Author Topic: 2004 BYOAC Tokens SOLD OUT!!! (Read 54209 times)

hulkster · « **Reply #200 on:** July 13, 2004, 01:35:02 pm »

hey i know how you feel. i told my older brother my tokens will be coming in soon, and he says "you have tokens as well *rolls eyes*". yeah im a dork i guess, but ive been called worse

. plus, id take the positive comments like "oh man, thats awesome!" and "you are a friggin genious! howd you build that??"....over "you are such a dork" any day!

RacerX · « **Reply #201 on:** July 13, 2004, 06:40:26 pm »

Got my tokens! Woo hoo!

These things look great in person. But whoever posted that 200 coins really isn't that many... you're right. I may need to order some more...

Chris · « **Reply #202 on:** July 13, 2004, 08:59:58 pm »

Quote from: RacerX on July 13, 2004, 06:40:26 pm

Got my tokens! Woo hoo!

These things look great in person. But whoever posted that 200 coins really isn't that many... you're right. I may need to order some more...

200 tokens is equivalent to 5 of these rolls:

Santoro · « **Reply #203 on:** July 13, 2004, 09:13:05 pm »

OK, as promised. Here is a comparison of the token counts. I have included a few items for scale.

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #204 on:** July 13, 2004, 10:07:07 pm »

Is it just me, or are the dentils missing from that banana?

KevSteele · « **Reply #205 on:** July 14, 2004, 08:39:01 am »

Quote from: JoyMonkey on July 13, 2004, 10:07:07 pm

Is it just me, or are the dentils are missing from that banana?

Oh, sure, leave it to the Joymonkey to notice something wrong with the banana!

"I'd like the banana-sized bag please..."

Kevin

RacerX · « **Reply #206 on:** July 14, 2004, 09:41:57 am »

Well, I just broke down and ordered 200 nickel tokens to go with my 200 brass ones. I knew I would do this!

jbeersm · « **Reply #207 on:** July 14, 2004, 10:35:06 am »

Just receive my Tokens lastnight and they are GREAT. Now the wife has proof I'm crazy.

I took a couple to work this morning and one of the guys is a coin collector. He begged to buy one off of me for his collection. Seems he collects tokens also. He says that the detail on these are far superior to any other token he has ever seen.

P.S. I did part with one of the tokens when he raised his offer to $1.00 for one token. Now I can tell the wife I'm going to make a profit on this hobby.

Chris · « **Reply #208 on:** July 14, 2004, 11:10:48 am »

Quote from: jbeersm on July 14, 2004, 10:35:06 am

Just receive my Tokens lastnight and they are GREAT. Now the wife has proof I'm crazy.

I took a couple to work this morning and one of the guys is a coin collector. He begged to buy one off of me for his collection. Seems he collects tokens also. He says that the detail on these are far superior to any other token he has ever seen.

P.S. I did part with one of the tokens when he raised his offer to $1.00 for one token. Now I can tell the wife I'm going to make a profit on this hobby.

My wife has been oddly supportive of the whole token thing. I really believed that she's see it as a pointless waste since the coin returns are already wired for coin action. She must be getting ready to spend a lot of money....

Santoro · « **Reply #209 on:** July 14, 2004, 11:23:57 am »

My wife has been supportive too. As a matter of fact, she has actually been the Business Manager for this whole thing, tracking orders, packing and shipping tokens, and generally oveseeing things. (She caught the fact that I was under-recovering for the shipping earlier.)

My daughter has done most of the counting, and there is a mind-numbing lot of it. I just built her a 'guage' to speed the process.

My free time has been non-existent lately and none of the orders would be out yet if it weren't for them.

Thanks Leslie and Emily!

Santoro · « **Reply #210 on:** July 14, 2004, 01:38:24 pm »

OK, the Nickel Tokens arrived.

We will start shipping ASAP, in first-in first-out order. We are short on Priority Mail shipping boxes (we ordered them last week) so not all orders will ship right away. Most of the earlier orders should ship in the next day or two.

I will also try to get new pics out tonight, tomorrow latest.

{Edit: Pretty cool that this was my 600th post. I had about 200 for the seven months before this token adventure.}

hulkster · « **Reply #211 on:** July 14, 2004, 02:06:35 pm »

Quote from: Santoro on July 14, 2004, 01:38:24 pm

OK, the Nickel Tokens arrived.

