Close-out Sale!
I’m looking to shut down the Inventning Situations Cafe Press store. I just need to make a few more sales before that becomes the sensible thing to do - to help speed up this process, I’ve dropped prices by $0.50 to $2.00 on everything except the Ringer T-Shirt and Long Sleeve Shirt (see, I’ve got no marketing skills). I plan to shut the shop down at the end of September, but that depends on how sales go and how cafepress registers them.
I know one or two of you have said “make a black t-shirt and I’ll buy it”. Unfortunately after many months cafepress still considers the black shirts to be in beta testing and I’m not a professional designer, so my attempts to make one have all looked awful. Sorry.
I’m not sure what will replace the shop, but the banners won’t be any more obtrusive, and may even be less obtrusive. I’m thinking I might add a tip jar with the option to request that I run an item from the ‘non-ephemeral’ (feature film) collection.
P.S. Don’t forget, you still have til around noon to vote for the movies for Thursday’s Hitch Session.
August 10th, 2006 at 9:49 am
I’m tempted, but, in all honesty, there’s only so many t-shirts one man can wear. After two, I may have hit my IS limit.
Although a black shirt *would* be nice. It’s a little ridiculous that it’s still in beta. I’d understand cafepress charging more for them, or not being able to guarantee image quality, but to not even offer them…?
Out of curiosity, have you sold *any* of the thongs? No, wait, don’t answer that. I don’t think I want to know.
August 10th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
This is some sort of passive-aggressive that I still haven’t ordered a copy of kaleidotrope yet, isn’t it?
Two’s a great number and puts you in a pretty small crowd of people that have ordered that many.
I think cafepress does allow you to sell the black tees, although they are labeled as beta. However, their previews of my designs were all awful - either failing to treat my background as transparent or looking really murky. I’m sure somebody with better design skills could’ve gotten a good result, but it would’ve taken me a few days of effort.
Without looking at the records, I think I’ve sold approximately no thongs.
August 10th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
That’s so sad… (but in a good way.) But you’d think GrayZombie would buy a couple, if only to toss at the ceiling…
I think I bought the second shirt because I (temporarily) lost the first. Still, I like the shirts; I am at least a little tempted to buy another.
And there *is* still time to buy a copy of the first issue…