On the beach

[Gottis]

Have written this before, Isent it about time that BBO staff create a well hot cosy T-shirt so I can go around and shine the coming summer. :rolleyes:

[kenrexford]

I'd get one.

 

But, if you are going to run it as a beach T-shirt, it seems that it should have a typical beach theme. Maybe something about BBO on the back but something about bridge on the front.

 

A couple of ideas come to mind.

 

Maybe a front that says "I'm with stupid" and somehow points straight in front of you. Some sort of 3-D holograph, perhaps.

 

Or, maybe something like "BBO Players do it with bots."

[Tola18]

Ah yes. As there IS one BBO shop, the idea is very easy to sell also T-shirts there.

 

If BBO-owners dont want to self bother with such trivias, they can surely let someone else do it on their account. Share the profit taking a little royalty.

 

It will be good pr both for BBO and for Bridge as such...

[Aberlour10]

As far as I remember such T-shirts were available 5 or 6 years ago for the first time.

[Old York]

"Bridge Players do it with Finesse"

"Squeeze my Pips"

"World Class Dummy"

"An Ace, An Ace... My Kingdom for an Ace"

 

Any more?

 

Tony :)

[fred]

As far as I remember such T-shirts were available 5 or 6 years ago for the first time.

It was also (so far at least) the last time.

 

We didn't have much trouble selling all (200?) t-shirts we had made, but this was not what I would call a successful business venture. I place the blame for this on the apparent fact that few Americans have much in the way of fashion sense :)

 

This really hurt our business model. The problem was that we charged something like $5 for shipping a t-shirt regardless of the destination and size of the order (a policy that works well with the bridge CD-ROM business).

 

The vast majority of our sales went to very fashion-aware bridge players living outside the USA (where it costs considerably more than $5 to ship even one t-shirt). I recall a single order of 17 t-shirts that had to be shipped to Indonesia...

 

This is a not entirely serious post (but the story is true).

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[nigel_k]

The vast majority of our sales went to very fashion-aware bridge players living outside the USA (where it costs considerably more than $5 to ship even one t-shirt). I recall a single order of 17 t-shirts that had to be shipped to Indonesia...

Fred, if you have any left could you send one to Wellington, New Zealand? Thanks. :)

[Gottis]

I guess those that would want a "textil" from BBO living outside USA are willing to bare the transportation cost. But ofcourse then they also want some drawing or some similiar so they find the expense easier.