11 years of the Guild bookmark

[ChickPea]

Thanks, guys. I'm very happy you like them.

Mearrin, I've no experience with print on demand, beyond sites like Cafepress or Zazzle, so I'm not sure who to suggest. I suspect many people would just use their home printers and some cardboard for bookmarks.

We talk every so often about putting something together to sell as a fundraiser for the Guild, and bookmarks sound like an easy thing to start with, but between finding a supplier, international shipping, copyright etc etc, it gets complicated very quickly.

[J.Edward]

We talk every so often about putting something together to sell as a fundraiser for the Guild, and bookmarks sound like an easy thing to start with, but between finding a supplier, international shipping, copyright etc etc, it gets complicated very quickly.

It does and that is unfortunate.
I just had a bad run with an international printer for some of my posters.
So one can easily end up with unusable stuff with the wrong printer.

It's half tempting to get a big printer and just do some print runs of stuff for the Guild.
But printing is a touchy business - costly and easy to make mistakes.

[ChickPea]

It's half tempting to get a big printer and just do some print runs of stuff for the Guild.
But printing is a touchy business - costly and easy to make mistakes.

Yeah, there are a lot of reasons why Guild merchandise never quite happens. Probably because I work in admin, I think about the business side of things if we were to do it ourselves. You know, the existential nightmare of processing orders, packaging, international shipping, what if it doesn't arrive, what about dissatisfied customers, the tax situation, someone to deal with random enquiries, upfront costs, etc etc etc...

I know sites like Cafepress take care of much of that stuff for you, but they're moderately expensive and I suspect the quality sucks. Yet, so many sites around the web raise funds from selling t-shirts (for example) and I find myself thinking 'Surely we could do that too...'

Mostly, I just want a Guild mug for my coffee!