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posted by mrcoolbp on Wednesday August 27 2014, @05:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the empty-your-wallet dept.

Good news everyone!

The SoylentNews Swag Store is live. We've partnered with Zazzle; they are well-known for decent quality items and a full return policy. The URL is:

http://www.zazzle.com/soylentnews*

We've tried to include a good selection of products from their catalog with various options (like gadgets, custom UID items, exorbitantly-expensive-for-no-reason "unobtanium edition" keychain, etc.). We can add more items and options based on demand (note: we are limited to what's available under zazzle's products, e.g. they do not have USB drives at the time of this writing).

Read on for more info:

Some notes about the URL:

A big thanks for all your support from the entire Soylent Swag Team ("we've got swag!")

-mrcoolbp, juggs, and xlefay

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:06PM

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:06PM (#86391) Journal

    Gotta get me one of those.
    Oh, wait, I already have more mugs than will fit in the shelf.

    Polo shirts! Gotta get me one of those.
    I'll inevitably spill coffee on it and it will be the same thing, only different.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:38PM

      by nitehawk214 (1304) on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:38PM (#86800)

      Spilling coffee on a shirt turns it into a mug?

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      • (Score: 2) by bugamn on Friday August 29 2014, @03:05AM

        by bugamn (1017) on Friday August 29 2014, @03:05AM (#87026)

        Yes, only different.

  • (Score: 1) by N3Roaster on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:08PM

    by N3Roaster (3860) <roaster@wilsonscoffee.com> on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:08PM (#86394) Homepage Journal

    Said I'd get a mug or something since the initial subscription stuff is unlikely to work for me. Nice that there's a sale going on that offsets the shipping on a ringer mug.

  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:10PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:10PM (#86395) Journal

    Do you realise that you will cause me untold financial hardship as I blow all of the housekeeping on mugs, tea-shirts, polo-shirts etc. I am going to tell my Bank Manager that it is the swag team's fault.

    Seriously guys, a brilliant effort - thanks very much.

    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:20PM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:20PM (#86397)

      oooh, stars. I want a star too. Probably the coolest thing someone could do is buy the unobtanium keychain and work it into a project of some sort.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Random2 on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:24PM

    by Random2 (669) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:24PM (#86399)

    I suspect a bacon-shaped flash/thumbdrive might sell nicely, if such a thing could be made. Either way keep up the good work!

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    • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by zafiro17 on Wednesday August 27 2014, @07:34PM

      by zafiro17 (234) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @07:34PM (#86427) Homepage

      Oh wow, an empty blockquote. Boring!

      Watch out for the womens' t-shirt, folks: http://www.zazzle.com/soylentnews/womens+clothing [zazzle.com] It's a secret NCommander trap designed to surreptitiously identify whether or not this site has any girls reading it. I said 'tit.' Someone do us a favor and buy a couple, just to give us some goddamn hope!

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @10:51PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @10:51PM (#86505)

      User Random2 (669) what do you mean "If only I registered 3 users earlier...."? You wanted UID 665? My UID is 666 and it was coded into the Slashcode that way virtually from the beginning. I notice they had my UID for a lot of their display models on the web site.

      • (Score: 2) by Random2 on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:20PM

        by Random2 (669) on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:20PM (#86791)

        .

        It was only later that I learned who I was competing with for the illustrious UID; clearly I could not make my time.

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  • (Score: 2) by mechanicjay on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:24PM

    by mechanicjay (7) <reversethis-{gro ... a} {yajcinahcem}> on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:24PM (#86400) Homepage Journal
    Ordered my coffee++ ringer mug. I can't wait to show it off to my friends -- who are probably already tired of me pimping SN. :)
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    • (Score: 1) by pert.boioioing on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:52PM

      by pert.boioioing (1117) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:52PM (#86412)

      I want a luftballons++ mug? Or a shirt with an animated .gif would be cool.

