CLOSED - VALIANT WONDERCON EXCLUSIVES OFFER - WITH PHOTOS

[drmirage]

Updates: April 1st 2013

All orders have been packed and is ready for shipment on Monday / Tuesday (April 1st / April 2nd).

(Everything went very smoothly except VEI ran out of Red 2XL shirts. Those who ordered Red 2XL will receive Blue 2XL as a replacment.)

VEI wants to thank all the participants for the well written reviews.

As a bonus, VEI also threw in an extra unsigned copy of the Harbinger Wars Sketchbook plus an 8.5 x 11 Quantum and Woody print signed by James Asmus for everyone who participated. (I believe these are limited to less than 250 prints)

Enjoy!

Here are the photos of the items acquired.


Harbinger Wars / Shadowman T-Shirts


Large Stack of Harbinger Wars / Shadowman T-Shirts


Harbinger Wars Sketchbook Signed by Fred Pierece, Hunter Gorinson, Atom! Freeman, Joshua Dysart and Dinesh Shamdasani


Valiant Trading Card (Rittenhouse) Promo - Cover of X-O # 12


8.5 x 11 Quantum and Woody James Asmus Signed Print

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Valiant Con Exclusives Offer* @ Wondercon Anaheim 2013

UPDATES: CON EXCLUSIVE OFFER IS NOW CLOSED (Friday)

Amazon Reviews Before the Con Exclusive Offer:
1 Review for A&A
7 Reviews for Bloodshot
15 Reviews for Harbinger
26 Reviews for X-O Manowar

Amazon Reviews After the Con Exclusive Offer:
24 Reviews for A&A
25 Reviews for Bloodshot
27 Reviews for Harbinger
37 Reviews for X-O Manowar

Summary: (64 New Reviews @Amazon.com) + (4 Reviews @ Amazon.ca) + (4 Reviews @ Amazon.uk) = 72 New Reviews in just 4 Days.

Thanks again for everyone who has participated.

OFFER NOW EXPIRED - A BIG THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED AND FOR THOSE WHO MADE REVIEWS

*Available only to Valiant Fan Members with reviews on all four (4) Summer VEI Volume #1 TPB's on Amazon
( I wanted to give props to Bruce Hartshorn for giving me this great idea)

(He hoped that a board member who lives close to try to help their fellow board members who do not have the opportunity to attend Wondercon acquire some VEI exclusives.)
Bruce said, "After all, helping each other out for the love of Valiant is a foundation of the board."

That being said, I have decided in order to help members acquire Valiant Con Exclusives at Wondercon this weekend. I am going to offer the first 50 unique members the opportunity to acquire VEI exclusives for cost + shipping for submitting a review on all four (4) VEI Volume #1 TPB's on Amazon. If you already have done reviews on the TPB's before, you qualify as long as you complete the review on all four books.

X-O Manowar Volume 1: By The Sword
Harbinger Volume 1: Omega Rising
Bloodshot Volume 1: Setting The World On Fire
Archer & Armstrong Volume 1: The Michelangelo Code
(For those who need the links for these books, they are listed at the bottom of the post)

My goal here is to help promote Valiant. I love reading reviews. Whether it's a graphic novel, video game or movie reviews, I like to read what the different point of views from individuals. Many times it’s helped me make a better purchasing decision.

That being said, I am not looking for reviews that just say "I love this book". That simply is not going to be awarded with this offer. Just take the time and think about how you would like to read something of value to help you spend your money wisely. Since we are all Valiant Fans here, just write a few words to say how much you love these books. By the way this post so far has gone a little over 200 words, so it’s not that long of a review

(I am assuming everyone who is doing reviews have read the first four (4) issues of each Summer VEI Title. You do not need to own the TPB's or to have ordered them from Amazon to write a review. All you need is an Amazon account).

Again, the goal for me here is to help promote Valiant. I am not making any $ on these items. I just want to help out a few members acquire these VEI Con Exclusives. This deal will be as transparent as possible.

I have discussed this offer with Dinesh. As an incentive, VEI will also be giving away two (2) additional VEI Con Exclusive items Free per order.... As a "BIG THANK YOU" for those who qualify and participate in this offer. Dinesh believes that this is a win / win situation for VEI and for the members who can participate and qualify.

VALIANT CON EXLUSIVE PRODUCTS:
NOTE: Normally VEI carries the Flip Books/Sketchbooks and the Summer TPBs, but I was told that these are practically sold out. That being said, only Valiant Con Exclusive T-Shirts are being offered.

Valiant Con Exclusive T-Shirts: (Limit 1 - Per Order)
Cost Price $25.00 each


Shadowman Logo T-Shirt
Available Sizes: S-M-L-XL-2XL


Valiant T-Shirt Blue
Available Sizes: S-M-L-XL-2XL


Valiant T-Shirt Red
Available Sizes: 2XL Only

As an incentive with this offer, each order includes the following two (2) items FREE


1 x Signed Harbinger Wars Sketchbook
(Signed by a number of individuals from the VEI Management & Creative Team - As soon as I find out who will be signing I will post it here)


1 x Valiant Promotional Trading Card*** (Rittenhouse) Featuring the Djurdjevic Cover to X-O Manowar #12
(These cards are the same ones given out at ECC "Emerald Comic Con" and limited to only 250 in production)

This Rittenhouse promo card is the card VEI was giving out at ECCC three weeks ago or so. It has the picture of X-O #12 and is promoting the Valiant card series which Rittenhouse is putting out this summer. From what I am told at ECCC they only gave ONE per person and I do not know if VEI will have them at Wondercon this wekend.

