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patrickl:


--- Quote from: RandyT on February 07, 2007, 04:21:58 pm ---I would have been in on the first had I known about it.
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Yeah me too. Still can't figure how this didn't go into the artwork board.

I won't be buying in now anymore though. I'd maybe like to get in on only a few pieces anyway. I'll just wait what the two groups that did buy it will start to give out. I guess I could either buy a selection from mamemarquees or maybe still join in on the BYOAC group buy if they start allowing more people in later.

horseboy:


--- Quote from: RandyT on February 07, 2007, 04:21:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on February 07, 2007, 03:55:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: jtfields on February 07, 2007, 03:29:52 pm ---Who says there can't be a second group buy? 
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3 - Good luck with that 2nd group buy. I don't think Mike will want to sell to folks who seem to want to openly distribute the very product that he is trying to sell.

4 - Why jump in after the fact and fool with something that others have already put their money and efforts into ? The 'peeps'  are saying that it SHOULDN'T be done and we should respect the vendors.

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Sorry, but I can absolutely see a rationale for a second group buy.  Everyone who took part in the first group buy now has unfettered access to the collection.  Not everyone knew that the first buy was underway.  Interested parties have expressed in this thread that they too would have liked to have been part of the aforementioned group, and would have contributed to receive the same "privileges."  One can say "too bad, read the other boards", but that's not really the point.

Now, should it be openly distributed?  Probably not, but having it distributed amongst the second "buy-in" group does not seem out of line to me.  Somehow, I don't think Mike will reject another $1000 in his pocket, regardless of the outcome, considering the limited market this collection has in the first place.  Also, most sign shop guys don't know what a torrent is anyway.

In any event, I'm in on a second buy if someone wants to do one.  I would have been in on the first had I known about it.

RandyT


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I agree 100%.

Teebor:

so we just get everyone who wants to buy in to agree to not openly distribute the whole file (or part thereof?) and then we have the potential for a purchase?

I can happily live with that and am willing to chuck in $25

But I would suggest that depending on the number of people buying in that we do a first person who gets the HDD copies to two or three other people than those people are responsible for doing the same again to the next people in the list.  That way the burden of duplicating is decreased and copies might be spread between those that purchase a little quicker?

CheffoJeffo:


--- Quote from: RandyT on February 07, 2007, 04:21:58 pm ---Now, should it be openly distributed?  Probably not, but having it distributed amongst the second "buy-in" group does not seem out of line to me.  Somehow, I don't think Mike will reject another $1000 in his pocket, regardless of the outcome, considering the limited market this collection has in the first place.  Also, most sign shop guys don't know what a torrent is anyway.

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Sorry, Randy ... I should have been clearer.

I have no objection to another buy (although, as JM says, I would expect that most of this stuff will make its way towards availability ... check his site), but I have a large objection to what I had perceived to be a buy-with-intent to-release-to-the-public. That is the direction I thought that discussion was taking.

I didn't pitch in just to have a drive full of artwork ... I want to it to be available (and already have a list of requests from people), just in a manner that doesn't damage folks who have more invested than I do.

Cheers



jtfields:


--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on February 07, 2007, 03:55:33 pm ---1 - Welcome.

2 - What is it with the top-quoting ? Got a tooo-mohr ? (translation may require a special hat, so don't take offense!)

3 - Good luck with that 2nd group buy. I don't think Mike will want to sell to folks who seem to want to openly distribute the very product that he is trying to sell.

4 - Why jump in after the fact and fool with something that others have already put their money and efforts into ? The 'peeps'  are saying that it SHOULDN'T be done and we should respect the vendors.
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1) Thanks.

2) No offense taken and I'm sure there's an inside joke or Schwarzenegger reference in there that I'm unaware of.  I usually top quote when I'm directly responding to a post.  But if I'm just referencing to something then I just put it wherever I feel it should go.  Hope I didn't confuse you too much.   :)

3)  I was only referring to distributing it to the people in the buy.  I'm assuming that these would all be people that aren't going to plunk down $1,000 for a copy so it would be a $1,000 sale he otherwise wouldn't make.  If I were to chose between a $1,000 or $0 I'd take the $1,000.  Again, I'm only assuming and you know what they say about that...

4)  It sounds like each person in the other buy is going to get a copy so I don't see how we'd be somehow undermining their efforts.  Doing a second group buy should actually benefit Mike more than what the first group is doing which is putting up a website so people can download the stuff for free.  Mike gets nothing out of that.  And the website idea, while not a bad one for limited sharing, is not ideal if someone wants the entire collection and is willing to pay a little money to get it.  I hadn't seen the "peep's" request that no other group buys be made.  If it was okay for them to put together a group buy then I don't really understand why they have a problem with others doing it.  But if that is true and somehow doing another group buy is going to disrespect the "peeps" or in someway hurt respectable vendors then, no, I wouldn't do it.  Otherwise, I don't see the harm.

The one thing we don't want is someone who is in the graphics business and wants to sell the art they'd be getting trhough the group buy.  Anyone in that category should definitely suck it up and pay the $1,000.  Otherwise, its just a bunch of people pooling their money that wouldn't be able to afford a copy any other way.

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