Examine the following price sheet:
1x = $10.
2x = $20.
3x = $30.
4x = $40.
Minimum order fee: $30.
Why are the first two even listed? I'm not ordering goddamn jet engines here. The number of x is of absolutely no relevance to the seller. As in, there's zero percent extra work involved and no actual physical product on his/her end, whether it's 1x or ∞x. Only completely arbitrary categories devised by him/herself. Like someone actually sat down and made up these four categories and then immediately afterwards invalidated half of them with that fifth line. What kind of goofy shit is this.

can you combine your order of "x" with some of "y" to reach the minimum?

x+y>=30
solve for "y," when x=as much sonic hentai as can be afforded

The Sonic hentai is very unique and I only want to jerk off to it once. Still, I have to pay for three sessions. Augmenting my order with Crash Bandicoot or Finding Nemo hentai is not an option, I have no use for it. Not because I'm not attracted to Crash Bandicoots lack of neck or Marlins hermaphroditic asshole, but because there is absolutely no room for it within the microcosm that is to be my stroke sesh. Also it's highly unlikely that someone would even need three types of this very specific hentai at the same time, considering the vast selection that's out there, available from a myriad of vendors. It's not the one-stop-hentai-shop offering some sort of service or deal, it's just a pain in the ass. Don't have the categories, or make the first one '1-3x = $30' if you can't do it cheaper. (Which you can, because like I said it's completely fucking arbitrary.)

HELLO GREY CLOCK! at last, thou hast returneth to thy hallowed halls of clocktopia!

plz make more movies man, i missed your great artwork(s)...

also, about the deal:

well, if the guy eliminates all of the first 2 options, then ask him directly: ''why the HELL do you even list those 2 options, when the minimum order is 30$, AKA= 3 items order...?
therefore, ask him to allow you to buy just 1, or 2 items, and to get a 10$/20$ deal, OR, to at least make you a brave discount on the 3-item/30$ order, so that you can be persuaded in buying more stuff from him in the future...
(even if you will never buy from him again, because he's a jerkface, but we wont be telling him that, right?! hehehe)

also: what item(s) do you want to buy from that seller, and is he the chapest seller in this department?
if not, you must look elsewhere for other, (possibly) more efficient sellers.

why wouldn't he just say $10/ea if it doesn't scale

It's about a fee that needs to be paid to an organisation to be allowed the rights to the publication of a particular photograph i.e. Sonic hentai, which scales according to the height of circulation of the medium it is to be reproduced in. Which sorta makes sense if you figure bigger circulation = bigger revenue, or at least a bigger budget, in other words, pay me (the organisation) accordingly. That said, setting up a threshold like in the example completely bones smaller publications by asking exorbitant prices for what is basically the sending of an email attachment.

In keeping with the example, that means the rights for a publication of say a thousand copies is priced, by the organisation itself at $250. Yet there's a minimum order, also set by the organisation, of $500, which boils down to two thousand copies. Like I said I only want to jerk off a thousand times, not two thousand.

I wrote a post, then I realized it didn't matter, but I spent too long typing it to abandon it

Suppose I'm a well-connected middleman responsible for sourcing hot sexy hentai for three publications: Sonic Butt Buccaneers, Finding Nemo Extreme Humiliation Illustrated, and Archie Comics Double Digest. Each publication reaches 667 readers monthly. I know that between all three publications, I'll be licensing enough hot sexy hentai to fuel about 2000 individual intense jerk-off sessions. There's not a lot of editorial integrity here.

The editors of these publications are too busy jerking off to license hentai themselves, so they pay me to do it for them. Because I license so much hentai, I never have to worry about minimum orders. If they get their hentai from me, I can charge them for exactly as many pictures as they ordered, plus my cut for play-testing them.

Minimum order from the Estate of Sonic's Ravaged Asshole? No problem. But I do need separate invoices, each of which is for 667 units -- less than the minimum order amount. Butt Buccaneers doesn't need to know how many copies of that same prolapse picture Extreme Humiliation Illustrated licensed. Only processing big orders means the Estate doesn't have to worry as much about unmanageable order volume, or wasting effort processing an order for someone's Xeroxed Crash Bandicoot lemon fanzine if they're only going to pony up for five copies of an image.

