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Hi all,
I had to run to a meeting right after the poster went on sale, but I did end up snagging one with order #2384.
I'm sorry to hear about the oversells. I remember last week I was #2313 and I literally checked my email every 10 minutes for two days expecting a cancellation.
As for this print, I really like it. When I first loaded the page, I remember thinking how beautiful the colors look. I think this print has the potential to look stunning in person.
Oh and, thank you to everyone to when to the reveal tonight. Those ping pong balls are a really cool souvenir!
thanks to everyone that tweeted and helped us with our obsessiveness even if I did miss out Thanks again for the hard work !
The 5 Stages of "LOST Poster Sold-Out Syndrome":
Denial: "It couldn't have sold out so fast! I'll keep refreshing!!"
Anger: "Aaaargh, it did sell out!! Stupid Fingers/Clipboard/Computer/ISP/Server/World !!!!"
Bargaining: "OK, it wasn't that nice anyway, or maybe I can find someone to trade."
Depression: "What's the point, no way I'm going to get the next one, my house is going to flood and I'll lose ones I have already"
Acceptance: "The next clue is up!! I'm getting the next one!!!" (only valid for another week…)
I am looking to buy this print - please email me if you are willing to sell frazierfirm@gmail.com
BTW, as much as I had a lot of luck last week by snatching Jacob's Cabin through my iPhone, this time everything went wrong at the exact time to stop me from getting it! Happy for everyone that got it and excited only two more to see what the red "?" is all about!!
Maybe, just maybe, they'll release all the posters as a full set only in a lower quality print, or maybe that's just wishful thinking, stage 1 of "LOST poster ARG is over syndrome"
lol yep, that's about it...
order #2325 and received Walt's Kidnapping today. Good day so far. Now I need the ChiBears to win.
My wishlist would be that they sold the remaining copies of Locke's secret. That's by far my #1.
the bears dont stand a chance. crabtree is going to catch two td's.
Well we know 2 of the remaining artists. My guess is that Fairey's print will feature Ben. That would make for a great print.
"I seem to be safe with #2522... "
Guess I spoke too soon! I got my confirmation emails and then five minutes ago got a call from GoMerch saying they oversold and my order was being canceled.
I said, "that kind of sucks" and told him my order number was within the first two hundred according to what was posted on lostargs.com... :) he didn't have much to say about that.
Since I had the guy on the phone, I wanted to get SOME information (and stall for time so I could think of what else to say or ask), so I asked what people's responses had been to that call, and he said "pretty much the same." I asked if the process was going to be the same for the future posters and he asked a female voice in the background that question. She said it would.
I then said "The way it's set up now it really benefits the people who are intending to resell it" [though I don't really have any evidence of that] "so I think the hub should have the real URL on it before the poster actually goes on sale." Probably won't help. The rest of them are going to be like this. Just gotta be faster on the draw. And play the Numbers in the lottery.
postercal,
This is a little late, but this comes directly from the DCAPB website:
"This ultimate 'fan art' was then turned into labor intensive, hand-pulled screen prints, limited to an edition of just 300, with less than 200 available to the public through our websites."
a great big THANK YOU to all who went to the reveal and reported! You guys are our ROCK STARS!!! :) Looking forward to getting a dharma ping pong ball somehow... :)
Right Dennis, it also says that they will never be printed again. I guess that maybe dashes our hopes for a coffee-table art book with the posters. :-(
Weird...So i'd sent an email last week to goMerch because i received an order con. for cabin, but no 2nd email from Ronnie.
Heather wrote me back just now and said all your orders are still valid...I still can't help but hope i'm getting a cabin dag nab it.
Maven -- I didn't realize you went to SPiN -- thanks. I don't think I have your twitter name, so I didn't add you to our FB page.
thanks Maven for reporting here!
and so sorry to all the cancellations :(
Capcom, high-resolution images of the prints could certainly be reproduced in a book -- they just mean the screenprints printed on a small printing press won't be printed again.
I suppose it's time for me to open Love Triangle and see what I actually got.... :) Was going to wait until I actually had the frame to put it in. Maybe I'll get a frame tonight.
Where's Mel?
THE REAL PRINT:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/concealer_/otherspartylarge.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/concealer_/othersparty.jpg
JUST FOR THE EBs.
@vabauer- hilarious. you hit it right on the head!
Just got back, off to read 625 comments. Hope the reporting was OK. We had a FANTASTIC time, much better than crumbs. Didn't get a print, tho.
