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My copy arrived as well Richard. Thank you. I'm going to wait for a few more before having a look.
Tesco do A5 "Do not bend" envelopes for 50p each I think.Crikey things are moving, One arrived this morning, and thanks to the pictures in this thread, I know who from
I guess I'd better export mine from affinity pro now then......
envelopes, I've no bloody envelopes (cunning plan - hold off and re-purpose all the ones you keen people send me)
Alternatively, ebay here I come
Tesco do A5 "Do not bend" envelopes for 50p each I think.
I would go for option cHow do folks feel about the amount of entrants for the next Round IV?
I've just paid postage on all mine. 2nd class large letter >100g = £1.53 which when multiplied by 14 people starts to stack up. If we have 20 entrants next time that's £30 in postage, say £10 in envelopes and £40 in zine printing makes an overall cost of £80.
With it being every 6 months, I can manage the cost but wouldn't want to start getting over £100 for a go. How do you all feel about this?
My suggestion would be to do one of three things for round IV
a) Set an entrant cap. When we hit it, we close it to further people.
b) Set an entrant cap. When we hit it, we continue to let people enter, but divide the final total into (for example) 2 random groups. This would probably mean you might not get a zine from your favourite photographer and you also wouldn't get (or send out) as many zines as option a. [Unless this challenge goes viral and we get a massive influx of entrants]
c) Don't do anything, but make a decision towards the end when people can see the interest generated.
I guess my main concern is forcing people to pay more money than they'd like because a ton of people entered. Obviously people can back out during "commit week" if it's going to cost them more than they are comfortable with.
I would go for option c
As you say not all who sign up would commit at the end
As for cost 20 entrants myself included would probably be the max for me
I home printed this time and all in all probably spent over £100 on materials and ink mainly due to reprints and rejigs
Glad you like it. Happy to share what I did, companies used etc.Mine arrived from @richardhall . Thanks Richard - it's fab!
I think I'd quite like to know how you did it (which companies you used etc) because it really is a great idea. Perhaps when everyone has opened it you could give some tips away.
Don't get me startedI think it's time someone did a pop-up one, I'm looking @sirch or @Ed Sutton here......
There could be a backlash from our fanswe could call it the Zine Superleague
Coming in thick and fast, Richard's yesterday and 3 today, meantime I'm waiting for envelopes ...hree more zines just arrived. Thanks @Harlequin565 , @MrDrizz , and @gjhill
Good lord. Only posted yesterday 2nd class!
The weight was 108 grams so I put enough postage for 250. I wonder if they did it 1st class?
Maybe. I'm not sure if prices have increased but my last set (which were A5 size in board-backed envelopes) all went out via standard 2nd class and cost less than a pound each to post.
Added at least 10% on to allow for scales discrepancy, wanted to make sure postage was well covered.
Me too. I'm paranoid of "doing a @flook999 " as they say
we could make savings by sending our box of zines to one person, who then sends in return a box of zines back to you with a copy of everybody's zine in it. This would reduce the postage costs to 2 boxes, and the box could be re-used!! But this has several disadvantages:-
Sending however many Zine's to one parson to ship out again won't work out any cheaper I don't think.
I'm feeling that the best thing to do is cross that bridge when we get there
@Harlequin565
Sending however many Zine's to one parson to ship out again won't work out any cheaper I don't think.
It could work if the Zine's went right from the printers. But that has the draw back that you won't be able to check it and if you have printed more copies you'd still need them shipped to you.
I don't think Iman would appreciate a load of zines dropping on her doorstep.I'm not sending anything of mine to a parson or vicar or priest or rabbi or iman, in fact no religious geezers at all
I don't think Iman would appreciate a load of zines dropping on her doorstep.
I don't think Iman would appreciate a load of zines dropping on her doorstep.