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Mar. 7th, 2020 08:10 amAAAAAAA???? I actually?? GOT THESE???
Let me unpack that. Angela hasn't kept regular stock for ages, for whatever reason. In 1999-2000 you could just go buy a pair whenever you felt like it (though the designs have been diversified and improved; the old pair I have are heavier because framed with steel wire instead of flat aluminum, and not this neat "convertible" style you can wear in a down position), but I think she only works on commission these days because everything is always sold out and the site really only functions as a gallery. All you get are these "flash sales" of ONE pair of whatever it is and they always come available at 7 or 8 in the morning. (I wonder if she's really awake then, or if Shopify lets you pre-set a time for something.) I really wanted the blue version but the flash sales are really competitive. Like, you think getting a room at the DoubleTree for Pantheacon was hard, this is worse. Even being prepared with credit card info in a scratch file to copy and paste quickly (as has been my technique for PCon) did not get me success last time - 7:01 AM was too late (although maybe that one was extra crushed because of the Dark Crystal connection). But today I randomly woke up at 7:53 so I thought, wotthehell archy, I might as well try for the 8:00 AM availability. I was astonished that after failing on the blue ones I was able to nab the "diamond fire" ones, because by that time it was like 8:04. I would have thought that someone else out there was doing the same thing at the same time.
Let me unpack that. Angela hasn't kept regular stock for ages, for whatever reason. In 1999-2000 you could just go buy a pair whenever you felt like it (though the designs have been diversified and improved; the old pair I have are heavier because framed with steel wire instead of flat aluminum, and not this neat "convertible" style you can wear in a down position), but I think she only works on commission these days because everything is always sold out and the site really only functions as a gallery. All you get are these "flash sales" of ONE pair of whatever it is and they always come available at 7 or 8 in the morning. (I wonder if she's really awake then, or if Shopify lets you pre-set a time for something.) I really wanted the blue version but the flash sales are really competitive. Like, you think getting a room at the DoubleTree for Pantheacon was hard, this is worse. Even being prepared with credit card info in a scratch file to copy and paste quickly (as has been my technique for PCon) did not get me success last time - 7:01 AM was too late (although maybe that one was extra crushed because of the Dark Crystal connection). But today I randomly woke up at 7:53 so I thought, wotthehell archy, I might as well try for the 8:00 AM availability. I was astonished that after failing on the blue ones I was able to nab the "diamond fire" ones, because by that time it was like 8:04. I would have thought that someone else out there was doing the same thing at the same time.