Wednesday, April 9, 2008
several people have suggested an online store for the T-Shirts
so we're going to try it. This is PayPal's new widget, I'm going to stick it in this post for a while and then move it to the sidebar where it can end up permanently. It's up and working right now - go ahead hit "options/buy" and pay for a shirt. It'll email us a confirmation and you a confirmation. Don't worry, how ever many shirts you pay for, you'll get. We don't do one style, we do many and in many colors. Before we mail the shirts I'll send photographs to you of the colors to choose from and you can specify your sizes. Or for those who are coming, pay now and we'll have your shirts waiting at the Woodzie so you know you'll have them but you can exchange with anything on the table if you see ones you like better. You're buying a t-shirt voucher. The PayPal confirmation is a t-shirt promissory note guaranteed by the Hippie Nation. Whatever we learn about this free PayPal shopping cart service, we'll share with you musicians if you want to use it (hopefully a little more exactingly) on your site to sell your own CDs and T-shirts. I'm sure you can make the same thing we're shooting for.... beer money.
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I think everything you're doing is great. i'd like to have them to wear into the Woodzie is there a way to get them before if you're not modern enough to use paypal? maybe pick them up at a gig. I'll go anywhere, anytime
yes John and Jimmie... and Glenn who I see is helping a lot.... thanks for doing all this
"Anywhere, anytime..." Hmmmm...that could be dangerous.
I would suggest Sunday evening at Riley's Tavern as a good drinking, er, I mean meeting spot. Better check first with John as to when he actually gets them in.
Riley's would be perfect. Let's shoot for them being available there not this Sunday but next.
I have most of blank shirts; I've been debating whether or not to try to get everybody who's interested in learning about it to come up and handscreen some of them. We have the rack and the hinged screen holder to do it. And it's just one color- you pull the squeegee towards you and then push it back and it's done. Actually, it's the putting them somewhere to dry that's the biggest problem. That's why screenprinters use flash dyers. Bob said he'd burn the screen for us and lend us the other stuff. Even Our Super Happy Funland friends always screens their own - aren't we that cool?
hmmmmmm, thinking, thinking...... probably not. Half of Woodzie world right now is visualizing mess and delay. I think the Super Happies are cool plus have a lot of spare time. So we'll put that in the column that always holds the 80 percent of the stuff we plan but end up not doing.
...and to better answer the question, for anybody who can't use PayPal and can't pick them up at Rileys or at the Woodzie but still wants shirts - email me at johnwhipple@gmail.com and I'll send you our mailing address and just send a check.
BUT I can't say that without saying that PayPal is super easy to use. It's not any less safe than a credit or debit card. And I think it's much easier to use than non-users think. If you're on the fence about it, this would be a great way to do a transaction among friends where you could test how it works.
I'd dig learning how to silkscreen.
YIPEE... we sold our first $50 in t-shirts through this online store! Malcolm, you rock! See everybody, it does work. I got a confirmation, he got a confirmation. PayPal took the money off his credit card and is going to mail us a check. I think it's going to work just fine. The more we do on the t-shirt thing early makes it much easier on the day of the party.
I'm taking the first box of shirts to the screen printer just so we have some to send out ASAP and then we're going to talk about handprinting some.
followed immediately by another order.. they're rolling in now! Thanks, Kim. The t-shirt thing is such guesswork; these early orders will help in a whole bunch of ways.
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