A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
It has to be the same item/same pattern, I'm guessing, right?
Exactly. We've sold 20 items in a month before, but never 20 of the exact same style/pattern.
AFA our intellectual property rights are concerned, the Member Agreement states unequivocally that we own everything. That said, in exchange for using CafePress, we grant them a license to use our product designs to advertise themselves [while we have accounts with them, and up to 90 days after an account is closed]. (Their mailing list will occasionally send out "hey, this is really cool stuff, and you should buy it!" emails -- I just recently got one with a whole bunch of Martha-Stewart-in-jail-wear. Or one of our logo shirts might show up in a graphic on their front page.)
Good. I misread or dismembered the IP issue, in that case. I'm happy to have done so.
With all the talk about cafepress and board funding issues, I was wondering why we don't have affiliate links for places like Amazon and Buy.com. With all the Buffy-related DVD purchases made by Buffistas (not to mention Farscape, Harry Potter, upcoming Firefly DVD etc.), it could probably raise a few bucks. Has this been discussed already?
The links to Amazon merch in the FAQ currently use my personal affiliate id. If the commissions ever amount to anything significant (I think they've totalled 5 or 10 bucks thus far), I planned on shooting the money over to Jesse.
As I recall, our budgets are very very much in the black, though Jesse could speak better to that point -- the discussion about cafepress has been more about their policies than about how much money we're looking to make.
Also, and I could be mistaken about this, I don't think you can use Amazon's "share the love" feature and an affiliate referral at the same time.
The links to Amazon merch in the FAQ currently use my personal affiliate id. If the commissions ever amount to anything significant (I think they've totalled 5 or 10 bucks thus far), I planned on shooting the money over to Jesse.
I didn't know there were links in the FAQ. Since I do a lot of Amazon purchases, I'll try and do them through your links from now on.
Could someone please fix Nutty's thing about Eowyn and whitefont it??? PLEASE.
In Natter.
Nevermind.
Okay, what's the story here? I mean, I don't want to step on Aimee's toes, and I do understand the greater glee and screaming that may occur when non-readers get to the theatre next fall. But we did discuss it a bit in the Dude, Where's My precious thread, and consensus there was that the Tolkien books do not need whitefont. The books have been in publication 40+ years, and are not reliable predictors of what will show up onscreen.
Moreover, I'm trying to discuss Tolkien specifically as a writer, in context with C. S. Lewis, writing women, visions of Christianity comign through in plotting, etc. It's going to be really hard to have that conversation grow in Natter if we have to whitefont everything.
It's no prob, really I haven't read the books on purpose (was asked to wait until I saw all 3 films) and I've been staying out of Dude, but no big!! I'll hang in Bitches for awhile. I haven't read either author, so I couldn't contribute anyway!! :)
