Mr Baxter  

i wish i had a few free days mmm them calenders look sweeeet :D
i think you should make a version printed on edible paper.. .so i can eat the months… maybe make them healthy except for december… that can be eggnog and chocolate…

This is a great offer but does that discount apply for the order l put in a day ago ? do l get a store credit for the difference? this should have been put on when the calendars were first released to make it fair on everyone that made quick purchases

Oh dear…1 week to scrape up the funds to take advantage of this great offer!!

Thanks for reminding me Trudi..now where have I put those credit vouchers??

Drat, I just bought some! Should have waited. :(

I’m working on mine… perfect timing for the sale. :)

Great idea/promotion…...ty!

Yikes, bought 3 yesterday – knew I should have waited…great offer nonetheless!!!
Thanks MrB ;)

I dont think this promotion will help sell any of my calendars,,, I havent sold anything other than cards, but hey,,,, I will buy my own!! :))

Great idea…

dang a client bought two of mine yesterday they are goona be ticked..and they are supposed to buy more:D

sold 78 last year at art markets and gallery orders,,,and they make great chrissy present…

Great bonus.
I’d best get cracking!

Brilliant thank you

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need to make a couple more!! : )

BRILLIANT/love your attitude REDBUBBLE

Who knows…maybe I will sell one…to myself ):

Figures. Just bought one 2 days ago.

o heres a dumb question what is the end day next wednesday?

If I buy my own will I still get the 15% off. And will my percentage still be the same amount if someone else buys one or will I get less because of the sale?

Will I still get the 15% off on my price if I buy my own…and if someone else buys mine will I still get my same percentage or will I get less because of the sale?

Whoops…I thought that first one didn’t go through. lol

When does the sale date start and when does it end?

k- i fingered it out ;-)

Yay….....

oohhhh.. thank you so much!

Oh this is great! Perfect timing to get some copies to use as sales samples!!!!

Thanks Mr. Baxter!!!!

Any plans to put a Calendars link in the top section of the homepage?

brilliant

Sounds great, gotta get to work, Have never sold a calander,,but hey there is always the first time.!!! And one can HOPE!

Thank you! :)

Thank you Mr Baxter :) What a great idea.

I made one and I could make an animal one too…maybe I will!

Great promotion…. It’s great how you keep comming up with such great marketting strategies. Also thank you very much redbubble for featuring “A beautiful Life” my calender for 2010.

Thanks! Just spread the news via my facebook page and made a sale…much appreciated!

Good timing, because I only just uploaded my Fireworks calendar for 2010.

DARN, I JUST MAXXED OUT MY CREDIT CARD FOR ANOTHER MONTH. I NEEDED THE CASH FOR GROCERIES, DAMN STATE OF CALIFORNIA, CUTTING MY SUPLIMENTAL INCOME BY $55 PER MONTH, JUST TO PAY BACK THE $250 INCENTIVE CHECK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SENT ME. SO MUCH FOR AN INCENTIVE. BOB :)

Groovy! :))

To make it even cheaper I have slashed my markup on my Calendars to a staggering low of 5%.

It doesn’t get cheaper!!

Check out the quick previews here

Contact me if you want a custom made calendar with your own selection of my images.

Well I’ve had mine ready for a while, good luck everyone.

Mr Baxter, I have taken advantage of this offer to buy a copy of ‘All things Dorrigo’, in the hope that others who see it in reality might actually buy one or two as Xmas gifts.

I don’t fancy taking a 15% hit on my mark-up just because RedBubble is feeling generous.

As the say, there’s no free lunch but in this case I didn’t even order lunch.

Awesome!!! I love stuff of sale… especially RB stuff!!!!

Could redBubble management provide some stats? I would find this very helpful as I am sure most would. How many calendars sold on RedBubble last year? Which groups sold the most? Did you do this 15% promotion last year? Did calendar sales to NON-members rise?

If I do not wish to buy my own calendar I will not be taking advantage of the 15% off.
If I sell a calendar to an outside customer, am I to understand my calendar profit is mandatorily 15% less (ie: $20 profit (ordinarily) would be reduced by 15% or $3.00 = $17.00 net profit)? You advised above we will get 15% less of our markup while this promotion is running. Some clarification would be most welcome … Cheers ~ Jayne Logan

You just answered a further question I had regarding the margin .. I guess it is best just to tweek the margin a bit to keep things even.

awesome!!!

