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Title: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: carbonpenguin on April 30, 2011, 01:24:54 PM
Currently ~8 btc w/ shipping in the USA (will automatically adjust) - Go to http://www.iusecoins.com to get yours!
http://asftr.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/iusecoins-small.jpg?w=225&h=300


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: eof on April 30, 2011, 04:01:24 PM
repriced to 6btc

and not readjusting automagically yet.


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: carbonpenguin on May 02, 2011, 02:39:18 PM
I'll be heading to the post-office in a bit, so if anyone else wants their shirt to ship today, order in the next hour or so...


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: SmokeTooMuch on May 02, 2011, 07:07:20 PM
I should have waited with my order T_T

Anyway, the shirt is worth it ;)


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: eof on May 03, 2011, 02:25:16 AM
Bumping this thread for shameless plug + announcing the record for the longest steady price on www.iusecoins.com :)


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: carbonpenguin on May 03, 2011, 05:48:02 PM
I should have waited with my order T_T

Anyway, the shirt is worth it ;)

Heh, price deflation is a strange world - and the shirt is a great conversation starter. I wore mine to an anarchist potluck last night and within an hour btc was the party's main topic of conversation  ;D


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: BitPorium on May 04, 2011, 09:02:38 PM
Adding any other sizes for the ++ sized people. Some 6xt would be great. I like my clothes extras bay and to reach my knees! Show some + sized love.


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: carbonpenguin on May 04, 2011, 10:10:29 PM
Well, we ordered our initial batch as a total experiment, so the plan is to sell down a good portion of the initial inventory of around 100 shirts before re-ordering. If you want, I'll message you when we're re-ordering if you want to put in a plus-size special order ;)


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: MemoryDealers on May 05, 2011, 03:19:07 AM
I should have waited with my order T_T

Anyway, the shirt is worth it ;)

Heh, price deflation is a strange world - and the shirt is a great conversation starter. I wore mine to an anarchist potluck last night and within an hour btc was the party's main topic of conversation  ;D

How can I find an anarchist potluck near where I live?
Sounds like a wonderful time!


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: kgo on May 05, 2011, 03:26:32 AM
Just got mine.  I felt like the price was right if it was a quality T, and not a Hanes 3-pack T.  I just wanted to confirm that the shirt is nice and think.  Just wanted to mention that if anyone else is on the fence.

(And if the manufacturer is doing market research, you would be able to sell at least one polo with an embroidered BTC logo.  My OpenBSD polo is starting to get worn out, and I need a geeky replacement for when I'm forced to go business casual.)


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: commlinx on May 05, 2011, 11:57:28 AM
Cool, I'd like to order one, I'm an Aussie so any chance of a link to the particular sizes versus chest size etc? I think I've got T-shirts anywhere from medium to XL all the same size depending on where they're made ::). I noticed the postage will be more than the shirt, so on the off-chance any other Aussies read this and are interested drop me a note and maybe we can come do a deal on splitting postage. I guess for 2 or 3 you'd do postage for the same total price?


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: carbonpenguin on May 05, 2011, 12:04:16 PM
Cool, I'd like to order one, I'm an Aussie so any chance of a link to the particular sizes versus chest size etc? I think I've got T-shirts anywhere from medium to XL all the same size depending on where they're made ::). I noticed the postage will be more than the shirt, so on the off-chance any other Aussies read this and are interested drop me a note and maybe we can come do a deal on splitting postage. I guess for 2 or 3 you'd do postage for the same total price?

Well, the postage is by weight, so it's a bit more per t-shirt, but I think (my buddy eof has been doing the website stuff, so he could say for sure) there's a baseline price per shipment, and a smaller amounted added per shirt, so you'd pay less per unit to ship two or three...

Also, I found this chart, which might be helpful: http://www.asapshirt.com/t-shirt_sizechart.htm


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: carbonpenguin on May 05, 2011, 12:07:06 PM
Just got mine.  I felt like the price was right if it was a quality T, and not a Hanes 3-pack T.  I just wanted to confirm that the shirt is nice and think.  Just wanted to mention that if anyone else is on the fence.

