Okay, so it’s not really all that happy; and, in fact, it’s not terribly new; but it is a site. One outta three ain’t…well, you know….
So, here’s the situation: Wasted, Inc. have been around for a bit [twelve years now, scary as that happens to sound], and wastedinc.com have been around nearly as long; this all dates back to the twentieth century, with its analogue mobilephones and wired videogame controllers: early Mesozoic, really.
So, the site’s not new. But this iteration is all shiny. Version…I dunno…ninish, maybe.
So, what’s changed this time? Mostly just that we’re back on the server again. For the last five years, with a couple of exceptions, wastedinc.com has just redirected to CafePress.com/wastedinc. And that worked pretty well for us, until now.
Now, we’re expanding a bit: outsourcing also to a couple of newer places, like PrintFection.com and lulu.com. In fact, WastedDiscourse.com has been hitting lulu.com for some time now; but, by rewriting the site, it’s simpler to admit that.
Each PoD company we use has its own benefits and downsides. For my money [and it's literally my money, since I tend to order merch from these places to test it out and, more importantly, end up with cool swag], CafePress.com being the oldest, best known, and best stocked of the PoDs, they’re pretty much the industry standard at the moment; and, since we’ve been outsourcing to them since 2001, the majority of our stuff is available there, on the widest range of products.
PrintFection.com are newer–currently less than a year old–and yet, they’re already somewhat better, based on my own testing, at printing on shirts; your results, of course, might vary…especially as time goes by.
As for lulu.com: they mostly do books. And they do them well. I’m not sure whether they really belong in the list with the shirt people; but, since I’ve got a couple of titles listed with them, it doesn’t hurt to consolidate everything into one site.
Finally, if you’re looking up to the right under links, you might notice mall.wastedinc.com; that’s also CafePress.com at the moment, but additionally includes a few thousand things we’ve found at competitors’ stores. Of course, they’re not really competitors, since they’ve all got different sorts of stuff than we have. So, if you can’t track something down within a few thousand of our things, you’ll probably find something you like in the mall.
And…that’s about all the news I’ve got at the moment. Oh, except: over there in the menu under categories [and also at the bottom of this page], you’ll find the RSS link. Feel free to subscribe to be alerted to periodic updates around here. Probably, there’ll be some eventually.
Have a good new year; and remember to buy lots and lots of stuff: otherwise, the terrorists win.
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That line doesn’t really work anymore, does it. I’d like to think that it never really did. Sadly, I know better. Pity.
More later….
–Gremlin