my mistake

slyhiggs

i made a post out of anger and rage earlier today that i would like to retract. my appologies, i disrespected what im sure are good people and i take it back.
Thanks

smital

lol

Sarava

Your post is disrespectful. I agree some improvements should be made, but you really should get that point across in a better way.

AmishGuy91

At this point, I'm sure the entire band is aware of the merch situation since it's been this way for a few years now (albeit getting worse). They obviously have no problem with it.

RP112579

You're losing your mind over a poster.

Zod

You do have to wonder how much the band pays attention to this stuff. I would have to think if they knew that people were waiting in lineups (for a half a day sometimes) only to be turned away.. it is pretty crazy.

The Pearl Jam of old would of been against that. Selling limited edition merch to the masses causing them to wait in line all day to get it. Making fans wait in line all to day to hand them money seems very anti PJ. I have to imagine there's a disconnect between the band and their merch operations.

Then again, the pop up shop in Seattle last year wasn't much different.. it was also run poorly and that was purely 10c not thinking it through. Limited PJ merch the day after a Seattle show when all the hardcore fans are in town.... Lots of waiting, lots of people, not very much merch.

TinAnt

Hard to judge demand on products like these. Nobody in their right mind would guess four months ago that a picture of a tractor would be so popular. Scarcity plays into their demand as well, if they weren't scarce, not everyone would care.

RP112579

People are acting like merch has never sold out before. I missed out on Sevens, the Wrigley posters and the Pittsburgh poster. It happens. There will never be an infinite amount of merch to go around to please everyone.

HughFreakingDillon

that's why they should do preorders on all their stuff.

Brane_of_JFK

RP112579 said:

People are acting like merch has never sold out before. I missed out on Sevens, the Wrigley posters and the Pittsburgh poster. It happens. There will never be an infinite amount of merch to go around to please everyone.

Very true, but I still can't believe that in this day and age a website can't handle a few hundred people trying to buy something. 10C usually gets around 300 or so show edition posters. No reason for the site to practically crash. What I don't understand is that there were only like 350 members signed in when the Moline dropped. Unless every single person who was logged in tried for one, there's no reason why it should have slowed down the site and sold out that fast...

lolobugg

TinAnt said:

Hard to judge demand on products like these. Nobody in their right mind would guess four months ago that a picture of a tractor would be so popular. Scarcity plays into their demand as well, if they weren't scarce, not everyone would care.

So true.... I guess an indictment of how bad some of the posters were on this NA tour.

ikiT

3rd prize is...well, you know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCf46yHIzSo

RP112579

Brane_of_JFK said:

RP112579 said:

People are acting like merch has never sold out before. I missed out on Sevens, the Wrigley posters and the Pittsburgh poster. It happens. There will never be an infinite amount of merch to go around to please everyone.

Very true, but I still can't believe that in this day and age a website can't handle a few hundred people trying to buy something. 10C usually gets around 300 or so show edition posters. No reason for the site to practically crash. What I don't understand is that there were only like 350 members signed in when the Moline dropped. Unless every single person who was logged in tried for one, there's no reason why it should have slowed down the site and sold out that fast...

I agree with you about the website. It was so slow, I really thought I would get shut out by the time I got to the payment screen. It's frustrating as hell. There is no way it should've bogged down so badly for 350 people on the site.

vant0037

slyhiggs said:

i remember saying to myself when i got 4 people or so away from merch tent in moline and missed out on poster, what would Ed say if he saw this?

He'd probably be grossed out that merchandise caused this much angst. It's a poster.

On a related note, I hope this experience finally puts to rest the whole "f5 vs. lottery" debate. Who would want to go back to that?

Brane_of_JFK

RP112579 said:

Brane_of_JFK said:

RP112579 said:

People are acting like merch has never sold out before. I missed out on Sevens, the Wrigley posters and the Pittsburgh poster. It happens. There will never be an infinite amount of merch to go around to please everyone.

Very true, but I still can't believe that in this day and age a website can't handle a few hundred people trying to buy something. 10C usually gets around 300 or so show edition posters. No reason for the site to practically crash. What I don't understand is that there were only like 350 members signed in when the Moline dropped. Unless every single person who was logged in tried for one, there's no reason why it should have slowed down the site and sold out that fast...

I agree with you about the website. It was so slow, I really thought I would get shut out by the time I got to the payment screen. It's frustrating as hell. There is no way it should've bogged down so badly for 350 people on the site.

Guess I'm just bitter because I got to the payment screen after waiting and waiting to go from one page of the checkout process to the next, entered my CC info, than saw the evil red text stating an item in my cart has been sold out.

scurtis

I've noticed they have scheduled sales more recently (posters from this tour and the euro tour), announced sales like the Black Friday one later this week and have done pre-orders like Vault 4.

Yet, people go nuts when it doesn't work out. You say he/she should be fired, I say he/she has noticeably been trying to make stuff more accessible and switched up the sales, but you can't make everyone happy all of the time.

Saying someone should be fired is way overboard.

SP96445

Posting a topic on the bands' website demanding one of their employees to be fired because someone couldn't get a poster is an extreme overreaction and will never solve anything except making the OP look ridiculous.

HughFreakingDillon

I wish people would learn to calm down before they have an online fit. think about it. would you have said that out loud to someone? if not, you probably shouldn't have posted it.

slyhiggs

Sarava said:

Your post is disrespectful. I agree some improvements should be made, but you really should get that point across in a better way.

Thats why i appologized in my sign off. It felt good typing it, but after i read it i felt bad.

badbrains

What's that saying again, IBTL! )

JB128716

Funny thing is I love the Leeds poster and Milton Keynes poster and they are both still available and wasn't a fan of Moline.

Guess it's really not that easy to predict supply and demand.

And when a band places an order with an artist, I'm sure they order 500 (or whatever the number is) from each artist before the design is made and certainly before the band decides to play an entire album at a show.