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Originally Posted by stimpee
I know Scott has something in the works but I'm not sure of the timeframe. He's a very busy man right now. In the meantime, there's nothing to stop anyone from doing unofficial t-shirts. I made a test shirt last summer for the Amsterdam UW gig and it worked out about €12. I'm sure there'd be a discount for more. They had a great selection of colours and sizes and brands.
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We all are busy. The difference though is that when my business needs some more money, I go out and create revenue streams. I don't know, maybe my paradigm is off and Scott actually loves to pay for the site with his own cash with no outside help, but I think the push for the shirts is two-fold: 1. People want an official Dirty product and not their own hack and 2. they
do want the money to go to the site. I know I do -- I've been trying to figure out a way to thank Scott tangibly since I really grasped how nice these forums are.
As for the shirts themselves, I know that Scott wants a quality product and that was a hang-up but there's only so many more times that can be jockeyed around before I start taking offense to that. Making custom apparel is
what I do. It's how I pay my mortgage, it is my career and I make my money by delivering quality. Personally, I think it's really sad that the boat keeps getting missed, and missed, and missed. It's what I do, I own a shop (OWN!) and I'm a resource waiting to be tapped. All that has to happen is Scott needs to ask what my cost will be (materials, labor and shipping costs), I tell him, we decide a mark-up which determines his draw, and then we determine if he is going to sell them, if I handle selling them for him and if so, on what day of the month would he like to receive his monthly payout. That's all, it's that simple.
I would also like to rant about how much resentment I'd have if Scott would elect to go through an organization that is not directly affiliated with Dirty, and how hurt, betrayed and angry I'd feel if he demonstrated no desire to keep Dirty money within the Dirty community... but I won't.
I will however say that no one out there is going to care about his product as much as one of his own members would and no one's going to deliver some insanely inexpensive product unless they're coming from China and its an order of 20,000 pieces. But that doesn't mean that if I offer Scott a price of $7.50/shirt and he sells them for $15 that he won't make a moderate amount of cash.
EDIT: I could always host the shirts on my store website's e-commerce section, which will be completed in about 2 weeks...
http://www.thinkteamworks.com/index.html The website's not complete yet so don't fret about the lack of content, it's coming...
