Equipment and Media - online T-SHIRT buyers please read!!! 24266353 - Jul 07, 2008 - 10:25 PM Post subject: online T-SHIRT buyers please read!!!
Heyy.
Can you answer a few real quick questions about buying a t-shirt online, or more like receiving a t-shirt, please.
Just wanted to know...
When you order a t-shirt do you expect it to come through your letter box no hasel or would you expect it to come with a parcel man and therefore someone would need to be there to collect it.
What do most people think?
Annddd what would you, as the customer, expect it to come in?
Like a box, envelope, bag, etc etc.
Let me know.
It is much appreciated. And you'll be helping inspire the actions of a new clothing brand coming real soon to the UK!!!
Thank you.
kap66 - Jul 07, 2008 - 10:28 PM Post subject: RE: online T-SHIRT buyers please read!!!
im pretty sure a tshirt will fit through a letter box.
mini.mansell - Jul 07, 2008 - 10:30 PM Post subject: RE: online T-SHIRT buyers please read!!!
i live in a very remote cottage.
nothing is more of a pain in the arse than parcels that need signing for.
a jiffy bag please for a t shirt. it will fit in the letter box
Mini
Sidget_Ex - Jul 07, 2008 - 10:53 PM Post subject: RE: online T-SHIRT buyers please read!!!
Vacuum pack it so its tiny in size
Tomahawk - Jul 07, 2008 - 11:09 PM Post subject: RE: online T-SHIRT buyers please read!!!
yea just a padded envelope/ bag will suffice and saves having to sign.
Mac83 - Jul 07, 2008 - 11:23 PM Post subject: RE: online T-SHIRT buyers please read!!!
Jiffy bag through the letterbox.. Or even just an envelope... How much padding does a t-shirt need!?
Can we hear more about these t-shirts 24266353? Denizen - Jul 08, 2008 - 07:58 AM Post subject: Re: RE: online T-SHIRT buyers please read!!!
Roll it up and put it in a jiffy bag; it's just a t-shirt no need to sign for it.
Sidget_Ex wrote:
Vacuum pack it so its tiny in size
I love Vac packing sh1t. Great fun working in a kitchen vac packing someones stuff then freezing it in a bucket of water. Hours of fun. During slow season we individually vacced all of the head chefs knives, then together in his knife roll, put it in a big bucket filled with water and in the freezer. He was not happy the next day.
Sidget_Ex - Jul 08, 2008 - 12:01 PM Post subject: RE: Re: RE: online T-SHIRT buyers please read!!!
Whats good about freezing it in water?
trendkiller - Jul 08, 2008 - 12:30 PM Post subject: RE: Re: RE: online T-SHIRT buyers please read!!!
I'd prefer if you put it in a massive box wrapped it up in xmas paper, put a huge bow on the top.
That way it would be like xmas day, only down side is you know what it is bummer
trendkiller - Jul 08, 2008 - 12:34 PM Post subject: Re: RE: online T-SHIRT buyers please read!!!
Mac83 wrote:
Jiffy bag through the letterbox.. Or even just an envelope... How much padding does a t-shirt need!?
Can we hear more about these t-shirts 24266353?
I think its there guys here, not sure?
http://www.channel-3.co.uk/home.htmlDan_scarfe - Jul 08, 2008 - 01:18 PM Post subject:
Reckon you might be right there trendkiller. If you were to use you phone to write Channel3 like you do in texts messages you'd use the keys 24266353
trendkiller - Jul 08, 2008 - 01:27 PM Post subject:
I should be a private detective really!
Dan_scarfe - Jul 08, 2008 - 01:34 PM Post subject:
Yeah, and I should get back to work!
Mac83 - Jul 08, 2008 - 05:02 PM Post subject:
Good call trendkiller! My phone's got a full Qwerty keyboard so i would never have guessed that! Shrimps - Jul 08, 2008 - 05:29 PM Post subject: Re: RE: online T-SHIRT buyers please read!!!
mini.mansell wrote:
i live in a very remote cottage.
nothing is more of a pain in the arse than parcels that need signing for.
a jiffy bag please for a t shirt. it will fit in the letter box
Mini
yeah exactly,
due to how ridicolous our great nations postal and parcel deliverys are run its bare hassle. they obviously think "oh hes not in, no bother we'll try again tomorow"
jeeeez
anyway rant over
yeah it would be much more convienient if it went thru the post box
Denizen - Jul 08, 2008 - 09:51 PM Post subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: online T-SHIRT buyers please read!!!
