The cards have arrived, looks great, thanks !!!
I didn't want to post the following in either your "white cards" sale topic or the "gold/silver/copper" raffle topic -avoid interfering with your future sales & raffle results-.
The following came into my mind immediately after seeing the "gold/silver/copper" raffle topic.
I wanted to provide some constructive feedback (that's not criticism) in a friendly way and hear your opinion (+ the opinion of the community) on the subject.
At the sale topic of the "Icarus Sticker Edition Cards" it is clearly mentioned that "
each card design is part of a limited series, with only 25 editions available for each design (1st batch). this limited run amplifies your card's exclusivity".
When I placed an order for a set of cards, I had the impression that each design will be limited to 25 cards in total. There is NOWHERE being mentioned that the same design will be printed on different colour cards in the future. I thought that the "with only 25 editions available for each design" statement was clear enough. I understand that Yogg used to print some designs in gold/silver/copper cards, HOWEVER he was crystal clear and transparent from the begging about the mintage of each design & the total mintage of the different colour cards.
If I (and maybe others here) knew in advance that more cards -in different colours- of the EXACT same design- will be released in the future, I might have hold back on getting the white edition and gone "all in" in -let's say- the gold variation raffle.
Since this is not a loaded card, you can clearly understand that it is 100% collectible item. If it was loaded, some people might have bought it for usage, such as using it as a cold storage solution or gifted it to friends -an easy way to hand off btc in a form of a card- etc. But for this particular release, I understand that it is a purely collectible item.
As a collectible item, it has also a collectible aftersales/secondary market value. By suddenly increasing its mintage number without any prior notifications (the printer goes brrrr), usually its collectible value decreases. Furthermore, by increasing the mintage numbers -printing the exact same design in different colour cards-, the edition that is getting the most "hit" in valuation is usually the base/normal editions (ie white cards).
Just imagine an artist offering a limited number of exclusive numbered prints, and after those getting sold out, to offer the exact same design print in a different colour paper....
All I am saying is that in terms of transparency and crystal clearness -for a collectible numbered item-, I would have wanted to know in advance your future plans to keep printing the same design, in different colour cards.
To provide an example: in case your raffle do extremely well, nothing is stopping you from printing the same designs in orange colour cards, followed by a "glowing in the dark" cards and then doing the rest of the rainbow colours cards (I am totally joking here
, LOL, I know that you will not do this, but you are probably getting what I am saying)
If you had added a general statement in your white cards sale topic, something like "this is your only chance of getting this design at a fixed price. A raffle will follow for gold/silver & copper colour cards", then prolly I wouldn't have said anything so far. You could have either made a generic statement (as above) or clearly and transparently stated -by mentioning mintage numbers- your future plans of using the same design in different colour cards.
Please do not take me wrong here.. I am not just a random dude that is trying to "attack you". I was the first that placed an order for a white card set & also -regardless of my above thoughts - the first one that placed a bid in the raffle. I received the white cards today and look great & I am still looking forward to winning some of the raffle lots. Tl;dr: I want the Icarus project to do well/succeed in the future...
BTW, what does the "1st batch" means? By indicating "with only 25 editions available for each design (1st batch)" without further elaborating on the "1st batch" and afterward releasing 84 moar cards -with the exact same design- into circulation, looks like those "*" that corporations are putting next to a sentence, and re-directing you to 10 pages of terms & conditions (trying to hide something from you)
just my 2 sats
Always friendly,
tweetious
