Mondo/Alamo Drafthouse Screen Printed Movie Posters
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I can't see how changing checkout systems would hurt Mondo; it could only make the already haphazard buying process a little more orderly for their customers. At this point, it appears that their position is simply that they like throwing chum into the water and watching the sharks react.
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Their position is that if they expand production size, then their product will no longer be special. That makes sense to me (though I don't understand how offering 400 posters instead of 320 is going to wholly de-value their operation), but it doesn't explain why their pricing scheme hasn't moved closer to the equilibrium price point of the secondary market. It seems to me that by not doing that, they're the ones de-valuing themselves. Mondo is clearly doing fine with the way things are, but they've effectively allowed themselves to become manufacturer and wholesaler to a bunch of eBay scalpers.
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The secondary market is crazy for these things. I've collect DC animated art off and on for 10 years and some of their canvas editions sell for less than some of these prints. I guess it's all about demand.
That being said, anyone selling their Big Trouble in Little China Stout?
That being said, anyone selling their Big Trouble in Little China Stout?
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A friend of mine was out of state and didn't have Internet access, so he asked me if I would try to order a regular version for him. He entrusted me with his sign-in information, we did a dress rehearsal to make sure I could get into both is Mondo and Paypal accounts. Yesterday morning I kept checking their page, and I hit refresh to reveal that the posters were up. I clicked to add it to his cart so fast that I literally never even saw the poster. I'm not even sure if it had finished loading. The tweet hadn't even gone out when I was onto the checkout page, which timed out and I had to refresh. By the time I got through that process, which consisted of hitting "next" a couple of times, it was out of stock.
It is annoying and I wish they would make it a race to get it in your cart and you have like 3 minutes or something to complete checkout. You not only need to race just to get it in your cart, but you need to get lucky enough to not be a victim of their overworked servers.
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For them it's better to make a modest profit with little risk of over-stock, then it is to maybe make lots of money with lots of risk. But with a higher print run they not only have to shell out lots of cash upfront, they risk devaluing their other prints, giving a finicky audience the excuse to say they sold out, and storing prints they didn't sell. Heck, more prints equal having to employ more people and have a bigger processing department which add yet more headaches.
I'd much rather they had a hold system when a print is in a cart. I don;t mind being too slow... but I hate feeling like I was cheated by a laggy site.
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Anyone snag a Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (If you really want Whalen's Paul poster...I'll trade you lol)
Naturally, got it pre-tweet and it timed out as I tried to add to cart.
Naturally, got it pre-tweet and it timed out as I tried to add to cart.
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Holy shit! Had it in my cart, and it timed out on me, too. Fucking sucks that it is easier to get a BOC on Woot than getting one of these posters. LOL
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I just bid $250 on a Kill Bill on ebay and was outbid within an hour with 6 days still on the clock, lame.
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I'll pick up a few of the Roger Rabbit posters if I see them in store... seems like something they'd have available there. No promises... but I won't charge anything more than the price and shipping if I find some. It's hit or miss though.
I'll definitely be there (hopefully sometime this next week) to... pick up my Kill Bill poster. Oh... and the Dogfish Head Film Fest is this week too!
I'll definitely be there (hopefully sometime this next week) to... pick up my Kill Bill poster. Oh... and the Dogfish Head Film Fest is this week too!
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I'm wondering when they will be shipping "Kill Bill". I've been told that it sometimes takes a while for the posters to ship...
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The secondary market is crazy for these things. I've collect DC animated art off and on for 10 years and some of their canvas editions sell for less than some of these prints. I guess it's all about demand.
That being said, anyone selling their Big Trouble in Little China Stout?![Smilie](/images/smilies/smile.gif)
That being said, anyone selling their Big Trouble in Little China Stout?
![Smilie](/images/smilies/smile.gif)
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I just got notice yesterday that my Close Encounters of the Third Kind poster was shipping - it's been over a month since the sale
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Sell it. Even if you only get half of that, it's a poster and you have cash on the table. I love all my posters, but if one of mine is selling for that amount, SOLD.
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LOL. I think we may have a new winner for goriest Mondo poster.
That Alamo logo in the lower right of the NOES is really distracting to me. Maybe that's just me.
That Alamo logo in the lower right of the NOES is really distracting to me. Maybe that's just me.
