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Jack Bohn
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:09 pm    Post subject: No Calendar This Year? Reply with quote

Just checking, I have promised to buy one for myself and one for my brother when they exist.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jack, we had to take down the Cafe Press site when they were going to change our contract so that our art would be used in a way that would violate our license. Sorry. Sad
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jean wrote:
Jack, we had to take down the Cafe Press site when they were going to change our contract so that our art would be used in a way that would violate our license. Sorry. Sad


Bummer on that. Though I thought I read that the whole thing wasn't the best for ADB in general.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We never made any money on it. Whatever sales there were barely paid the fees (if they paid them at all). We made about $3 on a $20 item, for example, and sold one or two items a month, and got charged more than that.
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Jack Bohn
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I couldn't find anything SFB on CafePress a while back, and, knowing how busy you were this summer and fall, I figured that even if given a printing deal you wouldn't have time for any graphic gymnastics necessary to ready the art for it. But I had to make sure I didn't miss anything.

Bummer.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Printing a real print run of calendars would cost more than printing a fed comm product (including the cover, counters, rulebook, three booster covers, and 32 cards). I have never been convinced that a calendar would sell in sufficient quantities to gamble the money. Remember that calendars only have about a 4 month window for sales, while a fed comm product will keep selling for at least six years (so far).

If somebody who has $10K laying around and thinks that this would be a swell idea, contact me. You can pay the printing bill and I'll send you 1/2 of whatever sales we make.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The world's ending next year anyway, it's not like you're going to need a calendar after the End of Days. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, that Mayan Calendar thing really sucks!
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