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#124107 - 08/04/05 12:58 PM
SWXC 'Store'
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Registered: 20/10/01
Posts: 1685
Loc: Frisco, Tx
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All - Want a new shirt? Need some new stickers? Our webmaster, Poorboy, came up with, and implemented an awesome idea. On our club site, under the main menu is a 'store' option. You can now see what the club has for sale, and get what you need (without hoping we remember to bring the items to an event. ) Good job Jonathan! SWXC MAIN PAGE s
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#124109 - 08/04/05 07:32 PM
Re: SWXC 'Store'
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Registered: 18/01/03
Posts: 6372
Loc: Austin, Texas
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Originally posted by Admin: Nice idea about the stuff.. Seems sort of sell out to have vendors names/logos on the club shirts though. Little unfair for other club supporters that are not on there. Having them on a shirt at an event or something like that is normal, looks sort of out of place on a club only shirt though. Even though I like those vendors I would not buy one just for that reason. edit: Whos Xterra is that on the back? Looks like Scotts. Must be a presidential perk. You going to offer each member a shirt with their Xterra on it? I agree that it may be a bit unusual to have the sponsors on a 'regular' shirt, but it was a decision approved by all of the officers (same with the truck pic). We contacted the club sponsors and asked them if they'd like to help out with the club shirts in exchange for a little free advertising. It's mutually beneficial, and I'm proud to help support those that chose to participate (nothing against those that chose not to, mind you). As for the pic, though it is Scott's truck, if I'm not mistaken it was offered up by Robert as the best/most appropriate pic he had of a cool Xterra for the shirt. Two, please
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#124111 - 09/04/05 07:04 AM
Re: SWXC 'Store'
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Registered: 23/12/00
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Board members please check my email to all of you I kind of agree and felt better emailing rather than posting!
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#124113 - 10/04/05 12:24 PM
Re: SWXC 'Store'
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Tyrannt
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Registered: 16/08/00
Posts: 966
Loc: Carrollton, TX
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Boy, go away for a weekend camping trip with the Boy Scouts, and all hell breaks lose.
The concept of the shirts (with sponsers names on them) was floating to the group at a general meeting months ago, and no-one there had any problem with it. At that time no mention was made of even asking the sponsers to pay for this. Asking them to donate to defray the production cost only recently came up.
The artwork was created, and yes it's Scott's truck, but to be honest it's fairly representative of most modified X's (i.e an ARB bumper, and offroad lights), Perhaps we should have digitally removed one of the lights just so it wouldn't be exactly like his truck? With this picture we have all legal rights to it, since I own the copyright. It's not a "Presidential" perk, it's more of a driving force perk. If anyone else wanted to design the shirts, it could have just as easily been their X.
The officers did what they are elected for - make decisions for the club, based on what they perceive is the clubs wishes. If you don't like their choices, you're certainly entitled to your opinion and can broadcast it as a public forum as you want. If you really don't like it, then run against them.
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#124116 - 10/04/05 03:17 PM
Re: SWXC 'Store'
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Tyrannt
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Registered: 16/08/00
Posts: 966
Loc: Carrollton, TX
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Originally posted by Admin: Why not post it so that all the members could have had a say? From what I understand it was at the Austin meeting that all this was discussed.
In hind sight (which is always 20-20), that probably would have been a good idea, however since it was brought to the members at a general meeting, and no one there raised any concern about doing it, it never occured to us (me) that we needed to do that. After all that's one of the primary purposes of the general meetings is to dicuss club matters. It certainly wasn't being done in secret, and if I remember right the same basic process was used for the last shirts, ie a design idea presented at a monthly (as they were then), and the actual graphic discussed by the current officers and designer and decided on by them, and the shirts made, no general club vote on the design. The precedence of using a specific member's truck on our materials was established long ago. The flyer Jason created for recruiting new members has his first X in it, and I think the second Logo used his X until the new style (round headlight) X's came out.
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#124118 - 10/04/05 04:01 PM
Re: SWXC 'Store'
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Registered: 18/01/03
Posts: 6372
Loc: Austin, Texas
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Wow... a lot of tension seems to have developed in here I think if we had realized that someone might dislike the shirts - or that they might be controversial, we would have chosen a different path... a vote would have been good... but it just didn't occur to us (well, at least not to me). I still believe that it is fair to all of our sponsors, because they all got the chance to participate if they wanted to... The 'club donation' we asked for was very small. At any rate, the shirts are ordered and there is no point in getting bent over it now. I guess we will find out if it was a good idea or not by how many of them sell. As to the post-deleting - it sounds like it was accidental/unintentional. THAT is something that pisses people off very quickly and I am in favor of never deleting anything for that reason. -Glen
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#124120 - 10/04/05 06:23 PM
Re: SWXC 'Store'
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Tyrannt
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Registered: 16/08/00
Posts: 966
Loc: Carrollton, TX
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OK time to close this topic, it's getting personal, and has digressed from the original intent.
The shirts are a done deal, they are already made, Perhaps the current officers errored in the reaction to concept, but there was no blatant attempt to sell out the club, just provide some club materials at a reasonable cost to our members.
I think the club appreciates both the effort Carlton and Scott have put forth for this club. Carlton on getting it started and original contacts with Nissan, Xterraparts and the rest of the Xterra Community, Scott for his work on keeping the club going over the last year and a half in increasing the schedule of activities, associations with other 4x4 clubs, and new sponsorships.
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