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We had a "shop" there for a while, the main problem was that their shopping cart isn't capable of handling more than 1 item at a time. This meant that every item bought had the full admin & shipping cost even if they bought more than one item from the same store. Improvements never went beyond the promisses stage, so when they raised their baseprices by 30-40% we quit. Sales outside the US were never an option as their p&p outside the US went even beyond UPS's worldwide same day delivery bill.
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Might be neat to have a contest for a Xarian T-shirt design... we could all create a t-shirt, vote on it and then post it at cafepress.com - not sure about the profits though... maybe the person hosting the store would sell the shirts at cost OR maybe that should be the reward for being voted #1 design... you get to keep the profit... oops, that brings up another issue... guess we would have to agree on a price ahead of time so the winner doesn't gouge us?
Not sure about the Xarians overseas...someone mentioned that cafepress doesn't ship overseas?
Robert
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It looks like overseas is ridiculously expensive unless buying in bulk (for instance 20$ for P+P to the UK for the first t-shirt and 5$ for each subsequent one - the shirt itself has a base price of $13)
We could, however, club together and get a whole shipment to Europe somewhere and redistribute for less money ourselves, if that would be practical...
James
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For our UK & european readers only...
whats the point of getting a bulk shipment from the US? Why not the UK? Its got to be cheaper. Its not as though the US has a monopoly on printing t-shirts.
Here in Brighton our Yellow Pages lists many companies offerring t-shirt printing services, and I could collect for *nothing*.
Like the idea of a contest to design a Xarian shirt. I think - given an agreed design it may be cheaper just to let each country fend for themselves and save extortionate shipping charges.
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After reading and giving more thought I've come up with this...
Yes, if we all really wanted Xarian T-Shirts it would be cheaper to have some company mass produce 100 @ $6 each...
If we wanted quick, easy, one at a time printing it would actually be easier to use www.clubphoto.com or www.ofoto.com - you can post as many images as you want, share them with a community and each person can order a shirt, coffee mug or whatever with their favorite Xarian art...
Later,
Robert
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I've seen the site before it rather bothered me that you can only have one image per product otherwise you have to open another store..... dumb!
So I doubt that these people have a patent on the idea? So how about several locations for a similar store, Europe, UK, Canada and the US, etc. etc. but only one website. The product would be made and shipped from the location nearest to you.
As far as a contest goes, I think it would be a great idea. And I think it would also be a great idea if the proceeds went to purchase XaraX for a school (the candidates choosen from a drawing) or a nominated deserving young artist.
In the mean time we could all wear our winning Xara design and everyone will ask us ?XaraX? what is that? tee hee [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif[/img]