to everyone:
glen and i have been trying to coordinate this via PMs. i thought i'd let everyone in to the way we were thinking of handling this, so we could see what you think of the process. whether it turns anyone off, makes anyone feel secure, maybe someone has an idea of a better way to do it, whatever.
basically we are trying to maximize efficiency and organization while simultaneously attempting to keep it risk-free for everyone involved. its turning out to be a very difficult balance.
here's a snippet of my most recent message to glen:
"we should take all the orders up to a deadline, which will allow us to get a solid number of how many shirts to make. at that point i'll email everyone interested and tell them to send their payments (adjusted for their individual shipping cost, something we need to figure out how we can reliably decide on a case-to-case basis.) once we get all their payments we'll have the shirts made at the price-per-shirt that it cost figuring the number of people interested. (whatever the total is, divided by order number) this way, nobody gets screwed. if someone lays out the money to make the shirts, then a 'customer' backs out, that person is going to eat the cost. once the printing is done, the shirts will be sent to a single address, the resident of which will mail all the shirts out to individual addresses.
alternatively, i sort of like the idea of having people first send a flat price payment, make the shirts, then have each person who ordered one send a second payment of the exact cost of shipping, and the Shipper will make weekly or bi-weekly trips to the post office with each batch of addresses and payments that came in in the previous period.
that is more work and more time, though. but it seems real secure."
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