(And if the manufacturer is doing market research, you would be able to sell at least one polo with an embroidered BTC logo.  My OpenBSD polo is starting to get worn out, and I need a geeky replacement for when I'm forced to go business casual.)

Thanks for the + feedback and the idea - I'll look into the pricing of getting some "business casual" btc schwag...


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: commlinx on May 05, 2011, 12:24:55 PM
Cool, I'd like to order one, I'm an Aussie so any chance of a link to the particular sizes versus chest size etc? I think I've got T-shirts anywhere from medium to XL all the same size depending on where they're made ::). I noticed the postage will be more than the shirt, so on the off-chance any other Aussies read this and are interested drop me a note and maybe we can come do a deal on splitting postage. I guess for 2 or 3 you'd do postage for the same total price?

Well, the postage is by weight, so it's a bit more per t-shirt, but I think (my buddy eof has been doing the website stuff, so he could say for sure) there's a baseline price per shipment, and a smaller amounted added per shirt, so you'd pay less per unit to ship two or three...

Also, I found this chart, which might be helpful: http://www.asapshirt.com/t-shirt_sizechart.htm
Thanks I just put through an order and sent the coins, it probably wouldn't save a lot splitting postage (I live in an area where I'd need to re-post anyway) and just couldn't wait ;D.


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: carbonpenguin on May 05, 2011, 12:30:43 PM
Thanks much! I'll drop it off at the post-office this morning...


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: kiba on May 05, 2011, 03:21:31 PM
How profitable for you?

I can't wait to buy a gavinator t-shirt someday. However, I know you must be profitable in order to expand your t-shirt line.


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: carbonpenguin on May 05, 2011, 03:42:28 PM
We're closing in on the break-even point for our FRN investment as long as the value of btc doesn't crater 8). Additionally, I recently discovered that a friend of a friend has a fairly good screen-printing rig and might be willing to accept coins for printing, so we might be able to do smaller batches than our "I Use Coins" pilot run in the near future. What sort of design are you imagining for a "Gavinator" shirt? Just the cartoon, or other stuff as well?


Title: now 5.25 btc
Post by: eof on May 08, 2011, 11:48:09 PM
www.iusecoins.com

shirts repriced to 5.25 with similar reduction for international shipping.


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: Littleshop on May 11, 2011, 02:47:23 AM
Just got mine.  I felt like the price was right if it was a quality T, and not a Hanes 3-pack T.  I just wanted to confirm that the shirt is nice and think.  Just wanted to mention that if anyone else is on the fence.

(And if the manufacturer is doing market research, you would be able to sell at least one polo with an embroidered BTC logo.  My OpenBSD polo is starting to get worn out, and I need a geeky replacement for when I'm forced to go business casual.)

I have a bitcoin polo.  http://cryptoanarchy.us/   Please note the store starts out priced in US dollars then it gets converted to BTC at the mtgox.com rate.  So the polo is currently less then 7 BTC shipped in the USA.  (6.14 BTC when I did it)


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: eof on May 11, 2011, 01:42:16 PM
Just got mine.  I felt like the price was right if it was a quality T, and not a Hanes 3-pack T.  I just wanted to confirm that the shirt is nice and think.  Just wanted to mention that if anyone else is on the fence.

(And if the manufacturer is doing market research, you would be able to sell at least one polo with an embroidered BTC logo.  My OpenBSD polo is starting to get worn out, and I need a geeky replacement for when I'm forced to go business casual.)

I have a bitcoin polo.  http://cryptoanarchy.us/   Please note the store starts out priced in US dollars then it gets converted to BTC at the mtgox.com rate.  So the polo is currently less then 7 BTC shipped in the USA.  (6.14 BTC when I did it)



THREAD JAACK.

I saw those yesterday, the shirts look nice.  We reduced the price of ours furter, 3.5BTC!!!


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: commlinx on May 11, 2011, 02:40:17 PM
I wouldn't expect to get my t-shirt until next week (it was the order to Tasmania, Australia)  but I noticed if I go to the following page in the confirmation e-mail that says login to your account and view your order details:

http://www.iusecoins.com/user

Under view nothing comes up other than how long I've been a member for and edit just lets me change my password and timezone. Anyway I'm not terribly concerned just thought I'd let you know.


