[shygetshigh83]

Relic 06 shipped.. can't wait to have it in hands!

[Deleted]

Dec 12, 2016 16:27:26 GMT 1 conartstudio said:

Dec 10, 2016 20:52:46 GMT 1 ferg said:

Just had a message from Daniel saying 'I dont control the shipping charges, however I agree they were not right. I have asked eBay to look into it' perhaps they may be reduced ?!

that comment leads me to think that the international shipping option was set to use ebay's international shipping which is hella expensive. items are shipped to eBay who then ships them internationally. if he just shipped internationally through UPS, or fedex, on his own then the shipping would not have been that much. the problem is that, for those who don't sell on eBay often, eBay doesn't make it easy to sell internationally without using their shipping option. every time i've listed something i have had to manually turn off that option despite having it set to not use it in my settings. he probably had, or has, no idea... if he did then he wouldn't have made it seem that eBay is controlling the shipping costs. 

This is his 6th relic and he deliberately picked Ebay to sell them on. If he still doesnt know how Ebay works and just hides behind 'hey man I didn't know' he's a whole lot dumber (or more of an asshole) than I made him out to be.

[ferg]

Dec 12, 2016 14:52:41 GMT 1 sakyamuni said:

Future relic 05 had separated bills, one for the relic & shipping and the othe one for the customs charges. So far nothing similar with this one, so i fear the custom charges might not be included this time... and that's not a good news...

tres expensive !

[HRE]

I contacted them and asked why the international shipping was so high. The have contacted eBay and are working it out. They will be in touch soon with to present a new option to lower the shipping cost, apparently.

[cutkillavince]

Dec 12, 2016 21:04:35 GMT 1 HRE said:

I contacted them and asked why the international shipping was so high. The have contacted eBay and are working it out. They will be in touch soon with to present a new option to lower the shipping cost, apparently.

Let's hope, fingers crossed

[LAZAKY]

Dec 12, 2016 21:04:35 GMT 1 HRE said:

I contacted them and asked why the international shipping was so high. The have contacted eBay and are working it out. They will be in touch soon with to present a new option to lower the shipping cost, apparently.

Same here!
Finger crossed for a refund!

[barryh]

Gutted that, I couldn't afford to purchase due to the shipping costs.. but glad those that could are hopefully getting some kind of reimbursement.

[Aza]

Why do these artists and print houses use things such as big cartel and eBay?
Surely they should spend some of their profits buying a proper custom web shop that is designed and can cope with their needs.
Doesn't make sense to me.

[Fake]

Dec 13, 2016 10:28:10 GMT 1 Aza said:

Why do these artists and print houses use things such as big cartel and eBay?
Surely they should spend some of their profits buying a proper custom web shop that is designed and can cope with their needs.
Doesn't make sense to me.

Handeling traffic... or the site will just crash...

[Aza]

I used to run websites with traffic of over 1 million hits per day, this was quite some years ago and my hosting bill was not bad. Nowadays hosting costs are surely much much cheaper. They just try to do this stuff on the cheap rather than properly and professionally.

[Aza]

I used to run adult websites in the early days. Across all the free gallery pages I had, it was 1 million hits per day. And this was serving photos and videos, so was pretty bandwidth intensive. This was all done as an amateur from home. I couldn't afford for pages to be slow loading, everything had to be lightning fast.

[kernow]

Dec 13, 2016 14:15:25 GMT 1 Aza said:

I used to run websites with traffic of over 1 million hits per day, this was quite some years ago and my hosting bill was not bad. Nowadays hosting costs are surely much much cheaper. They just try to do this stuff on the cheap rather than properly and professionally.

Unfortunately building and maintaining a system that can handle sudden surges in concurrent users, as happens with more popular drops, isn't easy or cheap. Inadequate infrastructure will just fall over, as seen with the d-face drop the other day. Given the option of rolling their own (and all that comes with it) or using a relatively stable third party system for a nominal fee, it's a no brainer for most people.

[randomname]

If you missed out on this, I wouldn't feel too bad. Danny just ripped off the Future Fossils series from Bughouse. Saw these about 7-8 years ago. If you didn't miss out, sorry for shitting in your Cheerios.

[randomname]

Here's the earliest reference I could find if anyone cares. Posted to Facebook in 2010.

[Spenie]

Michael Stipe (REM) also created a selection of bronze relics in 2008.
www.elle.com/fashion/news/a717/wall-e-michael-stipe-both-suckers-for-old-electronics-3853/

[Spenie]

Always did fancy one of his cassettes.

[randomname]

I mentioned the similarity on his Instagram. He said he did it first. Then deleted my comment and blocked me after I pointed to evidence of the contrary. Oh, and he called me homeboy. Haven't heard that one since the 90s.

[Deleted]

Dec 14, 2016 16:53:50 GMT 1 randomname said:

I mentioned the similarity on his Instagram. He said he did it first. Then deleted my comment and blocked me after I pointed to evidence of the contrary. Oh, and he called me homeboy. Haven't heard that one since the 90s.