PRICES

*To make this offer as simple as possible, I can only accept one (1) item per order.
Please indicate which T-Shirt and Size you want. Just in case VEI sells out, please provide a second choice as well.

PRICES WITH SHIPPING:
$31.50 US Domestic
$46.60 Canada
$50.72 International

*To make things easy, all orders will be shipped via USPS Priority Mail Legal Size Envelope. (2-3 Day Shipping)

LOCAL PICK UP PRICES:
$25.00 Local Pickup
Save $ on shipping if you pick up at Downtown Los Angeles area.

REVIEW REQUIREMENTS:

In order for me to verify that all reviews have been made, please PM me a link to your member reviews page.
(The page should say Reviews written by [Your Name] )

Please do not send me any payments until you see all four (4) reviews on your member's review page:
If I receive payment without your reviews page, the order will be cancelled.

As of now, 12:45 AM PST (Monday, March 25th) there has only been 1 review for Archer & Armstrong Volume #1, only 1 person has qualified for this offer.

PAYMENTS:

Paypal Gift Payments or any additional payments will also be very much appreciated.

Please provide me your VFans Screen Name when you make your payment so I do not have to guess who the payment was from.

PAYPAL: SWIMBAY@HOTMAIL.COM

$25.00 Local Pickup (Los Angeles - Downtown Area)
$31.50 US Domestic
$46.60 Canada
$50.72 International

If you calculate my cost, here are the actual numbers.
$25 + $5.25 US Domestic + $1.25 Paypal Fees = $31.50 / shipped
$25 + $19.95 Canada + $1.65 Paypal Fees = $46.60 / shipped
$25 + $23.95 Worldwide + $1.77 Paypal Fees = $50.72 / shipped

1. I worked out the numbers and this is what I have to do. AGAIN: I am not making any $ on these items (The prices I have listed is my REAL cost) I just want to help out a few VF Fan members to acquire these VEI con exclusives who do not have access to them.

2. These items will be picked up on Saturday, March 30th 2013. Your orders will ship in a reasonable amount of time. Please understand that if I get 50 orders that I need to pack and ship 50 individual items. So please give me some reasonable amount of time to get it done. I can work very fast, but it takes time to pack 50 orders. Plus I need to make sure everyone gets their orders correct with the correct mailing information.

3. Each unique member has a limit to only one (1) order. Multiple orders are not allowed and will be cancelled. Dinesh has guaranteed a maximum of 50 signed sketch books and 50 promo cards can be offered. The cards are very limited and there are only 250 of these made.

4. All the shirts, sketchbooks and cards will be delivered in the same condition I get them in. If anyone has any questions of how I ship my items, a few board members have purchased books from me and some say that they have never had a comic shipped so well. Please do not expect to Gem Mint items. Books will be shipped with bags and board. Cards will be shipped with sleeves. (I will be providing the card sleeves + bags and boards FREE)

5. For members who are attending Wondercon, I don't think its going to be possible for me to meet up and make this deal at the con because of the time and schedule. Please understand that I am doing this the easiest way and this is with shipping or with local pickup.

6. If anyone needs the links for the TPB's in Amazon, here they are:

X-O Manowar Volume 1: By The Sword [Paperback]
http://www.amazon.com/X-O-Manowar-Sword ... r+Volume+1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Harbinger Volume 1: Omega Rising TP [Paperback]
http://www.amazon.com/Harbinger-1-Omega ... r+Volume+1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bloodshot Volume 1: Setting The World On Fire TP [Paperback]
http://www.amazon.com/Bloodshot-Setting ... t+Volume+1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Archer & Armstrong Volume 1: The Michelangelo Code TP [Paperback]
http://www.amazon.com/Archer-Armstrong- ... g+Volume+1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

7. LAST DAY TO ORDER IS THURSDAY, MARCH 28TH.

8. Lastly, if anyone has any questions, please send me a PM. Thank you for participating!

Thank you to VEI for offering the 2 promo items.

Elery

[magnusr]

This is a great offer. Hope many take you up on it. I sure intend to.

/Magnus

[drmirage]

Thanks Magnus! I'm just trying to help promote Valiant!

I think its a great way to recognize members who cannot make it to the conventions

Dinesh always wanted to do something for the VFan members.

[Phantom]

Dr Mirage

Thanks for this. It is really cool that you are doing for the board, to promote VE1
I going to get off my backside and review all 4 books even if I do not choose to participate.

Great work

[caniac]

I'm in for the red valiant shirt in large...will post likny...I've done two or three so far

[caniac]

Pm sent

[greg]

Awesome!

I'll take a 2XL Valiant Red...
if they sell out,
I'll take a 2XL Valiant Blue...
if they sell out,
I'll take a 2XL Shadowman.

