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| The PROPEOPDEMREP'S Ministry for the Redistribution of Wealth PRESENTS: Souvenirs of Diego Garcia You Can Purchase Without Going Back! Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, For Sale Yes,
thanks to the miracles of Capitalism, Greed, and Electronics, you too
can have all the souveniers you want to replace the ones that 'someone'
misplaced, or the ones that have shrunk (hint hint, nudge nudge).
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are all the places selling DG souveniers that I know about: My CafePress.com store Tom Lawson's CafePress.com store Dan Urish's Notecards Northwest Embroidery Larry Bowman's I.O. on-line Bookstore The BIOT Post Office & Gift Shop Sorry - neither the Ship's Store nor any of the clubs on the island have catalogues as of June 09. Just the BIOT post office (see below). Here
is the links to my
CAFE PRESS store: They sell everything from t-shirts
to mousepads to wall clocks to beer steins. Hopefully, there will be something you can't live without! Here
are some examples of the designs in my store on the products they sell.
These
are just a very few of the products and designs - basically each design
is on each product - literally thousands to choose from!
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a
"review" of Cafe Press: All
the
"stores"
have the same product blanks. You supply the artwork. When
someone orders something, they produce it then and there, and ship
it. It is the same idea as "print-on-demand" publishers, only
Cafe Press does clothing and knick-knacks in addition to printing books
and CDs. Here
is my
experience as a customer. I've ordered several items from my own
store, using "standard" shipping. Here's
an
evaluation of the delivery: They apparently manufactured the
final products that night, and shipped via UPS the very next day.
They sent me an email with the tracking number and I followed it every
step of the way. The order arrived seven days later, as
advertised. Everything came through o.k., except the beer stein,
which looked like it had cracked in transit. I went to their
customer service page on their website and reported it. Within
hours they had shipped a replacement at no charge. Two of the
items on my original order were apparently "back ordered" and so I also
asked when they might be shipped, as I had not received a copy of the
tracking number. Again, within hours, they shipped two
replacements, no questions asked. It turned out that I got the
original two the next day, so I sent them an email saying
they could cancel the replacements, but they shipped them anyway!
Each time I emailed them,
they responded almost immediately! I have never received better customer
service from anybody! Here's
an eval
of the product: I ordered a XXL hooded zippered sweatshirt, a
beer stein, a 12 oz. mug, a mousepad, a tile coaster, and a
refrigerator magnet. The sweatshirt is Haines and fits my 6' 250#
body loosely, the way it should. The artwork is crisp and clean
and does not have that painted on feel. Same with the ceramic
stuff - the artwork seems to be melded into the ceramic - these are NOT
decals! Even the Yankee Air Pirate logo, which is pretty busy,
was clear and the colors were true. The DG maps, even on the
sweatshirt, are precisely what the original artwork looked like. This really is quality stuff! For all of you
who plan to write the Great American Novel about DG, you might want to
consider Cafe Press. I recently edited and published a book of my
father's memoirs through Cafe Press, something for the family to
keep. It isn't for the mass market, so I fished around looking
for someone to print it independently. Everywhere I went, they
wanted $1,000+ to "help" me and give me 20 books or so at the end of
the process. However, Cafe Press does the "print-on-demand"
system, and each of my Dad's 330 page books costs just $17.08! I
had to do a LOT of editing, because using POD means "what you see is
what you get", but once I'd finished all of that, it was painless to
set it up on Cafe Press. BTW, I ordered the books and they came
out absolutely flawless. The only shortcoming that I see is they
only print the text & photos in Black and White, and the best
binding is what they call "perfect" which is basically trade-paperback
binding. But the covers are in color and the books are well made. To be honest, I
was a little leery at first of Cafe Press. It seemed a little too
good to be true - i.e., no up front costs, no inventory to maintain -
and it also seemed a little bit pricey, compared to Wal Mart, but the product, the shipping
and the customer service were all outstanding! Click
here
for Tom
Lawson's Cafepress
DG Store! This is the store with the "Any Week is Chicken Choking Week" stuff! Check it out!
Here's another DG Vet done good!
Here's
some stuff from the company
that sells the hats and shirts through the clubs on the island: Here's stuff Jim had for sale as of August 2005:
Indian
Ocean Area Books and Maps for Sale
- Larry Bowman's site where you can buy (or sell) books, prints, and
maps
about the IO, including the BIOT and Diego Garcia. This is where
I got my copy of Atoll Research Bulletin No. 149. Give it a try,
if you're really interested in rare and intriguing stuff.
Seeing as how they are direct
competitors to guys like Tom Lawson and myself, I hate to plug the Pay
and Pay and Pay and Pay Phone Company (a.k.a. Cable and Wireless to
those who have not had the pleasure of using them from the island), but
feel like I must in the interest of customer service! Plus, they
do have the concession as the
REAL BIOT Postoffice - ON THE ISLAND and NOW ON-LINE!
For ALL
your
Postage Needs, Souvenier Stamps, First Day Covers, Mounted & Framed
collections, etc., contact:
http://www.biotpostoffice.com/. Plus they now have their own Gift Shop with mugs, T-shirts, etc., for sale. Here's the URL: http://www.biotpostoffice.com/store/product-list-0.asp.
Don't forget to check ebay, there's usually something there! |
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