Yeah but with ebay buyer pays shipping not seller.tnitnetny wrote: Cost of shipping is not a point. I would have to pay shipping whether it goes to Seattle for the dinner auction, or it goes to a buyer of the auction.
I was thinking about us possibly making up a sort of Sprite Stitch Certificate of Authenticity for the quilt, with the names of the people who helped create it, to be bundled with the quilt itself. It would provide some provenance to the quilt, as well as give the buyer the name of the site (and us!) - hopefully s/he would then be able to tell people who made the quilt and why, as well as where they bought it. That in itself might give us the fabled word of mouth publicity, which is priceless!Aelys wrote: Heck, we could even print a Sprite Stitch card for the winner signed by all the contributors to the quilt.
RMDC wrote:...I've been stitching at an estimated rate of almost a full BMH per day...
Wait, this is something my husband and I can do more effectively, since we are part of the industry and we know lots of media people (my husband has been the reviews editor for IGN, G4 and EGM). If I can get all the details about the dinner and the auction, I can start talking to friends and ex co-workers immediately to get as much coverage as possible. Also, my husband is a social media genius with thousands of followers on Twitter, which doesn't hurt either.blackmageheart wrote:As for publicity, we might be able to do some of that ourselves if we put our heads together. We can try contacting the gaming sites such as 1UP, Kotaku and the like - they may have representatives at the dinner (if we're lucky).
That would be amazing!Aelys wrote:Wait, this is something my husband and I can do more effectively, since we are part of the industry and we know lots of media people (my husband has been the reviews editor for IGN, G4 and EGM). If I can get all the details about the dinner and the auction, I can start talking to friends and ex co-workers immediately to get as much coverage as possible. Also, my husband is a social media genius with thousands of followers on Twitter, which doesn't hurt either.
RMDC wrote:...I've been stitching at an estimated rate of almost a full BMH per day...
I like this idea. I would also suggest including a 'template' card that looks like the quilt, with numbers where each square goes, that tells the winner which game the square is from and who made each quilt square (user name or real name).blackmageheart wrote:I was thinking about us possibly making up a sort of Sprite Stitch Certificate of Authenticity for the quilt, with the names of the people who helped create it, to be bundled with the quilt itself. It would provide some provenance to the quilt, as well as give the buyer the name of the site (and us!) - hopefully s/he would then be able to tell people who made the quilt and why, as well as where they bought it. That in itself might give us the fabled word of mouth publicity, which is priceless!Aelys wrote: Heck, we could even print a Sprite Stitch card for the winner signed by all the contributors to the quilt.
The only problem with that is to get it all signed you'd have to send it all over the world...RAWRmonster wrote:I like this idea. I would also suggest including a 'template' card that looks like the quilt, with numbers where each square goes, that tells the winner which game the square is from and who made each quilt square (user name or real name).blackmageheart wrote:I was thinking about us possibly making up a sort of Sprite Stitch Certificate of Authenticity for the quilt, with the names of the people who helped create it, to be bundled with the quilt itself. It would provide some provenance to the quilt, as well as give the buyer the name of the site (and us!) - hopefully s/he would then be able to tell people who made the quilt and why, as well as where they bought it. That in itself might give us the fabled word of mouth publicity, which is priceless!Aelys wrote: Heck, we could even print a Sprite Stitch card for the winner signed by all the contributors to the quilt.
