Friday Night Ride To A Calendar
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StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
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- Portsmouth
Just had a go with the Apple calendar buying option through iPhoto 09. It's 13x 10.4 inches, comes to £21.58 including shipping and VAT (£11.99 for the calendar, £5.99 shipping charge- not from the UK, hence price, 20% VAT on top of the lot). Shipping is flat rate, so I (or AN Other Mac owner) could do a bulk order then ship/hand them on...?
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mmmmartin
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Well I could do a bulk order and the hand them on but there are 300 people in The Fridays and Dellzeqq's experience with the shirts being wrong/late/lost in the post does not augur well.
The plan was to make it dead simple - for the thing to be created and folk could then order it themselves as and when they wanted one - some of these websites offer variable start months, for instance.
I have the pix in a folder on my desktop so actually creating the calendar is pretty easy - it's the "remote ordering" that is a pain. I am just now looking at Red Bubble, which seems to allow you to add a premium and then sell your "art". Helen Thomas did this successfully with her "Take on Africa" bike ride from Henley to Cape Town. She added a fiver to each calendar which went to a charity in Sierra Leone.
Obviously I wouldn't add any money to the price. But even getting it sorted in the first place is harder than it looks. Had, of course, Truprint made it plain that the "share" button was in actual fact a button that meant "force your mates to sign up to slow and inefficient website that spends 20 minutes and then fails to load the calendar" I wouldn't even have considered the idea.......................
The plan was to make it dead simple - for the thing to be created and folk could then order it themselves as and when they wanted one - some of these websites offer variable start months, for instance.
I have the pix in a folder on my desktop so actually creating the calendar is pretty easy - it's the "remote ordering" that is a pain. I am just now looking at Red Bubble, which seems to allow you to add a premium and then sell your "art". Helen Thomas did this successfully with her "Take on Africa" bike ride from Henley to Cape Town. She added a fiver to each calendar which went to a charity in Sierra Leone.
Obviously I wouldn't add any money to the price. But even getting it sorted in the first place is harder than it looks. Had, of course, Truprint made it plain that the "share" button was in actual fact a button that meant "force your mates to sign up to slow and inefficient website that spends 20 minutes and then fails to load the calendar" I wouldn't even have considered the idea.......................
mmmmartin, don't beat yourself up over it. It's a fine piece of work. It does seem that the most recent page you linked to has a different format to the other "work in progress" pages elsewhere in the thread.
The latest one goes to a sort of Truprint front page , asking for my login details, while the work in progress links go to a "project share" page.
Yes I do have a Truprint account, but get the same page User10571 showed when I login to the latest version.
Hope this makes sense.
The latest one goes to a sort of Truprint front page , asking for my login details, while the work in progress links go to a "project share" page.
Yes I do have a Truprint account, but get the same page User10571 showed when I login to the latest version.
Hope this makes sense.
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User482
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2 macs AND a compact chainset? Will someone please think of the children...
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
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mmmmartin
Random geezer
http://www3.truprint.co.uk/truprint...COBRAND_NAME=truprint/otsc=SYE/otsi=SPBKlink/
should work. If not, let me know and I'll go to Red Bubble.
Those with a life should stop reading this post now.
I have spoken to someone at Truprint who admits that "the sharing interface is a bit daunting", which is about as close as they'll get to admitting it is, actually, pants. He said that whenever you make any change to a "project" it saves it as a newer version. Hence the confusion caused by their website, I think.Having said that, the company is owned by Hewlett Packard, which is a forrin comapny so obviously it'll be hard to use.........
And yes, it seems you do need a log-in to purchase. you "cannot purchase as a guest". I pointed out that nowhere does it say that. He said he'd tell his manager.
should work. If not, let me know and I'll go to Red Bubble.
Those with a life should stop reading this post now.
I have spoken to someone at Truprint who admits that "the sharing interface is a bit daunting", which is about as close as they'll get to admitting it is, actually, pants. He said that whenever you make any change to a "project" it saves it as a newer version. Hence the confusion caused by their website, I think.Having said that, the company is owned by Hewlett Packard, which is a forrin comapny so obviously it'll be hard to use.........
And yes, it seems you do need a log-in to purchase. you "cannot purchase as a guest". I pointed out that nowhere does it say that. He said he'd tell his manager.
Aperitif
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Well done, keep going Martin (I haven't got a life so was happy to read this!) If only you, as purchaser, can see the illustrated packet of dates available, why not just give all your details to people who contact you (by PM for example), and you can issue your log in details? Just a thought with no real depth, that's all...
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User10571
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That appears to be 100% kusty, thanks Martin.
Ummm.... I don't know of anywhere on the interwebs that it's possible to make a purchase without logging in in some capacity - However, it wouldn't exactly do TP any harm to point this out.
Ummm.... I don't know of anywhere on the interwebs that it's possible to make a purchase without logging in in some capacity - However, it wouldn't exactly do TP any harm to point this out.
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mmmmartin
Random geezer
I have tried this but it then - I think - stores your credit card details for the next person to see..................
if you want to go down this route, PM me and I'll email you my log-in details which are
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
Working fine here too. Thanks Martin.
swarm_catcher
Guru
Ordered two. Thanks for organising Martin!
CharlieB
Junior Walker and the Allstars
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- Therivermeadowatthepileofstones
I could 
. Tried to load this last night. One episode of Coronation Street later, it was still loading.
Is there any way of buying one without this without the pain?
. Tried to load this last night. One episode of Coronation Street later, it was still loading.Is there any way of buying one without this without the pain?
Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
Is it the wrong time to say that Vistaprint will do a calendar for £5.49 + postage..............
