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20 April 2006
Should I sell some t-shirts and stickers and such? How the heck do I go about it?→[More:]
For example, I did these updates to the ubiquitous Xtian and Darwin fish stickers a while back, and I think they're fun (rough sketch follows):
I've done other fun stuff too, maybe clever enough to sell a few here and there. I'd just be happy selling them, 'cuz somebody actually bought my stuff, ya know?
Also, I did the "Cannibal Xtian" ages ago, but I almost think I saw it on a bumoper sticker since. Has anyone else seen it?
The easiest way to get rolling is CafePress but they take the lion's share of the profits from these ventures.
Best bet is to find some pricing online, then find a local place and negotiate a deal with them based on what you can find online. Its alot easier to deal with printing issues if you can go into the place rather than online.
Which reminds me, I need to get a run of shirts done for the summer season.
THANKS! i know i should go to askme, but, well... you folks are the best distilled cream of AskMe, and AskMe is the best of MeFi, and MoFi falls in here somewhere too... i love our little bunny community.
Yeah, I used stickerguy.com to have these stickers made for my friends' band, and was joyous at the results. Super cheap and the quality is astounding. I found stickerguy through the various mefi posts.
I have a bookmark folder at home of a bunch of threads. If you don't want to go looking, I can send you everything I have this afternoon.
You're a lifesaver, Mike, if that's not too much trouble. I've given up on more than four hours of sleep per night for the near future.
I figure I can get 100 stickers for $25 bucks and maybe pick up a dozen tees, then offer mugs by request. I have other art and ideas too, some of which are pretty catchy, if'n I say so m'self.
I've wondered about fooling around with Threadless as well, but I believe they want full rights to whatever art they accept.
I use Spreadshirt. Last I checked, they have more possibilities that CafePress (more ways to print), and they have lots of different quality shirts. CafePress, as I understand it, does not offer decent quality shirts. Just what I heard, though, and things may be different over there now.
awwww, fuck, box. i never saw one of those, but now mine would be seen as plagiarism. i think? mine's different. theirs is pro-christian and mine is, well... not ANTI-christian but definitely VERY cynical, LOL.
i'm screwed. on my fish, at least. maybe there's still a market for the "mean christian" one.
oh well. "I got a million of 'em" is what the old guys always say.
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