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: kiba on May 11, 2011, 02:48:22 PM
When will we see new designs?


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: eof on May 11, 2011, 09:03:38 PM
I wouldn't expect to get my t-shirt until next week (it was the order to Tasmania, Australia)  but I noticed if I go to the following page in the confirmation e-mail that says login to your account and view your order details:

http://www.iusecoins.com/user

Under view nothing comes up other than how long I've been a member for and edit just lets me change my password and timezone. Anyway I'm not terribly concerned just thought I'd let you know.


Oops!  You should see it now.  Your shirt is otw.


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: eof on May 11, 2011, 09:07:51 PM
When will we see new designs?

Suggestions for designs?  We are only profitable/breakeven because of the big increase in BTC value.. I think we would be willing to do another run if we had a better idea of what people wanted. 

Someone suggested:http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk9sfhcgNr1qfrvjzo1_500.jpg

But I don't know who drew it, but if we could get their permission we could do those..

We are also hoping to find people who will accept payment in btc for the shirts and/or screen printing.

In that case, I will probably get a new domain for just bitcoin clothing and set up iusecoins.com to be a super basic bitcoin user profile with location data and map overlay.


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: kiba on May 11, 2011, 09:12:01 PM

Someone suggested:http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk9sfhcgNr1qfrvjzo1_500.jpg


But I don't know who drew it, but if we could get their permission we could do those..
That's shazow and some other guy who commisioned him to do the work.


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: eof on May 11, 2011, 09:17:29 PM
Cool, well people seem into it.  If they want to let us use/license that and people are into it; we can print those.

If anyone has a great idea for a design; I'm all ears.  Next time we will get them designed by, well a designer, instead of a historian and a programmer  ;D

Otherwise we will probably just let these shirts trickle out and in 20 years they will be hipster gold.  Or  Maybe someone will make an offer for iusecoins.com..



Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: carbonpenguin on May 13, 2011, 03:01:27 AM
Check that - an idea for an interesting, fairly decentralized system is germinating - stay tuned  8)


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: doublec on May 13, 2011, 03:41:51 AM
I received my shirt in New Zealand. Many thanks, very happy with the quality! I shall frame the 'Thanks for being our first customer' message for when you get huge and famous as the number one bitcoin shirt sellers!


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: commlinx on May 17, 2011, 01:58:26 AM
Mine arrived in Tasmania this morning, looks awesome and wearing it now ;D


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: carbonpenguin on May 17, 2011, 02:19:05 AM
Glad to hear it made it to the antipodes! I don't think I quite expected how many different countries I'd end up sending shirts to - I think pretty close to half of our orders have been international. It's quite the community we've got going on ;D.


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: kiba on May 17, 2011, 02:21:08 AM
When will you guys will sell the gavinator t-shirt?

Or maybe you could sell the http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-comic-whack-a-mole Bitcoin whack a mole t-shirt? It's even public domain.


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: carbonpenguin on May 17, 2011, 02:30:49 AM
When will you guys will sell the gavinator t-shirt?

Or maybe you could sell the http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-comic-whack-a-mole Bitcoin whack a mole t-shirt? It's even public domain.

Something might just be in the works...  8)


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: commlinx on May 20, 2011, 08:32:31 AM
Just placed another order, my girlfriend wanted one too ;D. One thing I noticed is now your page automatically calculates it uses six decimal places, so for example I got 4.92553 which the client won't accept. Anyway I rounded to 4.93 but might be best to round on the server to avoid any confusion for anyone that doesn't know about the two decimals in the client.


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: eof on May 20, 2011, 11:28:21 AM
Oh.. thanks for the heads up. 


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: DonChate on June 01, 2011, 07:34:08 PM
excellent idea/service


Title: Re: "I Use Coins" T-Shirt Repriced to Reflect the btc Value Gain...
Post by: eof on June 01, 2011, 09:10:08 PM
excellent idea/service

thanks.

we've added 3xl