[Icesay]

Anyone know when this print will be shipped / sent?

[Dr Plip]

If your order was just over the 150 mark, you never know, you might just get a print, if Nick's tweet about weeding out flippers is anything to go by. Some orders might get refunded. That would be nice.

[smishdown]

From a tweet 10mins ago. @apishangel: I used the term 'haters last night to refer to a core group of individuals on a forum who reared their negative heads yet again !!

[smishdown]

I guess he does read the forum

[Deleted]

If you hate haters are you in fact a hater? And does anyone who users that term and is over 35 deserve to be acknowledged?

[tonymontana]

Feb 8, 2013 11:01:07 GMT 1 kel said:

Really does not look good on Nick he tweeted yesteday

‏@apishangel - And to all the haters with your conspiracy theories - just keep hating - keep the fire burning!!! To those who want the print good luck!!

I think you have got haters mixed up with pissed off people. You could have delayed the release and fixed your severs ready for a Friday drop suitable for Europe. Though was always going to be win win with a release time perfect for the US.

Really disappointing on how this release has been handled - maybe some lessons learned.....

If you are unable to handle the demand - outsource the IT to someone that can!!!...... Sorry but if someone as talentless as MBW can effectively manage a release... it should not be too difficult.

Dont mix up haters with annoyed people!!

Try and keep it fair..... how is releasing at a random point in time post 'official launch' fair.

The whole this is laughable

[mmmike]

Wow a lot of you are crying arse holes. first complaining about it being a crap print then page after page of bitching because you couldn't buy that same print.

I understand being disappointed but he is an artist not an IT guy. His systems sucked and couldn't take the load. That sucks but I'm not sure why that means he should be hanged.

People seem to think they are owed something here. If you don't like the print or Nick move on. If you are too important to wait for the guy to get his system up then move on.

You are grown men and women suck it up.

 

[mouser]

Feb 8, 2013 13:13:18 GMT 1 mmmike said:

Wow a lot of you are crying arse holes. first complaining about it being a crap print then page after page of b**ching because you couldn't buy that same print.

I understand being disappointed but he is an artist not an IT guy. His systems sucked and couldn't take the load. That sucks but I'm not sure why that means he should be hanged.

People seem to think they are owed something here. If you don't like the print or Nick move on. If you are too important to wait for the guy to get his system up then move on.

You are grown men and women suck it up.

 

Well said.

[twist65]

totally agree with mmmike, just because you sat f5ing that doesn't mean NW owed you/your wife/anyone anything and you're entitled to a print. it's a bunfight and some you win, some you lose. I really wanted the last Faile and Invaders, missed both but am not b!tching and whining about it, life goes on...

Do you think NW's IT guys said beforehand "Nick we may have a server problem due to demand with this one" and he went "so what, f*ck it" ?? Or as IT people always do in my experience (sorry if you are one!) did they say "yeah our system is fantastic it won't let us down!"... and low and behold it couldn't cope, hence much frantic trying to devise a Plan B behind the scenes...

Granted maybe communication could have been a bit better, but if you don't know how long its gonna take to fix something, you can't tell people when it will be fixed.. It seemed pretty clear the print was gonna drop at some point, was just a game of patience..

[twist65]

and I agree with DD on "that word" there has to be a better alternative for grown-ups, although it was probably directed at children anyway..

[Cocteau 101]

To make up for the disappointment someone can have my TMA Empire print in mint condition for £1500.

[Sundowner]

Feb 8, 2013 13:39:56 GMT 1 Cocteau 101 said:

To make up for the disappointment someone can have my TMA Empire print in mint condition for £1500.

Great deal - and a far superior print.....

[floubi]

Nobody is complaining (no?) about the fact of having a computer problem. It's just about how it has been handled. I think he had options (reschedule for example).
For my part, I had my laptop in my bed 5ing and I felt asleep just before the release!
This thread was kind of fun and made me stayed awake a little.... I'm not complaining about not having this print, the good news is I'm saving my money for Pow!

[loucastel]

Feb 8, 2013 11:01:07 GMT 1 kel said:

Really does not look good on Nick he tweeted yesteday

‏@apishangel - And to all the haters with your conspiracy theories - just keep hating - keep the fire burning!!! To those who want the print good luck!!

I think you have got haters mixed up with pissed off people. You could have delayed the release and fixed your severs ready for a Friday drop suitable for Europe. Though was always going to be win win with a release time perfect for the US.

I wonder if when mr Walker mentioned  conspiracy theories he was referring also to the auction the day before the LA show!

[volvic]

Isn't this enough for you all to realise and finally accept that nick is nothing but a bit of a del boy with some mediocre spray paint skills and doesn't deserve your time or money any more? come on, it was a seriously poor release and a lame way of him pocketing your hard earned. And don't even get me started on that tweet. Move on and support another artist i say.

