Missed It: Shop Assets Sold at Auction

I was completely and totally unaware of this story blogged and linked out with fury at Blog@Newsarama regarding what looks like the final fate of the Winston-Salem retailer Silver Bullet Comics. The store had physically closed down after an announcement July 30, and had apparently made a brief go of it as an on-line retailer, to the also now apparent dissatisfaction of some of those customers. The end game came with either a seizure or a settlement or some sort of agreement between the store and the state's department of revenue regarding unpaid taxes and either stock or no-longer-needed store material, which was used as the basis of an October 8 auction. I want to dig into this a bit before I comment -- I don't really understand why the site is being updated, for one -- but the first thing that pops into mind is that this was a fairly aggressive retailer in terms of at least its on-line presence and plans to expand, which makes it a bit different than the whinny and sneeze kind of deaths we've become accustomed to seeing with retailers in recent years.
 
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