In a blatant attempt at crass commercialism, Team [NuB] is offering you all a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire our unique T-shirt. Now, before any of you scoff at this, let me explain why I'm posting it here. There are, throughout this community, many former NuBs who, as I've already found, want one of these shirts. I think there may also be some others out there who would be interested. So here's the deal. [go to cheap cut and paste job]
Ok, the order form is up and we're ready to get this thing going, but I need to explain some things first.
Bulldog and I worked to make the ordering process as easy as possible, but there are some restrictions on what we can do and how we do it considering the options available. The top part of the form is for those who wish to use Paypal. You are NO LONGER REQUIRED to have a Paypal account in order to purchase with it. To order multiple shirts just click on the sizes you want and on the shopping cart page you can change the quantities. If you want more than one pilot name, enter the first pilot name in the appropriate box and list the others in the "Special Instructions" box.
The shirts will only be available in one color. As Henry Ford said, "You can have any color you want as long as it's black". You can choose to have the Team Logo printed on the front in 3" X 3". On the back will be the Team Star picture. Originally the thought was to make the front logo optional so that some could apply their own logos using iron-ons. Unfortunately, Red_Barchetta has found that iron-ons don't work on black. But I'm going to leave the option open. Maybe someone will get creative.
The price per shirt includes first-class shipping in the continental US. For those of you outside, I'd suggest you go to www.usps.com , check shipping rates and let me know how you want your shirts shipped. Please be sure to add the additional shipping rates.
If you order a pilot name, please be very explicit as to how it should appear. Team tags and special characters are not allowed, but I need to know how you want upper and lower case characters. Once submitted to me I will not be coming back to ask if what you entered is correct.
For those of you who may wonder about the costs involved, I have to admit that, yes, I could have made the shirts cheaper. As already stated the cost includes shipping plus, being in California, I have to pay 7 3/4% sales tax. This does not include the $75 set-up fee we have to pay for the initial order. The additional costs for pilot names and large sizes is a pass-along. I added to the cost of each shirt for basically two reasons. Number one, I want to be able to have some additional shirts made up for an inventory I can offer to future members. Secondly, I am using this as a means to add to our team fund which goes to keep our host server paid for and can also be used for unforseen expenses we may encounter. Finally, I'm going to keep a little of the money for myself. Initially this started as a labor of love, but I now see that I will be spending a lot of time processing the orders, getting the proper instructions to the shirt maker, packaging and shipping the shirts and dealing with people over their individual orders. I hope no one begrudges me that.
Anyway, THE FORM is up. I will keep it open until the end of the month, and then it all goes to the shirt maker. So, don't snooze or you loose.
Oh, Bill, could you sticky this please?
