Shirts - Will You Buy Me?

[Raider Ronnie]

Originally Posted by tynan19

Why is everyone so uptite over a t-shirt. It says S-B on the front and back and it supports the site bottom line. S-B is alright for the sticker not a $20 t-shirt. It seems like 5-6 people complaining about it and no one else. As long as it is for the benefit of this Site why even complain. 5 pages of whaaa it is only plugs is ridiculous. Back to my beer.

Because there has been talk of shirts/ hats being made and sold for the past 2-3 years that I know of!!! and the only thing that has been made are some stickers!!!
(other than some hats only a select few have who were here from the start!)
I say the design is awesome if it were to please plug builders only , but there is more than just plug building on this site!!!
I say scale down the amount of plugs and add a few other there things to ballance it off !

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie

I say the design is awesome if it were to please plug builders only , but there is more than just plug building on this site!!!

Just because it does not please you does not mean it does not please a lot of other people that do not make plugs. Let's be clear, it does not please you and some others. That is a far cry from meaning that it only pleases plug builders as there are a lot of non builders that really like the shirt.

GB, I get your idea on the other style shirts but one of the reasons I went this way was that plenty of places have the simple bass - The Black Bass for example, other sites with a simple bass. I just wanted to be a little different - not a run-of-the-mill shirt...

The print of the bass over the guys shoulder in Game Over would probably offend some of the boat guys. Sandsleds would offend somebody, Flys someone else.

Here were my goals:

1) Do a shirt that nobody or at least rarely has done before

2) Do a shirt that showcases what a lot of the people on the site apprectiate - plugs, whether building them or fishing them.

3) Do a shirt, that if not a classic, would be well sought after because people like the shirt

4) Make a shirt that was at least somewhat worthy of waiting all this time through all of the other aborted shirt attempts.

5) Offest some of the costs of the shirt by enlisting some of the sponsors to keep a reasonable price for the members - it's not all about making money.

6) Tie in loosely with some of the events we've had, half of which have been plug based...

Not a goal:

Sell 500 $5 shirts at 15 bucks a whack and make a ton of money. Selling 150 of these detailed Tshirts will make me about $2 per hour for the time I have invested in it. If it was about the money it would be something vastly different.