Fantastic

my are still in progress…preparing some 10 calenders….
the first 2 are ready!!!

Sale again! Yay!

Just wondering the one of mine I bought last year printed pretty dark, is there still any problems with that?

Yay – money in my pocket!

I just need to upload some more photos!

Thanks for this sale! I like sales ;)

woo! thanks Mr B!

.....and more to come….

Fabulous !!!!!

The offer is great, but a couple of days to late… :( I already bought my calendars for 2010 here on RedBubble.

it’s a bit early innit!! i was waiting for another month to start buying christmas presents.. but here we go! off to make one!

I’ve also heard from others that the calendars printed on the ‘dark’ side. Do you know if this has been rectified, Mr B?

Seems a bit early to me too. I would have thought later in October would be optimum for sales. September is very early to think about next year. Although I see some people say they have already bought.
Also, I am not ready. I was hoping to take advantage of the autumn light to get some calendar shots but looks like I’ll have to use other photos if I want to take advantage of the offer.
Having said all that (there’s no pleasing some people, I can hear you say!) I think it is a great idea and it will focus me into getting a calendar together.

So do people that only purchased yesterday or just a few days ago when this was’nt an offer get a credit ? ............second time l have asked Mr Baxter

I’m wondering why the artist’s name isn’t on the front of the calendar. Who designs this stuff?

I have just two.

It didn’t work.

Calendars can still be used when the year is over if you recycle them with one of these (see below) Cut of the date part and you are set to hang them again, cut of the date part and the ring part and you can frame them.

Note take out the title page first because that is printed too low in relation to the other pages.

Warning: use of one of these weapons of mass finger destruction is at your own risk!!!

I encourage you to discover my calendars… if you don’t know them yet !

OR you can make your own. It’s simple : you choose 13 images from my page, you choose the title you want, you send me a bubble-mail, I make the calendar, then you can purchase you own calendar ! it’s as simple as that ;-)
see you soon !

great! How can we promote them? They seem to be hard to find on profile pages. Here is a preview of my calendar Inside France

Martine, your calendars are fantastic!!!

Yeeeeeeeeeehah!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m going to TWEET and post on all my blogs!!!

And here’s today’s Journal Entry

THANK YOU!!!!!! Perfect timing!!!!!!!!!!

I love you, Mr. B. ::blushes::

Quite a lot of self promotion going on here! I’m waiting for delivery of one of mine to see how it looks before putting any on sale, hopefully will come this week now.

Calendars 2010

CALENDARS are cheaper than t-shirts and you don’t have to….

Come on now, 15% off caledars, time to get those christmas presents ordered we only have a week…..............and christmas is just around the corner”:http://www.redbubble.com/people/wildaboutphotos/journal/3823767-come-on-now-15-off-caledars-time-to-get-those-christmas-presents-ordered-we-only-have-a-week-and-christmas-is-just-around-the-corner

OOPs sorry for the broken link Mr B, I will get them right one day LOL

one final word …..........yayyyyyy

P.s. In reply to Donald….......you won’t be disappointed RB Calendars are fantastic quality :)).

Kewl..will try and get someone to buy ASAP..I’m too skint myself.xxxx

I wish I’d waited to order the six that I did, but I will order two more with this special. For those of you who haven’t seen these calendars, they are beautiful. Well worth the price at any price.

Such a pity I bought one only a few days ago!

Here is my first calendar in case you are interested in having a look :)

damn wish i had waited now to put my order in..great idea a bit late for me though..:)) k

I bought one last week! As I’m not the only “early buyer” I think that RB could do something for them. Next year I’ll wait for the promotion sale :)
But, let’s be positive, I’m sure Mr Baxter (or someone else) will buy one of MY calendars now:

Here is another one, Mr Baxter :)

Or, who knows, dear Mr Baxter, you might prefer buying this one?

i purchased a calendar last year and the quality was superb !! even after the year passes, the art contained within is beautiful and framable ~ i cut out the pictures and put them all in frames. i just created my own calendar today, a collection of some of my paintings and plan to purchase some as gifts as well as to offer for sale locally.