    • (Score: 5, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 27 2014, @09:30PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @09:30PM (#86468)

      What makes a mug a "ringer mug?" I tried some googling but couldn't come up with anything. From ring-shaped coffee stains?

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:46PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:46PM (#86409)

    See if you had gone cafepress you could have thongs printed.... oh well, maybe we're better off this way.

    • (Score: 2) by Alfred on Wednesday August 27 2014, @08:13PM

      by Alfred (4006) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @08:13PM (#86441) Journal

      yeah but...who in this crowd do you want to model it?

      • (Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday August 28 2014, @03:34PM

        by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 28 2014, @03:34PM (#86759)

        Well, if you think in terms of punishment instead of reward....

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by strattitarius on Wednesday August 27 2014, @09:31PM

      by strattitarius (3191) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @09:31PM (#86469) Journal
      We also could have checked out as a guest instead of zazzle now having one of my email addresses. At least they didn't make me verify it before the purchase transaction. And now I know I can give a fake one in the future!

      Oh, and literally two days ago I needed some coffee mugs so I went to the store. Wouldn't pay $7 for the cools ones, so went with not so cool at $2.50. Now I just paid over $20 for a mug! Someone is making a killing!

      But all in all, I am glad to support the site.

      P.S. Don't forget journal posts with actions shots!
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  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by martyb on Wednesday August 27 2014, @07:01PM

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 27 2014, @07:01PM (#86417) Journal

    If I did this right, this should list all of the SoylentNews Swag store international sites:

    Please reply with any corrections.

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by juggs on Wednesday August 27 2014, @08:43PM

      by juggs (63) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @08:43PM (#86454) Journal

      Your UK link is flawed. Should be UK [zazzle.co.uk]

      • (Score: 1) by linsane on Wednesday August 27 2014, @09:22PM

        by linsane (633) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @09:22PM (#86467)

        Thanks for UK link (proud owner of much new swag)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @11:06PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @11:06PM (#86509)
      Brasil [zazzle.com.br]
    • (Score: 4, Informative) by martyb on Thursday August 28 2014, @01:15AM

      by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 28 2014, @01:15AM (#86533) Journal

      Trying again; moderators - please down-mod parent post into oblivion.

      Select the store that is closest to you. I have verified that each of the following links brings up a SoylentNews swag store page and (as far as I can tell) in the correct language. Note: the non-English product descriptions are machine-translated and, to put it kindly, awkward. On the other hand, I am led to believe ii provides the option of using local currency as well as fewer issues compared to trying to have things shipped to you from the USA.

      I'd appreciate comments with confirmations as well as corrections.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by zafiro17 on Wednesday August 27 2014, @07:23PM

    by zafiro17 (234) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @07:23PM (#86422) Homepage

    Nice work, Team Swag! I'll probably pick up a mousepad or something, just to support NCommander's secret bank account in the Falkland Islands, er, I mean, the Soylent bandwidth fund. But what the hell, no thong? That's what you get for choosing Zazzle. Had you gone with Cafepress, you could be promoting Soylent where you need it most: http://www.cafepress.com/+underwear-panties?cat=100115 [cafepress.com] right in mom's basement.

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    • (Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday August 27 2014, @07:45PM

      by Snow (1601) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @07:45PM (#86430) Journal

      I agree! Why can't I order a new XXXL thong? My current one is permanently tinted (or should I say 'tainted') brown.

    • (Score: 2) by e_armadillo on Wednesday August 27 2014, @11:31PM

      by e_armadillo (3695) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @11:31PM (#86516)

      I wanted to mod this "disturbing".

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      • (Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Thursday August 28 2014, @08:08AM

        by zafiro17 (234) on Thursday August 28 2014, @08:08AM (#86652) Homepage

        Yeah, feature request for soycode: an "unsee" button!

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  • (Score: 2) by Lemming on Wednesday August 27 2014, @09:11PM

    by Lemming (1053) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @09:11PM (#86462)

    OMG, their non-English stores translate all the product descriptions using something like Google Translate, it's awful. They should just leave the English descriptions. But it's intelligible.

