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City: OAKLAND
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 7/14/2004
Thursday, August 20, 2009 
Sticker contest closed!!

Uh-oh, what have we done?!

We thought, given how expensive it will be to ship 40 lbs or more of stickers, that we would get five, maybe ten responses.

We're overwhelmed with submissions, more than 100. Too many arriving now in our email address that was set up for the auction questions and auction transactions, so the submissions are closed now.
( Fri 8/21/09 7:15pm PST)

Once we look through the submissions, we'll see if we need to open up the contest again.

Crazy people. Crazy ideas.

Fans as weird as we are!

** the Matches (and manager Miles)


............

If picked up in S.F. at Fillmore show 8/23/09, then shipping costs avoided.


............

Matches' stickers? lots of Matches' stickers?

We have hundreds of stickers.

About 35-40 lbs.

Maybe 4,000 - 5,000.

.. ..

Mostly Decomposer red/black bird stickers.

A few A Band in Hope cover stickers.

About a third are various early EVDKtL era, of various sizez, black/white or red/white, some bumper stickers with two stickers on it, some large 6"x4", some square with Henry, some small with "Matches."

.. ..

Yeah, kind  of funny, kind of sad, kind of ridiculous.

(This many is the result in ome mistake in ordering too many of our own designs during the EVDKtL period, and a mistake by label Epitaph double ordering Decomposer stickers.)

.. ..

So…

someone want these? Like all of these?

Some strange art project you can imagine with this resource? Some décor that will confound the viewer with repeated images?

.. ..

We are not sending out a few at a time or even a hundred or a thousand.

You need to take them all…

.. ..

(Maybe we'll split into two batches.)

.. ..

And the recipient needs to pay the shipping.

.. ..

Email your brilliant idea and your plea to be chosen to receive this echo of the Matches' promotion. Possibly no one will respond and these will end up in the dump.


Maybe just one will be inspired to request these.

.. ..

Maybe several people submit, and we'll choose which one idea is most impressive or amusing or inspiring or strange.

.. ..

All we ask of the one who gets these is that we receive email with photos and some stories of the process and response your effort receives when the project is complete, and we get to share this with the Matches' community.

.. ..

email your request and ideas to: thematchesauction@gmail.com


email subject (very important: it must have this): STICKERS REQUEST ["your last name, first initial (in the subject, not just in the body of the email)"]

.. ..

**the Matches, Miles

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☆JahnnyVommit☆
Jahnny Vommit

 
god, how i would love to have these -.- i can only imagine what i would get myself into with hundreds of matches stickers
 
Posted by ☆JahnnyVommit☆ on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 12:06 AM
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.grotesque-ka.

 
Zomgah! Stickers!!! :D i hope theyre used for sum amazing art project!
 
Posted by .grotesque-ka. on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 12:08 AM
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Ashtray[Peacemaker]
Ashlynn Egan

 
I'd love to lie down in those. >.>..and make stickermen. ....
..
 
Posted by Ashtray[Peacemaker] on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 12:09 AM
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Erickk The Beat.

 
I don't have a project, but I would still love to have some Matches stickers =/.

 
Posted by Erickk The Beat. on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 12:17 AM
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M@tt-y! [Stop Wondering!]
Matt Goings

 
Aw, you guys guys should sell some.

 
Posted by M@tt-y! [Stop Wondering!] on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 12:21 AM
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rachel:
Rachel Fouche

 
i vote you bring a couple hundred to the fillmore show.. ehh?

 
Posted by rachel: on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 12:24 AM
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Nancy

 
I like that idea.
 
Posted by Nancy on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 1:02 AM
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Carlos*
Carlos Prieto

 
well whoever gets them should definitely let me know cause i want a bumper sticker :)

 
Posted by Carlos* on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 12:27 AM
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Billy

 
Seconded, a Matches bumper sticker or two would be awesome

 
Posted by Billy on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 1:06 AM
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Chelsea
Chelsea Klocke

 
Can I put them on my car? ALL of them?
 
Posted by Chelsea on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 12:41 AM
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CREE

 
you can only guess what i would do with them cause im not gonna tell but thats the thing im not gonna get any of those stickers cause i cant afford the shipping hahaha

 
Posted by CREE on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 12:48 AM
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CHRISTINE ! :{D
Christine Queen

 
How much is shipping? I want them all.
 
