Signed TTPD editions: Ideas on how to stop scalpers
I'm extremely frustrated (again), about the signed photo editions of TTPD. Because it must've been sold out so fast in the whole world. I saw it not too long after it was posted here on Tumblr, but it was sold out everywhere. Then I looked at Ebay, and despite the fact that it was only possible to buy one copy, Ebay is flooded with those signed TTPD versions. All of them for at least 230€ or $, up to over 1000€ or $.
Please @taylorswift / @taylornation / Universal Music do something to prevent scalpers from milking your fans and getting rich because people are buying from them. Because it should be your fans who'll get those items, because they really want to have them, and not some people or businesses who live from milking real fans and only buy the stocks empty, to get even richer than they already are and prevent fans from getting those signed or limited items. For me it feels almost like fraud by those scalpers.
My ideas:
To prevent bots from buying it: Introduce a system in all your stores (worldwide) that will send you a code to your email, or as an sms onto your phone, that the buyer has to type in, in order to finalize their order of limited or signed items. Maybe also introduce a captcha if someone wants to order limited or signed items. (Even though I hate captchas)
Check addresses! If someone has multiple accounts and orders with the same address, cancel all but one order from them. In my country (Germany), many stores did that when the Playstation 5 was available for pre-order and it worked to at least reduce that behaviour.
I don't know how it is with the laws, but if possible, forbid people from selling those signed items somewhere else for one or two years after it was originally sold, or only allow to sell it for a maximum of 10% more than the original price.
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I hope this doesn't come across as a headcanon request, and if it does, feel free to ignore it. I just saw that "Volturi and Taylor Swift lyrics" post you made and I was wondering if you think any of the Volturi are Swifties?
• — 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬
No need to fret dear Anonymous, I shall answer your question seeing as though we are only days away from Miss Swift's newest album being released. Personally I am looking forward to the album very much myself.
I have decided to put them all into a couple of categories for you dear Anonymous; I hope they are to your liking.
𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝
Didyme.
𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜:
Jane • Alec • Marcus • Caius
𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬:
Athenodora • Sulpicia • Aro • Felix • Corin • Afton
𝐇𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭:
Demetri • Heidi • Renata • Chelsea
𝐈𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐓𝐏𝐃:
Santiago.
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Izaya & Shizuo Drama CD??????
so guess what i learned about today! it's truly incredible how much lesser-known content there is about shizaya once you start digging
ive known about dear girls stories for ages but i didnt realize there were actual drama cds for izaya and shizuo too 😭i thought this was just people pretending that daisuke ono and hiroshi kamiya were talking as shizaya (<-CLOWN behavior)
but nope 4 seconds in we got a Shizu-chan name drop so lmAOOO time to listen i guess
there's two of these translated by the DGS subs channel (tracks 9-15) so idk if there's more before or after these or if those tracks have different characters, which i probably wont watch unless shizuo and celty have one or something lmao
according to google translate, "kenka" = "fight" which is funny
can we talk about that official art btw because how did izaya get close enough to shizuo to steal his glasses without getting caught?? dawg???? i guess he came up from behind him or something but fuckin imagine izaya just hanging down from above and doing the spiderman thing...except he steals shizu-chan's glasses instead of kissing him. i should draw that actually
this is hilarious actually i cant stop grinning bskjgHDSH why are they talking civilly about the date. what are they doing
it took them 51 seconds to actually reference hating each other which might be a record! good job gays
wait we're skipping ahead?? to august 30th??? we're just not gonna explain why/how they were in a bathhouse together???? okay?????
bro chased izaya up a mountain??? there are songs written about that kind of stufff bro 😭 like "id climb the tallest mountains and cross the widest rivers for you". something along those lines. shizuoooo you're so dedicateddddd <33333
why does he sound surprised bsdkgshk 1. YOU called him and 2. YOU led him up the mountain. little shit
i had to delete a whole segment because my brain is dead and i thought the dates were going backwards and i was like huh. interesting amount of nonlinear storytelling going on here
yes because august and september come before july soro good job
adventurer day, cleaning day, mid-year day? is this whole drama cd just them unintentionally celebrating obscure holidays together what the fuck
shizuo was just talking about ironing where did you come from??? izaya????? and shizuo didnt even react bdsjkgsh i literally cant wrap my brain around this like how are they just casually talking
WHAT DOES "THAT KIND OF WORK" MEAN HUH
izaya stripper au real (im sorry. my head is permanently in the gutter i think)
izaya i think you're losing it a bit because how the fuck do you watch someone IRONING HIS CLOTHES and still think it's entertaining?? does literally anything shizuo does entertain you what the hell
bro is down horrendous
oh so THIS is the bath one, i thought that was the first scenario (half-year day) because of the cicadas?? for some reason. i mistook cicada noises for cricket noises im a clown
NERDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
damn izaya read his mind. #justcouplethings
shizuo joining in on the wordplay too GOD they're so annoying
and cue giant crashing wave sound effect
the tweet above mentions that this basically confirms that shizuo entered the bath with izaya and i havent been able to stop thinking about it. like izaya would enter the bath to fuck with shizuo but here shizuo joins him. hmmmmmmmm
translator asking the real questions here pFFF
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