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@Velocio
Don't take it personally.
I'm just saying:
1) If there is something wrong with the shirt you have, then my idea of customer service isn't just to hang you out high and dry but to put it right.
2) The shirts I've sold have covered costs but not made profit... if they all sell they will make a big bit of profit but right now having lots of shirts here means that unless you're going to offset all of the costs yet to be paid and all of the profit that you'll be competing with everything we've done and it won't help anyone at all except a large American corporation.
3) That if a spreadshirt account is to be setup then it probably isn't for you to do as you don't own the designs or have permission yet to reproduce them, and the whole community effort was about raising money through something that people wanted to do. The idea you have is good but don't be too hasty.
4) The designs, well even their creators don't own the rights. Making it permanently available perhaps isn't the wisest choice when we have most definitely infringed upon the copyright of some major companies. Which is why we are doing limited runs and were not intending to re-print. Do you want to be liable once the cease and desist and damages start coming through?
Sure there would be some money, but it wasn't a 100% profit game so that doesn't make the rest of it OK. So yes I welcome that thought and the idea, but unless you can solve the problem with copyright, what to do with the profits we haven't yet made (T-shirts sitting on my floor) and getting permission from designers, then right now it is a premature idea. Wait a little, it's for the best.
And... don't take it personally.