OB Merchendise - Need Your input

[Marty]

Howdy,

I thought I'd ask you guys what sort of products you would like in order to support OB ? We used to use cafe press and fact is that CP ends up making the money and the funds raised by OB end up being pretty lame. I also found their quality lacking a bit.

I was thinking to have some products made specifically for OB. This has some dangers of course, I don't want to order OB product that no one wants. This was the first year that I ordered calendars and in order to comply with the min order I inadvertently ordered too many calendars and looks like I'll be eating them now. This year will be a bit of a write off as far as fund raising is concerned.

Please post in this thread, what products would interest you and would stimulate you to throw in your bid for OB support, if you can be specific it would be great.

Examples
- Calendars (what types? wall, desk?)
- Posters, Hats, T-shirts ?
- Orchid Books? I was thinking of adding a bookstore that would sell some of the favourite Orchid books.

Calendars are a really fun project, but due to the nature of the beast, it's a highly perishable item. They go in Nov and Dec, but come February and you're begging people to take them at a loss.

I'd love to hear some of your ideas.