Buy a painting of your team number!

[Chrisms]

i tend to agree with him... It's a number, painted. the number.. in blue... probably times new roman. It's not art, it's a number. look what you get for $65 dollars:



so what if it's "one of a kind" go out, buy some paint, and paint your own number. Only, use your team colors, and make it more artistic.

at first, when i saw each number had a wikipedia definition of the number i thought that maybe the painting was a cleaver combination of pictures from all those events that formed the number... but then i saw it's just blue.

don't waste your money on this, go treat a couple friends to a movie or something, it'll bring you a lot more joy than a blue number that anyone can write.

[tiffany34990]

it is very silly. you can do this much cheaper. but someone has a dream and their own artist expression is this. interesting but i don't think many of us would buy this. especially if you look at the price. i looked up 179 (Swampthing 180 already taken)
Current Price: $246.30 Value: $821.00 .... i mean...ya.... i think we can do a lot more with that money than a canvas with our number on it. buy a VEX kit, sponsor a LEGO team... much more.... creating a difference in the future generations... well that is priceless...and these are expensive.

[Freddy Schurr]

$238.80: 204

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by tiffany34990

... Current Price: $246.30 Value: $821.00 ....

When I was a kid, I remember telling my dad that I had a Beanie Baby worth $400.

He said, "No, you don't."

I told him, "But the Beanie Baby Buying Guide says it's worth $400!"

He said, "I'll give you $5 for it."

I said, "But it's worth $400."

"That's where you're wrong," he said. "It's only worth what someone will pay for it."

I thought it was dumb at the time, but it was a good lesson. The painting is only worth $821, if you can find someone who will pay that much for it!

[KenWittlief]

$65.10? for an unsigned painting?

tell you what, if anyone wants a painting of their team number I will create a number painting for you, for ONLY $64.95!

and I will sign it for FREE!

[Bill_Hancoc]

Originally Posted by Katie Reynolds

"That's where you're wrong," he said. "It's only worth what someone will pay for it."

Have i heard that pleanty of times my dad sayd that all the time

[Ryan Dognaux]

Honestly, I hope this person sells every last one of them. These things are awesome and the internet makes it possible.

I think things like this are great. For example, http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/ is another example of how the internet can be used - this guy has slowly but surely traded up from one red paperclip to bigger and better things.

[RogerR]

the painting of number '42' has sold out.

go figure.

[Jeff Rodriguez]

So, who's got the most expensive one?
173 is $248.10

[Rohith Surampudi]

umm I'm not quite sure why these are worth so much, if i went out and painted a number on a piece of canvas i wouldn't get more than 2 bucks for it, it looks like a waste of money, if you have access to a high DPI Plotter or printer you can make even more awesome prints of your team number.

[Daisy]

Originally Posted by Ogre

So, who's got the most expensive one?
173 is $248.10

from the one's still available that'd be 16. From the original, that'd be 1. They have the handy dandy calculator, that takes the number out of 1000! And then you have a 70% discount! woo hoo. Oh look, it went to 60%. Who bought 100 of these? I don't even understand payment for it signed. 200 DOLLARS for a board?

kind of ironic that the one that requires the least amount of work, is the one that someone paid most for.

Originally Posted by http://www.onethousandpaintings.com/home/

Price calculator:
Value = 1000 - number.
Initial discount: 90%.
Current discount: 60%.
The discount will decrease by an absolute 10% for every 100 paintings sold.
Min. price: $40.

haha, this is the kind of thing that makes me laugh.

Daisy

[KenWittlief]

I just heard a rumor that number 391 was left blank by accident (a mistake by the artist)

this makes the blank 391 painting very rare: it is presently valued by Llyods of Lundon at $72,395,000 (US)

[Lil' Lavery]

116 sold, go figure, but 115 and 117 are still there :/

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Katie Reynolds

"That's where you're wrong," he said. "It's only worth what someone will pay for it."

This principle is often quoted in Latin: Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest - A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it.

Back in the day (and probably even today in someone's Latin classroom) this was one of the quotes that students memorized. It is still a favorite of financial advisors, and many fathers.

The "res tantum" principle is closely related to my grandmother's favorite adage: A fool and his money are soon parted. Purchasers of the subject paintings certainly prove that one.

[Mr. Freeman]

Seems to me that someone could make even more money by figuring out what font they used and printing off tons of identical signs and selling them for $20 on the internet.

You'd just have to advertise your site equally as well as this other site.