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Pfluftl
2017-04-30, 03:00 PM
Hi everyone!

I was just getting ready to finally throw some money at this business, so I went to the shop - "On the Origin of PCs" and "Start of Darkness" sound pretty cool, and I wanted to check out these ookoodook-links. There, I was greeted with a disheartening "I got nothing. Looks like something went wrong and we couldn't find the page you were looking for."

Maybe I'm just inept and need to create an account before seeing the page properly (sorry for bothering you, in that case.) However, I thought giving someone a heads up in case the pages really are broken would make sense.

thanks for any help.

Douglas
2017-04-30, 05:17 PM
It appears there are multiple links and one of them is outdated.

Starting from the Shop page (http://www.giantitp.com/Shop.html), where all the books are listed:
If you click on a book image or "More information..." link, it takes you to a specific page just for that book, such as this one (http://www.giantitp.com/GIPOTS99.html) for Start of Darkness. On that page, there is an "Order now from Ookoodook" link at the bottom. That link takes you to the broken page Pfluftl described (https://www.ookoodook.com/store/StartOfDarkness.shtml).
Back on the Shop page's list, there are links on the right for ordering from Ookoodook (for printed paper copies) or Gumroad (for digital pdf). These lead to current and functional pages, such as here (http://www.ookoodook.com/products/oots03) and here (https://gumroad.com/l/ootssod), where I would assume you can successfully order the books (I didn't want to spend money to test that).

Rawhide will have to sort out the bad links whenever it gets to the top of his todo list. In the mean time, you can order through the Shop page links.

Rockphed
2017-04-30, 05:18 PM
Well, I don't think the problem is on your end. I was able to put all the comics in my cart from this page (https://www.ookoodook.com/collections/comics). The links here on giantitp must have gotten broken in an update of ookoodook. I'm sure the giant will appreciate you bringing this problem to his attention.

Pfluftl
2017-04-30, 05:45 PM
Thank you both for your answers!
From what I can tell, everything you said is spot on. And these other links you posted work :D

Rawhide
2017-05-02, 04:28 AM
Rawhide will have to sort out the bad links whenever it gets to the top of his todo list. In the mean time, you can order through the Shop page links.

Actually, I don't normally maintain that area (the backend, yes, but the information on the page, no). I'll ping The Giant, one of us will fix it.