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chach wrote:Great work, Mike. Just ordered mine.

Thank you sir! It looks like these are proving to be a popular items! One person ordered 2 of each for themselves.

I'm in but it'll have to wait until next Friday when I get paid. Thanks Mike for offering these.....

Mobile version now fixed too guys

ordered one in black a few hours ago

Sizing chart ??

I'm not sure who the manufactuere of the Ts are so hard to say - but this might give you ballpark idea http://www.greavessports.com/media/uplo ... echart.pdf

Nice! Love the t-shirt idea. I can't wait to get mine and wear it

nECr0MaNCeD wrote:I'm in but it'll have to wait until next Friday when I get paid. Thanks Mike for offering these.....

No problem, take your time - you basically have ten days, still.

Let me see if I can't find a good sizing chart for Kai. I remember seeing it, but don't recall if it was on the printing company or Gildan's website. In either case, it's still going to be Imperial and not metric.

Here you go (with close-up)
Please note that even though they are in the generic Gildan sizing chart, "5XL" & "YXS" are not available in this particular fabric (Gildan 8000 50/50 cotton/poly). Also, just a side note, most 100% cotton garments have shrinkage if just washed & dried normally, but 50/50 tends to not shrink as much.

I do see a few comments on the Gildan website indicating that this particular style runs a little small, and then again many others say it is mostly "true to size". I ordered one each color to see what we are going to be getting, and they will be here before I place the order.

What a great deal !
Thanks for th'privelidge Mike .... !
What was the name of that band you were in again, I forgot .... ?
Some crazy Danish Heavy Leaden outfit or sumting .... ?

Bruno wrote:What a great deal !
Thanks for th'privelidge Mike .... !
What was the name of that band you were in again, I forgot .... ?
Some crazy Danish Heavy Leaden outfit or sumting .... ?

No, American brand: Gildan (which my phone tries to put an 'e' in, so I am bound to have typed Gilden).

Fortunately the word "mustard" isn't there. I suppose that would be Guldens?

Ordered mine!

cherrynukacola wrote:Ordered mine!

Thanks! Just keeping everyone up-to-date, I haven't received the samples and they are shipping today, so the initial order will be open until Tuesday or Wednesday so I can be absolutely certain that the flat black on dark heather is usable.

They suggested that I use "Sport gray" as opposed to Dark Heather, I added a Black on Sport Gray sample to the pre-order, so I am getting one each UC Lime Green & black on Dark heather and one black on Sport gray - which is a medium gray tone, halfway between "Ash" and Dark heather.

Sorry, I should have gotten this posted last week, but they sent the inquiry about black on dark heather possibly being too low contrast when I was at the Asheville Magic Festival last weekend, and Donna's aunt died this past week, so it has been an awfully busy and trying ten days...

When I have them early next week, I will post an update.

The black on sport gray sounds promising. Can't wait to see it. I bet I'll like the sport gray better than the dark heather.

PrincessTrouble wrote:The black on sport gray sounds promising. Can't wait to see it. I bet I'll like the sport gray better than the dark heather.

I looked, and the production date slipped from Monday to tomorrow (14rh), and even though yesterday it showed they would ship today, it now shows Monday (19th).

In any case, I need to be certain that I don't order shirts you can't read. The picture I show in the order window was made using Dark Heather, but the contrast looks closer to what I see when I ordered the Sport Gray one. In any case, I will delay ordering until I have the single samples and post a picture.

Voting prior to opening up orders was 50/50 for black vice "UC lime green", but more orders are for the black imprint. In any case, I want to be absolutely certain what everyone gets is legible! (and not only under bright ligjts)

We are on track! The shirts were produced yesterday and show shipping on Monday, but my previous orders have all shipped at least one day before promised. Hopefully that means today, which also means that they should be at my post office for pickup Tuesday afternoon.

If that holds true, they will all ship on Tuesday (overseas) and Wednesday (domestic & Canada). Since US delivery is Priority Mail, they should be delivered to your doors by Monday, the 8th in the states. The foreign orders ship economy, because it couldn't see people paying 2½ times to get them earlier (Priority Mail International goes up 1-June to $25 for self printed and $26.25 if shipped at the post office without preprinting the labels with address and postage prepaid).

This changed this morning, which means that they were produced yesterday:

Look what we got around 7pm - Tees! Modeled by myself and the wife: (these are my Patent Pending "Shitty Pix[tm}" - I can't take a decent shot to save my soul)
Shipping starts tomorrow!

