TorachiKatashi wrote:"This is a preorder item which will not ship until Early-Mid January!"
Really? Way to plan ahead guys.
No thanks. If they can't be bothered to have them ready for DB, I can't really be bothered to buy one.
Not to mention, only two (pretty damn ugly) colour options, and a logo you can barely read?
Maybe we can get a company that actually cares to do the DB7 shirts.
This just screams of, "Shit, we promised to do t-shirts for that charity thing again, didn't we? Well I guess we better throw together some random scraps of shit no one ever buys."
Uh, WTF? You're badmouthing Fangamer?!
They're doing a preorder because they have no idea how many they're going to sell. Fangamer is a small business, and as such, they can't afford to make a huge run of shirts that no one's going to buy. (LoadingReadyRun's the same way... remember the WiiPlay shirts? That's why LRR does preorders now too) If they made a small order in advance, they'd run the risk of selling out, and then people would be upset and whine like you're doing right now. It's also not cheap to put in the order for the shirts, so making two runs would incur a lot more overhead costs (because they have to set up the manufacturing run for the shirts, there's a flat initial cost when you put in an order) which means less money for charity. This is not a last-minute "oh shit" decision. This is planned out.
Last year they did the same thing. The point is to buy the shirts during the run to support the run. You're not going to get your shirt during the run. That would be impossible and wouldn't make any sense.
If your opinion is the colors are ugly, fine. But apparently you think a bunch of the clothes I own are ugly because I wear brown/cream shirts on occasion, whatever, that's your opinion.
The point of the logo is that it's subtle. Fangamer shirts are always elegant designs first, and readable messages second. If you want a shirt that has "DESERT BUS FOR HOPE" scrawled across it in Arial, you can do that with a sharpie.
Fangamer is giving all of the proceeds for the sale of these shirts to Desert Bus. They are making exactly $0 for all the work that they do on this. If you've never fulfilled a ton of orders, you don't know how much work packing and shipping a ton of stuff can be, so you don't know that they're actually giving a lot to the drive for this.
If you've ever bought something from them, you know how quality their shirts are (they're not cheap, shitty, uncomfortable shirts, they're actually made from good cotton, and the designs are burned on, not inked, so they don't fade when you wash them), and how much care they put into their stuff (they send you buttons and little extras in the package, the packaging is always supremely well designed, etc).
I will not stand for you badmouthing them. I've met all the people who run the company, they're all supremely awesome people who work super hard to build a business from the ground up, and you're being an asshole even though they're giving a TON OF MONEY TO CHARITY.
GTFO.
Really wish shirt manufacturers would figure this shit out, I want to wear cool shirts too.
