Round Pins
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- BuckRogers
There's a site out there that allows you to design custom round pins (not sure what you call them... pins... lapel pins...etc...) (design the graphic on the pin)
Trying to remember the URL. Anyone know what I'm talking about??
- BuckRogers0
Booya!
Thanks Engage
- ********0
someone needs to make square pins!
- ********0
prickie : i take it you design a badge but they make them up and make most of the profit when they sell the badges? bit of a threadless for badges eh?
take my advice ....
http://www.badgesforbands.com
design your own badges and get them to make them then you can keep some for yourself and friends and flog the rest to cover your costs. sorted!
- Engage0
which sounds a lot more hassle
- ********0
i just used them the other week for 150 badges. no hassle at all, uploaded my pics from computer via their site, paid via paypal, got the badges the next day.
prickie.com = 1 badge for £2.99
badges for bands = 5 badges of YOUR OWN design for £2.95
im not knocking prickie.com, its a nice site and shop ... id just presumed that the original poster was wanting to see his designs on a badge (just like the reason people submit their designs to threadless) but why not go do it yourself and make some cash while you are at it rather then other people making all the money from your own design idea?!
fair enough if its not popular. but imagine your tee or badge was the next big thing that the world craved? then it'd be threadless or prickie that were laughing all the way to the bank.
- Jaline0
You get money for each pin you sell on Prickie. obviously it's not that much, but you make your own designs anyway. If you want to buy your own designs after submitting them, then just do it. I haven't purchased any of the designs on the site, let alone my own.
- kungfukid0
it's not all about the money right?
what's the print quality for badges for bands? is it laser or inkjet. I've had some bad badge experience before.
- Jaline0
You can't really care about the money too much. Unless you're the most popular designer on Prickie you won't be getting more than $20-$30 each month. I just thought the idea was interesting, but now everyone's doing it and I'm sure it'll turn into another Threadless. But whatever, so far it's not too bad and designs are not printed based on ratings like Threadless. You just submit a design and if yours is liked then people will buy it.
- ********0
I agree with you jaline in the fact that as the site becomes more popular like threadless, the standard of design might go down as its diluted with people just designing any old crap without thinking "will anyone actually wear/buy this?".
Like I said, i wasnt slating the site - i think its a great easy to use little site and a good idea.
I was just saying, if you were confident that what you were doing was worth selling then why not try selling it yourself?!That badges for bands site, i dont know what they use to print the stuff out but the badges i got done had a tartan background with some quite fine lines in it as well as an intricate logo illustration and i think they look great - cant fault them. especially for the price - i think i was expecting a lesser quality too.