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A shirt whose price increases by 1 euro with every purchase

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Re: A shirt whose price increases by 1 euro with every purchase

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Post by mojuba »

SirFatty wrote: post #11

I know it's completely different, but somehow feels similar to the Million Dollar Homepage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

Yep, thought the same. Both are social games with very simple rules. Always wondered what makes social games like these, and by extension also social networks interesting or not.

Re: A shirt whose price increases by 1 euro with every purchase

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Post by exitb »

dannyfritz07 wrote: post #20
iLoveOncall wrote: post #4

Here's how you calculate the total spent on the shirt so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_progression#Sum 16,836€ (183 sold)

Did it start at 1€?

> First shirt was embroidered on 25 February 2024 with the price of 0 euro for Dries.

Re: A shirt whose price increases by 1 euro with every purchase

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Post by Freak_NL »

dannyfritz07 wrote: post #20
iLoveOncall wrote: post #4

Here's how you calculate the total spent on the shirt so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_progression#Sum 16,836€ (183 sold)

Did it start at 1€?

At €0 according to that page. He kept that one himself (so 183 shirts have been distributed, of which 182 were bought). Shirt 0183 is the 184th shirt.

Re: A shirt whose price increases by 1 euro with every purchase

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Post by iLoveOncall »

owendarko wrote: post #7
iLoveOncall wrote: post #4

Here's how you calculate the total spent on the shirt so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_progression#Sum 16,836€ (183 sold)

Weren't 182 t-shirts sold? That would put the total amount made to 16,653. But yes, that's the way to calculate it.

Yeah my bad, 183 t-shirts were sold but your total is still correct because the first one was sold for 0.

EDIT: Someone bought another one, so my initial total is now correct lol

Re: A shirt whose price increases by 1 euro with every purchase

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Post by iLoveOncall »

Galanwe wrote: post #19
s1artibartfast wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is actually a reasonable use case for a NFT

Not sure why you are downvoted. This is indeed the exact use case for which NFTs were invented.

Because the NFT isn't the t-shirt. You can own the NFT and the physical t-shirt, and sell the NFT to someone else but give them a fake t-shirt. They don't suddenly have a real t-shirt just because they have the NFT.

Re: A shirt whose price increases by 1 euro with every purchase

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Post by s1artibartfast »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #27
Galanwe wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure why you are downvoted. This is indeed the exact use case for which NFTs were invented.

Because the NFT isn't the t-shirt. You can own the NFT and the physical t-shirt, and sell the NFT to someone else but give them a fake t-shirt. They don't suddenly have a real t-shirt just because they have the NFT.

But it does require buying one real shirt/NFT for each fake a scammer sells.

Re: A shirt whose price increases by 1 euro with every purchase

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Post by smnrg »

null_deref wrote: post #24
owendarko wrote: post #6

If this is at 183 euros, it means that the artist made 16,653 euros so far. Very impressive.

Are they an artist or one of the greatest marketers

Right. Paraphrasing, any sufficiently popular art piece is indistinguishable from marketing.
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