This week I got in a large trade paperback restock with my regular Diamond shipment.  I noticed that the Marvel Essentials trades I got in seemed pretty beat up.  My employee noticed that they were all stickered with an UPC sticker from 'Booksamillion' (she used to work there and recognized it).  I called them in damaged and asked Diamond if this was their policy of sending out defected trades (they of course said no).  After I got off the phone it dawned on me, wow Diamond took these returns from 'Booksamillion', but won't take returns from the small guys like me.

Actually, Diamond no longer distributes Marvel's books to the book trade.  But this is not the only comment we've heard about Marvel bookstore returns ending up in comic store shipments. -ed.