2015-02-26 2:36 GMT+01:00 Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...>:
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 01:21 +0100, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
For instance, ordering items from a local company called cupsell.pl is approximately half as expensive for me as ordering from zazzle.com or similar US printers, and that's not even taking shipping charges into account.
So what your saying is. You'd like to be the supplier for inkscape's European merchandise?
I think it's a great idea!
Well, a "supplier" is maybe too big of a word :)
What I meant is that a custom printed full color T-shirt at my local company costs 39 PLN (= ~$11 at current exchange rates). I have one from them and the quality seems comparable to the ones that Google gives out to GSoC participants. Three years ago I ordered a run of 100 screen printed, full color T-shirts for a conference, and the total was around 2000 PLN, so they cost around 20 PLN apiece ($6.5 back then; the design looks pretty nice and I have one of them, so I can take it to the hackfest).
These prices are between half and one fifth of I would have to pay to get an equivalent item from a US printer/retailer; an equivalent order at customink.com with delivery to San Francisco costs around $20. So my idea was that if earning extra money for Inkscape through swag sales is not the primary goal, we could just allow people to print their own swag at their local printers, thereby reducing shipping costs considerably.
I don't think I would have time to actually act as a supplier and ship out these things, and although the site I mentioned allows one to create a substore, it is so far only available in Polish - I'm not even sure whether they ship internationally.
Regards, Krzysztof