Let's get this forum rolling.

[LilMissKittyn]

These to statements conflict. Im not looking for an argument but what is wrong with having non-members buy GMF shirts. They don't all actually have to say "Im a member of the GMF!"

Umm, paranoid much? If your that scared that someone is going to get ahold of your information you got alot of work ahead of you. Anybody with time on their hands and smarts about em can get your info.

Not exactly paranoid. But I've had people follow me home, come to my house without ever finding out anything but my number, follow me around school, etc. Not all of them are nice people. I try to be careful.
And if someone actually wants to break into my house and hurt me or whatever, I at least want them to be smarter than I am. I mean, come on, that's a major insult if they're not.

Perhaps you're right about Ebay. We could have "public access" shirts like the Nine Hells one, and "private access" ones like the actual membership one. However, if we make our base on Ebay, how do we get people to prove they're a member? And wouldn't it give us a bad reputation to be so elitist?
Personally, I'd rather just keep it simple. We can figure out some way to program a payment method if neccessary.

 

[derbacher]

Well, from the "Keep It SImple Stupid" school of thought (always my favorite ) Payment could be set up through PayPal. Then whatever method the buyer chooses to use (credit card, payment to their account, bank transfer, etc.) is already in place. All it requires is that the person doing the actual handling of funds have a PayPal account (or someone you trust to pay you has one....) and you are in business. No Ebay, no programming, just take orders however you want, payment goes through PayPal, and you're done. I've used it for years for Ebay, more recently for PDF purchases, and a lot of other vendors are offerring it as an alternative.

Just my thoughts. Feel free to ignore them at leisure.

 

[ChaosEvoker]

@Xen
True, but I don't want them to have "I'm a member" shirts if they aren't. Perhaps we shoudl have several different kinds for members and non-members....

 

[LilMissKittyn]

So how would we go about setting up Paypal?

 

[MarkCsigs]

Not to jump in on your t-shirt plans, but I thought I'd point out that you can save money on both packaging and shipping by using a reinforced envelope instead of a box. No real need to have the t-shirt in a box.

 

[ChaosEvoker]

Point taken. Though how to handle payment and delivery at this point are more of a concern

 

[Nightcloak]

Paypal accounts are easy to set up. I did one in under a minute for me and my wife so she could start selling on Ebay. You just need someone to set up an account with their name and your ready to roll. If you wanted to sell them on Ebay, you could just set the price high on a "buy it now" then give members a "GMF Discount" if they email you with their identification. However, it does cost money to keep an item on Ebay so I would recomend we just post the items here in a sticky thread (with advertisements in the welcome thread) or maybe use one of those web pages Morrus said we got with becoming a community supporter in conjunction with this forum.

 

[Gurney Halleck]

For the packaging, I agree about the reinforced envelope, its always what I've gotten my Online T-Shirts from. And Paypal is probabely our best option because it is, indeed, fast and pretty simple. I also think we should have a couple of T-Shirt designs. So, we could perhaps get a design or thought from everyone, edit here, edit there, and pick the best in a poll.

As for a T-Shirt idea: DM- "Well, it seems my monster scored 4 criticals on you. Time for another character!"

@LilMissKittyn
As for anyone breaking into your house, you can just, i dunno, like hire mercenaries to protect you... and stuff. I'm just instantaniously recruited Xen155 and ChaosEvoker. The only problem with that is that they dont know about it and will probabely hit me very soon. Running Time!

 

[LilMissKittyn]

Several replies:
I thought about the envelope idea and I didn't think they'd fit; but I didn't actually try it since all of my shirts are S. I'm more worried about the XL and stuff like that.

I've looked around for prices and stuff like that in town, and I've found somewhere pretty cheap. I think the bottom price is something like 6 bucks, then add for size of design and colors...

Anyway, I need to know if I'm actually doing this. If so, I'll need to talk to my mom about setting up a Paypal account (I'm 18 in three months-WOOT!) and go get definite prices.

Also, we have four designs put forward. We should probably vote on an official design; let me know which ones you would be interested in, etc. Vote for them by member name, that's probably the easiest way to refer to them:

Two possible official t-shirts
Wolf
On front:
Logo, breast pocket area, with print "Proud member of GMF"
On back:
(Stamp-looking print)
"Proud member of the Game Master Foundation at ENWORLD.COM."
"Try it. Now. Or Else."

LMK
Front:
Large Area, "Rule 0. The DM is ALWAYS right," with kill chart picture
Back:
Same as Wolf's, with regular print

Two other possible designs:
BoD
Front: GMF Logo?
Back: large print, flame?, "I sent my players to the Nine Hells and all I got back was this stupid t-shirt!"

Gurney Halleck
Front: Graphic?
Back: "DM: Well, it seems my monster scored 4 criticals on you. Time for another character!"

Let me know what you think!

 

[Mr_GrinReaper]

O_O

It seems I have started a craze rofl----


Howabout-

Front- A picture of a group standing in the middle of a corridor surrounded by ninjas...

Back- "Wait, I think I just failed a spot check"
-GMF foundation, Try it. Now. Or else.


That was totally stolen from OotS lol, copywritten, but not trademarked! Woo Hoo