Six months down the line I'm still with Amazon, but Alibris has come and gone. I'm currently trying out Biblio.com, and Biblion.co.uk, its smaller UK-based cousin.

I should probably market more. The prices are too high for most of the people I know (minimum around £15 for a shirt if you incude p&p), but there are no doubt some people who would buy at that price if it was what they wanted .. I think less than a tenner would sell more shirts though, and I'm keeping my cut to around £1, so it's not like I'm putting on a big margin. The other drawback of spreadshirts is that you only get three free designs approved (in vector mode).

Yes, ShadowShirts is no more, and in order not to lose the huge customer base (well, two), we're completing a massive amount of remarketing, including:

1. Thinking of a new name. ShadowShirts was always a bit vague. The tshirts all look a bit retro though - so why not market to elderly geekish people like myself? A quick trip to Telivo cheap domain names, and oldgeekstshirts.co.uk was born.
2. Redesigning the logo. This obviously takes months, and thousands, or at least an evening and several coffees.

I keep adding designs to the collection, it's beginning to look a bit better now. I could do with selling some, and then I can get some more vector designs made up. Maybe have a big push for next Christmas. Meanwhile .. it's been fun. I could do with improving the site, getting the pages to conform together better, and putting some rollovers on the tshirt pics - also getting some models to show them off.

I ordered a chess-themed tshirt for Malcolm, but didn't put my house number on the address. When it hadn't arrived for several days after the sending confirmation, I checked the details and realised my stupidity. I then emailed customer services at spreadshirt with the sorry story and my full address, fully expecting (with it being my fault an all) to have to pay redelivery. But no, all was was dealt with, I got a nice reply, and the shirt came the following week, good quality print, as it looked in the designing doodang - so I'm happy. I'll put a pic of Malc in the shirt on soon.

I've started an e-shop courtesy of Shirtcity, a Swiss company offering t-shirt design and print services. I ordered one for Christmas - delivery was prompt. The quality isn't that durable, but it was one one of the 'non-transparent' designs, which the site itself rates as the worst. The foil print designs, rated as best, have to be emailed in as vectors, and so far I've had no response to the one I've emailed in, still waiting. I've taken the non-transparent designs off my 'shop' in the meantime.