Wanted: BOC Kaleidoscope

sevenELIXIR · Post by **sevenELIXIR** » Wed May 24, 2006 3:54 pm

make me an offer... hook a brother up!!

sevenELIXIR · Post by **sevenELIXIR** » Wed May 24, 2006 5:13 pm

archive1 check your messages...

Archive1 · Post by **Archive1** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:10 pm

sevenELIXIR, I'm still waiting to ensure the order went through. I still have not been sent a order confirmation or anything along those lines.

The order total was Y7500 japanese yen which is roughly $70 US. Not sure on the current yen rate.

sevenELIXIR · Post by **sevenELIXIR** » Fri May 26, 2006 4:27 pm

any word on the order archive1???

merovingian · Post by **merovingian** » Tue May 30, 2006 4:49 pm

OMG!!! I got a kaleidoscope in the mail today from that store! They emailed me back stating they dont export, and low and behold today in the mail i have a mysterious package from japan. And with the scope came a huge I-WARP sticker. Very shocking, especially when i was emailed back within minutes after placing the order that they dont export, I hope I dont get an overdraft from this I wasnt expecting it.

sevenELIXIR · Post by **sevenELIXIR** » Tue May 30, 2006 5:27 pm

Hey Merovingian, you think you could hook me up with one of those??? the sites not working for me...

sevenELIXIR · Post by **sevenELIXIR** » Wed May 31, 2006 4:25 pm

lost a bid on ebay yesterday for one of these because I had to go to work... curses.... I shall not give up hope!

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:56 pm

merovingian wrote:OMG!!! I got a kaleidoscope in the mail today from that store! They emailed me back stating they dont export, and low and behold today in the mail i have a mysterious package from japan. And with the scope came a huge I-WARP sticker. Very shocking, especially when i was emailed back within minutes after placing the order that they dont export, I hope I dont get an overdraft from this I wasnt expecting it.

what was that site? how much was it? show pics please.

sevenELIXIR · Post by **sevenELIXIR** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 4:11 pm

www.beatink.com go to the "shop" (called the deli). If anyone's willing to sell, put it up on ebay and you'll have a deal... beatink will not ship anywhere outside of Japan and I'm still looking for one of these

merovingian · Post by **merovingian** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 4:40 pm

polar sky wrote:
merovingian wrote:OMG!!! I got a kaleidoscope in the mail today from that store! They emailed me back stating they dont export, and low and behold today in the mail i have a mysterious package from japan. And with the scope came a huge I-WARP sticker. Very shocking, especially when i was emailed back within minutes after placing the order that they dont export, I hope I dont get an overdraft from this I wasnt expecting it.
what was that site? how much was it? show pics please.

The site is posted above ^ the beatnik site, however im out of state atm moment I dont think ill be able to post pictures. I have my scope and a camera with me, I just dont know if I can upload any photos. I'll be able to when I get home though. Plus at home ill be able to take a picture of the box it came in with the beatnik information on it, to prove im not just grabbing a random kaleidoscope pic off the internet. And all in all i think it was about 80$ thats with the ship included. If you can submit an order, ignore the message you may recieve stating they dont export.

sevenELIXIR · Post by **sevenELIXIR** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:55 pm

merovingian, did you recieve a confirmation email from them?? I got nothing...

sevenELIXIR · Post by **sevenELIXIR** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:57 pm

I also used a credit card, don't know how else to pay for that... merovingian, send me a private message

steve-o · Post by **steve-o** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:19 pm

Wasn't there only supposed to have been 500 of these made? How do the Japanese have these in stock and just how many do they have??

sevenELIXIR · Post by **sevenELIXIR** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:38 am

That's what I heard too, but what is the source of that?? Maybe it's a cheap marketing ploy...

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:41 am

wow, so i was about to buy this from that site, then with shipping and everything it was like $80.00! I think I will wait...

boardsofdublin · Post by **boardsofdublin** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:39 pm

warp had them for sale, saying some where sent out to stores and places and the rest where for sale on the warp site.
ltd of 500.

now that could have been 500 for the site and a few 100 sent out to the world market.

steve-o · Post by **steve-o** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:08 pm

That's kind of misleading then. Limited to 500, but we sent thousands out? These would be extremely easy to bootleg.

boardsofdublin · Post by **boardsofdublin** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:19 pm

steve-o wrote:That's kind of misleading then. Limited to 500, but we sent thousands out? These would be extremely easy to bootleg.

how so my man? expand more....

gosh its a lovely day here today. sunny and what not.

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:46 pm

steve-o wrote:That's kind of misleading then. Limited to 500, but we sent thousands out? These would be extremely easy to bootleg.

Maybe it was a limited 500 to the people who preordered Geogaddi. Warp probably gave the desgin to that company, and now they are making more in Japan. When things are imported, they make a lot more money. It comes with a Warp sticker and everything. I doubt they are bootlegging them, considering that website sells a lot of Warp Albums.

On the Warp site they have a link for http://www.kaleidoscopeheaven.org/

Which is linked to this: http://jfarnsworth.com/

I bet they are the ones who made he Geogaddi Kaleidoscope for Warp. So you know they still have the designs and templates laying around. I bet they make em for Japan still.

Maybe you can e-mail that guy and ask him if they made em? They might be a little cheaper.

Just a thought, not 100% sure.

merovingian · Post by **merovingian** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:01 pm

boardsofdublin wrote:warp had them for sale, saying some where sent out to stores and places and the rest where for sale on the warp site.
ltd of 500.

now that could have been 500 for the site and a few 100 sent out to the world market.

I think thats fairly accurate, unless warp themselves didn't sell 500, but maybe 300 or 400 of the 500 made and distributed the rest to subordinate warp stores (to a degree). I say that because when I recieved my package in the mail from beatnik it came with warp promo stuff (warp tour stickers and whatnot), so its basically just a JP only warp store. So of the say 500 made (if thats the case) the only available ones anymore are on this website, because I suppose the kaleidoscopes didn't go over to well in japan.
Now theres a chance that more than 500 were made, but mine looks like its straight from warp themselves, just with the beatnik store address on the package. (my point in stating that is just to support what I previously said about warp not selling the full 500 themselves from their main site, but distributing some of those and selling the rest on it)

I hope that made sense.