Tomorrows the 10th

FR181798 said:

demetrios said:

EF11 said:

drfox said:

Wonder if we will get some EV mystery boxes. I notice the EV posters have been removed from 10c store

I noticed that too but was wondering instead if they got used as filler to secure the wooden edition of the Seattle stream posters. I know mine came wrapped in an old Eddie Vedder poster, and the ones on the site seemed to have been sitting there for quite some time.

Mine was one of Frank's EV '12 print.

An EV mystery boxes would be cool. I kinda wanna see another vinyl mystery sale.

A 12" & 7" mystery vinyl sale

I wonder much old vinyl they still have in the warehouse. Id imagine they might have variants of Easy Street, a few Vaults etc. but I imagine a lot of the really good stuff went in the last sale.

The last sale I got a red Lightning Bolt and No Jeremy 10". There was obviously better stuff but I had most of it anyway and I probably would have traded it.  Getting the red Lightning Bolt was decent because I didnt have it. Im pretty sure the allocation wasnt random unfortunately.

Yeah, from what I remember there, most people got one rare (or rare-ish) and one common (or common-ish) record.

I got a RNDM album (common) and a Mike McCready Music for Film on colored vinyl. The person who started the "re-release the Benny" got a... surprise... Benny. It looked like SeattleBatman ended up with one of the autographed guitars from the last mystery box. I *think* Dimi and maybe Dayle got autographed baseballs.

Some of it is random, but some is also thought out. They definitely use mystery boxes to dump a lot of general crap, but also know to put *just enough* good stuff in there to keep people buying a few boxes each time.

mace1229 said:

Lost In Ohio said:

mace1229 said:

huntersthompson said:

Do you think the folks at the 10 Club like the mystery box sale and the subsequent work that goes into putting them together?  Or is a "grab something from each pile" and fill the boxes?  They have put together some killer boxes for me--including a Pearl Jam/Red Sox jersey that I got to wear to Fenway when I was there (holy sh!t....two years ago).  I do need to make a confession...I went through the last mystery box (that got ransacked before getting to me-with the posters taken)...and failed to notice any picks before tossing out the packing material...didn't learn that picks were included in all the boxes until after recycling was dumped....bummer..

I doubt anybody asks them so we’ll never know. The band/management sees an easy way to unload 1000 unwanted posters by throwing in a few sought after ones in the mix and bingo, just made 100k while spring cleaning. 

I've long had a theory that there's some reason why they *can't* sell certain items in the store. For 2020, we got posters and pins/patches, but no hats, shirts, and it seems like a lot of other stuff that could have been sold.

If they can't outright sell the stuff, but can sell a "mystery box" which *just happens* to contain stuff that can't be "sold" wink-wink nudge-nudge...

I don’t know why they wouldn’t be able to sell something in their online store that was made as merchandise. But there’s always a lot of random rules and regulations, it wouldn’t surprise me if this is partially true. I say partially because the main purpose of the mystery box is to unload 1000 unwanted posters by mixing in a few sought after ones. Last round it seemed like nearly every box contained at least 1 baby brain, some even had 2. In the end I always find with worth the $100 still, and they got to clear out a pallet of ugly posters. It’s a win-win.

I'm not sure how some people ended up with two of the same poster, unless they bought mutiple boxes. It's obvious the posters are rolled in advance and maybe even the boxes are all made and just waiting for labels to be printed.

I know I got two EMEK Endless War posters, but I also bought two boxes. They made it known that stuff could duplicate, especially if the boxes were bought consecutively...as I just happened to do.

They probably will sell bottle and towel. Probably just going to collect donations first for contest 

I am happy when they release merch I don’t care about 

KM73780 said:

Wow another day of people bitching about something on the Pearl Jam forum. What a shock. You people are here voluntarily and are free to leave any time. 

Love it or leave it?

Lost In Ohio said:

And yes, Santos and company needs to fix the shipping issue. The shipping cost should be exactly what UPS/USPS charges. Any other fees should be included in the cost of the item itself.

If I buy an item:

Base cost of item as it costs 10C to obtain it from the original manufacturer

10C fees...aka their profit for selling the item and their costs to obtain shipping material

Shipping costs

10C fees should be rolled into the base cost.

$6 for a sticker plus $1 shipping looks a LOT better than $1 for a sticker and $6 shipping.

Cool, but what happens when you order three or four stickers at once? If I buy four stickers, isn't it worse to pay for 4x the cost for a padded envelope when they'll all arrive in one envelope anyways?

I prefer that they continue to price the items accurately and shipping is what it is. In my view, they use good quality materials for shipping and they have to account for "handling" as well, like the warehouse costs and the people who staff the place. All of that isn't free. It's not an exact science, but I think that's a reasonable cost for a small business. This isn't Amazon or Target after all. I think we've gotten used to artificially low shipping and handling costs from these huge corporations that can not only afford it, but unfortunately seem like they wring at least some of those costs out of their employees in the form of high pressure work environments with comparatively low wages. I'm not an expert in labor and corporate management, but my overall point is that I think Ten Club's practices are more than reasonable for a small business.

Besides, what's to prevent them from adding shipping into the base cost of the item, then going back and charging "exorbitant" shipping anyways after people forgot why the price of the item suddenly went up 500%? On balance, while I wish item prices were lower in general (for example, $35 for a t-shirt is a bit much IMO), I don't have a huge problem with the way Ten Club prices and ships stuff. Again, these folks aren't Amazon.

Not sure about US shipping but international shipping seems excessive when I read some posts. Dont even seem to get shipping notifications any more for the few things I have ordered. Generally I put up with high shipping prices when I import records from the US because I would say vinyl prices are cheaper in the US in general. High shipping charges isnt exclusive to 10c. Same in a lot of artists store. I usually find that its the shipping calculators that is the problem rather than the stores themselves hiking up prices.