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The First 9rules Schwag: 1″ Pins
Written by Scrivs on July 31, 2006
Over the past year we have received a couple of queries about whether 9rules offers any schwag. Surprisingly the answer was no…until now. Our first official piece of schwag comes in the form of a 1″ Pin. Our first batch is only 200 deep and our Members are already scooping them up.
To purchase a pin or two or ten simply send $5 for each pin to payment{AT}9rules.com (yeah we need a store, we know). $5 for a pin? Well you get more than that. Each person that purchases a pin will get the url of their choosing (nothing too raunchy of course) on our 9rules Friends page (coming soon) in recognition of their support for 9rules. The more pins you buy, the more links you get. Simply include the information on the Paypal payment page and you are good to go. Not sure how long the urls will stay up since over time the page will fill up fast, but you are guaranteed at least 3 months.
Pins will ship this Friday.
July 31st, 2006 at 3:25 am
Now those pins are cool. I’m going to have to get one of those to add to my bag. Are those standard 1″ pins from Mammoth?
July 31st, 2006 at 6:00 am
Do you ship to the UK?
July 31st, 2006 at 6:26 am
Yes.
July 31st, 2006 at 7:03 am
Cool pins, why not start a 9rules shop on prickie? How much is shipping to the UK?
July 31st, 2006 at 7:18 am
Prickie looks cool, I’ll have to look more into it. I’m sure shipping an envelope to the UK isn’t much so I would say don’t worry about it (*inserts foot into mouth).
July 31st, 2006 at 8:54 am
What about shipping to Oz? O_o
July 31st, 2006 at 11:27 am
Easiest place in the world to ship to. Just 3 clicks of the heel.
July 31st, 2006 at 11:50 am
You know you’ve made it when you can charge $5 for a 1″ pin. I’m sure they’ll sell out hella fast too. Congrats fellas.
July 31st, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Obvioulsy once more schwag comes in we can offer package deals and that’s why we are creating the 9rules Friends page to balance things out. Now I expect you to buy 10 of them Sally since you love us so much. Hell, buy 10 and I’ll throw in one for free
July 31st, 2006 at 12:09 pm
Haha, yeah, I’m talkin’ shit, but you know I want one…
I finally sent Matt O. a Fixpert shirt after I told him I would at SXSW, I gotta get one out to you and Mike too if you’re interested. I’m giving them out for free since it was just a screenprinting experiment and some of the work is shotty.
July 31st, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Did you use the proper vowel for that last word?
My daughter loves her shirt. “Super Girl rides a bicycle!”
July 31st, 2006 at 12:32 pm
Awesome!!
July 31st, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Oh you know I gots to get up on one. I’ll shoot you my info.
July 31st, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Oh sorry Derek, yeah they are from Mammoth.
July 31st, 2006 at 5:03 pm
We are now officially a cult. Yeah!
July 31st, 2006 at 6:35 pm
http://mammothprintshop.com
I’ve used them a bunch - great service.
July 31st, 2006 at 7:42 pm
Wow, these are awesome. I’ll have to order some. By the way, that photo totally needs to have levels run in Photoshop and sharpened. Just saying.
July 31st, 2006 at 11:13 pm
So how many do I have to buy in order to submit a very late application?
Anyways, what do you mean by a “url of our choice”.
Thanks.
August 1st, 2006 at 1:56 am
Do ya send to SG? Erm…without damaging it?
August 1st, 2006 at 10:57 am
Well I know not everyone has a blog of their own, so maybe they wish to promote another site. Where in the hell is SG?
August 1st, 2006 at 12:06 pm
‘now what? Your (rectangular) banner on your frontpage is a way more interesting form as a pin as the actual schwag.
Why don’t you try it? It looks like the ribbon bar of a medal … cool.
August 1st, 2006 at 12:13 pm
Singapore.
August 1st, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Never hurts to try
August 1st, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Cem: Maybe that will come in the 3rd edition.
August 1st, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Send $5 to that e-mail via PayPal I am assuming? Also, estimate of how many are left?
August 1st, 2006 at 7:00 pm
I just purchased four pins. You should do a shirt next. Those would sell for sure.
