Great idea! I should have thought about it before I placed my order. I could have saved some money in shipping cost, which I could have used to buy more of her stuff.
I have a question though: How come she's only selling UEDS at her store? Does it mean, she no longer get any royalty from her earlier albums?

Christmas... *drifts off*

Can't believe it's less than 2 months away! :eek:

Yeah, that's a really good question.

Sub rosa deals, or Moscow on the Hudson problem?
 

I don't know how music recording deals are structured now, but please note that her stuff has been published under more than a single label. First it was Polydor, then RCA, and now Sony's Jive/Epic division, working in concert with her family firm, Wisteria Song.

Even if her contracts with previous labels were to provide her no further royalties, one would think that they would find it of advantage to buy ad space in her store which links to retail channels which sell her old stuff. When Sony signed her, she may have gotten a sweeter deal by agreeing to stipulations which limit how she can promote the work she did for other labels. If someone can only afford to buy a single Alizée album, I don't doubt that Sony wants them to choose the one which they publish.

I do not have time to search for a citation, but I recall Alizée quoted as saying something like that her deal with Sony lets her control UEdS as well. I interpreted that to mean she enjoys additional privileges and responsibilities for the sale of this album than was the case for her previous ones. This may incentivise a concentration on UEdS, because of a better margin.

In theory, there is "infinite free shelf space" on a Web site, so one could think that low-margin, low-velocity wares might be as welcome as high-margin, high-velocity ones.

But while in theory, giving someone more choices makes it more likely that one of them better meets his needs and desires, having to endure the burden of investigating which is the optimal mutually exclusive choice can lead to paralysis - not just delaying, but even losing, a sale. I call this the Moscow on the Hudson problem, after a famous scene in a movie of that title a generation ago. In it, Robin Williams plays a Soviet-era Russian entertainer who gets asylum in the US. At first hosted by a local family, he is sent on a shopping errand to buy coffee, as shown in the clip below.

Thanks again for the info, FanDeAliFee. I just hope she still gets some royalties from her earlier work as I plan on buying all her older albums.

Ok, well that explanation seemed to veer off on it's own mind train a bit at the end especially, however... It might explain something. Namely what I figured, which is that Alizée wanted to concentrate on her current release. Since Sony was the parent company of RCA I assume that means that they have all the rights that RCA did in her previous album Psychédélices. So, as Sony is only 'licensing' this album, perhaps Alizée and her collaborators are keeping all revenues and thus would prefer we not be distracted.

Of course, there's also the possibility that she just wanted to advance her new image with a new crowd that she figured probably wouldn't like her older works. And of course, when I say she I could just as easily be saying Jean-René Etienne. He has followed her around everywhere this year, apparently her manager.

That happens in the entertainment industry. I remember the beatles selling their rights to all or most of their songs before Michael Jackson bought them in an auction. I guess we should then concentrate on promoting her newer album than the old ones.

Woohoo! Just got my Alizee official t-shirt today or should I say yesterday? However, I guess their Large is just a Medium here. Oh well, now I already have a Christmas present for my daughter!:D

PS: I checked how many members were logged in right now. It almost made me sad because there were only two of us (me and Tom). However, when I look at the number of guess, there were 404! Wow! That's the most that I've seen here!

404 guests? You must've meant 40 or 44 because now there's 28. :p
The most guests I have seen online at the same time is about 80-90, it was around her birthday.

There's not a lot of people online at this hour as it is night in the US. The clock in New York should be 04:30 AM right now and 01:30 AM in Los Angeles.

Btw, I've also been thinking of getting a T-Shirt. :p

Congratulations :)

I'm positive. We had 404 guests here. I had to take a second look because I couldn't believe it myself. I always check how many members and guests we have here everytime I visit. It went down to 137 by the time I finished posting here and checking a couple of threads. I hope we get more members here.

BTW. Don't forget, their large seems to be just a medium here.

Numbers do not reflect reality everytime.
 

Maybe some searchbot went crazy at that time. ;)


http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9q4Ry8K81g8/TP...00/guests2.jpg

Firstly it was hard believing that fact but man when i saw it today it was showing 419 users online(4 members, 415 guests):eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Super awesome indeed :D:D

Thanks MA. I knew I wasn't dreaming. :D I was also posting on a boxing site around that time and I was using Alizee picture as my avatar and this site's address as my sig as my way of promoting her. I'll try it again tonight.:D

Edit:

No one can resist this photo of Lilly. :D

The picture that posted is from today and sorry for ruining your excitement, but whenever you see an abrupt increase in the number of users of the site, then it doesn't mean that there are actually those many users. Most of the time it's single user and multiple IP addresses. Same thing happened today also. I believe there about 100 - 150 different users instead of 400.