We will start shipping ASAP, in first-in first-out order. We are short on Priority Mail shipping boxes (we ordered them last week) so not all orders will ship right away. Most of the earlier orders should ship in the next day or two.

I will also try to get new pics out tonight, tomorrow latest.

{Edit: Pretty cool that this was my 600th post. I had about 200 for the seven months before this token adventure.}

woohoo!!! to be honest i totally forgot that i ordered these until about 2 weeks ago. of course i was getting married so i had other things on my mind

but anyway, the pics look great and i cant wait to try them out on my mechs! oh and im using TheNasty's mechs...they work great!

Santoro · « **Reply #212 on:** July 14, 2004, 10:50:35 pm »

Here are the nickel ones. They look even better than the brass.

Santoro · « **Reply #213 on:** July 14, 2004, 10:52:35 pm »

Unfortunately the nickel tokens are even more difficult to photograph. I probably won't have time until the weekend to get better pictures for the first post in this thread.

Santoro · « **Reply #214 on:** July 15, 2004, 07:54:59 am »

I took the photo above late last night (after some good-natured prodding from Chris

) but looking today I think that once again they don't do the tokens justice.

The nickel tokens are very bright and shiny - even more so than the brass ones. In the photo above they look sort of washed out and almost golded-toned. This is not how they look in real life. Imagine a
bright, shiny, new quarter, and IMHO they look nicer than even than that.

Stingray · « **Reply #215 on:** July 15, 2004, 10:08:07 am »

Ooooh! Ahhhh! I'm so glad I ordered the plated ones!

-S

Bumblebounces · « **Reply #216 on:** July 15, 2004, 10:17:22 am »

Quote from: Santoro on July 14, 2004, 01:38:24 pm

OK, the Nickel Tokens arrived.

We will start shipping ASAP, in first-in first-out order. We are short on Priority Mail shipping boxes (we ordered them last week) so not all orders will ship right away. Most of the earlier orders should ship in the next day or two.

I will also try to get new pics out tonight, tomorrow latest.

{Edit: Pretty cool that this was my 600th post. I had about 200 for the seven months before this token adventure.}

Bummer. I knew this was going to happen. The arrival of the 50/50 token order I sent in will perfectly coincide with the departure date of my vacation.

Oh well. I should have a surprise in the mailbox when I come home.

Bumble

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #217 on:** July 17, 2004, 02:29:24 pm »

Just got my order of brass and nickel plates tokens! They look great, and work perfectly with the cheapo quarter mech I have!

Here's a better photo of the nickel plated ones:

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #218 on:** July 17, 2004, 04:14:13 pm »

Here's a full size of Chris's side:

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #219 on:** July 17, 2004, 04:15:38 pm »

Here's one of Pixel's side:

Santoro · « **Reply #220 on:** July 17, 2004, 08:09:17 pm »

Wow, how did you do that? Great pics!

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #221 on:** July 17, 2004, 08:13:31 pm »

Quote from: Santoro on July 17, 2004, 08:09:17 pm

Wow, how did you do that? Great pics!

I put the tokens on a window sill in full daylight and used a 4MP Minolta camera in macro mode without flash. The photo's don't reflect how shiny they are, but you can see the huge amount of detail!

Thanks again Santoro!

hulkster · « **Reply #222 on:** July 19, 2004, 10:39:50 am »

i know a lot of people have already recieved their tokens. i havent yet, but im being patient

however, im just wondering....when should i start to worry if theyve been sent out? by the end of this week? end of next week?

Santoro · « **Reply #223 on:** July 19, 2004, 10:46:43 am »

If you are in the US, I would start to worry on Wednesday. If you are in the East you will probably get them today or tomorrow.

Every order shipped USPS priority mail by Saturday, except for my one Australian customer whose order had to go another way because it was too heavy for priority mail. That one could take a week or so.

hulkster · « **Reply #224 on:** July 19, 2004, 12:28:28 pm »

cool, i live in nashville, TN. so ill look for it today and tomorrow!

KevSteele · « **Reply #225 on:** July 19, 2004, 01:50:04 pm »

I live in Cleveland, OH and just got mine today:

I really am surprised how much I like the nickel ones. Very shiny!

I may have to put in another nickel-only order...

Kevin

Stingray · « **Reply #226 on:** July 19, 2004, 04:22:27 pm »

Got mine in Oklahoma Saturday. Shiny, shiny nickle plated! They look too good to use!

