[Groop] Groo DH promo Poster

[Chris Schechner]

Tone,

Good idea. Of course, you realize Gary is from the planet Zoltron and that¹s
the Zoltronian way. Long live the Zoltronian revolution!

Glorko (King in exile)

on 3/9/07 5:43 PM, Tone at Tone at moon-shine.net wrote:

>           Gary just wrote about sending some of his extra copies of
> the Dark Horse Insider with its included Groo promo poster insert to a
> few of the members of the Groop. I think I may have started something
> here because originally both Yodazone and I had been looking for that
> poster and both saw the outrageous overpriced poster on eBay, which got
> the two of us talking. Yodazone needed to find out some info in regards
> to it, and I did not have an answer myself, so I simply asked our
> resident expert. GARY of course. :-)
>           One thing led to another and without me even asking, Gary in
> fact offered to send me a copy of one of his extra Dark Horse Insiders,
> to which I had the joking nerve to ask if he had an additional extra one
> for me to send-on to Yodazone. Sure enough Gary does has a second extra
> one for Yodazone, so from my understanding thus far, Gary will be
> mailing me both of them, then I will keep one of them and use the
> packaging to send the second one off to Yodazone.
>           Right about now in the story is where I noticed Gary posting
> to the Groop and offering to send yet even more of his extra copies to
> some other Groopies. By now many of you know how generous Gary is, so
> WITH RISK of putting Gary on an even higher pedestal, you probably will
> not be surprised when I tell you Gary rejected offers from me to pay for
> the Dark Horse Insider (even though I was willing) as well as offers
> from me to at least pay for shipping.
> 
>           Seeing as how Gary is OBVIOUSLY WAY TOO nice, I think the
> rest of us should band together at least a little and try to subvert
> Gary's over-generosity. Knowing Gary, I think he will never accept
> payment for the Dark Horse Insiders, considering he originally got them
> for free. Who knows, maybe he even feels a bit guilty for possibly
> hoarding them! ;) Although we all know his original intent was to
> literally save them from just going to waste. possibly for future
> generations. :-)
>           Anyway, this is what I propose as my plot to subvert Gary
> and his NICE ways. :-) Since Gary has agreed to send two of his extra
> copies to me, which I initially proposed so as to at least save him
> extra postage as well as save waste in packaging (I try to be a serious
> recycler myself), the plan is for me to then send-on the second Dark
> Horse Insider to Yodazone. BUT what if we as a Groop just gather a list
> of Groop members, who want one of Gary's extra copies (as long as Gary's
> excess inventory allows of course). From there Gary can send me all of
> them, then I will take one and send the rest on to Yodazone. and from
> then on each person down the list can take one and send-off the rest to
> the next Groopie down the list. This way there is no where near as much
> packaging waste (because we would each simply reuse the original stuff),
> and Gary would not have to shell out as much on postage and thus avoid
> all the extra hassles of shipping stuff at his expense to numerous
> people.
>           In the end Gary would still be his super generous self,
> everyone who can get a wanted copy of the Dark Horse Insider would get
> one, and all of us (I would think and hope) would feel a lot more united
> as a GROOP rather than perhaps feeling so distant due to using this
> box-interface we each have called a computer. :-)
>           Oh. and I promise not to hoard all the Dark Horse Insider's
> once I get them! ;) I think if I even tried Yodazone and Gary would hunt
> me down anyway. However I can not vouch for Yodazone. ;) heh
> 
>           Here's the first and probably the biggest question though.
> Uhm Gary, just how many extra Dark Horse Insiders with the included Groo
> promo insert poster do you actually have???? LOL :-)
> _TONE_
> 
> 
> 
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