Jarmo, why dont you advertise on the site?

[journey]

How about some 'members only' jackets? 

[Ignatius]

Christmas is coming, Will Santa deliver them in time?

Maybe, if you mean Christmas 2005.?




/jarmo

That is the kind of response I would have expected from Dizzy or Tommy....

Who knows, maybe somebody will start rumours on when you'll have the t-shirts ready?

"a friend of mine who's a friend of the owner's nephew of cafepress, has received a mysterious large order of white/black/pink shirts...he is not able to say whether they are the HTGTH shirts, but we could be into something here. Stay tuned as he's emailed cafepress webmaster demanding a response..."

[jarmo]

The thing is, if we're gonna have t-shirts, why not do it right?

By that I mean real t-shirts, black ones! 


Maybe somebody here has made custom shirts and has ideas of places that do that kind of thing.....




/jarmo

[Ignatius]

The thing is, if we're gonna have t-shirts, why not do it right?

By that I mean real t-shirts, black ones!?


Maybe somebody here has made custom shirts and has ideas of places that do that kind of thing.....




/jarmo

I don't know if this is what you have in mind...it could be worth finding out though.

http://www.berda.com/t-shirts_short_sleeve.shtml

http://www.zazzle.com/create/custom/apparel.asp?CMP=KNC-GJ6658976473

http://www.spreadshirt.de/shop.php?sid=37778&sid=37778&affiliate=23720

If each shirt cost $20, we could always negociate with the merchant a cheaper price due to volume. Maybe $12 who knows.

[Pandora]

Does the company have to be located in Sweden, or will anywhere do? 

[jarmo]

I don't think so.

Besides, I think Sweden is too expensive..... 



/jarmo

[BP]

I'm glad you started your forum & site with the sole intent not to gain money from people. unlike other sites that use there forum as a gateway to many money market accounts    makes me very uneasy as a fan.

Jarmo ----- use should make commissons off ebay ticket scalpers.... you would make a killing --  ok that is sarcarsm for its just plain wrong.  I just call it as I see it.

About the shirts....   JMO -  White would suck...    Maybe an off white type or grey. & a light blue. Black would be my last personal choice.

[ppbebe]

Me too hope this site stays off commercials.

About T-shirt, Yellow or pink letters on Gray are nice n psychedelic. Red letters are also good as on this site.

[Ignatius]

I don't think so.

Besides, I think Sweden is too expensive.....?



/jarmo

Jarmo, did you have a chance to look thorugh those sites? Is that what you have in mind? or rather find something in Europe?

[ppbebe]

I guess it should be cheaper to pass an order to China or somewhere even with some shipping fee.

[jarmo]

Jarmo, did you have a chance to look thorugh those sites? Is that what you have in mind? or rather find something in Europe?

I took a quick look at them.

One of them didn't do black shirts and another was based in Europe.


Either we let everybody order t-shirts from a company that works like Cafepress or we order a bunch and then mail them out to those that ordered t-shirts.




/jarmo

[Jim]

Order a bunch, it will be cheaper in batch I assume?

[jarmo]

I think so.

But then there's the problem of distributing the shirts etc.




/jarmo

[Ignatius]

I think so.

But then there's the problem of distributing the shirts etc.




/jarmo

Yeah, that could be a pain...

I guess somebody could volunteer to receive the large order of shirts to then distribute them individually. I know it would be a tedious task to do, we could pay that person let's say 5 bucks for shipping ( and handling) through paypal or stormpay.

[Jim]

Yeah, I was just about to suggest using paypal.

But yeah, I guess distribution would be difficult...

...But maybe with such a large order, you could get it dispatched to say two addresses (it's not like they'd all be in one package), and then they could just print out addresses and...

...Yes. Yes it would be a pain.

[Chris Misfit]

I want a black t-shirt or a grey one with red writing its got to be red writing you just cant have anything other then red writing it would look wrong in green or yellow i suppose you could do blue but red would be better. and we could have our nicknames on the back like football players then each shirt would be personalised

God, me and you are not gonna get on.

[Ignatius]

I'll do the shipping then. My Christmas holiday has just been cancelled, so I'll have some time on my hands to so it. I have a few suggestions. I'll post them later...

[SLCPUNK]

By now you could make money by running ads for sure. At least enough to offset the cost of running the site. Doesn't need to be popups.....

To each his own.

[Ignatius]

Jarmo, I have few ideas/suggestion on how we could do this. Let me know if it suits.

Also, if anybody else wants to collaborate, please feel free to help out.

1.- I think we could start by posting a thread on the GNR section to have as much exposure as possible. Something like "The HTGTH pre-order shirt thread". We would collect people's usernames/country of residence/shirt size to begin with and let it run for a week. This will let us know how many people are interested. No price will be given as we just want to know how many will be interested to then get a better rate. People know that the price will be somewhere between 15 - 25 € shipping included anyway.

2.- In the mean time, I will be getting the shipping rate from my post office. For those who don't know, I live in Spain. So the rate I'd get would be pretty similar to any country in Europe. We could have two different shipping fees. Europe and International. Something like 3€ Europe, 6€ international. Once I know how much we'll be charged for shipping, I will give you the shipping rates ( international, Europe) so you can add that ( depending on the country of residence) to the price of the t-shirt. For example, let's say each t-shirt will be 12€ you will add either 3 €? - if the member lives in Europe or 6 € if the member lives overseas - these rates are hypothetical obviously.

Note. They will be cases I assume where if the member lives in Taiwan, the shipping fees may be a little higher, I will let you know based on the information gathered regarding their country of residence.

3.- Once we know how much will be the price + shipping, we should update the pre-order thread with the price + shipping info. We would point out than the price difference is merely for shipping only. Actually, we could start two threads, one will be like " Order Your HTGTH Shirt Now - Outside of Europe Members" and " Order your HTGTH Shirt now - Europe Members"

4.- Payment system could be paypal or stormpay. When people make a payment to you, you will require their name, email address, postal address, username( very important) and shirt size. This info must be given when making payment to you.

5.- Once you collect payment from users, you could proceed to place the order with the shirt company and tell them to send the shirts to me so I can start with shipping. You could then send me the total shipping fees payment through paypal, so I can mail each shirt individually. For example, lets say there are 35 european members and 60 international, if we take the hypothetical rates given above ( 3€ europe - 6€ international) the shipping fees will be 35X3= 105 ( for europe) 60X6=360 ( for international) so the total will be 465€.

6.- Also, You will need to email me everybody's address along with their usernames, emails and all the info I would need to mail the shirts.

Note. I think we should use only one curreny. If we start talking in US Dollars, then back in Euros, then back in US Dollars...we are gonna make people very confused. We should stick with one currency only and work with it throughout the entire proccess. We could supply a currency conversion if people need it.


If we get overwhelmed with the amount of orders, we could place an initial order of 100. A month later, we could do another 100, a month later another 100...and so on.


Let me know if you want to proceed then.

[jarmo]

The thing is, I'm still looking at how to do this. 

Your idea sounds pretty good though.




/jarmo