daemon@caip.UUCP (02/23/86)
From: ringwld!jmturn%cca-unix.arpa@cca-unix.arpa
As brought up at the Boskone panel on Electronic Fanac (and thanks to
all the SF-LOVERs who showed up (we had a full house)), there is a great
deal of interest in reprinting the SF-LOVERS T-shirt. I've been in touch
with Bob Forward (phud), who has volunteered the use of his son as an
artist to resurect the mechanicals, but suggests I place a call out on the
net looking for the originals first. SO:
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE THE ORIGINALS FOR THE SF-LOVERS T-SHIRT ARE?
Assuming we can find them, I can arrange to have another printing made. Might
I suggest the following arrangement:
1) Everyone who is interested in getting a shirt send mail to me.
2) After I have a rough idea of the count, I price out the shirts.
3) I place a little bit of padding in the budget so that we can print
enough to cover future shirt requests.
4) I determine the price of a shirt, based on the number of committed
orders divided into the print run cost.
5) I send mail to all interested parties informing them what the cost is,
and they US SNAIL me money.
6) I print the shirts, send them out to people who ordered, and hold the
remainder against future demand.
Now, a perceptive person will have said "Hey, you're gonna eventually have
made a profit over the basic cost of the shirts!" (since the cost for a
shirt would also include funds to print extra shirts for future orders.)
Now, since I have no real interest in making a profit out of this (well...
I actually wouldn't mind, but it wouldn't be RIGHT), I propose to donate
any revenue over expense to an appropriate charity (such as one of the
various shuttle funds.)
The justification for this hairy scheme is to A) avoid having your's truely
hafta expose any financial liability by fronting money for printing; B)
Produce enough shirts to meet not only current but also future demand; and
C) Confuse you.
Please hold off on any orders until we determine what's going on in
regards to the artwork. I'll let you know when the iron is hot to strike,
the presses are ready to roll, and the forces of freedom are on the march.
James
ARPA: ringwld!jmturn@CCA-UNIX.ARPA
UUCP: {ima, linus, decvax}!cca!ringwld!jmturn
NOTE: The previous was written immediately after preparation of the author's
1040, and is therefore likely to contain official goverment doubletalk.