    But except for that minor point, this is great! Thanks!

  • (Score: 1) by richtopia on Wednesday August 27 2014, @10:36PM

    by richtopia (3160) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @10:36PM (#86497) Homepage Journal

    Every time I see the logo I get hungry. Please don't actually use people in the candy bar.

  • (Score: 2) by RedBear on Thursday August 28 2014, @03:00AM

    by RedBear (1734) on Thursday August 28 2014, @03:00AM (#86563)

    This is totally just my opinion but I feel like pure white fabric items that are going to be handled (and can't easily be washed) are going to end up quickly looking utterly nasty and being a terrible advertisement for SN. The white ball cap, mouse pad and notebook sleeve, for instance.

    The tote bags are nice though.

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  • (Score: 2) by elf on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:19AM

    by elf (64) on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:19AM (#86583)

    I'm not sure what fx was used but some items are priced a lot more abroad

    US site
    CUSTOM UID Unobtainium Edition Keychain
    $32.95

    UK site
    CUSTOM UID Unobtainium Edition Keychain
    £26.95 (about 43 dollars)

    Do we get the solid gold edition :)

    Some good swagger there though...

    • (Score: 2) by dublet on Friday August 29 2014, @09:01AM

      by dublet (2994) on Friday August 29 2014, @09:01AM (#87101)

      Most European countries will charge 20% VAT [wikipedia.org] on top of the price, so 32.95 * 1.2 = 39.54, very close to the converted price you mention, allowing for conversion rates.

      • (Score: 2) by elf on Friday August 29 2014, @10:51AM

        by elf (64) on Friday August 29 2014, @10:51AM (#87120)

        Spot on :) I totally missed that and the fact any sales tax in the US is added later on in the process.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:23AM (#86586)

    The unobatinum UID of 666 seems off the mark.
    How about something actually geeky?
    Like 31416, 16180, 1337, 7334, etc

    • (Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:53AM

      by mrcoolbp (68) <mrcoolbp@soylentnews.org> on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:53AM (#86599) Homepage

      The unobtanium key chain is exorbitantly priced, but it is customize-able; you can input any text you can fit on it.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 28 2014, @02:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 28 2014, @02:24PM (#86734)

      I agree, ditch the 666 since it is considered by some to be the "mark". You can be intelligent, use the scientific method, and still be religious/believe in God.

      Remember - Tyson killed a planet and Hawking disappeared black holes- science isn't infallible either *grabs popcorn*

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 29 2014, @12:00PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 29 2014, @12:00PM (#87153)

        I agree 666 is silly but so is religion.

        The very point of science is that it's not a credo but a journey towards a better understanding.

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday August 28 2014, @12:41PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday August 28 2014, @12:41PM (#86700) Journal

    Ordered a UID shirt. I'm glad there was an option for some customization.

    I had some items printed up (baseball caps, t-shirts) for SXSW this year that let you include a QR code. It might be a fun social feature to have this option too so people could scan it to view my journal, see my karma rating, or "friend" me on the site.

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  • (Score: 2) by goodie on Tuesday September 02 2014, @01:11PM

    by goodie (1877) on Tuesday September 02 2014, @01:11PM (#88477) Journal

    UID USB stick would be neat with the SN logo :). Or a UID mug etc. (I know the $CustomText thing can be done with that).
    I'm not sure anybody still buys mousepads, at least I haven't in years. Maybe they're retro-cool now :)

    I'd bank on the fact that people are proud to be part of SN so they'd like something that shows they belong there and are unique too (hence the UID stuff). I'm sure there'll be more great stuff to purchase there. I know where I'm going to do some of my xmas shopping this year :)

  • (Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Monday September 08 2014, @09:08PM

    by cmn32480 (443) <reversethis-{moc.liamg} {ta} {08423nmc}> on Monday September 08 2014, @09:08PM (#90987) Journal

    And has been christened. I like it!

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