The plan is holographic stripes (represents the full genera spectrum), NEO GEO logo stamped in gold foil, full offset printing, glossy cart sticker with round cut corners, & numbered on insert and cart sticker. You can have your logo of choice printed for $1,590 (actual cost for same quality insert print run), and it would be matching quality to what’s coming soon.
About this double standard accusation I keep seeing… I never set the market rules and don’t use the market forums directly to sell. The rules our market forums now have are something that the community and the mod team developed over the years. I don't agree with all of them (50 posts before a new member can participate for example), but also choose not to intervene. The NeoStore isn’t under the jurisdiction of the Neo-Geo market forums and it’s a separate site, though I understand the possible conflict with a logo contest offending those who are flustered by what our rules outside of the market forums currently permit for discussion. Do we even have a rule against such discussion?
The temporary banner at the top and this thread aren't about pushing 161 AES sales. It's not like you've ever been subjected to the NeoStore logo or were spammed by newsletters. Newsletters are only sent to willing NeoStore subscribers and never to those who choose to unsubscribe. This is a contest to design a game logo for the neo with a chance of winning a prize, hopefully it's a $500 prize out of the $700 paid to 99designs, but I'm uncertain what commission 99designs keeps. You should know that there are zero complaints about this 161 AES in the NeoStore from patrons. Literally absolute zero negativity has been received store side, and in contrast, there has been strong support and demand for this item. While this item was long sold out from Fred’s refund campaign, this was the most asked about neo item over the past year. Now 22/25 pieces have presold with only 3 remaining and the release is expected mid to late March, 2014.
I have unofficial Neo-Geo items in my collection, some of which are conversions; many other serious collectors do as well. I have bought collections over the years that contained conversions (some were correctly labeled as such, others were not) and plenty of other unofficial Neo-Geo items that were not produced by SNK but are 3rd party instead. I’ve sold off some of those conversions over the years and they were always advertised for what they were, unofficial conversions, so no problems with the transactions occurred. I’ll eventually sell off other conversions from my inventory when I get around to it, always advertised truthfully. The NeoStore didn’t make the 161-in-1, this is basically a conversion project that involves converting a 161-in-1 MVS cartridge to AES, which is essentially the parts of a Daedalus + 161 MVS cart, from my understanding. A grand amount of effort is being vested into the highest quality printed art for this conversion, but is it really that offensive? Is this any more or less perverse than the unofficial shockbox inserts that are being created, printed and sold?
There are extremely high quality magic card proxies out there, to the point that you could never tell the difference with the naked eye, essentially unofficial prints of magic cards that have the reverse/back side of an authentic magic card. Obviously, the problem is when these high quality proxies are advertised as authentic and priced/sold for full value of authentic, but no one has an issue when they are advertised truthfully. Though eBay certainly permits it, if a MTG community wants to completely ban the sale of proxies from their market forums, that’s totally understandable because not everyone is 100% honest and/or completely knowledgeable on what’s authentic and what’s not.