"Also, we are doing one thing differently this time around. Rather than just waiting until we sell out to stop selling these shirts, we're taking open orders for two weeks only and then will make the shirts and send them out. So if you want this shirt from us, you have two weeks to order. And that's it."
This really isnt an uncommon way of taking orders, instead of guessing how much of a shirt/hoodie/whatever you should order at a time and guess demand you simply put items up for preorder for a certan amount of time a then print that plus a few extras. Its not about creating artificial scarcity, its about actually ordering the correct amount of what you need and making sure your customers get what they want.
Same thing here, i was looking for an excuse to buy something from Techdirt as i love the blog and have wanted a good way to show it, this shirt is the perfect way to do it. I also got it with Approaching Infinity as it looks like a great read and i have a number of people i plan on passing it around to when I'm done (not making everyone pay for their own copy *GASP*!).
In this day and age there's no reason they they cant release content in every way possible at once. Imagine if it was your choice on if you wanted to watch something in the theater, video on demand or DVD/BluRay the day a movie is out.
Cam rips would go away and DVD/BluRay rips would be no more common than the are today. If theaters were smart they could profit off this by selling DVD's and soundtracks right there in the lobby cause who's more likely to buy a movie than somebody who just walked out of a showing and liked it?
Sure some people would never go to the theater if they could do VoD or buy the DVD right away but its still going to be a place you can go for 3D movies and not everyone has a good home theater system to really watch and enjoy movies on. There are plenty of things theaters can do to keep people coming to them, i know of one in my area that's removed every other row of seats and put in tables and they serve food there.
Who really assumes right off the bat that any real logo or organization name full supports a show it appears in? when your dealing with a show that is supposed to happen in the real normal world you don't always invent new fictional places for everything and shouldn't have to.
Also think of all the places where government logos are used in shows all the time, because we see a presidential seal or any other logo do we automatically assume they support or endorse the show?
Somebody wants to make a museum and a monument to Pez about how much they like them and the only thing the corporate types can thing of is to sue them because they like them too much?
Why do company's think its a good idea to sue customers/fans?
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From http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091028/0348476705.shtml
"Also, we are doing one thing differently this time around. Rather than just waiting until we sell out to stop selling these shirts, we're taking open orders for two weeks only and then will make the shirts and send them out. So if you want this shirt from us, you have two weeks to order. And that's it."
This really isnt an uncommon way of taking orders, instead of guessing how much of a shirt/hoodie/whatever you should order at a time and guess demand you simply put items up for preorder for a certan amount of time a then print that plus a few extras. Its not about creating artificial scarcity, its about actually ordering the correct amount of what you need and making sure your customers get what they want.
Re: A shirt I liked (as AdamBv1)
Same thing here, i was looking for an excuse to buy something from Techdirt as i love the blog and have wanted a good way to show it, this shirt is the perfect way to do it. I also got it with Approaching Infinity as it looks like a great read and i have a number of people i plan on passing it around to when I'm done (not making everyone pay for their own copy *GASP*!).
And Mike, thank YOU for being awesome. :)
Windowed releases need to go the way of the dodo. (as AdamBv1)
In this day and age there's no reason they they cant release content in every way possible at once. Imagine if it was your choice on if you wanted to watch something in the theater, video on demand or DVD/BluRay the day a movie is out.
Cam rips would go away and DVD/BluRay rips would be no more common than the are today. If theaters were smart they could profit off this by selling DVD's and soundtracks right there in the lobby cause who's more likely to buy a movie than somebody who just walked out of a showing and liked it?
Sure some people would never go to the theater if they could do VoD or buy the DVD right away but its still going to be a place you can go for 3D movies and not everyone has a good home theater system to really watch and enjoy movies on. There are plenty of things theaters can do to keep people coming to them, i know of one in my area that's removed every other row of seats and put in tables and they serve food there.
(as AdamBv1)
Who really assumes right off the bat that any real logo or organization name full supports a show it appears in? when your dealing with a show that is supposed to happen in the real normal world you don't always invent new fictional places for everything and shouldn't have to.
Also think of all the places where government logos are used in shows all the time, because we see a presidential seal or any other logo do we automatically assume they support or endorse the show?
i'll probably never understand the mentality... (as AdamBv1)
Somebody wants to make a museum and a monument to Pez about how much they like them and the only thing the corporate types can thing of is to sue them because they like them too much?
Why do company's think its a good idea to sue customers/fans?
Re: Wow (as AdamBv1)
sounds like you have been reading too much news, i prescribe an hour of gaming to take the stress out.