Sidget_Ex wrote:
Whats good about freezing it in water?
It makes it so much harder to get your stuff when you need it. A vac pack bag you can just slice open with a knife, a block of ice is not so easy.
24266353 - Jul 08, 2008 - 11:40 PM Post subject:
How did you work that out!!! haha but yeah you are right.
2426635-3 = channel-3.
It's a kind of alias that I use when I do things that are around the same lines but not directly connected. General things.
But seeming how it's all out now I'll give you folks the low down.
I've been working on releasing this brand for around 6/7 months now. Just kind of at the final stages now. Sorting the packaging and finalizing all designs ready for launch. Thats why the original questions were based around your thoughts on packaging.
So "channel-3" or "c-3" is a Plymouth lifestyle clothing design company with roots within the snowboarding and skateboaring cultures and a strong focus on design. It something for people who want a little more and are getting tired of the average. It is a lifestyle brand that will keep grounded around it's roots.
Planning to launch in a few months or less. Online shop. Direct to consumer sales. Launch weekend. Discounts, offers etc, maybe a party. Just good times.
Launching the brand with 3 t-shirt designs. 3c-3's. Then expanding the range introducing things along the lines of bandanas, sweatshirts, jackets, hats, endless ideas but thats for the future.
Just keep a look out and I hope you all like the designs and get stoked on the brand lifestyle and morals. It's all exciting stuff.
I'm thinking about wacking out some SCUK discounts around launch seeming you've all been real good and helpful.
Thanks for all the support, it's all much appreciated.
I'll keep you posted.
Thanks guys!
Take it easy.
Lee.
trendkiller - Jul 08, 2008 - 11:59 PM Post subject:
haha sorry to bust your cover!
I knew I had seen your avarta somewhere before!
good luck man, hope it all goes good!
Dan_scarfe - Jul 09, 2008 - 09:25 AM Post subject:
yeah, once Trendkiller had pointed it out it was pretty easy to figure out where your name came from. Either that or people can start calling me rainman...
Always on the lookout for new Ts so will check you out when your up and running.
On the note of the original post, not too much packaging (plastic bags etc). Keep it simple with paper based products that can be chucked in the recycling. I once ordered a neoprene laptop sleeve that got delivered in a plastic bag, wrapped in bubble wrap in a box. What were they expecting to happen to it, it's neoprene for gods sake!
Also make sure it fits through the letter box. I work, that's how I can afford to buy things but that also means that I'm not going to be in at 11 (or whenever it is that our postman comes), why don't companies seem to realise that.
Anyway, with that off my chest (I should have posted that in the 'things that piss me off' thread), good luck with it all, keep us posted
oneloveofboardsports - Jul 09, 2008 - 10:35 AM Post subject:
Maybe a suggestion, but from experience youve got the issue if it is doesnt arrive, or the twat that tells you it didnt arrive, when its actually hung in his wardrobe,
I'm never right according to my mrs so dont take my word for it, but from experience I think it would be less hassle for everyone if you still jiffy bagged it so its a small package and sent it recorded royal mail, but checked before posting out so you can deliver it to a work place or on a convenient day.
Trust me ive had hassles with bits and it snowballs into a nightmare quickly, but a quick email to say can you take it on this day, or on your order form make it so when you order you can say Saturdays home, Mon to Friday to my work adress which is ........................
Sounds like a good thing going on anyway, so hope it all work out
Dan_scarfe - Jul 09, 2008 - 11:00 AM Post subject:
Yeah, I guess that all makes sense, especially form a retailers point of view. It can still be a pain in the arse though but that's an issue of Royal mail living in the dark ages rather than anythng else IMO.
What onelove says sounds good if you really have to send it recorded, but I still prefer it to be sitting on my doormat when I get home (cue change of mind the moment something doesn't turn up and I have issues with the sender )
24266353 - Jul 18, 2008 - 04:06 PM Post subject:
Yeah okay sweet. Thanks folks, it's really helped out.
It's looking to be around an end of August launch weekend. I'll keep you posted.
bummer
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