-S

JustMichael · « **Reply #227 on:** July 19, 2004, 07:43:29 pm »

I got my 100 of each in the mail today and they look soooo great!!!!!

NIVO · « **Reply #228 on:** July 19, 2004, 09:35:07 pm »

ok Santoro, where is the promo "Every 200 gets a free banana"?

GadgetGeek · « **Reply #229 on:** July 19, 2004, 10:48:01 pm »

I got mine today too. Sweet. Only problem...looks like somebody had put them all in a big pile and rolled around naked in them before packaging them up and shipping them off

JustMichael · « **Reply #230 on:** July 20, 2004, 12:24:34 am »

Quote from: GadgetGeek on July 19, 2004, 10:48:01 pm

I got mine today too. Sweet. Only problem...looks like somebody had put them all in a big pile and rolled around naked in them before packaging them up and shipping them off

I don't even want to know how you could tell that...

Santoro,
I really appreciate the speed at which your daughter and wife got the orders out!! I would like to thank them so much!

DennisInMN · « **Reply #231 on:** July 20, 2004, 12:22:12 pm »

I got mine yesterday, yeah!!!

Thanks to all involved in designing these. A special thanks to Santoro for driving this thing and his family for going through the hassle of getting these things mailed out to everyone!

Very much appreciated!

Stingray2019 · « **Reply #232 on:** July 20, 2004, 02:51:22 pm »

Got mine yesterday as well. SantorA says thanks SantorO. They look great.

And we're even both from jersey...

Santoro · « **Reply #233 on:** July 20, 2004, 03:25:35 pm »

I am glad everyone seems to like their tokens. They came out better than I had hoped. I am especially happy with the nickel tokens. They are very money-like.

Now to wrap things up a little bit.

Once again, I want to extend my sincere thanks to Chris and Pixelhugger for thier public artistic support and private decision support for this effort. We were a great team, and the finished product shows it. Thanks guys.

I also want to thank the providers of all the great designs and feedback in the Token Design thread. This was a really fun collaboration. It was a bit rocky at times, but I think we managed to make almost everyone happy. I also get some personal satisfaction that it was the most popular thread in BYOAC history. Why can't I pick stocks this well?

Thanks to TILZS for making it possible for credit card users to participate!

Once again thanks to my wife Leslie and daughter Emily who did all of the management and shipping of the orders. You all would have have recieved your orders around November if I had to find the free time to do all that.

Thanks to my entire family includng my sons Ben and Zack for putting up with my obsessing over arcade machines and tokens for 3 months. You guys rule.

And finally thanks to Saint for all the obvious reasons. :-)

A few months ago I said I wouldn't do this again, but seeing how these came out I might reconsider. Let's talk about it in May, shall we?

Calawala · « **Reply #234 on:** July 20, 2004, 08:07:08 pm »

Just received mine and Wow these came out nice!

Thanks Leslie and Emily for the speedy delivery

I have forgetten that 400 tokens doesn't look like a lot. Been a long time since I dumped $70-80 at Funspot back in the day. What was it again, 120 tokens for $20 (6 per $)? I may have to order up another batch...

Well off to dump all these into my pocket and reminisce of the days when I was King of Funspot with my shorts falling off...

edit - Good speller I'm not

microwrx · « **Reply #235 on:** July 21, 2004, 12:55:52 am »

Quote from: Santoro on July 19, 2004, 10:46:43 am

except for my one Australian customer whose order had to go another way because it was too heavy for priority mail. That one could take a week or so.

That would be me, yay!!! Whenever they get here is fine, as long as they get here.

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #236 on:** July 21, 2004, 01:37:27 am »

Quote from: Calawala on July 20, 2004, 08:07:08 pm

Well off to dump all these into my pocket and reminisce of the days.... with my shorts falling off...

OMG I forgot about that!! What an excellent memory!

slycrel · « **Reply #237 on:** July 22, 2004, 03:26:49 am »

Just got back into town, it was great to open my mailbox and see the tokens. Thanks for all of the hard work to everyone who worked on these, especailly Santoro and family!

DaveMMR · « **Reply #238 on:** July 22, 2004, 07:46:42 am »

Got mine a couple of days ago - they look excellent. Thanks Santoro.

hulkster · « **Reply #239 on:** July 22, 2004, 12:26:20 pm »

got mine on tuesday.....opened them up....ah....titties. very nice.


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