...you all realize that this means Jeff has got his print floor in order and prints lined up ready to go!! Yay!!
We are slowly getting back on track here after a tumultuous summer and fall starting off with some major work behind the scenes. I've posted a few updates about it already, but allow me to go ahead and post a little more info.....
We're in the process of upgrading our store software. For those of you who have never fooled around with something like that, it's an extremely time-consuming job. For those of you who do write code, I'm sure you can empathize. It's been especially time-consuming because after I started working on the store, I realized how many broken links and incorrect info we've had for goodness knows how long now. A lot of items in the site weren't able to be pulled up with the search engine. And, the organization of the gallery sections left a little to be desired.
I'm trying to correct all of this. It's going to take a lot more time with over 400 different listings to check and double check, but I'm well into it and it's starting to shape up nicely.
Something else I've been trying to get done is to put all items available for sale into the web store or back into the web store if they were ever there before. Where are these prints coming from? I'm pulling some out of my vending inventory, some from my framing drawer, some were held back during releases in the case I needed to replace damaged prints, some just missed being inventoried and some APs and handbills just somehow never made it into the store. I've already lost track of how many I've added back already, so there is not going to be a concise list of each item I added. In most instances, there have been 1-6 prints added for any given print. I am going to continue to add prints until every single print that is for sale under this roof is available to be purchased online.
In addition to the above, I've added a couple of categories to the store section. One for Handbills of prints that are sold out and a Scratch and Dent sale section. I'm pulling the DCS prints from the OOAK section and added them to one of the other categories. I'll start loading the OOAK section down with prints from Jeff's and my personal collection along with some other weird stuff like a few skate decks.
I have a metric crap ton of Scratch and Dent items to be added to that section. In the instance that a S&D poster is from a Sold Out edition or is still available in the store section, I will create a new listing for the S&D poster(s). This means if you do a search for "Allman" you'll pull up a listing for the regular store items and there may be another listing that at first looks identical, but is for the S&D item(s). S&D prints will be priced out according to current retail price of the mint poster and how damaged they are. I will do my best to describe damage to the prints, and in fact will probably make most of them sound worse than they are just because sales for these items are final.
There are still many, many items to add, and much work to do on the details, but I wanted to post this since I am already taking orders on prints I've just added and I don't want anyone to think I'm holding out info on them. If you're looking for a particular print, check and see. It might just be there.... and if you place an order in the next couple of days before the release , just let me know and I'll combine orders for you if you place another during the release. And about the release....
I mentioned that I might be doing a release this Thursday.... it looks like that is going to happen. I've got 2 Umphrey's McGee posters to put in the store and if things go well on the press, it looks like we'll have an art print taboot. As usual, it will likely be at 2pm, but I'll update as I know more....
I'm sure there is something I've forgotten, but I'm tired and it's late.
Labels: posters, release, studio news