[iwantvaliant]

I'll be in on this! I've reviewed some, but will do the rest when I have free time today. I'd like a blue shirt in medium.

This is so cool that you're doing this. Thank you! I will PM you by the end of the day.

[nscc]

This is really cool of you to do Dr Mirage!

Good for you

Also awesome for Valiant to be giving up some nice goodies too

I won't be buying a shirt but I agree that the more reviews online and the more Valiant traffic generated will really help get the word out.

I had some similar thoughts about reviews as well, so nice to see I am not alone.

[drmirage]

Cool. Even members who choose not to participate, feel free to do the reviews in all the books. These help promote VEI.

The prices on these TPBs are a steal too.

Bloodshot and A&A Volume #1 is on sale for $5.56 each.

[FormerReader]

Nice work Elery! This is cool of you to offer, particularly after you decided to do the Valiantfans FCBD order.

[Phoenix8008]

Very cool offer drmirage! I've PM'ed you the link to my Amazon reviews page to prove that I qualify, but I'm not positive yet that I'll get the funds together to place an order. Trying though, and I'll PM you again with shirt choice if I do send the funds.

[hawkeyeps]

I've never bought anything from Amazon, I went and created an account but it will not let me reveiw the book unless I had just purchased it from them and I already have all of these

[Phoenix8008]

I've never bought anything from Amazon, I went and created an account but it will not let me reveiw the book unless I had just purchased it from them and I already have all of these

Maybe because you've never purchased ANYTHING from Amazon? I didn't buy these trades either, but it let me write a review of each of them. There was no button/option down by the other reviews where you could click to write a review? Weird.

[hawkeyeps]

I never have bought anything from Amazon.

I take it I would have to buy something to be able to write reveiws.

I'd love to do this but it's getting undoable- If I buy something with shipping from Amazon it will be at least $15 then $46.40 to Dr.M + exchange rate it would cost me like $65 for a T-shirt.

Oh well, it's still a great idea. Good job Dr.M

[drmirage]

I'm not sure how Amazon works, but if you are in Canada, I think you can try to do a review on Amazon.ca and see if it works.

I did not anticipate international or new Amazon customers to have these issues. Here is what you can do.

If you are unable to do a review on Amazon, ask another member who can do a review to do that review for you. Meaning you need to write the review yourself and forward it to the person who can do a review.

I will make these reviews acceptable for this offer. I am 100% sure that you can find someone who has made an order from Amazon to do this.

I know Magnus is from Sweden and he did not have any issues to do the reviews.

[MarkRoseHFX]

I'm not sure how Amazon works, but if you are in Canada, I think you can try to do a review on Amazon.ca and see if it works.

he's running into the same prob I have. Amazon won't let you review unless you have made an amazon purchase. that means him and I are prob the only two people left in the world that have never made an amazon purchase

[drmirage]

Ask someone to do the review for you. That will be accepted.

[kjjohanson]

TL; DR

If your opinion is that one of the titles is less-than-stellar, does an honest negative review still qualify one for this offer?

[drmirage]

Good point. Be honest with your review. Good or less stellar reviews count. All reviews count.

A review is a review no matter how you look at it.

TL; DR


If your opinion is that one of the titles is less-than-stellar, does an honest negative review still qualify one for this offer?

[MarkRoseHFX]

Ask someone to do the review for you. That will be accepted.

Great idea and you are awesome for doing this

[drmirage]

For those who aren't able to leave reviews, ask someone to post your review for you. I'm sure that someone who has an Amazon account can help out. In fact, it doesn't have to be a board member who writes them as long as the board member who wants to take advantage of the offer can provide the link to the four reviews. A review is a review no matter if it is from a board member or not. Amazon is big enough and used by enough people that I bet everyone has a friend with an account to help with this.

I actually went on a read some of the reviews submitted. They were pretty good I thought. We have some talented members who write very well.

[lorddunlow]

I'd be willing to post a review, but I would like in on the offer as well. I don't think you can post 2 reviews for something can you? If you can post multiple reviews, then I offer to post by proxy for either (or both) Mark or hawkeyeps (even though they are Canadian). If you can't, then I'll let you guys know if I don't get off my lazy keister before the deadline and let one of you post on my account.

[drmirage]

I believe Amazon only counts reviews per each Amazon account. Multiple reviews do not count as another review. You can do a follow up review, but the review count stays the same.

I'd be willing to post a review, but I would like in on the offer as well. I don't think you can post 2 reviews for something can you? If you can post multiple reviews, then I offer to post by proxy for either (or both) Mark or hawkeyeps (even though they are Canadian). If you can't, then I'll let you guys know if I don't get off my lazy keister before the deadline and let one of you post on my account.

[MarkRoseHFX]

I'd be willing to post a review, but I would like in on the offer as well. I don't think you can post 2 reviews for something can you? If you can post multiple reviews, then I offer to post by proxy for either (or both) Mark or hawkeyeps (even though they are Canadian). If you can't, then I'll let you guys know if I don't get off my lazy keister before the deadline and let one of you post on my account.

I don't have the cash to do it at the moment but thanks for offering man