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The Pop Culture Art/Posters/Prints Thread (Mondo/ACME/Dark Hall Mansion/etc.)
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I thought you were captured by Brolinos or something.
I hope you saw all my Marnie campaigning for a gaf commission.
cablenathan
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I would also be interested in purchasing the Stout Guardians print if anyone happens to find one (or indeed picked one up at SDCC) or have one they want to sell on. I'd love to stay at home praying and F5-ing but alas I have to go to work. I fear the secondary market prices will be too rich for my blood.
Mockingbird
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I thought you were captured by Brolinos or something.
I hope you saw all my Marnie campaigning for a gaf commission.
Nah, was at SDCC this past week. did not see marnie. the ghibli film right? I really want to see that. With Ghibli though I never have an idea of what to do in terms of prints, really. Wouldn't even know which artist to pair except for Moss but I've no idea what Moss would even do. I just know that he can do it. Oh and Stout.
Yeah that would be a good one too.
Yeah it's the new Ghibli, I've seen it twice already and I really loved it.
Will probably watch it again. Here is a link to my post with some cool pics from the theatre and goodies I got.
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=122721130
Edit: YES! We need a Stout Marnie.
C'mon FancyPosterGAF, let our powers combine, and form blazing sword!
I never would have put that together but your right that would be amazing. Hell a Horkey/Ryan collaboration on that would be great too. Maybe we should convince Jay first he can talk Aaron into it.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
So is that GotG print going on sale today?
Also, any way to get this awesome Alien print online?
Also, any way to get this awesome Alien print online?
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
It is GotG day.
The W$YK will probably go on-line first week of September if they don't sell out at the gallery.
Shop page @ posters
Thanks!
StriKeVillain
Banned
Whoo - got Rocket!
That was the toughest checkout I had. That thing was CHUGGING.
That was the toughest checkout I had. That thing was CHUGGING.
cablenathan
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Got items in my cart, but checkout isn't loading for me at all...frozen halfway...damnit, so close and yet so far.
DrAndonuts
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I remember why I don't go for Mondo posters anymore.
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
Crapped out during shipping. Looks it's on to the lottery!
Plenty of Taylor and Strain left!
cablenathan
Member
No luck for me.
That Stout is so pretty too...I might seek it out someday when the price is right.
That Stout is so pretty too...I might seek it out someday when the price is right.
Stout usually has a lottery for AP editions. Might want to try your luck when that's announced.
cablenathan
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That is very interesting, and something I was completely unaware of being a total amateur at this all. Thank you for the heads up!!!
Got an http error still managed to get through to click final checkout and sold out. On to the lotto.
Other than increasing the run what would you propose they do instead?
Other than increasing the run what would you propose they do instead?
Upgrade the server they're using or whatever? These big drops clearly can't handle all the traffic.
I'd be pretty happy if they'd take a timed release approach with shorter windows. Granted, I don't really care as much about the limited nature of these prints. I just want to collect cool looking art.
That being said, introducing something like a 30min timed edition might just make the site impossible to reach for 30min instead of 10.
That being said, introducing something like a 30min timed edition might just make the site impossible to reach for 30min instead of 10.
YOU! You should know better than to do this! I am preemptively blaming you for the next page or so.
Hi Programmer/Sysadmin GAF here.
Not that simple. Not always the best solution. The best solutions out there will not resolve this sort of problem entirely. Particularly if you consider their customer base is probably still increasing, so the problem will only get worse over time. Oh, and those best solutions get very expensive very fast.
I can't know exactly what their set up is, but considering how high their traffic spike probably is in such a small window of time, and the fact that it doesn't just shut the site down entirely, and enough purchases *do* go through, with what I assume is a limited budget... It's not bad.
As a customer, bitch away! Just know that it isn't a simple problem with a simple solution.
Yeah, sadly, I think the licensing would be pretty hard to get since Disney owns the international distribution rights for Studio Ghibli films. Maybe our dreams will come true in the future when Disney wants to cash in on the movie poster business again: Mondo + Disney Part 2!
It will never happen but if they limited billing/shipping address so people were limited to a # of pieces they could buy (if I were to make a specific example: maybe 1 Stout a year). This way the same people aren't always the ones getting them all, the aftermarket audience is different each time.
Anyways Mondo is so busy on their printing/shipping scheduling alone so I wouldn't expect something like this to happen anyways.
This man speaks the truth.
Well even if this happens they'd probably be ordering from their grandma's account.
I really don't care what they do as long as there is no carting system involved, really hate that.
Well, thank you for explaining that. It's a shame that this seems to be a constant problem that's unlikely to be resolved. I'm happy for the people that were able to snag what they really wanted, but it's a bummer that so many of us strike out on prints we legitimately want and are excited about.
The dedicated flippers will set up rotating accounts that use the mailing addresses of friends and family.
Never underestimate the lengths that some will go to. In a scarce resource situation, ingenuity is rewarded.
The thought of writing a bot that pounds Mondo for the things that I want to buy has crossed my mind a million times. I don't do it, because I have a stupid conscience, and also because I'm horrifically lazy. I don't doubt there's probably at least a handful of dedicated collector's/flippers that do it already.
The shortcuts that people already use (Page Monitor for notification of when the store page refreshes, saving payment information in your browser's AutoFill, etc) are all ways to try to streamline the process and maximize your opportunity. Automating all of that is relatively simple for someone who has the knowledge on how to do it.
Heck, you can automate flipping it too.
Can you tell I've thought about this? Good thing I'm lazy.
I wonder if it's really worth it though. Seeing the aftermarket on most of the non gallery exclusives this year there's so few that actually go for crazy amounts and most go for near cost already.
I'm lazy and I live way too far away to ever consider flipping so maybe I'm missing something but I really think designing a bot just to get mondo prints is a bit overkill.
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