From: "Erik Moeller" erik_moeller@gmx.de
Jay- Thanks for the kind words.
Well earned, nice job of merchandizing!
Some people might prefer something more subtle.
The crispness of the logo won't suffer if your PNG file is large enough. Also if you want a golf type shirt logo, it would be miniscule, anything in between looks a bit off, but that's only my opinion. If you're going for promotion and propaganda, let the logo be obvious.
As far as I understand I can only create one product per type in the basic shop. We already have a logo mousepad which I think looks fairly nice. Of course if Wikimedia covers the costs I'm all for upgrading the shop, but I think we should test it with some orders first.
Yes, I agree; the current mousepad looks very nice too. One idea is that you can change the image on the item monthly, this gives folks a reason to visit the site again and again to see what's new. You can have featured graphics, contest graphics, special event graphics, etc.
After the site gets going you'll notice it will pay for itself, specially if you're only charging $5 on top of the item cost. You may even want to hold monthly sales on certain items and have only a $1 or $2 profit instead, this will encourage the sale of that item and also give folks a reason to visit again and see what's on sale.
You can also buy in bulk for events. The minimum quantity is 15 items to get the reduced price. This may be a good way of promoting Wikipedia at functions etc.
Keep up the good work ;-) and Stay Wiki!
w/ regards, Jay B.