Uh, Free Comic Book Day was last Saturday, Diamond...

Many Northwest comic book retailers, including Paige at Corner Comics, got an unexpected package from UPS on Tuesday or Wednesday... that's right, Diamond sent them their Free Comic Book Day T-shirts. AFTER the event. In its own box, complete with extra shipping that the stores had to pay. Not to mention that the stores were charged on their invoices for the now useless shirts. When they contacted their Diamond rep to complain, they got no response. Eventually it was discovered that the Diamond rep for many of the stores in this area quit last week, and nobody at Diamond had bothered to tell the stores affected.

To all the local stores: I really hope you get your money back from Diamond. It sucks being under the thumb of a monopoly distributor.