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Quick question for those of you collecting prints (I just got into it)...what makes the prints sold on Mondo so much more sought after than others.
Since another user mentioned expresso beans, I browsed the site a bit and it seems there are a lot of other artists/sites that sell similar work. For example, I stumbled on Fro Design Co Store and they have really low print runs, but nothing really sells out. There are some prints I think look cool, but are they being printed w/cheap materials or something? (I have no frame of reference for what makes one print better than another in terms of materials used).
Since another user mentioned expresso beans, I browsed the site a bit and it seems there are a lot of other artists/sites that sell similar work. For example, I stumbled on Fro Design Co Store and they have really low print runs, but nothing really sells out. There are some prints I think look cool, but are they being printed w/cheap materials or something? (I have no frame of reference for what makes one print better than another in terms of materials used).
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Quick question for those of you collecting prints (I just got into it)...what makes the prints sold on Mondo so much more sought after than others.
Since another user mentioned expresso beans, I browsed the site a bit and it seems there are a lot of other artists/sites that sell similar work. For example, I stumbled on Fro Design Co Store and they have really low print runs, but nothing really sells out. There are some prints I think look cool, but are they being printed w/cheap materials or something? (I have no frame of reference for what makes one print better than another in terms of materials used).
Since another user mentioned expresso beans, I browsed the site a bit and it seems there are a lot of other artists/sites that sell similar work. For example, I stumbled on Fro Design Co Store and they have really low print runs, but nothing really sells out. There are some prints I think look cool, but are they being printed w/cheap materials or something? (I have no frame of reference for what makes one print better than another in terms of materials used).
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Thanks for the link. Some cool posters there. Probably wouldn't buy more than one though (I have my eye on Jackie Brown) as their prints are all 11X17, a bit smaller than I prefer. If they were bigger I'd be all over those.
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One good thing about 11x17 is that Michael's offers some decent frames at a very cheap price (2 for $6, I believe). I'll probably pick up some of these as well -- I especially like the 4-set of "Ones that Got Away".
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I want to see an 11x17 frame in person before I buy anything from Fro Design just so I have a sense of what it will look like on my walls.
I'm thinking with the smaller size it pays to get a set (I like the Fillini three) and display them one next to the other.
The Manhattan one may be the only one I get to display alone if I can find a small area for it.
I'm thinking with the smaller size it pays to get a set (I like the Fillini three) and display them one next to the other.
The Manhattan one may be the only one I get to display alone if I can find a small area for it.
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I want to see an 11x17 frame in person before I buy anything from Fro Design just so I have a sense of what it will look like on my walls.
I'm thinking with the smaller size it pays to get a set (I like the Fillini three) and display them one next to the other.
The Manhattan one may be the only one I get to display alone if I can find a small area for it.
I'm thinking with the smaller size it pays to get a set (I like the Fillini three) and display them one next to the other.
The Manhattan one may be the only one I get to display alone if I can find a small area for it.
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Quick question for those of you collecting prints (I just got into it)...what makes the prints sold on Mondo so much more sought after than others.
Since another user mentioned expresso beans, I browsed the site a bit and it seems there are a lot of other artists/sites that sell similar work. For example, I stumbled on Fro Design Co Store and they have really low print runs, but nothing really sells out. There are some prints I think look cool, but are they being printed w/cheap materials or something? (I have no frame of reference for what makes one print better than another in terms of materials used).
Since another user mentioned expresso beans, I browsed the site a bit and it seems there are a lot of other artists/sites that sell similar work. For example, I stumbled on Fro Design Co Store and they have really low print runs, but nothing really sells out. There are some prints I think look cool, but are they being printed w/cheap materials or something? (I have no frame of reference for what makes one print better than another in terms of materials used).
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Marginal...thanks for the info.
I used the copy sheets to get a good idea of the size of the posters and taking into account that there can be a quality drop-off from silk screen w/Giclee, I decided not to drop $100 on the Fellini set and just went w/Manhattan (small print run of 20) since I have a good spot for a small poster like that.
I used the copy sheets to get a good idea of the size of the posters and taking into account that there can be a quality drop-off from silk screen w/Giclee, I decided not to drop $100 on the Fellini set and just went w/Manhattan (small print run of 20) since I have a good spot for a small poster like that.
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