Raising Money for Server Costs - Ideas?

i'd buy shirts. or hoodies. and come to jumble sales.

jonny that Donations button works real nice.
I think more people would buy a shirt than donate cash, I imagine most people like having something tangible for their money, which sounds ungrateful but just human nature I suppose.

I can recommend a few t-shirt printing places etc....if thats what you decide.
I personaly think that tshirts are over rated and done to death.
It is fairly hard to make money from t shirts. (Maybe it was just my crap designs.)

I think that a jumble is a much better/nicer idea.

Amen to that brother.

Though if someone were to sort out a sweet cycling hoody like the old Trackstar one with rear pockets and something understated and rockin' design wise, then that's a different story altogether…

But a jumble would be a nice way to shed some crap, gain some crap, and hang out and talk bike stuff.
Do I sound stuck on this one at all?

flickwg also


only $9 for a tshirt

Already got that one ;)

Jumble could be at the LFGSS track day? We have a ready made venue. If the entrance was an extra one or two quid (that would go to the forum), the buyers and sellers could do it there... More people likely to cough up for two 'attractions'.

i heard that skullhead was going to raffle off his red geoff butler track frame with all funds going to the forum

not till I've straightened it ;)

Skullhead not till I've straightened it ;)

i'll buy it back then for £100, seeing you bent it! :p

i'd be up for t-shirts, not hoodies. Prefer them plain.

Really like the 'they see me...' tee that flickwg posted :)

+1 for T Shirts.

Howies are doing shorter runs of their prints to be eco friendly. Perhaps if we approached them with a couple of designs they could do a limited edition series for us?

I have always been amazed with the amount of talent that gets misdirected into photochop pisstaking on here

I mentioned this to vb a while back, but there is an ebay affliate scheme where th'bay give you a little money every time you buy something from them.

Wiggle and a couple of other shops do it too, it wouldn't bee advertising just everytime you would normally be buying from them they give a little cut to fgss...

yeah howies. good idea. we'd have to charm the socks off them. nigel peake (a london based illustrator) had one of his designs on one of their shirts a few weeks ago. worth asking. don't know how that would solve the problem in hand though...?

i'd buy t shirt, but i think atomic.a is right.
EVERYONE has t shirts. a little diversity is much better.
hats, bags, badges, wallets, there's endless possibilities for stamping a name/logo on stuff (like the lockring btw).
jumble is also a great idea!
and i'm sure plenty people on here would donate, and a little badge or something next to the name would raise the profile of it.

xsheepx i'd buy shirts. or hoodies

+1 as long as they're not white or pale grey. Bright or dark colours, no pale blah...

I want shiny purple like my bellend

how about a birthday shirt with that cazy barit guy sawing the sheep in half from the flyer?

+1 Chris.

Embryonic idea.

Londonfgss Top trump cards - (I am not sure how many in a pack but I will guess 50?)

50 people here submit their bikes (image + specs) each person pays £20 for the pleasure of having his or her bike in the top trumps pack. (£1000 straight up).

One of the many designer folk here knock up the artwork out of the goodness of his/her heart - (basically one design for the back of the card and one for the front - then all the details filled in for all the bikes - not too much work, I could do it fairly easily)

£1000 is used to print up a number of these packs - I have no clue how many £1000 might buy you and at what quality? But I will suggest that you should print at least 50 - as everyone who has their bike included would probably want a pack - I would grab two or three :)

If you know how Top trumps works the specs should be competitive (or potentially competitive), gear inches, weight, brakes v brakeless, arropokability and so on.

Would be fun, I might even enter two bikes !!!

(all the figures above are arbitary)

Obviously £1000 won't get you a posh molded plastic pack like this, but a cardboard sleeve might be within budget.

You guys are all geniuses.

I'll get onto Howies.

£15 worth of donations yesterday + this months Google Adsense money = only about a tenner for me to pay == I'm happy as it doesn't bleed me dry and I can eat something better than beans.

cha-ching

always takes me atleast 3 tries to remember my paypal password.

is there a way to set it up so i donate monthly automatically, the current system relies on my memory which is shite.

what about an auction of goods and services?

There's plenty of peeps with talents and skills

[bids might be a bit low on 'dales mankini house cleaning service' tho…]

velocity boy You guys are all geniuses.

I'll get onto Howies.

£15 worth of donations yesterday + this months Google Adsense money = only about a tenner for me to pay == I'm happy as it doesn't bleed me dry and I can eat something better than beans.

Do you have an address for those of us without functioning paypal account to send something ? I asked this a few months back, but it went unanswered, I am always looking for places to send money ! :)

Also, on the top trumps, we could get someone like Howies to sponser it (big Howies logo o the back) ? - too small fry for them perhpas ?

why not auction the trxies? or auction wayne to the trxies?