Cover Showcase

[Nacho3]

I just added a basic small link to my eBay store in my signature. (if a mod has a problem with this please contact me and I can take it down)

I actually do have a problem with this. You are selling TheCoverProject covers for profit on your ebay store and there is NO MENTION of where you are getting the covers from. Your description on your products insinuate that you designed them.

You are profiting off of the members' here hard work.  Sure you are making a few of your own but the vast majority are not your own. With just a few clicks through your ebay store I looked through my Pokemon covers. You have sold 410 copies of my pokemon covers alone. Its costs $0.50 to print, $0.80 per poly case (after shipping), $2 to ship to customer (being generous here assuming they only buy 1 case, obviously bulk is cheaper).  You sell them for $10 each, turning a profit of $6.80 per sale.

So just off of 9 covers i have made you have turned a profit of $2788 from my hard work.  
Your ebay store has over 5000 covers/cases to purchase and I only dug into 9 of them.

Old subject but still not cool

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I agree, nice covers though

I agree that you should not be able to post link to your store but what bugs me more is you come in here posting pics of these covers and don't post links. It's ok for you to take covers that people post here and make money off of it but you can't provide covers to help out in return.

[wingzrow]

"Its costs $0.50 to print, $0.80 per poly case (after shipping), $2 to ship to customer (being generous here assuming they only buy 1 case, obviously bulk is cheaper).  You sell them for $10 each, turning a profit of $6.80 per sale."

I wish, it's way way lower than that. We're talking around $2.00 a case.

ebay breakdown

cost of the poly case
paypal fee
eBay sale fee
ebay insertion fee
cost of printing/ printing paper
cost of shipping envelope
cost of shipping label
cost to PRINT the shipping label
auctiva subscription
monthly ebay store fee
taxes

and then around 10% of my sales have to be refunded due to people not reading and thinking they get the game with the case, or a case getting damaged in shipping where I have to send out a replacement for free.

I'm sure there's more fees i'm forgetting, but I'm not going to use that as an excuse for what I do. On the plus side I've been contributing raws, and I'm running a huge topic on 4chan where people are contributing scans to the site almost daily now which you can find here.

https://boards.4chan.org/vr/res/1350091

So with that said, the signature link is gone. If there any mods who want some of my repro covers for their own personal copies of the game feel free to hit me up with a PM and I can forward one to you. I'm trying to do one cover for every repro I can think of once a day, and I think I'm doing pretty good so far.

[segamer]

In Wingz defense, he has been trying to give back to the cover project by providing random scans. However... If someone from the Cover project wanted to print one of his covers, I do hope he at least considers it.  

[wingzrow]

"If someone from the Cover project wanted to print one of his covers, I do hope he at least considers it.  Grin"

Like I said, send me a PM and I can send you a link no problem.

I'm trying to get as many scans towards the site as I can. I'm going to be running that topic on 4chan pretty much nonstop every day so by the end of it I'm pretty sure it should zero out my karma to "wingzrow is ok...i guess"

With that said, I upped 5 sega master system covers around an hour ago, and I have around 7 more I need to add to the public mediafire folder for the site later today.

On another note, can someone explain why so few entries are actually uploaded to the site proper? SEGamer's covers especially are top quality, and I see zero reason why a game like say, dune for the sega genesis, isn't up for everyone to download, when the alternative is having no cover at all.  This is really making it hard for me to compile the "covers we still need" list that I want to forward to 4chan.

[wiggy]

So with that said, the signature link is gone. If there any mods who want some of my repro covers for their own personal copies of the game feel free to hit me up with a PM and I can forward one to you. I'm trying to do one cover for every repro I can think of once a day, and I think I'm doing pretty good so far.

Just post them.  There's no reason to post pics of the covers if you're not gonna openly share, not this "PM me" bullshit.  

Hypocrite...

[Dreamcast99]

Using any resource from a known pedophilia gathering site is not exactly paying it forward. Its giving a pedophilia site a resource of video game covers, which last i checked, happened to be enjoyed by kids across the globe. Maybe we can just upload some raw scans of candy bar wrappers and a couple quick recipes instead.


"This is Pedobear, and he wants to meet your children.

That's right. Where everywhere else pedophiles are thought of as the malignant ass of society that deserves to die, on 4Chan they get a cute little mascot."

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/funny-1143-4chan/#ixzz2siNM0ZIw

As put perfectly by that (and many other newscasts and) articles

[shenske]

@wingzrow

Are you not providing links to your cover directly because you fear other people or repro makers might download them and make money from them?  I know you put hard work into these and you don't want someone else making money from something you made.  
.... I'm seeing some parallels here. I agree with Wiggy, this all seems very hypocritical.

