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[heidi]

So I've been dealing with FictionAlley's Katie O'Brien Fundraiser over the last few days (well, sorta weeks, but actively the last few days).

We were going to do a two-pronged fundraiser this holiday season, and sell these wristbands that say Creativity Is Magic, just like last year, but which have a 128kb flash drive in them, so you can take your fics, or a Firefox browser, or any other documents, wherever you go. We thought it would be handy for those who access on the road, or from multiple computers, or in a library, etc. But they're a pricey thing (if we sell them for $25 including US/Canada shipping, and $4 more to ship overseas, we make about $4 on each of them, all of which goes to the Katie O'Brien Scholarship Fund) and we wanted to have something available at a lower price, like the wristbands were last year.

So we ordered these eGrips that go on the back of a cellphone, camera, remote, mp3 player - anything electronic - and ordered a bunch, with a terrific design that lowlands_girl put together. We sold a few dozen at Lumos - I have one on my cell - and they're cute and lovely and we were going to roll them out next week except...

They all stuck together. I mean, the ones on the top of each stack are fine, but the ones underneath all stuck to the above-one's back.

Luckily, the nice people at Identity-Links.com are taking them back and giving us a full refund, but it means we don't have something on hand for a holiday fundraiser. We have a few dozen wristbands left that we were saving for this summer's conferences, but that's it, and it might be too late to do something cool. (And yes, we already called Lush, and they don't allow reselling of anything, so the WICKED bath melts will not be an FA fundraiser, alas).

If anyone has any suggestions or connections with promo-company-type people, let me know. Otherwise, stay tuned for the flash drive wristbands, which will be available next week.

Comments

[daintress.livejournal.com]

My company sells promotional products, and I do the art and quoting there. If you want to talk to one of our sales reps, I can put you in contact with someone first thing tomorrow morning.

[daintress.livejournal.com]

PS, by 'put in contact' I mean, give you his cell number so you can call him at your convenience. I don't mean have him call you if you aren't interested. :)

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Am asquee, so yes, please! I'm still not sure what to do but we're looking for something (a) creative and (b) easy to ship.

[anemonerose.livejournal.com]

Alas! I was hoping the egrips were still floating about somewhere (unstuck, of course) because I'm getting a new cellphone and wanted one for the back of it. Woe.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

There may be three or four that are recoverable; I'll check tomorrow. The ones on top of each of the piles didn't get stuck to anything, but their backs of the cards are a little ragged - but that doesn't really impact the sticker itself.

[anemonerose.livejournal.com]

That would be awesome if you do still have some that are workable. Do let me know! :)

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

That's really disappointing about the sicky eGrips :-/ But wow, the flash drive wristbands are such a cute idea!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

They're pretty neat, actually. And they have some FA content preloaded onto them!

[shelaghc.livejournal.com]

Did you reply to me or am I going crazy? I could have sworn I saw something here a few minutes ago.....

[rookie131.livejournal.com]

You could try 4imprint.com or maybe pens.com They both have some pretty cool stuff that I looked at for my business.