Petition For Online Wrigley Poster Pre-Order

mschostok · February 2016

Ditto

jeff2040 · February 2016

I would definitely be on board with something like this.

ReleaseMe · February 2016

SIGNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edved007 · February 2016

I would LOVE to see this come back like they did I think on the 09' tour for posters at least. I had a personal conversation with Tim B. at a show in Europe a couple years ago and asked him about this and he rolled his eyes and said it was a logistical nightmare and made it sound like it would be very doubtful we see that again sadly.

Zod · February 2016

Signed.

I experienced this for Calgary 2009. It was a GA festival show and it was brilliant not having to carry around a poster for the whole show. What are the options for Wrigley.. spend a whole day at a merch truck and maybe miss out, buy it inside and hope it survives GA, or order it online and have it come safe and sound to the house?

tellie1976 · February 2016

This is a great idea. I hate holding our posters through the show.

Hoccapuk · February 2016

mcriecken said:
I wonder if the issue is that they end up with a ton of extra merch? Think about if everyone on this board that is going to the show preorders merch for that show. The 10C also needs to have a merch stand at the show for people who didn't know about the presale and/or missed out on it. The thing is, how do they know how many posters to print to meet demand? Shirts, stickets, etc.? Unfortunately, since not everyone who is going to the show is going to know about preordering merch then the 10C are likely to be stuck with either too much or too little in the end. I think if they were going to do something like this it would have to, unfortunately, be for people who won tickets through 10C for that specific show so they have a better idea of how many ticketholders already bought merch. Which in turn is going to infuriate a lot of people who want posters/merch for shows they aren't going to.

That's not saying I wouldn't love to be able to preorder merch, I would absolutely love to. Hell, I'm a web developer and I would volunteer my time to set something up for them to get this done, but I think there are too many other factors to consider and maybe based on previous experience that's why they aren't doing it.

Simple, they the pre-order to how many order then add what they would have normally produced on top. So if they were going to produce 200 posters to begin with, now you add the pre-order. Or look at how many pre-orders you have vs seats and make a guess for how many extra to produce.

Hoccapuk · February 2016

demetrios said:
Also how about a petition to have only 1 poster made for Night 1 & 1 poster made for Night 2? Instead of 4+ gig posters per night.

I agree, just like the EV chicago show in 2008 that munk one did.

gnaztee · February 2016

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tellie1976 said:
This is a great idea. I hate holding our posters through the show.

I hate that too, but I saw a guy a while back with a hard plastic tube slung over his shoulder at a show and looked it up online. Check out Blick Art Materials. They have colored plastic tubes with shoulder straps. I took mine to Bogota and it worked great. Although, with all the warnings about pickpockets in Bogota I slung mine across my chest, but I put three posters inside (not a flipper, picked up two for a 10c member who helped me with tix) and my tickets. Was not inconvenient at all.

jbalicki10 · February 2016

Signed, but I predict that all signs point to no.

Leash_In_Hiding · February 2016

I'm all for this, I actually emailed 10c last week about it. Doesn't sound like they care to go along with this idea....

Hi Dave,

We do not sell tour merch on our site in advance of the show. The band likes to keep the tour merch special and specific to the live event as much as possible.

-10c

angry_skull · February 2016

Yes please.

front spacer · February 2016

Let's make this happen 10C!!!

And even if you don't want to ship all the posters, at least give us some sort of online voucher that we can take up to a special 10 club window to redeem our merchandise. Please don't wait make us wait in line for 6 hours with all the rest of the flippers trying to just make a profit!

Hoccapuk · February 2016

front spacer said:
Let's make this happen 10C!!!

And even if you don't want to ship all the posters, at least give us some sort of online voucher that we can take up to a special 10 club window to redeem our merchandise. Please don't wait make us wait in line for 6 hours with all the rest of the flippers trying to just make a profit!

Agreed, while some here still flip, most are more likely to keep and enjoy what they got. 6+ hours is crazy.. it's not THAT hard....

kasedoug · February 2016

mcriecken said:
I wonder if the issue is that they end up with a ton of extra merch? Think about if everyone on this board that is going to the show preorders merch for that show. The 10C also needs to have a merch stand at the show for people who didn't know about the presale and/or missed out on it. The thing is, how do they know how many posters to print to meet demand? Shirts, stickets, etc.? Unfortunately, since not everyone who is going to the show is going to know about preordering merch then the 10C are likely to be stuck with either too much or too little in the end. I think if they were going to do something like this it would have to, unfortunately, be for people who won tickets through 10C for that specific show so they have a better idea of how many ticketholders already bought merch. Which in turn is going to infuriate a lot of people who want posters/merch for shows they aren't going to.

That's not saying I wouldn't love to be able to preorder merch, I would absolutely love to. Hell, I'm a web developer and I would volunteer my time to set something up for them to get this done, but I think there are too many other factors to consider and maybe based on previous experience that's why they aren't doing it.

You hit the nail on the head. I thought the pre-order in 2009 was great and took advantage of it for the LA show I landed 10C tickets for. It was for the people bought 10C tickets only, which makes it hard to gauge in terms of the amount of merch you send to the show. It seemed like they were over-inventoried after the fact in 2009 and a lot of those posters sat in the warehouse for years, before ending up in clearance and mystery boxes.
As someone who's managed a retail business before, I can tell you that the pre-order probably created a lot of extra hours of work for the 10C. With the system as it stands now, they send the merch to the show and have TSURT and the venue staff which they've already contracted with and paid for with the venue rental, sell it. Posters and most of the venue/city specific merch sell out at the show so that there's very little that they have to transport through the rest of the tour and back to Seattle. They transfer the hours they would have spent packing/shipping the merch to the people at the show who want the stuff and have to line up to wait for it. It still sells through.
I'd love to explore more of the city when I travel to a show but it's also an important part of the concert experience for me to acquire the poster/merch I want, so I make the decision to wait and put in the effort to get it. That's my choice. PJ, 10C, and the artists give you multiple chances to get it as well. Outside the venue, inside at the show, through the artist's AP sale, and hopefully after the fact via 10C shop. Just a matter of how you want to invest your time.

KB39167 · February 2016

Please do this. It makes sense. It Creates less crowds to control. It creates happier fans. It creates a more relaxed atmosphere. It creates more well earned revenue to the band(this is not a jab I think they deserve all that they get) It creates less flipping. Most of us enjoy the merch as momentos/cool art, not to cash in. Again I'd rather see the artist get the rewards for their work not someone that's parasitic. Make it happen 10C! We all ready know your awesome. Now blow our minds

Tim Simmons · February 2016

pjsteelerfan said:
All of the Merch should have a 10c pre-order

this.

Tim Simmons · February 2016

I get why they don't do it (They want to minimize the amount of stock they have after everyone is satisfied), but I feel like they do undershoot demand most of the time. If they just did 10-20% more than what they think, they may be alright and minimize aftermarket margins.

Hoccapuk · February 2016

http://www.the311store.com/collections/311-day-2016-poster-presale

They're doing it...

I can understand not wanting to get stuck with excess, but wrigley and Fenway will be roughly 80,000 attendees over the two days, they won't even print near that so how could they get stuck unless it's a horrible print

PJ-Cubs · February 2016

I really hope they do something to improve the merch situation this year.
The idea of a poster pre-sale is great (they did it in 2009). At a minimum I really print more posters, stickers and shirts and enforce limits.

A few bands (MMJ and the Foo Fighters) took shirt and/or poster orders after the show to help people get merch from the bigger shows.

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