Posted by CHRISTINE ! :{D on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 1:02 AM
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Nancy

 
If I lived alone I would totally cover my house with them. I really would.
 
Posted by Nancy on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 1:02 AM
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[lizbith]
elizabeth crane

 
i want to roll around naked in them. all of them.

 
Posted by [lizbith] on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 1:06 AM
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Megan.
Megan Hopkins

 
hahahahahaha, peel the backs off them all first and i think we've got a winner.
 
Posted by Megan. on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 1:11 AM
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zoe.

 
i have so many devious ideas. 
 
Posted by zoe. on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 1:25 AM
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Riley

 
Throw them all out at The Fillmore show.

 
Posted by Riley on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 1:29 AM
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TinTin [MWT]
Shoko Asahara

 
you mean like this?

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Posted by TinTin [MWT] on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 1:52 AM
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Baby JOey™

 
haha thats awesome bro


 
Posted by Baby JOey™ on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 7:16 AM
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April [Orange] Atrocity™

 
Doing it! :O!

 
Posted by April [Orange] Atrocity™ on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 2:11 AM
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CIARA

 
I WANT THEM. ALL OF THEM.

and if i can't get all of them can't i please have a few?

 
Posted by CIARA on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 2:24 AM
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[Gateau Vert ] El Astronauta..
Adrian Retana

 
¿Remember that "The Simpsons" chapter,when Jimbo and his friends but lots of stickers in Milhouse and trown him away in a mallcar?

i want to do that with your stickers dudes! XD
i love your music,never(really,really change).
 
Posted by [Gateau Vert ] El Astronauta.. on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 2:33 AM
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thermodynamic miracle

 
I think that you should just mail them to me anyways, haha. Even though I have no project :'(
 
Posted by thermodynamic miracle on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 2:53 AM
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Victoria

 
I agree, you should sell some at your final shows, or have someone hand them out to the people standing in line to get into the shows.

Stickers = thousands of smiling fan faces.

 
Posted by Victoria on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 3:29 AM
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xX┼Xx 4V3N63D D3TH xX┼Xx
Avenged Betch

 
i sent an email!
 
Posted by xX┼Xx 4V3N63D D3TH xX┼Xx on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 3:40 AM
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Late Night Show [New Songs!]

 
your stickers would contribute to our band's plan on stickers slapping our studios bathroom with stickers until there is absolutely no white left showing through. We would love to have a bunch of them be matches stickers because we love you guys! If not, maybe a few hundred would be in order :]

much love
-Late Night Show

 
Posted by Late Night Show [New Songs!] on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 4:50 AM
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Johnny Angel

 
Um, how much would shipping be to Nashville, TN?
 
Posted by Johnny Angel on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 5:11 AM
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jess ..ping ping..
Jessica Kouts

 
hell yeah!!!
 
Posted by jess ..ping ping.. on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 7:04 AM
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Heather
Heather Bilovsky

 
Bring them to L.A. with you and pass them out
 
Posted by Heather on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 7:23 AM
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Ben
Ben Maguire

 
Y'know what I'd totally do if I had all those stickers?
Put them on myself, and run down the high street singing "Who let the yankees in the chip shop??"
That, or I'd go all viral on England. Start sticking them in random places, like bathroom stalls, so people are all "Whoa. The Matches? They sound AWESOME" and then check you guys out, then fall in love with your music.
Yeah.
Totally happening.

 
Posted by Ben on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 7:57 AM
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Oh Laura!!

 
i would tag as much of sydney as i could with those stickers, so one would be hard pressed to find a street light, power pole or public place without a matches sticker.
then list all the places and set up a huge matches stickers hunt with my friends it would be awesome!

 
Posted by Oh Laura!! on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 12:42 PM
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HaLLiE!

 
this.
i.
am.
going.
to.
try my bestest.
to.
do.

 
Posted by HaLLiE! on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 2:58 PM
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Big Daddy Weedwhacker and the Disco Rodents

 
..what a waste... a lot of people would like to have some of those...
 
Posted by Big Daddy Weedwhacker and the Disco Rodents on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 5:11 PM
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Lady K

 
I'm with the idea that you should bring a good chunk of them to the shows.
Everyone would appreciate them.
I know I would.

