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So we can't make any now because someone else is? Hmm... that's not the idea of the competition, the idea is we get to make them and therefore we get to cover the servers £3k+ annual costs without having to splatter the whole site with adverts and aggressively ask/force people to donate/pay.
And if we can still make it anyway... what market is going to be left if someone is putting them into production sooner, making them cheaper (because they're not having to put profits into a huge website) and basically selling to the very people that we hope to sell to.
I'm glad the shirts are being made, but it does undermine the very reason for us putting the time and effort and creating a market to sell them here, whilst it additionally does nothing to help pay for the servers that run this.
Colour me miffed. It's your design so you can do what you want, but why put it up here if you didn't want to help out the site? I like both of you (skulls and julio) but it's not helping out the forum and that's pretty much the exclusive point in doing this whole thing. It will cost me and others greatly in time to make all of this work, but the reward for this is securing an income stream that covers the hosting costs for maybe a year. That's why this thread exists. It's why we're doing it.