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On the beach A mild request
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Posted 2010-January-12, 14:03
Have written this before, Isent it about time that BBO staff create a well hot cosy T-shirt so I can go around and shine the coming summer.
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Posted 2010-January-12, 18:33
I'd get one.
But, if you are going to run it as a beach T-shirt, it seems that it should have a typical beach theme. Maybe something about BBO on the back but something about bridge on the front.
A couple of ideas come to mind.
Maybe a front that says "I'm with stupid" and somehow points straight in front of you. Some sort of 3-D holograph, perhaps.
Or, maybe something like "BBO Players do it with bots."
But, if you are going to run it as a beach T-shirt, it seems that it should have a typical beach theme. Maybe something about BBO on the back but something about bridge on the front.
A couple of ideas come to mind.
Maybe a front that says "I'm with stupid" and somehow points straight in front of you. Some sort of 3-D holograph, perhaps.
Or, maybe something like "BBO Players do it with bots."
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Posted 2010-January-13, 04:48
Ah yes. As there IS one BBO shop, the idea is very easy to sell also T-shirts there.
If BBO-owners dont want to self bother with such trivias, they can surely let someone else do it on their account. Share the profit taking a little royalty.
It will be good pr both for BBO and for Bridge as such...
If BBO-owners dont want to self bother with such trivias, they can surely let someone else do it on their account. Share the profit taking a little royalty.
It will be good pr both for BBO and for Bridge as such...
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Posted 2010-January-13, 08:31
As far as I remember such T-shirts were available 5 or 6 years ago for the first time.
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Posted 2010-January-13, 08:37
"Bridge Players do it with Finesse"
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Tony
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"World Class Dummy"
"An Ace, An Ace... My Kingdom for an Ace"
Any more?
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Posted 2010-January-13, 09:17
Aberlour10, on Jan 13 2010, 02:31 PM, said:
As far as I remember such T-shirts were available 5 or 6 years ago for the first time.
It was also (so far at least) the last time.
We didn't have much trouble selling all (200?) t-shirts we had made, but this was not what I would call a successful business venture. I place the blame for this on the apparent fact that few Americans have much in the way of fashion sense
This really hurt our business model. The problem was that we charged something like $5 for shipping a t-shirt regardless of the destination and size of the order (a policy that works well with the bridge CD-ROM business).
The vast majority of our sales went to very fashion-aware bridge players living outside the USA (where it costs considerably more than $5 to ship even one t-shirt). I recall a single order of 17 t-shirts that had to be shipped to Indonesia...
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Posted 2010-January-13, 15:14
fred, on Jan 14 2010, 03:17 AM, said:
The vast majority of our sales went to very fashion-aware bridge players living outside the USA (where it costs considerably more than $5 to ship even one t-shirt). I recall a single order of 17 t-shirts that had to be shipped to Indonesia...
Fred, if you have any left could you send one to Wellington, New Zealand? Thanks.
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Posted 2010-January-14, 09:22
I guess those that would want a "textil" from BBO living outside USA are willing to bare the transportation cost. But ofcourse then they also want some drawing or some similiar so they find the expense easier.
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