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Congratulations Ed (paradise)

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Diamond Announces Best Practice Retail Award Nominees

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Best Graphic Novel Section: Collector’s Paradise – Pasadena, CA :thumb: :clap:

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Congrats! :thumb:
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Cool Ed. :thumb:

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Well deserved sir :thumb:

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:clap:

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Great job Ed!

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Congrats Ed you rock :headbang:


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:thumb:

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I can certainly vouch for Ed's practices, well deserved.

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Grats, Ed! :hope:

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:thumb:

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Aw, shucks, thanks guys! Just in case you want to know, the Diamond retail site where retailers vote for nominees has some photos, here they are:

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We gave them more but they chose those. I would have preferred:

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We really do think of ourselves as a Comic BOOK STORE, not COMIC BOOK store, so this is an important thing to be part of.
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It looks very open with easy access to all titles, very nice, and well done.

Congratulations :)

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Congrats, Ed! Well done!

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Great work Ed!

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I can't tell you how much I wish the store near me looked like this.

Congratulations!

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Congratulations! :clap:

Here, have a taco. :D

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:thumb: Great to see a member of the site getting recognised for his dedication!

Nice one!

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Very cool. Congrats.

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WTG Ed! you run TWO great stores though! :D I am glad they are so close to me!! :clap:

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Congrats, bud! :clap:
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paradise wrote:Image
Wow, that's an awesome idea. Start 'em young!


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