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posted October 25, 2004 04:52 AM
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Are the prices US or CAN $$
Oh never mind, I see, US bux, tres expensive
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fish_antlers
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posted October 25, 2004 05:09 AM
Edited By: fish_antlers on 25 Oct 2004 06:10
Not really Silver.. it isnt cheap making short runs of t-shirts... also... we cant believe how expensive shipping is..  a bit of a drag....
BBM... there being sent out in the good 'ol mail.
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SilverD
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posted October 25, 2004 06:19 AM
I hear ya, I wasn't really being serious, although this thread is mirrored all over the site, i'm replying in "The Smackhouse" eh.. yuk yuk
I'll get paypal organized in the next couple of days, I'm on very slow internet.com down here, by then Beans will owe me his first born male child..
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posted October 25, 2004 08:18 AM
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I'll get paypal organized in the next couple of days, I'm on very slow internet.com down here, by then Beans will owe me his first born male child..
haha not if I get a vasectomy haha
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posted October 25, 2004 09:10 AM
silverd, i think u'r point is worth a bit of explanation as there are no doubt others who get the same impression.
compared to the 2 for $20 sale deal you see at your local Walmart, yes these are expensive. But here's the thing: the base shirt price for us is something similar to that, but then they have to be printed, the printer makes some profit, we're ordering in small quantities so the price is higher, we lose some percentage on the transaction, more % on exchange, and then shipping plus shipping supplies come to about $7US. basically we're selling the shirts themselves for about $18US which u'll find is pretty competitive when it comes to custom shirts sold by websites like us. i bought a T from homestarrunner.com not too long ago, cost me $15US plus $7US shipping (plus tax & a customers $5 charge when i picked it up), and that is a site that sells Ts by the thousands. those guys make a living off their shirts (2 or 3 people to boot). so we can't expect to match those kinds of rates as much as we'd like. plus we give several shirts away to say thank you to some people, like the moderators and sponsors. that eats into the costs too.
end result, is as tempting as it was to charge more since so many other sites do so, we did our damndest to keep the prices as low as we could. last time we sold merchandise (the hats) we actually lost money in the end. we can't do that again. as long as people actually but the shirts they've been clamouring for for years, we won't this time.
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frEEk
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posted October 25, 2004 09:16 AM
oh, and if u were to value the time put into the shirts by oliver & myself (finding a vendor, chooseing the options, coming up with the design, ordering it, picking it up, sorting & folding & packaging it all, going to the post office every few days with an order, and creating an online store) we definitely lost alot of money anyway.
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banana bike man
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posted October 25, 2004 09:21 AM
I can vouch for T cost.
The SBW shirts are reasonably price when I buy 600 shirts.
I've wanted to do a run of sportbikewest.com shirts for web sales but, like frEEk says, they end up costing me $25 bucks.
So uless I order several hun, It ain't cost effective. Too many people see wally sell'n knock off cambodian T's for 2 bucks a pop and think custom Fruit'O the Loom shirt should be the same.
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posted October 25, 2004 09:26 AM
Edited By: beansbaxter on 25 Oct 2004 10:27
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plus we give several shirts away to say thank you to some people, like the moderators
Does that mean I'll get an extra shirt with my order?
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SilverD
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posted October 25, 2004 10:29 AM
frEEk, no sweat, I understand and wasn't tring to make it an issue...
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posted October 25, 2004 10:41 AM
ya know I got an email from easyrider's site a week or so ago saying they are selling their shirts for the same amount. as a poor college student, that is a lot of money IMO to buy some clothes. that said, I held out for bikeland's stuff, and gladly dont mind paying the posted price, especially to help fund a site that I enjoy promoting and frequenting. fish and freek do provide a service to every one of us where there really is no compensation for all the time they have into the site.
ill be wearing my bikeland gear on the honda rune at this year's show hehe
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frEEk
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posted October 25, 2004 11:15 AM
let me repeat what I've already written above and is written on the order page too:
SHIPPING IS INCLUDED
US$25 is ALL you pay to get a tshirt to ur door.
beans, according to his order form, easy charges $33US for 1 XL T shipped, and $36 for 1 XXL or bigger T. regardless, we do appreciate u choosing us for ur scant college dollars, especially when you could be spending it on beer and/or strippers 
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posted October 25, 2004 11:47 AM
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especially when you could be spending it on beer and/or strippers
I shudder to think what a $25 dollar stripper looks like.
Please don't post any example pictures either.
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posted October 25, 2004 12:29 PM
dont forget jello-wrestling. you all should make it down here next year when they do it again on greek row in pullman hehe
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posted October 25, 2004 08:11 PM
Edited By: fish_antlers on 26 Oct 2004 21:27
All you members who responded saying you wanted shirts now is you chance!
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posted October 27, 2004 09:23 AM
CMON ladies and gents........whats the deal.......I hear everyone saying they want shirts and such for the site.....BUT now that they are available....nobody is biting......WHATS the deal?!?!?
fish and princess put up their own money to have them made, all they wanna do is recover the money they shelled out, NOT make a profit.
Get after it boys and girls......I got mine, NOW you get yours!!
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posted October 27, 2004 09:48 AM
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Get after it boys and girls
I gots a bad ass beanie comm'n and a great photo op to show off my new found hooliganism.
Long live BikeLand!!
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posted October 27, 2004 10:49 AM
Soon as I get home next week I'll be placing an order..
Beans, don't have that vasectomy yet!
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posted October 28, 2004 06:17 PM
First batch of orders is going out Friday October 29th... anyone else who wants to get in on the first lot shipped please order now!
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posted October 28, 2004 07:07 PM
hey, i was wondering if you might have any that we could give to the homeless???? or mabee some that might have been run over by some random truck on the side of the road??? just thaught id say "howdy" its ok if y'ain't got any!!! hehehe,
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banana bike man
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posted October 29, 2004 05:01 PM
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hey, i was wondering if you might have any that we could give to the homeless???? or mabee some that might have been run over by some random truck on the side of the road??? just thaught id say "howdy" its ok if y'ain't got any!!! hehehe,
I do believe yer talk'n outta yer ass there pardner.
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posted October 29, 2004 06:32 PM
bbm.....it's an inside joke.....fish knows exactly what he's talking about.....dont ya fish
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54boyz
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posted October 29, 2004 11:57 PM
yea fish, hehehe, i still cant believe we found that darn shirt, and friend, here in oklahoma we dont talk out our asses, we talk out of the huge gaping gap between our front teeth, hehehe. glad to see everybody is doing well, and xl, man i realy want to thank you for the help, they finished it this afternoon, keep the shiny side up boys, later
54boyz4eva
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posted October 30, 2004 07:38 AM
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we talk out of the huge gaping gap between our front teeth, hehehe.
LOL!
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posted October 30, 2004 08:47 AM
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posted November 01, 2004 08:07 AM
anyone get their shirts etc yet?
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