UPDATE: The sale is over now so I have some numbers for you. Eighty-eight prints were sold in a total of 69 orders; no order was for more than two prints. The most popular print by far was "Twisted Juniper," accounting for 57 of the total. The breakdown of the rest was "Faraday Dome" (below), 16; "Tamarack Fire," 8; "Buddha," 3; and "Anthers" (the flower), 3. One is currently unknown, because Ctein got one payment without a corresponding email.
Only one print was sold to Australia, and I want to apologize again to our Australian friends. As I understand it, the postal service there is under some stress due to COVID-19 and only accepting certain classes of mail for delivery. The shipping cost ended up being almost half as much as the cost of the print. That made it too difficult for us to offer free shipping, and we asked for an extra $50 when shipping just one print. Regardless of the reason, I feel like you Aussies effectively got left out, which is unfortunate.
Our next sale will be quite different, and I'm interested to see if it works and how people like it. If you bought an infrared print, we'll keep you up to date about what's happening. And thanks very much! —Mike
Ctein, Faraday Dome, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, 2017
Our sale ended today at 2 p.m. Eastern U.S. Time. That's 11 a.m. in Vancouver, Cananda; 7 p.m. in London, UK; and X:§Ð on Saturn*.
Thanks to all! I'll have some metrics later and of course will keep you up to date on shipments and other news.
Mike
*Ctein is the co-author, with John Camp a.k.a. John Sandford, of Saturn Run. He's probably going to get after me for trying to be funny, because I'm not fluent in Saturnish like he is.
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Not THAT Ross Cameron: "Congratulations. I hope that was a successful sale. I nearly pulled the trigger on purchasing 'Juniper Tree' and 'Buddha,' for shipping to Australia. Unfortunately I have a bathroom renovation that I now have to pay the invoice for, so higher priorities. From my perspective, no need to apologise for something that is out of your control. I’m already accustomed to the sting of the additional costs of shipping, and the exchange rate conversion we cop too. It’s been a while since the halcyon days of AUD and USD parity (well, halcyon when we were buying from overseas, not so good when selling).
"And many thanks for the articles on how Ctein does his B&W IR photography. I’d like to give it a go one day. I have a Nikon D750 with vague plans of converting, once (if) the price of the D780 comes down far enough for me to justify that purchase."
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