August 1st, 2006 at 7:20 pm
Meh, I just sent the payment to the PayPal. Relief hit when it said sent to Paul Scrivens. *Phew* I didn’t want to not be able to get one. =P
August 1st, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Hopefully there will still be some available tomorrow. I only have 3 bucks in bank atm.
If you guys are going to do more pins I suggest maybe a little contest to design the color of the leaf for the pin.
August 2nd, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Next schwag should be shirts, yes.
August 3rd, 2006 at 9:58 am
I agree with Montoya, Shirts with a big colourful 9rules leaf in the middle
August 3rd, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Andrew: I had mentioned shirts first
A good friend of mine is in the silkscreen business, so I could get you some really nice pricing for shirts.
I’m actually getting some done for my site and the price worked out to be around $2.00 a shirt my cost after a set up fee around $50.00, so there is a lot of room to make some money as most shirts sell from $10.00 - $20.00 each for nice shirts.
August 6th, 2006 at 1:06 am
$5 for a pin! Yikes.
August 6th, 2006 at 1:16 am
Any left?
August 7th, 2006 at 12:08 am
Just out of curiosity for my own pins, can these pins be sent in a regular letter envolope for the regular letter cost?
August 9th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Sean, I wouldn’t send pins in a regular envelope. The envelope almost ALWAYS tears and arrives empty. I always use small padded (bubble-type) or tyvek envelopes. A 6×9 padded envelope costs $0.63 for up to about 10 pins.
August 10th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
I’ve sent my pins in regular envelopes before and it works just fine. I would, however, recommend wrapping the pin(s) in a bit of paper first
August 10th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
And a regular stamp works good?
August 12th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Where is my button? It was supposed to be sent out last Friday… its over a week later. Where oh where could my button be.
August 12th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Yeah there was a mishap with the envelopes as the Post Office deemed my writing illegible
They are on their way.
August 12th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Ohhh Scrivs, you goose. XD
August 14th, 2006 at 10:44 am
Do you have any pins left?
August 14th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
Glad to hear they are on their way. I was just going to check and see if they had been sent. When do we get to put our websites up on the 9rules friends list?
August 17th, 2006 at 1:51 am
I like that button
August 21st, 2006 at 3:49 am
how about a shirt, Scrivs? When would that be ready?
August 21st, 2006 at 10:27 am
Just wondering if they have the been shipped yet? I’ve still not recieved mine.
August 21st, 2006 at 11:57 pm
Like Lindsey, I ordered and paid for 4 pins on August 1 and as of today August 21, still no pins. Would be nice for a heads up on this.
August 22nd, 2006 at 6:55 am
Mine haven’t been recieved either! Would be nice for an update.
August 22nd, 2006 at 11:36 am
All pins have been sent out. If you haven’t received them by Friday please let me know.
August 23rd, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Any pins left?
August 25th, 2006 at 4:26 am
Haven’t Recieved My Pin Yet Scrivs, Sorry!
August 25th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
Same here, just received the mail, no pin
PS. I so would dig a shirt if the future should bring one.
August 25th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
that makes 3, i didn’t got mine today either
August 26th, 2006 at 1:21 am
Mail came and went today. No pins for me either. I paid on August 1 it’s now August 25. Any status update? I’ve been receiving mail from other countries quicker then this.
August 26th, 2006 at 5:30 am
I talked to Scrivs yesterday and he said they all went out. Scrivs won’t be back until Monday (he was moving this week) and I will definitely talk to him about it.
August 26th, 2006 at 10:26 am
Mine hasn’t arrived yet either. I’m in the UK so I’d expect it to take a while longer, but it’s still been a fortnight since you posted them.
August 26th, 2006 at 11:13 am
yes, fine, but where are the nachos?
August 27th, 2006 at 12:09 am
Another day with lots of mail but nothing with 9rules pins, however because reverend gisher mentioned nachos, I whipped some up. MMM yummy nachos
August 28th, 2006 at 1:06 am
Sigh, becoming a tad impatient here. I too paid on the 1st, and still no pin. Most likely if it is on its way I will receive it tomorrow. If I do not, I am going to be very upset.
August 28th, 2006 at 8:28 am
Besides the pins, is there a 9rules Friends page going up anytime soon?
August 28th, 2006 at 10:48 am
http://9rules.com/blog/2006/08/the-pins-disaster/
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