard of getting mutliples…

  12. i signed up in February… and i noticed people are now preselling at super high costs… this just seems like bad karma to me… its one thing to sell something you find in a dollar bin that suddenly heats up, but to sell something someone can get from a website way cheaper just isnt cool… im just not into screwing people over i guess…

    1. Please don’t think that I am advocating screwing someone over. I do not know why people don’t just go to the site and pre-order them themselves. But, and for example, I am not a Ninjak fan. I want the descender and Spider-Gwen but do not need to have the Ninjak. Someone else might be a big fan of Ninjak and just want that book. It does make certain sense to order a box to break it up and sell it. I ordered one, and am getting them slabbed, but will probably sell the Ninjak slab to help cover the cost of the box and the slabbing. Now what others want to do with their boxes is up to them. But there is a premium to buying something as a whole, breaking it down into pieces, and selling the pieces off as a premium. You have to account for time, effort, and risk. They might not sell at all. Look at what happened to the Walking Dead Lootcrates. Those who ordered and sold early made out. Those who tried to sell later had problems as the market was flooded. An everyday example of the buying the box and breaking it down to sell at a higher price is sodas. You can go in and buy a six pack of sodas for a few bucks. Or you can buy an individual soda and pay an inflated price, usually about half of what you could have bought the six pack for. But no one complains because of the convience.

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