stupidchicken03

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It does seem like everything is being hush hush this year... kidna weird

455h013

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dont worrie, its going to be amazing.

bkblitzed

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rofl

slow04wrx

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glad somebody got the joke, heh.

huck

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That's how we rolled in '92.

rau

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word.

Roo

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Instead of leaking out little bits of information, I'd rather have the entire package in place and posted up on a webpage. This way, people have the ability to judge for themselves after they read the information. This will hopefully keep the complaint level down, as I'm spending a lot of time, effort, and some of my own resources to put on the absolute BEST BAM yet.

If I have enough of the information finalized before the end of May, I'll put up a page.

Here's an example:

I post a t-shirt thread, and have yet to have a single t-shirt design submitted. The entire thread, save one or two posts, is off-topic. I don't really have the time or inclination to follow all of the threads I have to start - reading all the off-topic posts in them.

So, with that said, we currently need:

1. Car Show Organizer
2. T-Shirt Designer
3. DJ - we might have one lined up

Closer to the event date (August 7th), we'll be rounding out the roster with volunteers for Parking Coordinators and other duties we need help with.

Guillermo

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Yo, Roo. If you guys need a DJ, PM me. I have a co-worker who does DJ's, he said he was down to do it. Don't stress too much and don't mind the haters here. They have yet to take responsibility for such a big event, and if they have, they know the stress that's involved, so do what you have to and how you have to for a great BAM XI

A.V.E.

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id be down to help out again this year, but ill be in the middle of moving by August.

ill keep you updated, Greg.

OneManArmy

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Just bumping this as a reminder of the submission date and the fact that good designs take time.

Roo

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Any suggestions on submission dates?

I split it up this way:

19 days for design to be turned in (May 31)
two weeks for voting on the final design (June 15)
five weeks for pre-ordering (July 20)
two weeks and a couple days for production of all pre-orders and delivery to BAM (August 5)

I'd like to hear suggestions if you have them on how to better split the timeline to make sure we have the best designs.

iDriveMyi

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How about 4 weeks (month) for pre-ordering and an extra week for design?

brucelee

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I would just like to thank Roo again for taking over this incredibly time consuming event! :-D

OneManArmy

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I would give more time to the designs if you really want good ones. Less time for voting and less time for pre-orders.

Just by comparison... our guy turned our shirts around in under a week on American Apparel shirts, I can give you prices. They were one color so that makes it easier but not much. I would highly discourage you from going to one of those mass huge factory type deals. Usually the quality control sucks, the business practices suck and the prices suck.


I would say add a week or two to the design time. Pull one off of the voting and pull one off preorder. The thing with pre-orders... people will take the time you give them. Give them a week and they'll do it, give them 3 months and they'll take 3 months and still miss the deadline and ***** that they missed out. We had pre-orders set up on facebook and our club forum for a couple weeks and we still had people complaining they missed out. We had to do a special run of 30 a couple days after. Funny that the guys in Australia were able to get their order in...

See what I'm saying?

ok.... long form over. This is what I would do if it was me.

Take a week off the voting. Take 1 or 2 weeks off pre-order. Give people 3 or 4 weeks to get their **** together. Add a 2 weeks to design and if you have that other week put it on to production and delivery. It should take no more than 10 days to get these printed and delivered but just in case they screw up you'll have extra time.



I would also HIGHLY recommend having someone sit down with a sharpie and some post it notes and sort the pieces ahead of time. That way there is no chance of things getting miss places or stolen. Everyone name and screen name is ON what they get.

I would also highly recommend printing extras if you have the money. They WILL sell. I'd do a few XXL, a bunch of XL/L and a few Medium. Maybe 40 pieces total. They'll sell. Shoot we're about to do another run of my shirts and do some white ones. Sold 80 of them in a QUICKNESS.

OneManArmy

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Oh... and I wouldn't panic if designs aren't coming in right away. They'll all start to flood in around the same time.