Four days in, sales of the Scriptnotes t-shirts are going fairly smoothly. We briefly blew off the lid of our PayPal account yesterday, but have been able to keep everything at a good simmer since then.
We’ll end up selling several hundred shirts — the upper limit of what we were prepared to handle.1 Thank you to everyone who ordered one one. (Or four, in the case of one guy.)
I get a push notification on my iPhone every time an order is placed, which is addictive in a uniquely modern and pointless way. I muted them so my phone wouldn’t buzz all night, but the notices are waiting every time I unlock the screen.
We were originally only going to offer an orange shirt that matched the podcast logo, but at the last minute decided to add an easier-to-wear blue-gray. That seems to have been a good choice, because Rational Blue is outselling Umbrage Orange 2:1.
We’ll be closing orders next Friday, June 21st. So if you want one, head to the store.
- What if we had sold thousands? Just because it’s a high-class problem, doesn’t mean it’s not a problem. Physical goods are hard to scale, and we would have been scrambling to get them printed and shipped. ↩