#Creators4Comics Mass Twitter Auction - Who runs an auction on TWITTER?!

[Disc]

The hashtag #Creators4Comics has come out.

The goal is simple. Run auctions for five days selling off merch, signed copies, commissions, all that shit.

It's also the most hilariously stupid plan I've ever heard of. For starters, it's ON TWITTER. which is about as terribly-designed as a place could be to put an auction on. Most auctions only have a few bids, and the ones that have more are an absolute jumble to try and tell who's the top bidder. The people who respond, but don't bid? Don't contribute to the number at all. It doesn't help that half the creators keep replying to their own tweets, which inflates the number of responses artificially.

The largest one I've seen is a sketch of clayface, which has been up for 22 hours and gathered... 1.4k likes. If you think that's big, here's a comparison point:

Spoiler: Virgin Clayface sketch vs. Chad Graham Cracker

Here, have an Article or two:

NEWS WATCH: Creators 4 Comics to Hold Auctions to Raise Money for Comic Book Stores - Comic Watch

More than 120 creators will be auctioning comic books, artwork and one-of-a-kind experiences through Twitter using the hashtag #Creators4Comics to raise funds for struggling comic shops

comic-watch.com

Comic Creators Unite to Benefit Stores

A large group of comic book creators will be using Twitter to auction books, art and more to benefit stores upended by the coronavirus pandemic.

www.nytimes.com

Of course, no one's acknowledging that it was crappy creators that made the comic shops so vulnerable in the first place...

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

Does Twitter even have a function that allows users to spend money?
These creators were better off putting their work on an actual auction site then promoting it on Twitter.

 

[I Love Beef]

The only thing I am willing to bet the odds on is what kind of story will come out of this shitheap.

I bet the story that wins is one about a progressive SJW fat people all people of color orgy with only LGBTQEveryone sexualities, "cisscum be damned".

 

[Disc]

Does Twitter even have a function that allows users to spend money?
These creators were better off putting their work on an actual auction site then promoting it on Twitter.

To be slightly fair, this is being run by the BINC Foundation. When someone's won the bid, they need to make a donation to binc, and send the seller proof of their receipt.

Even then, yes, I agree. It really couldn't have been that hard to whip up an auctioneering website, or piggyback off an existing one.

 

[Harvey Danger]

The first 19 seconds of Zack's video today sums it up.

 

[JimiHendrix]

had a cool picture of Constantine at least.

 

[The Real SVP]

That's cute. They are over. The future belongs to people who make stuff for, and sell directly to, people who actually read comics.
No more investors, and in"direct"-market, and collectors, and Comic Book Guy faggotry. Nobody ever wanted or needed this shit. All it did was drive people away from comics. We are entering a new age of readers and creators, and nothing in between.

 

[Safir]

It's also the most hilariously stupid plan I've ever heard of. For starters, it's ON TWITTER. which is about as terribly-designed as a place could be to put an auction on.

It's on twitter because that's where the audience is. All of them already have an account. Anyone who makes a bid is underwriting his bid by his investment in his twitter account - it's better than anything a brand new auction site can do, unless they do twitter integration, and better than doing this on ebay because you probably don't want to mix your ebay shit and your public persona (also no fees). And it has viral potential (bad for bidders, good for auctioneers) as bidders advertize the auction to their followers. Aaaaand it's first price , so additional noise incentivizes a bidder to make large steps, which results in quite a bit of overhead, and bamboozlers transparently increase what legitimate bidders bid. What drove this fuckwit to bid $600 when the second-largest bids are several $400s and $401 would serve just as well? It may be a bamboozler, in which case he helped to goatseate the Overton window.

Twitter auctions are a good idea to auction unique unmarketable fan shit for charity. The drawback is they look unprofessional and aren't attractive to serious commercial bidders, but for this type of charity auctions it doesn't matter. They aren't selling Ming vases or Taiseido garage kits, they're selling shit that's only interesting to spergs and soyboys. The lack of interest is due to the goods on offer and the general state of the industry, not because the implementation is bad.

 

[New Fag]

Spoiler: Leah Williams

Spoiler: Guess what the current top bid is for this amazing prize

$400 also featuring a $100 bid from Chip Z

Jim Lee on the other hand has stuck a 9"x12" on ebay and is currently over 9000!

 

[mindlessobserver]

If people weren't giving money to buy comics that they are ostensibly fans of, why on earth would they give money for absolutely nothing? And what does it say about the comics industry if people would be more willing to give money for absolutely nothing as opposed to actual comics?

 

[MidUSA]

How many of the highest bids turned out to be trolls?