I recently went through some great strife with the local Staples retailstore. I took my Venus Transit poster there to try and get some 24 x 36 color posters made up to hand out at my events.
I was lured in with the $20 each advertisement on their website abnd got a little carried away. By the time it was all over I had ordered 10 posters for almost $45 each. When I asked for one of them to be mounted and laminated on some foam core, the price shot up to $83.99!!! for a single poster!!!
Anyway, I asked to cancel the order especially since one of the professors at the University of Hawaii that was with us on Mauna Kea offered to print up a bunch of them for free. Staples said no and I ended up having to pay almost $750 for the 10 posters and mailing tubes etc... A really stupid decision.
Anyway, I paid with my personal funds as I could not justify the nonprofit absorbing the cost of my stupidity.
I am going to make lemonade out of this really big lemon now and just give these posters away to anyone who wants to use them for outreach.
They are beautiful prints for sure and look great on my little stand up outreach signs...
here is a picture of one in action. It is the sign on the right. It was laminated and mounted onto a piece of foam core for about $20 extra.
If you would like to use one of these posters for your outreach I will gladly send it to you for free on the promise that you will have it at least laminated so it will last and possibly mounted at your location and that it will be used for outreach.
Im trying to make something good come out of this debacle and the best way I know to combat a bad deal is to turn it around and make it a fantastic deal for someone else by just giving it away. Im werd, I know but thats just how I roll...
So, if you want one, they are very limited....
.. and among the world's most expensive posters!...for free... Just send me your request here and make sure I have your shipping address. International folks welcome. If you are a club member, I already have your address...
