[Penguicon-Concom] Past year's tshirts

[john guest]

Just as a comparison, if you want to look into other options, offworld
designs was the vendor prior to 5.0.  Also, I would recommend avoiding
black T-shirts  :-)

Oh well, lessons learned....

--John

On 9/27/07, Dan DeSloover <zifferent at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  Jer wrote:
>
>
> On 9/25/07, Richard Fox <amberfox2000 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> >
> > In with this, I need to know about who will be doing the con T-shirts  and
> if
> > they need tables.  I recommend against the folks we had last year as they
> > couldn't keep up with demand
>
> > and the shirts they did at con were not of the
> > quality of the demo shirts they sent us.
>
>
>  That has been resolved. They were forced to change process, and as a
> result, shirts printed on dark material were not up to par. Derek, of
> MystPrint is completely aware of this, and sent me an email expressing his
> apologies in the best conceivable form... cash.  From his email:
>
>  "The ink problem we had last year was a complete tragedy, so to let
>  guests know how truly sorry we are, at Penguicon 6.0 all of our t-shirts
>  will be half off!"
>
>  I will be personally checking on some samples of the shirts as soon as
> possible.
>
>
> >  The logo cracked and mostly washed
> > off the one I have (with proper washing in cold water).  I also never
> heard
> > if Jordan was ever about to cash his check for his tables.
>
>
>  We opted not to cash the check and instead, take on his entire remaining
> stock of 5.0 T-Shirts at cost.
>
>
> > <SNIP>
> > Angie Fox
> >
> >
>
>  I think it would be a mistake to no invite MystPrint back this year. I know
> that a number of folks are still very excited about potential custom shirts
> and have been planning what they might purchase this year.
>
>  That being said, I think that it is important to understand that MystPrint
> is a print-on-demand service. It might be advisable to invite another vendor
> as well to provide pre-printed and/or licensed apparel.
>
>  Just some thoughts and some fact updates. :)
>  --
>  -jer
>  jer.lance at gmail.com
>  http://www.ibloviate.org
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>  I have a question. It might be a board question. If so I appolgize in
> advance. Could we put the past year's tshirt designs up on Zazzle and then
> place an ad on Penguicon.org so that people can get reprints of previous
> year's shirts? That way we can automatically take a %17 cut on all old
> tshirts sold and members will be able to get "out of print" designs.
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