Rich - Those are two different situations.

As for the in-store event piece... the Store Signings were scheduled to happen. No one could perceive Bill becoming ill. And I believe most of the stores still held the events, just without Bill being there.

But to the best of my knowledge there never was a Regional Event planed for 2009. How can you create a sculpture pertaining to an event when you haven't even planed to have the event?

Yes I understand that the piece has already been issued and many collectors already have the piece in their collection. But what I'm saying is that the company should not have created a piece until after at least preparing to have the event. They put their Cart before the Horse!