OK, there's a few things that I need to say, and then hopefully things can go forwards with no problems.
First, regarding the embroiding. I am unsure why there are members who believed that polos will be embroidered. My
OP stated that the shirts will be printed, and that's the stance that I have taken at all times. At no point have I alluded, hinted or stated that embroiding will be going ahead. If you are upset by this, then I'm sorry, but this is the best that I can do.
Secondly, I've tried to make the deliberation process for the shirts to be as transparent as possible. Several members through PM at the beginning encouraged me to just say 'This is the shirt, this is the colour, this is the design, how many do you want?'. While I am fully aware that I cannot please 'all the people, all the time', I thought that this process will serve as a feedback process (such as the surprise I had to the preference of the forum for polos) and bring people's attention to the buy.
GMK- it appears that you are attempting to set up a parallel buy for embroidered polos, and I am unsure as to why this is a wise course of action. Having two shirt buys at the same time will fracture potential purchases, and in practise make the two buys appear to be competing with each other. I am not accusing you of doing this intentionally, though that will be the logical end that will be reached when there are two buys from
two people in the same state selling virtually identical products. I fully encourage you to set up bulk buys, it's a fantastic thing to do- I took part in the bulk buys that you set up a few years ago- it's always great to have more AHB merch. However, if you were to put the time and effort into setting one up, wouldn't it be better if it were a different product? There seems to be string interest in the tankards (I'm certainly interested), and setting up a bulk buy of that would be fantastic. If taht were the case, everything will be simple, and the biggest winner will be the forum.
*sigh*
Now, if there are no further objections to me doing this bulk buy, then I am still willing to do it. On Sunday I will ask the mods to close this and get on with the ordering phase.