Reid Young <p>Are you a happy customer? Are you dissatisfied with the craftmanship of the cotton threads which make up your shirt? Are you a happy customer&#8217;s unhappy twin?</p> <p>If, for any reason, you need to contact us, feel free to:</p> <ul> <li><a href="mailto:orders@fangamer.com">Send an email to orders@fangamer.com</a></li> <li>Send an old fashioned telegraph to:<blockquote><strong>Fangamer<br />5521 E Speedway Blvd<br />Suite 151<br />Tucson, AZ 85712</strong></blockquote></li> </ul> <p><em>Don&#8217;t forget to include your name or order number!</em></p> <h3>About Fangamer</h3> <p>Fangamer is a business venture started by the geeks who run Starmen.Net. Our goal is to organize and serve fans, except that sounds kinda cheesy, so&#8230;let&#8217;s go with <em>transmogrify</em>.</p> <p>Our mission is to <em>transmogrify</em> fans.</p> <p>The Fangamer Store (the site you&#8217;re looking at right now) serves two particular purposes in the grand scheme of things</p> <ol> <li>We get to provide the fans with some high quality swag</li> <li>We can use the profits from the store to nourish our frail bodies while we work on things like <a href="http://ebfgp.net">the <span class="caps">EBFGP</span></a>, <a href="http://anthology.starmen.net">the Anthology</a>, <a href="http://starmen.net/forum">the forum</a>, and <a href="http://starmen.net">Starmen.Net</a> itself.</li> </ol> <p>You can read more about Fangamer at <a href="http://fangamer.com/blog/about">http://fangamer.com/blog/about</a></p> <h3>Why not Cafepress or Zazzle or something?</h3> <p>Because any old schmuck can toss a low-quality .jpg on Cafepress, slap it on a thong, and mark it up to $40. It takes a <em>real fan</em> to walk into the screenprinter&#8217;s shop, slap a thumb drive on the drafting table, and gamble away a cool $1k on an entire batch of them.</p> <p>Seriously, though, there are a lot of good reasons for moving away from Cafepress:</p> <ul> <li><strong>We can produce much higher quality stuff.</strong> <ul> <li>Screenprinted shirts are higher quality than Cafepress&#8217;s crappy printing process.</li> <li>Our prints last longer without fading or peeling. In addition to this, our mugs run higher, and our shirts jump faster.</li> <li>We can print on high-quality products instead of using whatever low-quality stuff Cafepress gives us.</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>We get to design whatever we want, and print it on whatever products we want.</strong> <ul> <li>We&#8217;re not restricted by Cafepress&#8217;s small &#8216;printable areas&#8217;.</li> <li>We can produce stuff that you can&#8217;t find on Cafepress &#8212; like yo-yo&#8217;s, keychains, bracelets, etc. We&#8217;ve got lots of cool ideas in store.</li> <li>We can do specialty printing, things like glow-in-the-dark ink and screenprinted tags (something we hope to try soon).</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>We handle the shipping, which means freebies and other quasi-useful stuff!</strong> Each order, for example, comes with free pins and stickers.<br /> <br /></li> </ul> <div style='float: right; margin: 1em 0 1em 1em; width: 290px;'><img src='http://static1.shopify.com/s/files/1/0014/1962/files/pic-reid-mailroom.jpg' alt='Photo of Reid working in the mailroom' title='I want to wake up every morning full of wonder. Working full-time.' /><br /><div style="font-size: .7em; background-color: #c6c6c6; padding: 0 .5em;">Reid is no longer the only Fangamer employee! Also, Fangamer has its own office now! New pictures coming eventually&#8230;</div></div> <h2>Mailroom</h2> <p>While examining the logistics of having external company handle our shipments, we realized&#8230;wow. Shipping stuff is expensive. And impersonal! And thus we decided to put a little love into it and bring it, along with the printing, in-house.</p> <p>Each shipment is lovingly packed and shipped from our office here in Tucson, AZ. If you have any problems with your order, feel free to send us an email at <a href="mailto:orders@fangamer.com">orders@fangamer.com</a>!</p> 2008-05-25T23:33:47-07:00 about 299862 2008-05-25T23:33:47-07:00 141962 About / Contact 2009-11-06T12:19:54-07:00 Are you a happy customer? Are you dissatisfied with the craftmanship of the cotton threads which make up your shirt? Are you a happy customer's unhappy twin? If, for any reason, you need to contact us, feel free to: * "Send an email to orders@fangamer.com":mailto:orders@fangamer.com * Send an old fashioned telegraph to:<blockquote>*Fangamer<br />5521 E Speedway Blvd<br />Suite 151<br />Tucson, AZ 85712*</blockquote> _Don't forget to include your name or order number!_ h3. About Fangamer Fangamer is a business venture started by the geeks who run Starmen.Net. Our goal is to organize and serve fans, except that sounds kinda cheesy, so...let's go with _transmogrify_. Our mission is to _transmogrify_ fans. The Fangamer Store (the site you're looking at right now) serves two particular purposes in the grand scheme of things # We get to provide the fans with some high quality swag # We can use the profits from the store to nourish our frail bodies while we work on things like "the EBFGP":http://ebfgp.net, "the Anthology":http://anthology.starmen.net, "the forum":http://starmen.net/forum, and "Starmen.Net":http://starmen.net itself. You can read more about Fangamer at "http://fangamer.com/blog/about":http://fangamer.com/blog/about h3. Why not Cafepress or Zazzle or something? Because any old schmuck can toss a low-quality .jpg on Cafepress, slap it on a thong, and mark it up to $40. It takes a _real fan_ to walk into the screenprinter's shop, slap a thumb drive on the drafting table, and gamble away a cool $1k on an entire batch of them. Seriously, though, there are a lot of good reasons for moving away from Cafepress: * *We can produce much higher quality stuff.* ** Screenprinted shirts are higher quality than Cafepress's crappy printing process. ** Our prints last longer without fading or peeling. In addition to this, our mugs run higher, and our shirts jump faster. ** We can print on high-quality products instead of using whatever low-quality stuff Cafepress gives us. * *We get to design whatever we want, and print it on whatever products we want.* ** We're not restricted by Cafepress's small 'printable areas'. ** We can produce stuff that you can't find on Cafepress -- like yo-yo's, keychains, bracelets, etc. We've got lots of cool ideas in store. ** We can do specialty printing, things like glow-in-the-dark ink and screenprinted tags (something we hope to try soon). * *We handle the shipping, which means freebies and other quasi-useful stuff!* Each order, for example, comes with free pins and stickers. <br /> <div style='float: right; margin: 1em 0 1em 1em; width: 290px;'><img src='http://static1.shopify.com/s/files/1/0014/1962/files/pic-reid-mailroom.jpg' alt='Photo of Reid working in the mailroom' title='I want to wake up every morning full of wonder. Working full-time.' /><br /><div style="font-size: .7em; background-color: #c6c6c6; padding: 0 .5em;">Reid is no longer the only Fangamer employee! Also, Fangamer has its own office now! New pictures coming eventually...</div></div> h2. Mailroom While examining the logistics of having external company handle our shipments, we realized...wow. Shipping stuff is expensive. And impersonal! And thus we decided to put a little love into it and bring it, along with the printing, in-house. Each shipment is lovingly packed and shipped from our office here in Tucson, AZ. If you have any problems with your order, feel free to send us an email at "orders@fangamer.com":mailto:orders@fangamer.com!