Guy sounds like a true dick.

[happyshopper]

When did he do the Installation in the floor at Frieze London... that must have been quite a few years ago! First I saw of his work.

[cutkillavince]

Dec 13, 2016 7:53:07 GMT 1 LAZAKY said:

Dec 12, 2016 21:04:35 GMT 1 HRE said:

I contacted them and asked why the international shipping was so high. The have contacted eBay and are working it out. They will be in touch soon with to present a new option to lower the shipping cost, apparently.

Same here!
Finger crossed for a refund!

Did you get any news? are your relics shipped?

Still nothing on my side...

[LAZAKY]

Dec 15, 2016 6:49:01 GMT 1 cutkillavince said:

Dec 13, 2016 7:53:07 GMT 1 LAZAKY said:

Same here!
Finger crossed for a refund!

Did you get any news? are your relics shipped?

Still nothing on my side...

Nope, nothing yet!

Anybody received a shipping confirmation?

[HRE]

I got shipping notice and a reduced shipping cost. Expected deliver is the 20

[posterbob]

All of my relics are now in hand, you should now have yours.

[cutkillavince]

Dec 15, 2016 9:34:05 GMT 1 HRE said:

I got shipping notice and a reduced shipping cost. Expected deliver is the 20

Nice, so how much were the shipping costs at the end?

[biggie]

Dec 14, 2016 16:53:50 GMT 1 randomname said:

I mentioned the similarity on his Instagram. He said he did it first. Then deleted my comment and blocked me after I pointed to evidence of the contrary. Oh, and he called me homeboy. Haven't heard that one since the 90s.

Any comments he doesn't like, he deletes then bans.  Guy seems like a tool tbh.  I'm selling the rest of my relics after this last releaseSaveSave

[shygetshigh83]

Dec 15, 2016 13:12:44 GMT 1 biggie said:

Dec 14, 2016 16:53:50 GMT 1 randomname said:

I mentioned the similarity on his Instagram. He said he did it first. Then deleted my comment and blocked me after I pointed to evidence of the contrary. Oh, and he called me homeboy. Haven't heard that one since the 90s.

Any comments he doesn't like, he deletes then bans.  Guy seems like a tool tbh.  I'm selling the rest of my relics after this last releaseSaveSave

If you sell the Relic 02 (the camera) let me know.

[randomname]

Dec 15, 2016 13:12:44 GMT 1 biggie said:

Dec 14, 2016 16:53:50 GMT 1 randomname said:

I mentioned the similarity on his Instagram. He said he did it first. Then deleted my comment and blocked me after I pointed to evidence of the contrary. Oh, and he called me homeboy. Haven't heard that one since the 90s.

Any comments he doesn't like, he deletes then bans.  Guy seems like a tool tbh.  I'm selling the rest of my relics after this last releaseSaveSave

Yep. Seemed like a bit of a cünt. As far as his work goes, it looks like style over substance. Trying to be conceptual with other people's concepts. 

[brazzy]

Dec 15, 2016 16:51:23 GMT 1 randomname said:

Dec 15, 2016 13:12:44 GMT 1 biggie said:

Any comments he doesn't like, he deletes then bans.  Guy seems like a tool tbh.  I'm selling the rest of my relics after this last releaseSaveSave

Yep. Seemed like a bit of a cünt. As far as his work goes, it looks like style over substance. Trying to be conceptual with other people's concepts. 

A lot of artists are c**t.  If you let an artist's personality ruin their art for you, you are going to deprive yourself of a lot of great art.  

[randomname]

Dec 15, 2016 17:06:01 GMT 1 brazzy said:

Dec 15, 2016 16:51:23 GMT 1 randomname said:

Yep. Seemed like a bit of a cünt. As far as his work goes, it looks like style over substance. Trying to be conceptual with other people's concepts. 

A lot of artists are c**t.  If you let an artist's personality ruin their art for you, you are going to deprive yourself of a lot of great art.  

The next two sentences after "cünt" would seem to nullify your response. If you take someone else's idea and claim it for your own, you're not making great art. Doesn't matter how pretty you make it.

[dundun]

Dec 15, 2016 17:13:15 GMT 1 randomname said:

Dec 15, 2016 17:06:01 GMT 1 brazzy said:

A lot of artists are c**t.  If you let an artist's personality ruin their art for you, you are going to deprive yourself of a lot of great art.  

The next two sentences after "cünt" would seem to nullify your response. If you take someone else's idea and claim it for your own, you're not making great art. Doesn't matter how pretty you make it.

Completely disagree.  Art isn't just about ideas.  It's just as much about execution.  Does KAWS have great ideas?  Not really(and I'm the hugest fan), but his execution is flawless. Could say this for about pretty much every single artist if you want to nitpick. 

I'd argue that Daniel's take on these is much more succinct and relevant than the other metal ones.  IMO casting those in metal loses the desired affect and they're really not good(even the Stipe ones).