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Post by Hermes on Jun 18, 2012 15:47:09 GMT -5
That's really impressive, thedoctororwell.
(But why are you not disguised as an ASOUE char - Oh, wait.)
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Jun 24, 2012 1:59:35 GMT -5
It's been a little while since this thread was posted in, but here goes: Oh - could you photograph the "'Til Death Do Us Part" poster? As I've noted before, you're the only person who I've ever heard of having gotten such a poster with their copy of The Complete Wreck. I do have the 'Til Death Do Us Part poster. It's not with my collection, though - it's on my bedroom door - which is why I didn't think to mention it before. Do you want a picture? An acquaintance who bought the Wreck for work purposes gave it to me. "Don't need this thing... what is it, anyway?" However, when I bought my own Wreck (about six months earlier) no poster came with it. Nothing came with it, in fact.
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Post by Dante on Jun 24, 2012 2:06:48 GMT -5
I do have the 'Til Death Do Us Part poster. It's not with my collection, though - it's on my bedroom door - which is why I didn't think to mention it before. Do you want a picture? An acquaintance who bought the Wreck for work purposes gave it to me. "Don't need this thing... what is it, anyway?" However, when I bought my own Wreck (about six months earlier) no poster came with it. Nothing came with it, in fact. I thought you'd mentioned getting it with TCW, but maybe circumstances were different surrounding your acquaintance... I'd still like a picture of the poster, though, as it's still the only example I'm aware of of that picture in poster form. If it's not too much trouble.
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Jun 24, 2012 4:37:35 GMT -5
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Post by Dante on Jun 24, 2012 4:58:36 GMT -5
Interesting. It literally is a flat version of the original portrait that came with the BBRE (by flat I mean that the frame and the portrait aren't separate). Folded in four, huh... how big is it, exactly?
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jun 24, 2012 8:37:24 GMT -5
Some of the reviews I've read indicate this poster came with TCW, whereas others make no mention of it at all. Maybe it was included for a limited time only, or only from certain booksellers?
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Post by Dante on Jun 24, 2012 11:54:26 GMT -5
I think I got my TCW pretty promptly after the release date, though. Maybe they slipped in the poster later in response to poor sales (and they were poor, apparently).
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jun 24, 2012 12:09:46 GMT -5
That's more along the lines of what I was thinking, yes; it was added later as a purchasing incentive (though who spends more than $100 dollars on books for a poster I don't know).
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Jun 24, 2012 22:51:09 GMT -5
It might have been a purchasing incentive - good point. Sales were probably low, as my acquaintance told me that all the staff looked excited when she came in and said she had ordered TCW, and it would be waiting on the shelf behind the counter. She gave me a dramatic re-enactment of the manager, thrilled, asking the staff "you sold a Complete Wreck?". Apparently it was the first he had sold since taking over management of the store.
@dante, the poster is 25cm by 36cm. It was folded in four, yes (silly me didn't get the creases out before putting it up), and slipped between two of the books.
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Post by Dante on Jun 25, 2012 2:04:17 GMT -5
@dante, the poster is 25cm by 36cm. It was folded in four, yes (silly me didn't get the creases out before putting it up), and slipped between two of the books. I see, that's where I thought it'd be. Curious. These posters really are very obscure, which seems like a point against the "purchasing incentive" theory, as you can't have an incentive which nobody knows about. But I can't think what else it could be. I guess it was just a bonus that they cooked up at some point but didn't necessarily issue an updated synopsis for. Also known as a punishment for early purchasers.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jun 25, 2012 7:06:27 GMT -5
Someone suggested it was available only from stores, i.e., not online, but I don't see why that should make a difference. Are there other instances of people not finding the poster in their package? Maybe you were just unlucky.
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Post by Dante on Jun 25, 2012 9:36:25 GMT -5
Given that the box sets are shrink-wrapped, I'm not sure if a distinction could be made between the production of those destined for physical stores and those destined for the warehouses of the likes of Amazon, if it even makes a difference. It's fairly clear, though, that the absence of the poster is meant to be a default - synopses and other promotional material always mention all contents of something like this, and if there were posters available they would definitely have mentioned it in the multiple places TCW was promoted, not to mention showing it off in the multi-angle promotional photographs on online stores (just look at Barnes & Noble's pages for things like TCW and TBL). Also, Lemona said above that her TCW didn't contain a poster either.
What's weird is that I got my TCW early and it had no poster, but Lemona got her poster-less one after somebody else who did get a poster. Then there's the fact that I'm pretty sure TCW won't have gotten multiple print runs - they had to halve their initial printing anyway and I found an article once saying they'd only sold half of those. Given that, maybe it was a distinction between particular stores? Some stores do get exclusive bonuses with their copies of books, like how the Egmont paperback versions had Waterstones-exclusive trading cards in some of the books.
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Post by Hermes on Jun 25, 2012 9:47:56 GMT -5
Maybe they slipped in the poster later in response to poor sales (and they were poor, apparently). Which, really, is not surprising. The publishers seem to have limitless confidence either that there are new markets out there waiting to be tapped, or that people will be prepared to pay again for stuff they already have - which in practice only a few devotees are likely to do.
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Post by Dante on Jun 25, 2012 10:16:23 GMT -5
Which, really, is not surprising. The publishers seem to have limitless confidence either that there are new markets out there waiting to be tapped, or that people will be prepared to pay again for stuff they already have - which in practice only a few devotees are likely to do. While this isn't the thread for an extended conversation on the subject, I agree that this should have been fairly predictable. The more books there are in a series, the less likely you are to be able to sell a box set of all of them, no matter how fancily you decorate it.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jun 25, 2012 11:09:34 GMT -5
Also, Lemona said above that her TCW didn't contain a poster either. Oh, that's right. Sorry, Lemona - I remembered seeing the poster on your door and forgot it didn't actually come from your own collection. Since apparently the inclusion of the posters has nothing to do with time, location is the only other relevant variable I can think of. But if what you proposed earlier is true, and the posters were not originally intended as part of the package, how would the purveyors of TCW determine which destinations requested the extra items? And if there weren't multiple print runs, why wouldn't they include the poster in all the sets, then advertise it as a selling point?
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