Thanks so very much for this promotion Mr Baxter

YAY!!!!! I am sooooo excited! Hopefully this will help me get some sales! I love when you guys do these special offers…..the only thing I would like to suggest is…could you give us advanced notification that you will be doing these sales? I have had family members and friends that all wanted to buy stuff, but once the sales come around, with only 1 week live, it’s always in between pay days. If we had advanced warning, we could let people nkow and they could save for their purchase….just a thought.

Anyway….here’s my calendar!

Ivy DragonFire Art – The Art of Lynsye Medalia

PLUS!!! I dropped my markup to 10%!!! WOO HOO!

Since there is no tab for calendars (like there are for Art; T-Shirts and Writings) it’s not easy to find the calendars.

I made a few and maybe there are more to come, so here are the links to my calendars:

Primates

Tigers from LA Zoo

BIRDS!!!!

Giraffe

Europe

America calender

If you want a calendar dedicated specifically to birds, mammals, cats, apes, etc., it may be possible to arrange. Also change of order is possible, or you can choose any 12 images in my portfolio and I will make a calendar of them ;-)

Bwahah!!!! I just made this one!!

Yep, yep, yep…

But where do you link your calendar.

At the moment all you can do is add your calendar and your watchlist pals see it.

We should be able to add calendars to groups like we do with regular works !

Calendars 2010

I’m dirt broke….. :(
I’d be making Calendars so I can give them away as gifts, but I don’t even have the money to buy them for that.

Oooooh, time to flog some calendars

With the 15% discount in place I think everyone, and yes that means YOU!!!!! should buy at least one.

Now turn to your left and tap the person next to you on the shoulder and show them this, now do the same to your right, see I now already have 3 times the number of viewswers sine you look at this.

Anyhoo….. here’s my calendars…............ ENJOY

Martyn

Also while your here why not become a member of my Martyn Baker Photography group on Facebook *Martyn Baker Photography

Thank you for replying Mr Baxter,l have noticed too that the free postage coupon that we used to get when we placed an order has dissappeared is this going to return anytime soon ?

Mr Baxter (not sure that’s your real name), I reckon printing the calendar title and artist’s name would be the professional way to go. I won’t go into the whole public holiday situation, but the calendar is not really all that marketable to most segments of the commercial fraternity. It seems to me that RedBubble remains steadfast in aiming their products at the artist themself, Mum, Dad, Nana, Pop and Auntie Flo. Long way to go in making this a real attractive product for the masses, and having them available for sale through the bubblesite makes sense from my point of view.

To be honest, 15% is not enough discount. The artist’s name should be printed on the front cover. It’s plain and simple business sense to do so.

Just wish to add: my dear Mum just emailed and asked me to purchase two calendars for her. Go figure. :)

Any chance of a 20-25% discount? I’m in a bartering mood today, Mr Baxter. ;)

I’m having a little fiddle – with the calendar titles that is. Suppose I can call my Mum’s calendar: XYZ007 by Darren Stones, so as to get the name in matching font.

Any chance you can personally sponsor and arrange 120,000 copies of one of my calendars before Melbourne Cup Day so I can give them away to each and every person who attends the cup? Or, is that stretching your weekly budget a tad?

It’s not looking good for you Darren – although, the scary WolframAlpha robot seems to think Sunday’s going to be a bit damp.

I’ll take care of filling the Yan Yean Reservoir on the proviso other Melbourne-based bubblers take care of filling the others. Mind you, Yan Yean’s capacity is 30,000 megalitres, and the current volume is 6,983 megalitres. Seems like I’ll have to get stuck into the coffee.

So I took this opportunity to actually design some calendars for the first time! Yeah I know it’s insane that I hadn’t yet. Anyways…
Here they are :) (images are clickable)

Maybe a link to calendars on the home page would be cool?

Peace! :D

... I meant a larger link than the “script” version near the bottom of the page.

Bubblemail coming to you, Mr B.

Mr Baxter, is the free shipping for one address or can we send it to a few different areas/countries?

Do you prefer looking up the time or looking up the date?

I purchased a calendar last year and the quality was superb !!! even after the year passes.Thank you Redbubble,

Fantastic…Great news .. Red Bubble..Love you. I have got 3x romantic calenders for sale to make you a perfect Lover and enjoy like heaven.

Love Time is a key time for the creation of the universe for human and animals. Love time is when lovers are at work.

