so, how did the "Let the Right One In" lottery go?
well, for me it went ok. sure, the sale takes forever, i have to check and recheck all these emails, send out emails, check purchases etc. but, no one complained about the site crashing or anything, so that's good. most of the work is on my part which is good for everyone else.
some people prefer the old 'sale is at this scheduled time' way of doing things, i know. for me, after many sites crashing and angry emails, this seems to work better.
some people complained about the photo contest, saying 'its not fair that people have to buy a previous poster of yours to get this poster.' which isn't true at all, you don't have to buy anything. the photo contest is just a way of making sure some older collectors who've purchased my stuff for awhile now have a shot. i probably had about 100 photo submissions, and of those i randomly picked half. so, 50 posters to photo contest winners. since i had at least 250 posters, that still left 200 posters.
i then picked about 200 people, sent out emails, and am still waiting for everyone to purchase. which can take awhile since people are in australia and germany and spain etc etc. but at least this way everyone gets a chance, no matter what time code you're in.
i dunno, sure i'd like the sale to be over with in 20 minutes, sell posters on my tstout.com webstore, but right now that seems to not work. though i'm sure in the future i'll go back to that when my mailing list drops back down to 20 people.
as always i'm interested in hearing people's opinions and suggestions. at the end of the day i can't help but think its kinda surreal that i am having a lottery to see who gets to buy a poster, 'you've won the opportunity to give me your money!'
weird times man. anywho, thanks again, always appreciate everyone's business and many many kind words. if you need to email me make sure its at tyler@tstout.com - not that contest email, since that's full of contest submissions. i'll try to get back to you or my shipper person will.
