Well the time has come to commit to what we/I am going to do on the Lanyard order.
The poll says to me that the vast majority are ambivalent about the year at worst. Two people have said they have not ordered because the Lanyard has the year on it. To me there is some kudos in having stuff from years ago. See this web archive from Dave's original site in 1999
http://web.archive.org/web/19990502171717/www.club-arnage.com/takewith.htmwhere he says your t-shirt should be at least 5 years old. If we don't have the year then next year we won't get repeat sales from those that like to collect the whole set.
Firm orders at the moment are 171.
At £3.50 if I sell 189 it would cover the cost of buying 300.
I'm pretty sure I could sell more than 200. However, If I stick to just 200 That will make ~£200 profit for the Server fund.
If we didn't have the financial issues I'd actually order 300.
If I go for the extra 100 then I need to sell 247 to make £200 profit. But if we could sell 300 we would make almost £400 for the server fund. In some ways it's very tempting.
BUT may be it's being greedy. I'm not sure I want to risk the £200.
OK we'll have some disappointed customers. But they will be first in the queue next year.
So unless someone comes up with an order for 50+ in the next few hours. I'm going to stick to the 200.
t.