1. Love Time
Click to go Sunil Sharma’s web

I love…. love ….love my Valentine so .. much ! I want my sweetheart Valentine to turn into Love Goddess Aphrodite NOW ? *
This highly inspiring and motivational Calendar help to create firm foundation for the Lovers to learn, share and practice the easy to follow real Love, Respect and Romantic values to create heavenly experience for the Lovers now and forever!
You can order you’re your calendars now!
2. Love Goddess Aphrodite
Love drives the whole world it is force of attraction

Yes ! You can be Lover and rejoice.. *
Being a perpetual lover is a blessing from Divine/Nature. In a Nutshell, lets treat our self and others as God and Goddess as everyone has Soul; a divine presence in our bodies and cosmos. As you know wherever you focus it enlarges or magnifies , so lets goodness come out of us by focusing on good values.
You can order you’re your calendars now!
3. Lovers in Heaven

Click to go Sunil Sharma’s web
Artist : Sunil Sharma
Email : sunil-c-sharma@hotmail.com

this is great with the percent, but it is already right, unfortunately, one cannot arrange the calendars in groups, so that other they can see… so one can see a calendar only if, however, one on the respective artist goes… I do not want to grumble further, because I can make it not better:o)
if somebody liked to risk a look here my contribution is to it
!this is great with the percent, but it is already right, unfortunately, one cannot arrange the calendars in groups, so that other they can see… so one can see a calendar only if, however, one on the respective artist goes… I do not want to grumble further, because I can make it not better:o)
if somebody liked to risk a look here my contribution is to it!

I do not know this now why thus is indicated… I believe my PC the Verlinkung makes itself just independently… hihi…, however, all the same functioned…;o)

Yaaaaaaaaaaaay- I have a pile made up- Thank you RB xx

Ooohhhhhh!
I whised you had made that only one week later…......my wages will arrive at the first of a month, not in the end!! I can not buy the calenders during this week, no money left at all….
.°chewing the bad word with f°
What a unbelieavable pity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very nice. I’m off to the shop!

Mine is here

Does the free postage apply if I buy 10 different calendars ? or do I have to buy 10 of the same ?

I made my first one and lovin it!!

I ordered 10 earlier this week, I was obviously a little premature

“Rob Parsons about 3 hours ago

Does the free postage apply if I buy 10 different calendars ? or do I have to buy 10 of the same ?”

IMO is important just a number.

Please take a look at my calendars…. brand new this year

The Best of My Flower Photography

Butterflies At Their Best

A Beautiful Collection of Birds

Many views but…

We’ve knocked 15% off all calendars, that’s 365 days for the price of 310….BUT BRILLIANT…

Is it possible to make our Calendars visible within our Galleries as another means for people to find them when they have a favourite artist? Is is possible to add a calendar to a specific group like we do other art?

Here is mine for those interested.

http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/calendars/page:0/product:calendar/size:medium/view:preview/3829220-3-australian-birds.jpg

Sorry the image didn’t work – forgive this is my first attempt at this. Let’s hope this one works.

!http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/calendars/page:0/product:calendar/size:medium/view:preview/3829220-3-australian-birds.jpg

And yet a third and final attempt.

Great news!! And please check out Blueclover’s Calendars and see what i have to offer!

My calendars:

Varigotti
Details of the colourful facades of Varigotti, an historical coastal village of Western Riviera (Liguria, Italia) that is famous for its typical Mediterranean ancient houses on the beach.

My flowers
Some flowers of my collection, photos taken on my balcony.

On white
High key

Here’s my very first calender:

http://www.redbubble.com/people/mimbravastudio/calendars/3839797-1-2010-in-flowers

“http://www.redbubble.com/people/mimbravastudio/calendars/3839797-1-2010-in-flowers”

Well, I’m sure not getting the hypertexting right. Please just cut and paste the link. Sorry, folks.

Well, heck, that doesn’t work, either. I guess you should just click on mimbravastudio, above, if you’re interested in checking it out. Thanks.

Could someone help me? I am attempting to Put up a Calendar
But I cant get the Pic I want to Pick?????

Drec suggests I try this. Sorry if it still won’t work, but perhaps it will. Thanks, Drec.

Well, alas, it didn’t. Just please click on my name to find the calender if care to. Thanks.

The art of decay calendar

mimbravastudio about 5 hours ago

Well, alas, it didn’t. Just please click on my name to find the calender if care to. Thanks.

