Have you already done your duty and bought official Poly merchandise?

[Rasbelin]

As there has been an aggressive campaign for marketing Poly for a while, I thought it might be interesting to know how many have actually ordered from the ACS store? As far as I have noticed, quite many seem to have been persuaded by those "help save the kitten" and "God bless Apolyton" banners, and ordered themselves mugs, mousepads and T-shirts.

I must admit (includes a small complaint) that I haven't done that yet, as those goods are not really so cheap when you include shipping and the actual payment process (especially if you don't have credit card like me, so a SWIFT cheque isn't so cheap). That would mean if I would like to order (as I've been thinking of) a Nuclear T-shirt (grey), it would cost...

product 16,99 $
shipping 7,00 $
SWIFT cheque ~ 20-25 $

That would make a grand total of 44-50 $. Almost 50 bucks for a Poly T-shirt. Oh dear, that's what I call expensive. So I'll have to forget about buying a nice Poly T-shirt.

Or I could start selling fake Poly merchandise for about the half price of the official products. That wouldn't be hard to arrange. Cheap child labourers in Vietnam. Isn't that what Markos is already using for the official stuff?

P.S. Don't take the idea with fake merchandise with too much seriousity. I'm not in favour of child labour.

[MarkG]

SWIFT cheque?

[Rasbelin]

A cheque available worldwide. The cheque is ordered in your local bank and the cheque is processed by sending the order electronically to the accredited local bank (i.e. Manhattan Chase Bank in USA, if using OKO Bank in Finland) in the destination country (i.e. USA, Greece) where it's then printed out and sent by mail to the receiver. So in general it's like a normal cheque, except it's printed on paper in the destination country.

Got it?

[Rasbelin]

But where's your vote, Markos? Don't you have any Poly goods? Or have you aquired them illegally under the counter by not paying for them? Or went even that far you stole them?!?

[MarkG]

why not use a credit card?

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by MarkG
why not use a credit card?

He doesn't have one... and I wouldn't get one just for a single purchase...

[MarkG]

whatif we had apolyton credit cards?

[Rasbelin]

Not a bad idea if the text "My words are backed with nuclear weapons" would be visible on the card as a slogan. That would at least solve all problems with getting credit when using the card for purchases. People wouldn't at least dare to refuse credit from someone who's backing his/her words with nuclear weapons.

[tniem]

Originally posted by Rasbelin
Not a bad idea if the text "My words are backed with nuclear weapons" would be visible on the card as a slogan. That would at least solve all problems with getting credit when using the card for purchases. People wouldn't at least dare to refuse credit from someone who's backing his/her words with nuclear weapons.

I like the idea if it was possible,

[Mr. President]

Can I actually back up my words with nuclear weapons?

[ixnay]

I haven't bought anything. Is Paypal accepted for payment? If so, I might consider it.

[aaglo]

Sorry. I haven't bought anything...

[MattyBoy]

No, I'd be embarrassed to be seen wearing geek clothes. Happy to post on poly and play games every day though

[Pavlov]

Gah! A crushing 89 % for No! I haven't bought anything, I just take advantage of your site, mark.

[Nubclear]

I'm considering buying a frosty mug.

Although I'll have to hold off. Probably. I mean, its my birthday comin up.