@ObFuSc8: I was not at SPIN (I'm in L.A.)! I was just following Lottery Ticket's list on twitter and re-posted picture links here from Amy Lynn, Pandalum and Poster13reveal. I was just trying to keep people here informed who do not follow twitter. (BTW: I'm @BonnieJGreen on twitter)
@comixguru: You're welcome! :)
Just want to throw in big thanks to all the fans who went to the reveal at SPiN.
It's easy for fans who didn't get a poster due to the webiste errors etc to get bitter and angry, but respect is due to the people who braved the New York Winter to go hunting for clues in the first place. :)
Looking past the SQL dissapointments, the silver lining of this reveal is the wonderfully mysterious footage at the end of the SPiN video, which I am sure will have us scratching our heads for a while.
Just got canceled order #2511! How's that work?
It seems like they're canceling everyone!
WOW, Walt's Kidnapping looks really great in person. The flames are in metallic gold and there are transparent circles radiating from the boat. MUCH better in person!
Anon- love the "real" print! :)
LT --- NO!!!! WTF?
Here's hoping that's what it means Jason. :-)
Oh no LT!
I'm glad comix ;)
Maven -- duh, I am easily confused.
Justin- dang it. i shoulda tried for Walt's Kidnapping. ugh.
I don't know what's up -- 1st buyer then was 2311?
I now have a migraine, so off to eat and take some ibuprofen.
Where's the video, am I missing something here or it won't show up in Mac/Safari?
oh shoot, LT.
:(
I bet the video will be up on the Hub at some point.
comixguru, glad you liked it, my two cats like your pic too, hehe
Here's Amy Lynn's video.
Did the people that are getting cancelled get the 2 confirmation emails?
My goal (since I've been close to first buyer but never first) was to get all 16, in the hopes that that would provide me with some sort of "good for you" gift. Since I didn't get this one, even buying it from someone else would not make a difference, so I'm wondering, what's the point anymore? No matter how close I get, I'm still not going to be able to beat "the guy" with that slightly faster internet connection.
Ugh.
Bet the person that got the first posted gets the ping pong clip.
Thank you to all who went and kept us updated here. While getting a poster seems to be impossible now (I went as fast as I could but missed out on the check out), it is still fun to follow along with the reveals on here.
The whole purchase process is becoming a joke here. I was at the SF reveal last week, got the URL in person, waited patiently, clicked the buy button and raced through checkout before the dreaded 404 happened. This is a great ARG with great art, but the overselling, canceled orders and 10 second sell outs are souring it. Luckily I got two of the prints. That looks like all I'll get.
Thanks to all the fans who went to the reveal! Sounds like that was interesting. Thanks to Maven for all the pics and posts - that had to be the best part in reading back through all this now.
What's up with this poster? Glad to jump off the "Buy now" train this week, this print made me realize it is possible to kick the habit. Sounds like it's not the artist's fault but this was not a watercooler moment in my mind. Anything that heightens my estimation of the toeless foot poster is amazing this late in this process. Perhaps this is an effort to discourage the blind, frenetic buying frenzy this has become.
Just looked at this print again. Yikes!
I think the water cooler moment was supposed to be the part in the show where the camera zooms out and reveals the whole "village" on the island.
Dunno if this has been posted yet, but here's one of the images from the video:
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/galileopalazzostrozzi/object/StudioOfJanBruegelTheElderLinderGalleryInterior.html
thanks to Dharma Scientist for that!
This is a little bit weird now. I'm starting to swing in favour of feel the insanity in the fact that who ever is running the show here, doesn't really care much about us as fans. How could lottery tickets be cancelled, maths proves it's impossible, the latest order for Jacob was 2318, which is well in the 200.
Either this is a major balls up, has something to do with the red ? or something smells fishy. I'm glad I didn't buy this week purely cus of the heartbreak I'd be suffering right now. Glad it didn't happen last week.
I like it. I think our attention is all on the house and not the detail behind it. I can see having this up in my house and loving it. I guess i dig the less obvious prints?
Don't really care for Crash or Smokey. Really love walt's, hatch and (i hope!) this one.
But that's what is so great about art! Everyone looks at these differently.
