Sale Update

The print sale is going swimmingly, but I'm drowning. We're being inundated in torrents of orders. Enough watery metaphors? Okay.

Anyway. If you've emailed an order (thank you), you will eventually get an email back from me. If you don't, there's a problem, so let me know, but give it a couple of days—I'm currently pretty far behind, and probably will be for a while.

If you need anything from me that has nothing to do with the print sale, now is not a good time. In fact it's possible things might be pretty quiet around here for the next few days, as I do fun things like track and print orders, relearn (yet again) how to use a spreadsheet program, and cram every hour's worth of data entry tasks into about two and a half hours (my mind wanders. I have to go back and check. And then once more. I am just not good at this sort of thing). If so, I apologize. TOP World Headquarters is, among other deficiencies, egregiously understaffed. I end up doing just about everything under the sun but writing. (Sound familiar, pro photographers?)

We always get everything right in the end, though, never fear. Thanks to all for your interest.

Mike

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Comments

[Ben Rosengart]

You said you hadn't set up a proper e-commerce platform because you're lazy. I submit that the way you do it is actually much more work.

Not something to think about now, I'm sure, but after the dust settles from this sale, and long before the next sale looms.

[Keith I]

Thanks for the hard work, Mike!

[Chad Thompson]

If only he'd done it with an S mount, I might have believed him.

[Matt K]

Surely when genuine silver gelatin prints are at stake, the accounting should be done with a fountain pen. When the daguerreotype (thanks to apple for spelling that correctly) print offer comes up, I guess it should be with a dip pen. Have fun - admin has always been my least favorite work.

[Chris Lucianu]

Spreadsheet for a print sale?
This might help:
http://www.dom.edu/departments/artDepartment/downloads/Small_Monochrome_Project_x18th_century_averagesx.pdf

[Ben]

Since email orders can be tabulated anywhere, you could hire a temp and pay in prints. Someone with little money and much time might do it.

Not me though, I've got neither.

[toto]

As they might say in Paris, "Après moi, le déluge."

[Sam Murphy]

Very glad to hear the sale is going well, means TOP should be around a little while longer at least!