The PlayDry material is fabulous! Thick, but breathes like there's nothing on... They are so comfortable! Superb job. One was obviously not up to their standards because I got a slip from their quality control people saying one UC Green "replacement" would be shipping separately.

Five of the last six packages were packed today to go out Monday. I still have one with an invalid address. That makes 30 packed with 36 shirts- three people ordered two, one person ordered four. The other pair were mine and Donna's.

Thanks, everyone! I will open up ordering here in about two weeks, and the last Charter Member T-Shirts will be available for two weeks and a couple days, because I will open ordering on a Friday and close it two weeks and two days later on a Sunday.

Overseas shipping will be $1 more, I had a few that were & 16 even for First Class. That's hard to believe to me, but obviously the postal service is trying to push everyone up to using a few dollars more for Priority International at $25 worldwide as of 30-May. They varied from $10.30"going to Britain up to $16 for Italy and for some reason Australia which is the farthest away was right in the middle at $13.

I would love to heat what people think about the quality once they are delivered. In my mind, we couldn't have done better. The 50/50 cotton/poly PlayDry blend is heavy enough yet breaths so well it feels like almost nothing.

Even though the survey was half and half for UC Green or Black, the orders were 3-ro-1 black. Next time I will likely stick with black, since ordering two color imprints required two separate orders. We can have black imprint on lime fabric added in a single tønder, so I will change the order form.

As a practical matter, only one shirt fits in the Small Flat Rate box for domestic shipping, so next time two shirts will require a Medium Flat Rate box - it holds four comfortably. For overseas it goes by weight and the quoted 6.3oz weight was way off. A single shirt varies from 9oz (small) to 16oz (4XL). That doesn't matter for domestic, but international definitely does matter. The heaviest overseas order was an XL at 16oz, so I used 13oz for all of them (bubble envelope adds an ounce. All overseas orders were packed inside a tare-proof Tyvek envelope and then in a padded bubble mailer.

Just a reminder for several people who have said that they would be ordering towards the end of the available time. Trying to be fair both to those who have already ordered (and paid for) their UC Charter Member T-Shirts during this second round, I will leave the form open one extra week, until Sunday night the 5th of July. After that, the "Charter" part of the logo will no longer be available - when I hear enough interest to order more shirts.

The order form has been given a great face-lift by montecarlojoe - and looks a lot better, but the procedure is basically the same: you select your size and fabric color here on UC, and the shipping calculation is added (and chosen) during the pop up PayPal window. Note that all domestic US shipping is by Priority Mail, but Canada and overseas shipping is available Priority or economy.

Economy is just slow, for example Joe's shirt shows it was sent to Great Britain on June 8th, but as of yesterday nothing more shows up in the tracking. All four shipments to Australia except one show the same thing, and one came back "Postage Due $4.96" even though my post mistress said it was already correct, weighed the same and all were shipped in a Tyvek tear-proof envelope inside a padded mailer of identical size. I paid the additional postage and notified the recipient the same day it came back after transiting from Awendaw through Charleston to Miami, marked "Refused" there and returned, adding a week to ten days.

The only International one that shows progress is Kai's in Singapore, and that should be delivered today (since it is already Monday there), unless customs plays games. All International shipments were marked "gift" with a $15 value. His shows up arriving on the 18th inbound to Singapore.

I got it a week ago lol

montecarlojoe wrote:I got it a week ago lol

Ah, go figure? On the tracking site it still shows the last entry on June 8th outbound from Miami.

None of the ones going to Australia or one to Italy show anything, either. Kai's going to Singapore shows it was delivered on the 22nd late (Monday, his time, I assume).

De, bruno, anyone received their shirt in Australia?

Haha yea I got my T shirt on Monday, looks like I bought a size too small, time to go for a run

volantangel wrote:Haha yea I got my T shirt on Monday, looks like I bought a size too small, time to go for a run

They do run true to size. The material is very stretchy. Riccardo looks snug, but fits.

I always order XL even though I easily fit in Large size. Fortunately with the 50/50 cotton / polyester fabric, these should not shrink like 100% coton would.

Tried on one of my shirts after I got home and I have to agree that they are a little on the small side. They turned out amazing though.

Cbkimble wrote:They turned out amazing though.

This.

I keep wearing mine thinking some of you guys are going to wave to me on the street. Hasn't happened yet, but I'm still looking.

Thanks for my coolest newest shirt!

K, that's two votes for "runs small" if Kai is used to US sizes. I always order one size up, anyway, so I would not notice.

Others?

I wouldn't say it was a full size smaller though.