Thinking about it, has anyone received the 300/300 poster for any of them? I'm starting to think there is truly less than 200 that go on sale.
hi everyone I had fun at the reveal even though I didn't stay too long :) hope i was able to help out in the tweets :) congrats to those who got posters (pandalum)
Please be nice and don't make Zort unhappy and have to give us a time-out and send us to bed without supper for being mean, Anon. Everyone gets to get the disappointment off of their chest after the big blow-out sale, then we go back to normal non-kvetching mode the next day waiting for the next reveal. :-)
thanks to all who twittered to url and congrats to those who scored.
thanks as well to room317 for posting the video
here are the images from the end of the video (apologies if this is posted in the wrong place)
http://yfrog.com/5syspincapsj
Hi Sam, yeah I got both emails from the RM site, the congrats you got the poster # blah blah blah and then the GoMerch receipt that says I got it too. Then I got the dreaded call that said I didn't get it. I felt like a idiot because I almost cried on the phone. I said no wait, no way, that can't be, I waited all day on the net for this. No wait. He kept saying sorry over and over again. Oh well. :-(
Man, Lisa. :-( I bet they draw straws at GoMerch to see who has to make the dreaded phone calls.
thanks for helping us out and going to the reveal amanda
yeah I bet they do. I felt bad for the guy but then I also so wanted him to say well, gosh mam, well, ok you can have it. I mean, all day on the dang pc to be told I got it then I sat down to watch a movie with a drink to celebrate and I got the call. Well, the movie sucked anyway so I should have known lol Land of the lost with Will Farrel ugh, horrible ! Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
Thanks, Amy Lynn. I just knew that image looked familiar on the video! That's a very well-known art piece. Maybe they threw it in there because there are framed art on the walls?
Thanks again to Amanda for tweeting us! Look like you all had a great time.
Nice, anon. Typical post-reveal tripe. Did you likey the print?
I am at the point where I really hope I don't want any of the remaining prints. That way I won't be crushed when I don't get it. Though if there is a FDW print I will almost certainly try to buy that.
Remember Sandman, "The showers of their insults roll off the unbrella our indifference." :-)
In the aftermath, I guess we all feel a bit sad if we didn't get it or worse for those that got the cancellation call, and that's when we think about some of the slightly unfair aspects of the whole ARG.
For one, why is it that "less than 200" are available to the public? That means a third of this "project of fan appreciation" actually goes to "connected" people, friends and all the hip people in LA??
(sorry that last part is my Houston un-hipness coming to light, I used to live in a really cool city but now I'm stuck here...)
Got one. #2471. Anyone want it? Make an offer - AnthemDJ@Gmail.com
Wow, all the cancellation calls.
Yeah capcom, who would want THAT job? Not me.
So I guess from here on out, you place an order, get confirmation, and then wait to see if you get a call? Great ;(
Amazing how the game changes with each reveal...
Thanks to all who went to Spin and my sincerest condolences to those who didn't get through and to those who got cancellation calls.
Oh my goodness..I got booted halfway thru with no way back in..all sorts of strange messages..basically Server Not Supporting..But something isn't adding up...We'll see. LT and Cap,,any others..I'm sorry for the way you have been jerked around.That Go is calling you on the phone is more than what I got,,and I don't know if its a good thing or just makes it worse. A bunch of us will be asking if anybody wants to get their money back it appears. That we have to grovel for a substandard print doesn't help either.. If The artists visits here,,I have some questions for him.
You are not alone. I've been victim of over sold as have many others. On this frame I thought I had the foot in the door ,,but not so. We just have to find a different route to same goal..Take care..MEL
Ok, I'm back now so athere is a NEW POST, just going to try and read the 650+ !!! comments.
I missed all the action because of a horrible mass firing at my work (I made it through with about 15 from my dept, but so so so many good people are gone- I thought for sure I was because people were walking out going, "we're all fired. We're all gone" to my team). I am really glad I didn't miss a Ben one, I thought for sure I would. I hope a lot of people here got this one! It was so cute, I really like these ones which are more off-point, because it just looks like a cool art piece not necessarily you only have to watch LOST to get it.
Yeah, "there's no joy in Mudville tonight" as the saga goes. This thing can even give a person "survivor guilt", sheesh. :-(
(Reading comments). Aw, man it sounds like there is disappointment abounds. I am so sorry everyone who didn't get one.
Oh my gosh, happy for you Lostsailors. I know how you feel, I survived a number of firings at IBM before I retired. So awful to see friends go like that.
Thank you, Capcom! To be honest this company is wholly toxic, I'm not sure how much longer it will last. In some ways I just wish I was gone, though obviously not to as I want to continue to not be homeless- but man, what a day! (I have no idea why I felt the need to tell the entire poor LOSTARG community of my woes, it was just the only open window when the news started flying).
Hey no prob Lostsailors, that's what this community is here for too, it always has been. We've all been through stuff since we got together, that causes/allows us to share our personal oredeals here as well.
Oops, new post.
@ Lisa
That's horrible, even worse that the 404 error after you put in all your credit card info.
You'd think they'd figure out a better way to do this.
I shouldn't have been rude Sandman. Usually a screenprint is much better than the small picture presented on the website though.
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