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NANY MUGs

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timns:
Ah good - I do see a bear. I treasure the NANY mugs greatly, but there're some good alternatives, which is nice.

housetier:
I have an offer to make as well: I want to make and send a t-shirt to every NANY paticipant. mouser said it'll be too expensive, but I thought about grouping them by country and have someone in that country take care of further delivery.

This will take a while to organize...

The design of the shirts is also not done yet. To keep production effort minimal only rather simple designs are acceptable: I will have to cut the designs in foil, put it on the shirt and iron it for fixation. This has to be repeated for every shirt and color. Anyway I am willing to handle productions and the first round of distribution.

So how about we start a new thread to gather all the needed information: how many shirts of which size to send where. That thread would also be the place to check all the details I have overlooked and to answer questions and raise concerns.

The shirts will be free, and I hope to be able to cover most of the shipping expenses with donationcredits.

mouser:
I used to order the mugs directly shipped to me and then send them out from my home.  It was a ton of extra work but i figured it has to be cheaper to order a bulk amount of mugs.

However with shipping prices in the US through the roof, it turns out to be cheaper (and a ton less work) to let CafePress drop ship them from china or wherever, individually to each person.

This is my way of saying that while you might think you can come up with a cheaper way to make and ship them by doing a lot of work, it might simply be the case that an online site like cafepress or whatever has just optimized things well enough that they do a cheaper job of sending things directly from the factory to different people.

As for a shirt, i think it's a great idea.. but something to consider.  If there are 30 entries in the NANY, it means we spend about $600 on mugs each year (about $20 each; often more because people who participate in NANY multiple years can ask for something more elaborate than a mug).  Even if you got the tshirts to half price including shipping, it's a lot of money.

HOWEVER, I think a really nice NANY shirt design would be fantastic, and might be something people would prefer over a mug, or might be willing to buy themselves at cost in addition to the mug.

So my advice is, don't worry about sending out free shirts -- instead concentrate all efforts on having a reallllllly cool new style NANY/CODY shirt made that people would LOVE to have..  Something really special.  Maybe it doesnt have to be NANY specific, but an awesome CODY DC shirt..  The plain white tshirts with a picture of cody just don't cut it.  We need something really modern and nice I think.  Then we can worry about how people get it later.

timns:
Well I'd buy a T-shirt to go with my mug/bear/thong  :-*

phitsc:
If there are 30 entries in the NANY, it means we spend about $600 on mugs each year (about $20 each; often more because people who participate in NANY multiple years can ask for something more elaborate than a mug).  Even if you got the tshirts to half price including shipping, it's a lot of money.
-mouser (January 06, 2011, 01:42 PM)
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It is indeed. You don't have to send me a mug. I don't think I've earned one with my meagre contribution for this year's NANY. I'm going to buy the shirt though if you can come up with a cool one. 8)

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