[redfred]

Feb 8, 2013 15:36:01 GMT 1 volvic said:

Isn't this enough for you all to realise and finally accept that nick is nothing but a bit of a del boy with some mediocre spray paint skills and doesn't deserve your time or money any more? come on, it was a seriously poor release and a lame way of him pocketing your hard earned. And don't even get me started on that tweet. Move on and support another artist i say.

  Well said!

[Billy Sport]

refunds have started to come in now..

[AFR1KA]

what order number were you?

[Art Fan 2011]

Feb 8, 2013 17:00:57 GMT 1 Billy Sport said:

refunds have started to come in now..

Ive heard of a couple of people that have been refunded, looks like there may now be even more people that will be upset/annoyed over the release - the sham rumbles on!!!

[rottenredrooster]

Feb 8, 2013 11:37:34 GMT 1 payney said:

Feb 8, 2013 11:15:54 GMT 1 Icesay said:

Anyone know when this print will be shipped / sent?

About 2 months ago I brought about 10 AP's and a OG direct from nick, before I paid for them I asked if they will be posted the same week, he said yes so I dropped the £7000 in his bank account, two days later I emailed to asked if they have been sent about 2 days after that I received a reply saying he has gone to newyork and will send them when he's back in 5 weeks!

it's like he just f**ked off to the states when he got my cash, then to compensate offered a vandal t-shirt!

not the best artist to deal with.

Bought not brought

[ghoost]

Has anyone been refunded yet?

[Ottomatik]

My goodness. All THiS over a print.
You guys are acting as if it were a Banksy.
It's funny that you Brits are angry it was released during a time that was great for the US.
Well, you guys get all the great art fairs. All/most POW releases are before 7 am EST. as well as you guys get the honor of the Banksy queues! Not us.

[Art Fan 2011]

Feb 8, 2013 20:35:32 GMT 1 Ottomatik said:

My goodness. All THiS over a print.
You guys are acting as if it were a Banksy.
It's funny that you Brits are angry it was released during a time that was great for the US.
Well, you guys get all the great art fairs. All/most POW releases are before 7 am EST. as well as you guys get the honor of the Banksy queues! Not us.

Whatever time the release`s are in the UK, our American counterparts always seem to bag the treasure before us brits, you guys have super super fast connections, we`ve barely moved on from old school dial-up compared to you guys Either way, most of us would just expect a UK release by a UK artist to be during the normal day time hours, its like Josh Keyes/Faile/MBW doing a 1am EST drop, surely that would seem a little odd to you too

[Icesay]

Ffs....I have never heard so much whining in my life! It's a print. Good luck to Nick I say....if he had mad interest good for him! So what if he had server problems....my only issue is flippers. At least he is doing his thing...how many of you scale buildings to paint or produce anything as popular as he does? He's right when he talks about haters....go and put up your own Graff and shut the f##K up!

[rottenredrooster]

Got to be said it's extremely sad how upset people get about a print release.

People having arguments with their family over this? FFS.

[Icesay]

Feb 8, 2013 21:00:11 GMT 1 rottenredrooster said:

Got to be said it's extremely sad how upset people get about a print release.

People having arguments with their family over this? FFS.

Yep....boo hoo I fell out with my wife cos I really wanted the print for her...Bollocks.....British mentality really sucks sometimes . And i'm british! Bit embarrassed really =-O

[djj]

I can't have have nick walker on my walls, all on eBay over the weekend, can't be bothered to read all the posts , the guy has sold out, better art out there.... 

[pcant]

Feb 8, 2013 13:13:18 GMT 1 mmmike said:

Wow a lot of you are crying arse holes. first complaining about it being a crap print then page after page of b**ching because you couldn't buy that same print.

I understand being disappointed but he is an artist not an IT guy. His systems sucked and couldn't take the load. That sucks but I'm not sure why that means he should be hanged.

People seem to think they are owed something here. If you don't like the print or Nick move on. If you are too important to wait for the guy to get his system up then move on.

You are grown men and women suck it up.

 

+1. No one forced you to stay on the computer for 9 hours. Good on you if you did and scored one, but damn, for an image that everyone was saying wasn't that interesting, people sure are upset that they didn't get one. Despite Faile's recent very nice gesture about the 150 releases, no artist owes us anything. If we didn't get one, that sucks (I didn't either). You want to stop this madness?: Stop buying from flippers. It's that (expletive deleted) simple. Don't. Buy. From. Flippers. If people stop paying inflated prices to flipper-bots on eBay, drops will actually go to fans, not people trying to make a quick 200 quid.

[mrunholy]

If I can't buy from flippers how am I gonna get my art?

[pcant]

Feb 8, 2013 21:53:11 GMT 1 mrunholy said:

If I can't buy from flippers how am I gonna get my art?

From galleries or from artists at release, I would suggest.