That sucks! Single user with multiple IP addresses? How would that be possible? Do we have members or users here who use multiple computers at the same time to visit this forum? Or was that a network issue of some sort?

They sit behind 7 proxies.

durrrhurrr i get it.

ALIZEE STORE: Last days before closing ! - Alizée Store will be closed for two weeks on Tuesday December 7th... http://tumblr.com/xn8yf6io3

Thanks for posting this!!! Everyone hurry up and order!!!

Wouldn't it be awesome if the store got new shirts and items rather then just a restock? If so I know what i'm getting myself as a late Christmas gift.

Same here :) so do you guys think they will restock or not? Is this the last we will see of the Alizee Store?

I personally dont think so... I think they will have only christmas break and nothing new after 2 weeks

Oh woops, i forgot they said they will only be closed down for 2 weeks. My bad haha

Does Lili work the store?
It kinda feels like it's just her and Jeremy running it out of their home. What do you guys think?

This is what I think too. With nothing really.. well.. going on, she HAS to be doing something.

The Alizée store
 

My experience with the store was a good one. I placed an order for 2 shirts, and a bunch of buttons. There was a mix up, and the order fell through the cracks. I sent an email, and the folks there were sorry, and to make up for not getting the items out on time, they sent along a bunch of stickers and even more buttons. ( and sent it express too ) In plenty of time for Christmas ( the items are a gift ).

Will I shop there again? You can count on it.

I highly doubt it.

We've never really seen her do anything "on her own". She's always influenced or limited or accompanied by someone (hell, even at our autograph session fro-dude (as I call him) was there)

I'm sure she said at one point "shit, let's make some t-shirts!" and snapped her fingers and it was done.

who owns the store?
 

in case you wondered, here is the official whois info for the domain,
alizeestore.com:


domain: alizeestore.com
reg_created: 2010-05-22 21:13:52
expires: 2011-05-22 21:13:52
created: 2010-05-22 23:08:55
changed: 2010-05-22 23:59:59
transfer-prohibited: yes
ns0: a.dns.gandi.net
ns1: b.dns.gandi.net
ns2: c.dns.gandi.net
owner-c:
nic-hdl: JC5849-GANDI
owner-name: Wisteria Song
organisation: Wisteria Song
person: Jeremy Chatelain
city: Etiolles
country: France

so, it looks as if it was registered by Jeremy and Wisteria Song.

The store is run from: https://www.shopify.com/services/signup

The site collects the money and you can use the shopping cart. You "Alizee" has to send the items out.

If I were to guess, I would say she does not want to pay the monthly fee's anymore / does not want to spend her time shipping stuff and wants to cancel her account by January.

She tells "You" to buy all you can, so that she has some spending $ for Christmas and to blow out what she has left in inventory.

I say its the last we see of this store.

Hmmm...this stands out to me for some reason :p

Yah Alizee! Keep Jeremy in line :p

Just got a facebook post saying this is it -

Alizée
ALIZEE STORE: Last hours before closing !

http://www.alizeestore.com/

and here is the previous post

Mark as SpamReport as AbuseAlizée ALIZEE STORE: Last days before closing !

Alizée Store will be closed for two weeks on Tuesday December 7th at 10:00 pm (GMT+1).
If you expect Alizée goods for Christmas, hurry up.
The last orders will be shipped on Wednesday December 8th.

So yeah they probably go away for Xmas and don't want people expecting an Xmas delivery since they won't have time.

Sorry if someone already said all this which i know sorta did anyway in a hurry myself here . . .

Thanks AlizeeFan for reposting though. It'll help remind people :)

I sure hope it comes back! I didn't get to buy a shirt yet!!! (super sad face)

TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS. that should be their motto.

News from the Alizée Store:D

And finally we got to see pictures of her iMac and her on her iMac:wub:

It looks like she's struggling to find the é.

She says she designed the new stuff herself, or some of it anyway. That should be interesting to see.

Wow. That's one huge screen!!!!

YEEESSS!!!! I am so happy!!! And did you see that pic of her at the computer??? Could somebody pleease make me an awesome sig out of that?