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vintagegamer:
BC,

No worries at all, and your feedback is greatly appreciated (and no you didn't sound like a d!ck).

I'd thought about what you'd said before using cafepress, re: having a local place do them, but ran into 2 issues:

1. I haven't had much time to research a place in the area b/c I work, I'm going to school, and I have a 2 yr old..  trust me the last one is a BIGGIE  :D

2. I wanted to test the water with a LARGER audience and get feedback re: the shirts in general (ie interest over all)

I TOTALLY agree with you that the prices are a little high, but actually I found out that if you walk into a Hot Topic store, their prices aren't too far off from what cafepress is asking (now I know someone will be able to find a cheaper shirt to prove me wrong, so I'll give a GENERAL example at the link below)

http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/store/nodePage.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302028385&bmUID=1193356984184

And yep, you're dead-on AGAIN about it not generating HUGE profits for me- but that's actually not my intent..  I thought these might be fun and unique items for people to pick up as gifts etc for those more DIFFICULT hobbyists like us arcade game owners  (and I mean DIFFICULT as in 'hard to buy for', not that we're a bunch of pains in the @$$).  So, if I can help someone along with that, and make a couple bucks in the process, I've achieved my goal.  I'm one of those people that likes obscure hobbies that aren't mass-promoted like sports, NASCAR, etc.   So I'm the prime of example of one who is hard to buy for..

I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this.  And I'm always up for doing things BETTER, so I'm sure this will be a constantly-evolving process for me!

Regards,

VG

Level42:
So you took them off-line now ? Link is now dead ?

I must admit that I didn't read them all, but I've seen shirts with some nice looking retro(game) graphic art, sometimes with text...There's no problem at all trying to so something like this, but putting a little effort/time in it is probably needed to get some sales. I'd never buy a text-only shirt, but hey there may be other people who do.

vintagegamer:

--- Quote from: Level42 on October 26, 2007, 02:11:08 am ---So you took them off-line now ? Link is now dead ?

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Nope, left them up.  Here's the link:

http://www.cafepress.com/b4dt

Maybe they were having server issues?   

VG

XyloSesame:

--- Quote from: Barcrest on October 25, 2007, 07:58:34 pm ---Personally i wouldn't use cafepress for a start. They are expensive, real expensive... I know it's easy to use but let me say again they are expensive.

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Bar, do you have an alternative to CafePress that you could recommend?

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