What VCR is saying is FIND A THIRD PARTY SELLER so really he had the most important post here

Like I said this is literally unique, copyrighted Sonic hentai, not available anywhere else. There are no middlemen or THIRD PARTY SELLERS you patronizing illiterate fuck. One might say the Estate of Sonic's Ravaged Asshole has a monopoly and I ain't talking board games son. There are no magazines besides Sonic Butt Buccaneers either. I understand that in theory a threshold to weed out five copy Crash Bandicoot fanzines sounds reasonable, but in reality, with the particular type of hentai we're dealing with it's nonsensical. I could engage the humble workers of the Estate of Sonic's Ravaged Asshole all day and a) they wouldn't make a dime and b) they would be happy to do it, because it's technically a public institution. But when it comes to the sending of an email attachment suddenly all these weird barriers are thrown up &c.

Why even post all this? I was blowing of steam because I just quit smoking and I was am cranky and I don't have Twitter which I'm pretty sure is the go to medium for that and I figured that if I replied to the organization in question talking about jerking off and Sonic hentai I'd be placed on some kind of list somewhere. I don't even care anymore at this point, but I just like talking about bu$ine$$ in Sonic hentai metaphors.

"Sell me this Sonic hentai."
"I want you to jerk off to Sonic hentai."
"I don't have Sonic hentai."
"Booooom! Supply and demand of Sonic hentai. Also ketchup or whatever."

If you've sold one image, it could've been to a korean torrenter.

perhaps i can help you, grey.

i used to search around for strange, obscure magazines/doushinji, and i believe i can help you.
even if its a book of babylonian architecture, i might be able to find it...

(PM me if you need any help).

Yes, please find me the publishing rights to the Sonic hentai of which the copyrights are held solely by the organisation I'm already in contact with myself?

This is not a deep Google search for some expired torrent fueled by your fruity little manga obsession, this is a scholar's pursuit of some goddamn Sonic hentai.

chode scholar

You know, this thread brings up a very good point:
The clock crew is mostly all men.
What the fuck is wrong with us? What are we, bigots? To try to actively suppress diversity like that? I demand a quota system

The main issue, I think, is that we're a group based around clock avatars, animated dick jokes and weird threads about Sonic hentai. History has shown us that women who do not have a problem with that basic concept are hard to come by and also can be a little emotionally unstable. I'm talking KittyClock, Kabuu, PMS, Gir. What was the name of the one that wrote Clock Crew on her breast? Then there's those that left because they were harassed or otherwise creeped out by some of our more upstanding male members. Purple, Nef, maybe Rose? That leaves like Joliet-Jane, Zeffy, Pear, Tobacco and Ivysaur. Ivysaur married Chalk. Maybe in the mean time there's a literal Clock baby running around. That kid would exist because some dude once typed a B in Flash, that's strange as fuck.

And was probably also a strange fuck, but conceived by two internet types so I guess it can only be expected

Quote from: just regular ol dumpster clock on November 19, 2016, 10:26:03 AM
You know, this thread brings up a very good point: The clock crew is mostly all men.

actually, thats not 100% true.

sure, the majority of the CC's members are male, but we've had a decent amount of women in the CC, namely:

rose clock, elf clock, textbook clock, plush clock, teddy clock, daisy clock, kabuu clock, hibiscus clock, kitty clock, feather clock(?), nef clock, zeffy (clock), joliet jane, shotglass clock, PMS clock, pear-clock[, cumquat clock, ivyasaur clock, succubus clock, clear clock, cine (or lime) clock, bluekoala clock, wobuffet clock, sheepy clock, K3LTR0N (or KELTRON) clock, purple clock, tobacco clock, chocolate cup clock, and some more...

also: the reason as to why i know all those names, is that i've been reading the clockopedia+talking with old clocks, while i also tried to create a CC collab in 2011, named ''the women of the clockcrew'', as shown in here:
http://clockcrew.net/talk/index.php?topic=98618.0

i strongly believe that we should honour the women of the clockcrew with a flash collab. they are cool ladies, and they love the CC as much as we do...

Quote from: GreyClock on November 19, 2016, 11:48:42 AM
Maybe in the mean time there's a literal Clock baby running around. That kid would exist because some dude once typed a B in Flash, that's strange as fuck.

i think about that sometimes, its REALLY strange...

there no girls because the boys are all insane and weird as fuck

and, speaking of strange stuff:

grey clock, do u honestly want a sonichu fanzine? come on, please let me know if i can help you.

i believe you are just too shy to admit that you want a cool book/manga.