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AAAAAAA???? 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.
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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.
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