The company released an initial run of 1,000 Peels that sold out within two weeks.
The comedian Jason Manford championed Sutton's fundraising, putting on a gig that sold out within four minutes.
Although there wasn't enough paper available at first, it was released the next year, in small printings that sold out within days.
THE building, which is at the northwest corner of Michigan and Chicago Avenues, featured 117 extravagantly scaled -- up to 10,000 square feet -- apartments that sold out within a year at an average price of $400 per square foot, then a record for the downtown market.
He owns a stake in the urban-pop toy company Kidrobot, which created a figurine in his likeness that sold out within 11 minutes of its November 2007 release.
With super-sized soup dumplings that sold out within minutes of their grand opening in September, The Drunken Dumpling Shop has officially marked its territory in the East Village food scene of New York.
So far, Datacode has only released one chapter, Chapter 1: Origin (the 35-minute piece was released in a limited USB stick run that sold out within hours), but the artist recently pulled visuals from the full version, tweaking and rearranging them to accompany track remixes by several artists.
Most of the other works that sold went for within or below their estimates, including "Nu Debout," a 1931 canvas by Bonnard from the collection of John D. Rockefeller 3rd, depicting the artist's wife, Martha, drying herself after a bath.
More galling, some sellers said, are neighbors who had inferior apartments that sold for more money and within a far shorter time frame.
