Forum - View topicINTEREST: Only 60 People Will Get These Hand-Made Sailor Moon Glass Pens
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Mune
Posts: 383 Location: Minnesota |
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*15 seconds after preorders open, sold out and immediately put on sites like ebay for 100x the price.*
In all seriousness, having a limited supply is good for making sure all is sold, but it also leads to scalping. If the item is highly desired, it is worse. After years of watching limited runs of collectibles and even games/gaming consoles, having only 30 on the official site is way too few. Even 3,000 may be too few, which is 100 times the amount. The Premium Glass Pen Special Set looks neat. If I were a hardcore Sailor Moon fan and a collector of Sailor Moon collectibles, I'd probably want it. Good luck to anyone actually wanting to obtain one. The odds are really not in your favor. |
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Wyvern
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In the stamp set, all the Sailors are facing the same direction except Neptune. I thought that was weird, but then I noticed that it's because in the circle image that combines all the stamps, this makes it so Neptune and Uranus are looking at each other. Great little detail.
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SHD
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...no doubt, which is why the most valuable item, the limited edition premium set including the pen, can only be bought by entering a raffle for the chance to buy it. Sure, technically this doesn't prevent scalping, but as far as I'm aware most scalpers tend not to bother with this sort of thing. Most people will happily buy the inevitable knockoffs too, anyway, and fans who only look at these things as investment already have their own plans anyway. In any case, wow, that pen looks terribly inconvenient as an actual writing tool. I'm not saying fancy merch should be utilitarian, and I know this is mainly decoration anyway, but still, if you sell it as a pen with stationary... |
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ranran-001
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Confused by what you mean terribly inconvenient? The pen looks like a functional pen, for those who know what glass pens are. |
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PipimiOden
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Well, it's a glass pen, it's supposed to be dipped into ink and used like a feather pen, except you can clean it more easily with water. If you know how to use it, it can be a good (or at least decent) writing utensil for writing letters and the like! |
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SHD
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Yes, I know what glass pens are, and I know how to use them. I meant the shape of it - thick where it should be slender (or at least easier to grip) with a decoration on top messing up its balance, and the nib is overly bulbous which makes it impossible to hold it in a normal position for writing, or so it seems to me... but just look at the promo picture, holding it the way the model does would likely smudge ink on the paper. But maybe I'm just not enough of a glass pen connoisseur to appreciate the challenges. |
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