[Webcomic] The Order of the Stick thread

Piotyr

Piotyr

Also three other characters of pledgers choosing, since those rewards are sold. I just hope they pick interesting characters and aren't stupidly meta.
 
Piotyr

Piotyr

Heh, now he's already flown past the second goal and is nearing the third, and almost all the limited reward packages are bought.
 
Dei

Dei

GD IT! He keeps adding more books to the rewards but I can't up how much I donated, since $45 for one book was already pretty steep as it was. AHHHHHHHHH
 
Piotyr

Piotyr

I think that was Tarol Hunt, the Goblins creator. This is the first time Rich Burlew has done something like this, just to see how well it'd work out.

So far, so good, I'd say.
 
Dave

Dave

Staff member
Damn I guess. Good for him. I rather think that'll allow him to reprint some stuff, considering he's going to triple his goal.
 
Frank

Frank

Is he getting people to donate money to him so he can print more books to sell?

That seems.....whatever, if people want to it's their choice. He's not making people give him money.
 
Piotyr

Piotyr

Frankie Williamson said:
Is he getting people to donate money to him so he can print more books to sell?

That seems.....whatever, if people want to it's their choice. He's not making people give him money.
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Most of the pledges are reward-based, largely on pre-orders of the books and special things like signed copies or custom drawings. Printing out enough full color books (with decent paper) to stock comic book stores is a huge up front cost.
 
Frank

Frank

Piotyr said:
Most of the pledges are reward-based, largely on pre-orders of the books and special things like signed copies or custom drawings. Printing out enough full color books (with decent paper) to stock comic book stores is a huge up front cost.
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Yeah, well, if your fanbase if fucking nuts enough to cover the cost of your product you wish to sell to them more power to him, even with a book tossed into your 50 dollar "donation".
 
K

kaykordeath

A $67 dollar donation gets me 3 books. At $7 shipping that's $20 a book. Certainly not a bargain but $19.99 cover price for a typical comic trade paperback is not unheard of. So in exchange for doing away with the typical discount you'd get from Amazon, you can help out a crator who has provided some entertainment and made it easier fo other fans to pick up unavailable books.

Works for me.
 
Piotyr

Piotyr

Frankie Williamson said:
Yeah, well, if your fanbase if fucking nuts enough to cover the cost of your product you wish to sell to them more power to him, even with a book tossed into your 50 dollar "donation".
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Do you just not get the premise of "Hey, I understand that a bunch of my books are sold out, but I don't have the up front funds to print more right now because my body is too messed up to even travel anywhere, so I'll offer a 10$ comic to whoever wants it plus some limited rewards to cover the printing cost so that this won't be a problem again for the foreseeable future"?
 
Necronic

Necronic

Staff member
kaykordeath said:
A $67 dollar donation gets me 3 books. At $7 shipping that's $20 a book. Certainly not a bargain but $19.99 cover price for a typical comic trade paperback is not unheard of. So in exchange for doing away with the typical discount you'd get from Amazon, you can help out a crator who has provided some entertainment and made it easier fo other fans to pick up unavailable books.

Works for me.
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That's basically the expected price for most of his books in a comic book store. So really it's just a preorder, not a donation.
 
Piotyr

Piotyr

Dei said:
The compilation books are $40 each this way... which kind of sucks... want Book 3 AND Book 2. -_-
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Shipping costs really blow on two books, because they don't fit into a standard Priority Mail envelope. So though the books themselves are 30 each, shipping requires a flat rate Priority Mail box, which is 10. (The additional 10 is for the four bonus comic books per standard pledge).

EDIT: I know this because I messaged him about that very package and why it was so high, and he responded with the annoying shipping problem.
 
Frank

Frank

Piotyr said:
Do you just not get the premise of "Hey, I understand that a bunch of my books are sold out, but I don't have the up front funds to print more right now because my body is too messed up to even travel anywhere, so I'll offer a 10$ comic to whoever wants it plus some limited rewards to cover the printing cost so that this won't be a problem again for the foreseeable future"?
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I get it.
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Also, I hope he has his finances about this planned properly. Kickstarter and Amazon both take pretty hefty chunks of the proceeds and the gubment takes their (more than) fair share too. I've read about a couple of Kickstarter things where the people who did hadn't planned for just how much they would owe in taxes and ended up in trouble and liable for a whole bunch of money.
 
Piotyr

Piotyr

The silliness continues:



Amazon's cut is 3% and Kickstarter's is 5%. I'd imagine he has that built into the pledges, but at this rate it may not matter anyway.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

I'm just absolutely floored by the support from his fanbase. Then again, Rich is doing an incredibly job of upping the ante with more and more rewards. The fact that he'll be able to have all 7 books in print at the same time will be amazing. He should be incredibly proud of all of this. I really, really wish I had the money to throw in my support. I've wanted to own the OotS books for a long time.
 
North_Ranger

North_Ranger

Staff member
I admit, I'm tempted to cough up ten bucks for that sweet-ass PDF collection. And that's saying a lot, because my usual willingness to giving my credit card number online is comparable to my willigness to stick my willy in a meat grinder.

I gots me all the books already...
 
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