posted 02-11-2007 08:20 PM               

To that end, this afternoon Farthest Reaches offically launched the "Ed Gibson Artifacts" page. It contains the first wave of Ed's personal artifacts which represent medallions, both flown and unflown.

There will be lots more to come including flown artifacts, autographed covers, and a variety of other items spanning Ed's "Space" years. We hope you'll visit us to see what may be of interest to you for your own collection or perhaps just to browse. Either way, Farthest Reaches thanks you all for your ongoing support.

posted 02-11-2007 10:09 PM               

There are still a number of great items available. I've just added a second Apollo 12 Flown medallion. If you're frustrated that things sold quickly, I'm not quite sure how to respond, other than to say the phones were ringing and emails flying within a minute or so of my making the page "live".

One client purchased multiple items and others followed in "rapid fire" succession with their orders. Any suggestions, I'm all ears, but not sure how I could have done things more fairly.

If anyone is interested in placing an order at this time I'm available either by phone or email and will remain reachable until 11pm pacific time....

posted 02-11-2007 10:12 PM               

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Originally posted by rchappel:
It's kind of frustrating to hear about all this and then go over and see a bunch of stuff sold the first time I click on the page just minutes after it goes up.

What's the point in announcing things "for sale" that are already sold?

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Randy, I had announced the page would go live within 48 hours so that anyone interested would have a heads up. Obviously, a number of people were waiting for that to happen. I tried to do this fairly, though I understand your frustration.

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Steve Hankow http://www.farthestreaches.com

posted 02-12-2007 01:50 AM               

Cheers,
Matt

posted 02-12-2007 02:06 AM               

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Originally posted by farthestreaches:
Any suggestions, I'm all ears, but not sure how I could have done things more fairly.

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One thing that did strike me is that your post here was made at 8:20pm CT. That may be fair enough for US-based collectors but in the UK that's 2:20am Sunday night/Monday morning, and 3:20am in Europe.

Many of us over this side of the pond have families and I'd imagine most of us have jobs so it would be pretty difficult for us to be us 'til 3 in the morning clicking refresh on the offchance that the new page appears.

If it had been early afternoon US time then it would have been early evening in the UK and Europe, giving far more people a chance.

posted 02-12-2007 06:29 AM               

why don't you implement a shop system like I have - that way items are removed the second they are sold automatically, no hassle to deal with tons of inquries for items that are in fact already sold?

So much easier to handle and OsCommerce provides a FREE shop solution everybody can install and run!

Florian

posted 02-12-2007 06:29 AM               

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Originally posted by spaceflori:
why don't you implement a shop system like I have - that way items are removed the second they are sold automatically, no hassle to deal with tons of inquries for items that are in fact already sold?

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On the contrary, they were marked as sold within minutes of being spoken for. The client making the comment was frustrated that he wasn't quick enough on the trigger to contact me to begin with and thought that perhaps all these items were presold before even being posted.

posted 02-12-2007 12:54 PM               

You Have an Excellent Collection of Space Medals. They are very rare to come buy, and some are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

GREAT JOB!

posted 02-12-2007 07:18 PM               

As to the complaints from across the Pond, we in the States are at a disadvantage when Florian put's his stuff up during normal (for him) business hours.

And I on the Left Coast loose out on B-I-N items on eBAY posted East Coast time.

posted 02-12-2007 08:34 PM            

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Originally posted by dsenechal:
Maybe I'm being a little dense, but I can't seem to find any of these items on the web site, and there is no "Astronaut Artifacts" drop down menu on the home page. Anything left?

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posted 02-12-2007 09:29 PM               

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Originally posted by dsenechal:
Maybe I'm being a little dense, but I can't seem to find any of these items on the web site, and there is no "Astronaut Artifacts" drop down menu on the home page. Anything left?

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posted 02-12-2007 09:48 PM               

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Originally posted by divemaster:
Make sure your browser can accept frames and is also Flash compatible. The drop down menu is in flash format.

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Not to mention that your cache may need to be cleaned out...

posted 02-13-2007 08:29 AM               

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Originally posted by MScherzi:
Unfortunately there is no way to make everything equal for everyone, everywhere.

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Very true, but there's still a big window of opportunity which would cover everywhere from the West Coast of the US right through to Western Europe.

e.g. 10am-2pm PST is 1pm-5pm EST, 6pm-10pm in England and 7pm-11pm in Europe. A sale starting during those hours would cover a whole lot more potential buyers than one starting in the middle of the night Europe-time.

posted 02-13-2007 12:57 PM               

Cheers,
Matt

posted 02-15-2007 10:39 PM               

Only after that, was I capable of making the updated links live.

[Edited by divemaster (February 15, 2007).]

posted 02-17-2007 04:56 PM               

Seriously though - if you are going to take things into consideration for the future, starting sales on a Saturday (US) is fantastic as the dateline means that some of us are a 'day ahead' thus avoiding sales going on Sundays in the US while we are hard at work on (our) Monday...

Cheers Craig