Also, about the profit margin: I did not factor ebay fees into my math BUT ebay fees are associated with a percentage of the selling fee. There is NO WAY ebay would take half of your listing price for their cut. I did factor or paper and printing costs to my math above too. I could walk into any printshop and get 8.5 x 14 full color prints for a max of $0.80 on pretty much whatever paper i want (except cardstock and sticker paper). Even with the other fees and having to ship our another case every once and a while there is no way your profit margin in less than $5 per sale.

Providing a few scans here and there and making a forum post on 4chan does not equal out to all the money you are making off of this site. The way i see it; you are taking advantage of the free work done here and are poorly trying to hide in plain site.

My two cents are said, I'm not dragging this out any more
(And this is coming from the "nice guy" CoverAdmin)

[wiggy]

This is all too familiar.  Anyone remember Lame Case World?  Also hiding in plain sight, sharing like 1 scan every 2 months, and then pretending that they were some sort of asset to the community. They also liked to post covers which they made themselves (though few and far between), but without download links.

If you're not gonna share what you're making, then don't bother posting about it.  It's a crappier thing to do than just not posting about it at all. It's a tease, nothing more.

[sheep2001]

This is all too familiar.  Anyone remember Lame Case World?  Also hiding in plain sight, sharing like 1 scan every 2 months, and then pretending that they were some sort of asset to the community. They also liked to post covers which they made themselves (though few and far between), but without download links.

If you're not gonna share what you're making, then don't bother posting about it.  It's a crappier thing to do than just not posting about it at all. It's a tease, nothing more.

I disagree, it is way more than a tease, it's an advert.

[tiktektak]

Guys ..... You want it like that you get it like that.

[videogametrader]

So with that said, the signature link is gone. If there any mods who want some of my repro covers for their own personal copies of the game feel free to hit me up with a PM and I can forward one to you. I'm trying to do one cover for every repro I can think of once a day, and I think I'm doing pretty good so far.

Just post them.  There's no reason to post pics of the covers if you're not gonna openly share, not this "PM me" bullshit.  

Hypocrite...

I have to say that I agree. In full disclosure, i do sell cases too. However, i post every cover i make that isn't on the site. And i try to do all i can to provide scans and make covers when i can. (Although I haven't been around much lately, sorry  )The only reason I can see him needing to be PM'd is that he doesn't want competition selling those covers he made. If you are going to sell other artists cases the least you can do is post the ones you make.

As for price. I also know this is a sensitive topic. But $10 per case is a bit much. I have been selling on eBay since 1999 and even taking account all the "fees". With me selling the cases at $6 shipped, I make about $1.50 per case even with all the fees. $10 per case is a $5.50 profit minimum. Even with all the fees mentioned.

[McFlynn]

On a related note, I was at the nearby Vintage Stock and noticed they had FF6 and Chrono Trigger for sell with UGCases and the vertical covers on them.

Which means someone was savvy enough to either case their own game or bought the case off of eBay.  Which would make you think they would be aware of the typical price for Chrono Trigger but he still sold it to Vintage Stock for 20-ish bucks so they could turn around and sell it for 80.

[videogametrader]

On a related note, I was at the nearby Vintage Stock and noticed they had FF6 and Chrono Trigger for sell with UGCases and the vertical covers on them.

Which means someone was savvy enough to either case their own game or bought the case off of eBay.  Which would make you think they would be aware of the typical price for Chrono Trigger but he still sold it to Vintage Stock for 20-ish bucks so they could turn around and sell it for 80.

It could be that the store cases the games themselves. We case all games we sell. It's a nicer presentation on the shelf then just loose carts.

[McFlynn]

On a related note, I was at the nearby Vintage Stock and noticed they had FF6 and Chrono Trigger for sell with UGCases and the vertical covers on them.

Which means someone was savvy enough to either case their own game or bought the case off of eBay.  Which would make you think they would be aware of the typical price for Chrono Trigger but he still sold it to Vintage Stock for 20-ish bucks so they could turn around and sell it for 80.

It could be that the store cases the games themselves. We case all games we sell. It's a nicer presentation on the shelf then just loose carts.

I kind of doubt it since there were only 2 cased games.  They have several other rare games in the same display that were cased, and the hundreds of other carts that weren't cased.  They're also a 20+ store chain that also owns another smaller chain, they'd probably be a big roll out of cases if they were to do it.

[banisher]

wingzrow - You mentioned "Like I said, send me a PM and I can send you a link no problem." I've just sent you a PM, may you send me links for the following covers:

The Adventures of Hourai High School
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Alcahest