brother_ging, on 25 January 2011 - 07:58 AM, said:

The color will be as close as I can possibly get to Tom's, so it's mostly grey with a bit of olive. Kinda like the color of the picture of my previous post.


Also, everyone, important info. I did some more reasearch and talked with my mom about shipping stuff overseas - seems there's a lot more involved than I originally thought there was. So I'm going to have to add another $5 (sorry guys) to the cost to cover expenses (packaging tape, envelopes, taxes & fees, etc). The printing company also just bumped the price up a dollar today too so now I need to cover that as well.

So it's now $20 for the shirt, or $18 if we can get 12+ people in.

Sorry guys, hopefully this doesn't discourage anyone...
I wasn't thinking of taxes or shipping mediums when I set the price before, oops . My bad!

WhiteNoise, on 26 January 2011 - 09:45 AM, said:

I don't mind paying whatever it costs. Getting the money to you from OS may be a bit tricky, via Paypal would be easiest but they will take a cut from what you receive so you'll have to allow for that. I think it is 3-4%.

But as far as shipping OS, should be a piece of cake, just need a thick envelope big enough for the shirt, a customs dec on it, the post office will make sure that happens, and then postage. Should be no taxes or fees, apart from the envelope and postage, and of course a bit for your time and petrol money getting to the post. Shipping to the US is different, you guys just introduced a new $10 fee for every parcel we send your way to cover your scans. Ridiculous if you ask me. Anyway, no other country should have that sort of fee that I know of.

If you end up short from your calculations, just tell us and we'll bump you the extra.

Krisper, on 25 January 2011 - 07:01 PM, said:

Thanks Krisper. It's my first time shipping anything OS so any information I'd need to know would be really helpful.

Paypal is the plan, I'll be using my mom's account, cause I'm not old enough to legally have an account myself. Looks like Paypal automatically handles different currencys, so hopefully no troubles there. And by taxes I meant the sales tax on having the shirts made and by fees I meant the Paypal cut, postage, and whatever else factors in.

Will use big envelopes. Do you think a bubble-wrapped package would be neccissary for shipping the shirts, or would a regular one be fine? I know to go heavy on the packing tape, I've been told that sometimes packages get opened at customs and that they tend to skip the more heavily wrapped ones. Considering postage, is there a certain type of postage for OS shipping? If so, how much would it cost?

I don't think I'll come up short on money, but thanks for the offer. Also, my country's $10 fee sounds pretty stupid hopefully we don't run into anything else like that.


I'll go to the printing place over the weekend, and I'll keep taking offers til then. So far we've got:

• Myself
  
• Krisper
  
• brother_ging
  
• BoyWithTheGoldenEyes
  
• ThePumisher
  
• Owa
  
• graysquire1969
  
• csar
  
• ChemicalRudy
  
• Scales

and I'll edit the list as we go.

PS: I'll need you guys' shirt sizes too.

man, you are amazing!

paypal should not be a prob at all. only thing to to is to send the respective email address to those who want a shirt. payments can be done in all main currencies from everywhere so you'll say a number in $ and that should work out without any problems.

regular envelopes should be fine in case you use enough tape... otherwise bubble-wrap might be better (I've had some disappointment recently with OS-shipped regular envelopes due to insufficient use of tape ) and I am also very happy to pay the odd $ more if those envelope cost more.

regarding customs declaration: just very clearly state it's a gift with a LOW value, probably less then 10 $. you could declare just as "t shirt" or even "used t shirt"... in those cases customs authorities (in Germany) tend not to open especially when the sender is a private address. they still do sometimes, however, they are bast*rds. I've had a parcel sent to me by Saddle Creek (Bright Eyes record label) right before Christmas with some vinyls in there and they declared as "records" and gift with a value of 15 $ and authorities asked for an invoice and proof of payment. how to do with a gift? they also then claimed 12 Euro on taxes... just don't declare as commercial, they'd open in any case then.

cool! looking forward.


btw. my size is small if general fit of the shirts is "normal" if the shirts tend to be smaller than regular then M would also be okay. however, I'd prefer small

Color me Impressed. Geeky, no doubt, but damn impressive. Well done Inchem and Whitenoise!

hm, size depends on what t shirt brand you took. i'm in between M and L because most of those kind of t shirts are getting smaller after the washing / drying. So i say: me want LARGE!

Somewhere between L and XL.

I'll take a Large.

If it's not too late, count me in too, for an XL. Irrespective of Tom having worn it, love the image.

graysquire1969, on 26 January 2011 - 06:42 PM, said:

No prob. I'm taking orders till friday.

Thanks for the info GoldenEyes. I think I'll call it a gift, used t-shirt at under $10. If they ask for any more info I'll say it's an old band tee that would be cool for a a fan, but mostly worthless to anyone else. Sound good?

I'll start taking payments Friday-Saturday. I can't order the shirts until I have all the money, so the sooner I can get it the better. I'll send everyone on the list the email for the Paypal account very early friday morning, which will probably be sometime midfriday, depending on what bit of the world you live in.


As for shirt type, Hot Cakes has a ton of suppliers you can choose from. These three suppliers do free shipping so it's gonna be one of these:

Alpha Shirts
Heritage Sportswear
One Stop

Otherwise it would be another $10 for shipping, don't want that.

WhiteNoise, on 27 January 2011 - 07:28 AM, said:

Awesome! Thanks big time. We all should have a big meet-up some day, all wearing our pouvoir t-shirts... why not meeting up in France? Wonder what the French will look at us like.

I'd like one too!

Great job WN! I'm in...and the total is 20 bucks right?

ChemicalRudy, on 27 January 2011 - 04:00 AM, said:

Well, 20 + shipping, but you're in the states so it won't be too much.

And if 3 more people get on board I can knock it down to $18, they charge less for bulk orders.

Csar, on 27 January 2011 - 09:16 AM, said:

Forgot to mention my size: I'd need a L.

Csar, on 27 January 2011 - 02:28 PM, said:

Got it.

Update: family is coming over over the weekend, so I won't be able to get the shirts done over the weekend, I'll be too busy. Soonest I can is Tuesday. So I'll push the payment date back to monday/tuesday instead of Friday and get the shirts made then.

I'll need a size M

WhiteNoise, on 28 January 2011 - 02:14 AM, said:

Please, take your time! No need to rush at all.

WhiteNoise, on 28 January 2011 - 02:14 AM, said:

absolutely fine. it's ace you're doing it so no worries if there's a delay of a few days.

Ok ! For met it will be XL. Just a question, you only make a black edition ? That's not a problem for me but i'm pretty curious about the destiny you'll give to your masterpiece !