For just $299.00 you can get the collector’s edition of Thimbleweed Park:
Quotations are lowering.
They are not. This is not a signed copy.
Yep, you can buy this box for $40. I hope no one falls for it.
It seems someone fell for it… it is marked “sold”. Though strictly speaking, there is no false information in the description, it does trick you to think you saw “signed by” because that’s what all collector’s edition boxes are supposed to be.
Either the buyer assumed that it was a backer copy or he/she didn’t know that the collector’s edition can be simple bought from Fangamer. Something tells me that a large percentage of people interested in the game are not aware of the Fangamer shop.
Third reason: The buyer knows that the box isn’t available at the moment and he/she/it wanted the box now.
I would agree with this: The TWP website doesn’t mention the collector’s edition. And the menu points only to “merch” - at least I wouldn’t expect a boxed version behind that link.
What did they wanted the box to know?
Seriously, you are right, I didn’t think about this possible reason. I’m definitely the kind of person who will never get the “right now” attitude. I can be patient.
I would rename that menu voice to “Shop” and link it directly to the Fangamer gallery. The advantages of this change for both users and the website manager would be more than the disadvantages.
But regardless of this little change my perception is that a lot of people don’t even realize that there is an official website to visit or simply they are not connected enough with the developers to get all the news about the game. Reaching less-informed people would require investments in marketing.
Because you must know, that now is the time to know, that’s after midnight in Germany and my concentration is, well, you know.
Yep. Maybe @RonGilbert can change that.
This is on my long list of stuff to do. That page was set up before fangamer has a “store” for us.
Oh no, somebody hacked the grumpygamer blog and removed all comments!
Internet Archive comes to rescue: https://grumpygamer.com/booty_from_seattle1
So I’ve been super busy at work and totally forgot about this topic (i’m the seller on ebay that this topic was created about) and just randomly thought about this topic months later lol
Just to let everyone know, after the seller received the sealed signed kickstarter boxed copy of TP, I contacted the buyer on ebay and told him I’d give him $50 back from the amount that he offered and paid me for it (it was much less than the $500 i was asking for.) The reason is because when I created the auction, I didn’t know that the boxed copies on fangamer were only going to cost $40, which I found out shortly after creating the auction, I thought they were going to be $150 like what they had been on the TP website.
Anyway, we did that and basically the final tally ended up being what it cost to originally get on kickstarter ($300) which for a 3 year wait was a totally fair deal for both me and him imo. And I’ve since used that money to increase my physical game collection and wholly plan on getting the PS4 edition through LimitedRunGames (not officially announced yet but we all know it’s coming lol).
This is still on sale, after months:
The Secret of Monkey Island-shrinkwrapped and signed by Ron Gilbert https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.it%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F131433456337
Not quite. The signed box was a $150 pledge. (And if you backed in the $300 tier, that only makes it worse, since you did not sell the other rewards like the T-shirt and poster and stuff). That doesn’t mean the reward is worth that much. Rather the opposite, since otherwise your pledge isn’t doing any funding, now is it? The whole idea of backing a project is that you give an amount that is mainly used (75%) for funding the actual design cost and you get a reward (at manufacturing cost) in return (on top of the product itself!) Given that the rewards were estimated at 12% (look at that pie chart from kikckstarter
That means if you first back at $150 and then resell the award for $300, while the award cost something like $20, you have not only recovered your backing investment for 100%, but also made a serious profit on Terrible Toybox’s back. But it’s a free market. If someone wants to cough up the additional $260 just for some signatures… then maybe @RonGilbert , Gary and @David should consider starting a business to sign fans game boxes. Rather than doing that for free at gamer events. Luckily, they’re not a bunch of *beep*hole tuna-heads who’d do such thing.
Bottomline, backing a project isn’t an investment. A backer is NOT an investor. If nothing else, selling your pledge reward (at a profit) proves you have little love for the project to start with. But again, free market and all… if there’s a buyer.
Sorry for not leaping of joy. Bad back, you know.
There are some similar auctions on/in the german ebay… Ron should start signing some (cheap) stuff and sell it via eBay - he will definitely get rich…
I wonder if the weirdest thing he ever signed (according to his Friday Questions answer to @ZakPhoenixMcKracken ) will one day turn up on ebay…
wrapped into an ice filled package of course…
Great. Now I don’t get these pictures out of my head…