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Interesting that it seems like 3 people here scored the Orange. Did any one score on other colors?

@ crkohler

i scored a green. this is my first snik print....and my first attempt at buying from gp. 

beginners luck? 

I can go off people.

I actually went for the bronze edition first. It said sold out so went back and added an orange and was able to check out no problem.

I was looking for a Pink but none available if anyone have one to flip

For those of you who REALLY love Snik and are happy to spend a little more you should head over to Robertson Fine Art, an Edinburgh based gallery who have some stunning hand sprayed on canvas versions of this piece.

www.robertsonfineart.co.uk/artists/snik

Title: Falling Out of Consciousness (Green)

Artist: Snik

Image Size: 50 x 20 cm

Edition Size: Edition of 6

Medium: Hand Sprayed Limited Editions on Canvas

Well done, how did you get it? I put one in my basket within seconds of being released, tried to check out but it had sold out, as had every other print, I sent GP an Email to vent my frustrations and received this back......

hi michael

yes the cart system is back, its very popular this one and editions were small what can we do?

sorry you missed out

wendy

For me, happens every time with GP! P***ed off!!!

(Nothing personal against GP, just p***ed!)

This system did'nt work for me, was buying a pink for my girlfriend, had it in the basket and checked out in seconds, only to find it and in fact all had sold out! Felt p***ed off all day and only chance of getting one is from Ebay.......... 

Are you the gallery owner?

I don't think renaming from snik to sn1k would make a difference with bots. Most will monitor the page for a change in page source and not be monitoring for key words. There are plenty of browser add ons that will do it, monitor the page or a snippet of the page for changes. They will normally check every second or so. if you write your own you can scan in milliseconds. If you want to catch them out post them up on an unexpected page instead of new release page!
If I get to the point my art is that popular I'll release in a fun way to save the stress of the buyers. Leave some clues to follow. I wish someone did what Adam Neate did again and left art all around the city. Theres much more inventive ways to release. I like what Mobstr did recently too.

after pm'ing me.

LOLing at how people think bots work. A 1 not an I. Hah.

It's just a script, pretty much a programme / app / macro that records and then plays back the key strokes and clicks .....so while it might be more responsive than it takes a human to realise the work is up, then wait another 4 seconds because you pressed f5 again In all the excitement and then manually enter your details....the bot has filled it all in and submitted for purchase....it doesn't guarantee you'll bag one but it gives a big advantage.....and yes like Firefox it can monitor the pages for changes and only execute when the buy button pops up.

It's simple to create a script for standard commerce sites like big cartel or any site with a straight forward cart and checkout process.
The only site I know that actually does something to level the playing field is Graffiti Prints who change the IP / URL of the drop page a few minutes before release which then fucks the scripts as they are then watching the wrong page.