 
Posted by Lady K on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 6:33 PM
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The Misfit
Walker Friend

 
I would love to have all of these stickers but I feel it would cost way more money than I have.  But it would be awesome if you sold these in like bundles of hundreds.

 
Posted by The Misfit on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 8:01 PM
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Miss.MercedesPage-ALT Model-{RottinGoGo}

 
i want them, ill make another table with them...look in my photos *light in the tunnle* and find the pick of the hand painted bedside table...it has mostly every thing from the cds on it!!!!

 
Posted by Miss.MercedesPage-ALT Model-{RottinGoGo} on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 9:54 PM
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Miss.MercedesPage-ALT Model-{RottinGoGo}

 
oh btw, how much would shipping cost!!

 
Posted by Miss.MercedesPage-ALT Model-{RottinGoGo} on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 9:54 PM
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Justice Rose

 
If you were giving them away by a couple hundred, I'd go for it, make a suit outta stickers or something, or maybe go for it and make a sculpture of shawn, or the decomposer bird or something equally matches-related.
Don't have the money, or space for 40 lbs of stickers though :(

 
Posted by Justice Rose on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 10:22 PM
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Brooke [A Band In Hope]

 
If I were clever I would think of something... like put them all on every square inch of the walls of my room or write a book completely illustrated with Matches stickers. I'm going to have to request a few from whoever gets these. <3
 
Posted by Brooke [A Band In Hope] on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 10:30 PM
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Meet me in Outerspace [HARTB], [S4C] & [boobies!]
Nagwa Duckie

 
Why dont you have people send self stamped envelopes and you can send everyone a few stickers? Not sure what anyone would do with so many stickers but I'm sure fans would love to have some of them...!
 
Posted by Meet me in Outerspace [HARTB], [S4C] & [boobies!] on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 10:33 PM
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Nobody Baby

 
I agree with this!
That way we can all share in the love!
And then send the extras all to one person or something.

 
Posted by Nobody Baby on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 11:09 PM
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¡¡Suddenly Myrna!!

 
is there a dead-line?

 
Posted by ¡¡Suddenly Myrna!! on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 11:42 PM
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erin clementine

 
I emailed you about it...
 
Posted by erin clementine on Friday, August 21, 2009 - 11:55 PM
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kandice
Kandice Ruiz

 
you should just take a couple hundred and like toss them out at the concert tomorrow, or maybe like sell them for $.50 or something...
....i'd like to just have one...
 
Posted by kandice on Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 12:00 AM
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[Traeh Nekorb] The Beginning's End (M@TT)

 
My girlfriend are probably going to be moving in together asap after high school and were planning on keeping our music poster tradition, but we saw this and had the awesome idea of having an entire wall made of matches stickers o__o sticker wallpaper! That would be so awesome, we're coming to the show on sunday and would totally take those (all or the split) off your hands x___x

 
Posted by [Traeh Nekorb] The Beginning's End (M@TT) on Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 12:05 AM
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Jøey Muffin [is Strictly Rude]

 
i still think my boyfriend and i should get the stickers...
if the contest ever reopens
i mean come on!
we're most likely going to end up living at the uptown
[unofficial but its one of the liklier choices]
so one can always pop up and see the creepy matches collage on our future matches wall!
or at least look at uploaded pictures of it and laugh at how obsessive mi love and i are
idk
=]

oh and btw
your last show was soooo fun
i was so tired and delirious afterwards
which is a good thing...
i promise
=D

<33
 
Posted by Jøey Muffin [is Strictly Rude] on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 2:59 AM
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Adrienne Shamszad

 
i just want one sticker. 

 
Posted by Adrienne Shamszad on Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 2:33 AM
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Brooke [A Band In Hope]

 
sending self stamped envelopes is the best idea everrrr!!!! So maybe we can all get our hands on a few...
 
Posted by Brooke [A Band In Hope] on Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 3:31 AM
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TealMermaidGirl

 
oh my im s bummed i missed the chance to enter this. i could get up to a lot of no good with these...like the best senor prank ever to hit my school...or the coolest room in town.
 
Posted by TealMermaidGirl on Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 4:11 AM
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A girl in hope <3

 
..Dang it im too late to enter :(
Hopefully you guys will reopen this contest!!!I would love to have the chance to share my amazin idea :)....Ive got my fingers crossed!!!..
 
Posted by A girl in hope <3 on Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 4:27 AM
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