Would you like to sell your zines through our shop?
We do not print and we do not carry stock (other than for our own zines) - you retain the masters of all your zines and you avoid the cost of mailing stock to us. Obviously, our service is only of use to people who print and mail zines themselves.
We collect the orders (usually paid by credit card) and forward them to the publishers by e-mail. We keep track of the order's progress and are the first point of inquiry for customer problems. We pay accounts in full once a month by £ cheque, $ check or by PayPal. If illness or other problems cause late payments then we usually pay part of the next month in advance. If you do a large amount of business with us then a degree of pre-payment is normal. We've been agenting zines for over 8 years now.
If any supplier would like some (or all) of their money as a gift certificate to spend in the shop, we will give an extra 5%, to reflect the reduced costs this is to us.
Although we worked closely with Linda Knights on her web site and we sold each other's zines, we had no formal business connection with her (we're on the other side of the Atlantic). When Linda's accident caused her financial collapse, everyone owed money by Waveney got paid in full, In fact we lost more money then anyone else, as we paid everyone we agented for directly, even when the zines had been sold via Linda and she was unable to reimburse us for those zines. Our business accounts are entirely separate from our personal accounts and always have been.
The shop operates worldwide in several currencies on a simple margin of 10%, which helps cover payments to credit card companies and the costs of maintaining the websites.
Customers - look through the web site or paper price lists and select those zines they want and make one single payment (regardless of the number of suppliers involved), in their selected currency.
Publishers/Suppliers - Write and publish zines, print zines and post them to the customers when we pass on an order. You don't have to worry about the web or payment systems. You can have your own websites in addition to having zines listed on this one, and we have no problems with you selling your zines though other agents as well as through our shop. All we need from you is a description of the zine's contents and the price we owe you per copy sold (including postage to different postal regions). Suppliers are responsible for mailing replacement copies of any zines lost in the post.
Waveney (Richard and Judith Proctor) - maintain the websites, and handle the credit cards in conjunction with WorldPay (We pay for a secure service where customers card numbers cannot be discovered by other people - WorldPay ensure we don't even see the card number ourselves). We forward orders to the suppliers, handle customer queries, deal with refunds for out of print zines, and pay the suppliers.
The shop is currently operating through http://www.knightwriter.org which covers all fandoms. And http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 which sells all titles, but attracts mainly Blake‘s 7 fans. We effectively inherted the Knightwriter site and continue to use it as the address is well known among zine buyers.
The site also supports a 2nd department where, our suppliers can sell their 2nd hand zines as well as their new zines. It is possible to support suppliers who only have 2nd hand zines, but unless they have at least 20ish it is too much work for us.
The shop operates in many currencies, so that someone in Australia can see the prices in Australian dollars, and pay in Australian dollars - you don't have to worry about that - this is all taken care of by us.
The shop can, and does, handle cases where the same zine is available from multiple suppliers eg a US and a UK pubisher. In this case the online shop always chooses the cheapest supplier for where the customer is.
If and when you have new zines, send me the details and I will add it to the site. I can very easily add new fandoms, if necessary.
For each zine, it is necessary to identify the cost to send it to all the parts of the globe, this can be broken down in ways to suit you eg US and Rest of World, or US, Canada, Europe, Pacfic, or UK, Europe, Rest of World - Basically, the system is very flexible. If the zine has restricted circulation (eg North America only) then inform me what it is. We will not operate complex discounts or special offers - these often cause problems and confusion.
Why are we doing this? Well, we realise it is much easier for fans to do all their zine shopping from one centralised site, without having to deal with each editor individually. This is a fan activity, the 10% is designed to cover the real costs.
I hope that makes things clear, if you have any further queries or questions please let me know.
For further details, email Richard Proctor or Judith Proctor.