On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 13:56 -0500, Deb Nicholson wrote: > >> Indeed. However, my main reasoning was to *raise money* by > >> "encouraging" people to donate by purchasing a t-shirt, or other > >> merchandise. > > > > > > I donated around 75 dollars in late 2011 and was promised stickers but still > > didn't receive anything so I would not encourage donating for something in > > return because chances are high you won't get it. > > > I can understand your disappointment. It's often difficult for > volunteer-run orgs to follow up on details in a timely fashion. If we > go forward with t-shirts, my suggestion would be to sell them > primarily in person, or outsource the shipping to a print on demand > type place -- as opposed to further diverting volunteer energies to > something like intermittent t-shirt fulfillment.
I did try to do my own with shipping shirts in the past, don't do that you are wasting a lot of resources unless you like the actual shipping business. Relying on a third party may be more expensive but will get you better results. Simo. -- Simo Sorce Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <[email protected]> Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
