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• Friday, Feb 15, 2008: 11:58am Supply and Demand

  

  We’re huge fans/supporters of Senator Obama and it seems he has created a huge following during the presidential primaries (hopefully huge enough to win the Democratic primary). Obama supporters have been crazy when it comes to the senators campaign merchandise, buying up stuff left and right. We’re definitely not surprised considering it’s by far the best looking campaigns to date. The frenzy has been so crazy that when Obeygiant designed and produced one of their propaganda style posters of Mr Obama, people started buying up the the posters and trying to sell them on Ebay for big bucks. Obey Giant has since sold out of their limited edition posters and it’s unknown if they’ll be printing more anytime soon. On February 12, in response to the resell of the posters and pasters, Obey Giant posted the following statement:
  

  
  

  “Everyone here at OBEY is very disappointed in those who chose to auction their Obama posters, especially their STREET PASTERS on EBAY. A great deal of effort was made by our small crew to get as many posters as possible out on the streets to support the OBAMA campaign before the Primaries. Despite the EBAY screenprint auctions, we decided to basically give away OBAMA posters to people all over the country to help bring awareness. It looks like we were naive in believing that people would be true and do what they actually said they would do. All those that received these street pasters knew that they were not to be auctioned on EBAY or sold anywhere else. Its extremely discouraging when we intentionally make Shep’s art obtainable and affordable for all and in turn are exploited and taken advantage of by GREEDY people. We put 100% of the poster proceeds back into the Obama campaign.

  Unfortunately, from here on out we will have to be more cautious in how we conduct our business and with whom. We are still actively checking EBAY for auctions and taking aggressive action against those that continue to take advantage. We stand by what we believe and say and are proud of our mission to keep OBEY accessible to all. A new offset Obama print is going for sale to generate additional revenue to pay for posters for more markets yet to hold primaries. Also, we’d like to make the Obama image accessible at reasonable prices. Don’t reward the ebay vultures!”

  
  

  Though we have to agree with Obey Giant on this one we find it really hard not to buy off of Ebay. Hopefully OG will do another run!  (Photo Credit: Kyle Oldoerp)

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