It was very sweet of starikarp to do that for me. I’m grateful.

Hmm. I just clicked on the image, and it doesn’t go to my page, so I guess y’all will STILL have to click on my name to get there.

wow..this journal is getting pretty lengthy, and full of great ideas and self promotion :) and since there’s nothing wrong with any of these, if you’ve got a minute have a look at mine too !

THANKS !

I’m going to try this one more time and then will stop monopolizing this thread.

view my calendar

It will work now :)

A link on Home Page especially for calendars is an exellent idea!!

This is exciting news!

what’s the slightest chance on extending this offer for just one more week ? pleeeeease :)))) it’s just that I have spent the whole week advertising, scratching backs etc… and now awaiting an order or possibly 2 – but you know what people are like – I can only try so much but if they know that RB are willing to extend the offer then it must be an offer that is brilliant :))

see I have spent all week choosing images and now may not get “that order” “see here”: http://www.redbubble.com/people/papillonbleu/calendars/3830053-1-just-flowers for the very latest and need to now make one to order :)

rookie mistake grrrr…..here can we have an edit button please as well ;)

thank you RB, as you know I was waiting for this for weeks, I am working on mine now, thanks again :)))

Others calendars

People

Objects

Abstractions

The discount thing is confusing. I thought (as you would) that when RedBubble offers a discount, that discount is off RedBubble’s portion of the sale, but am I to understand that if a Bubbler buys their own, RB pays the discount, but if someone else buys it, the artist takes the hit? Since when does RB decide what artists get paid?? Does this apply every time RB advertises a sale? To be honest, I think that’s false advertising on RB’s part. RB is NOT giving a 15% site-wide discount on calendars, you are giving a 15% discount to artists who buy their own calendars, and imposing a 15% RB-wide markup deduction (ie pay cut) for the rest. Yes, artists can combat it by changing their markup but how many people will know that? We weren’t told that, and the only reason I even found out was because I checked this thread (now the week is nearly over) to see what the finishing date was again. How many people never saw this and will get a nasty surprise in their pay checks? I’d say most. I know several Bubblers who have added their own discount to RB’s discount to make their price more attractive, but this means that instead of a 15% hit, those artists will be taking a 25 or 30% hit instead if RB is passing the cost onto artists.
Next time RB is feeling generous a lot of confusion and annoyance could be avoided if you are just clear up front on who funds the generosity. I have no problem giving discounts from time to time – I just want to either decide myself when to do it, or at least know up front that it’s going to happen.

BTW, does the artist take the hit for the “free” shipping for ten or more calendars, too? I’m not sure what to read into any of RB’s other “sales” now. :(

Another question, where are all the calendars? When one clicks on the calendars link on the RB home page, only 16 calendars show up. Where are all the rest? There must be hudreds, if not thousands – I myself have four, none of which show up. How does a random browser find calendars on RB??

does each page of the calender get printed with the photo title???

Shameless self-promotion:

Debbie: does each page of the calender get printed with the photo title???

Debbie, if they are the same as last year, then the answer is yes, at the bottom right of each page it says “artwork-name by artist-name”. And on the back of the calendar will be the URL of your RedBubble profile.

Well I have just sold my first calender ever!! I am thrilled as the images were specifically chosen for the person buying it. I am not complaining here but the Exchange Rate just does not tally up! Can you please exlpain! would have been nice to have commission without the 15% though :(

Still here is my first calender sale

and hopefullly they are as brilliant as you say :))
Pam

RB Calendars are pretty good value at the best of times and with this little promo I actually sold a few this year (not just to myself this time lol). Thanks for a great offer.
I think calendars would do so much better if we could submit them to groups or have a specific place to show them off (after all they’re a great way to present your work and also buy from your fav artists)- any thoughts on that ?

Very well, my calendars are here. Thanks for the great offer.

Very well, my calendars are here. Thanks for the great offer.

Pamela, if your cut is less than you expect, don’t forget, 15% of the TOTAL price is taken off only YOUR portion – which makes it a lot MORE than 15%, depending on your markup. For example, if you have a 100% markup, making your calendars around US$40 (rounded up slightly to give nice round numbers), your cut is $20. 15% of $40 is $6. $20-$6=$14 which makes the discount you’ve ACTUALLY given closer to 30% discount.
I’m really NOT impressed with how this has been handled, so far RB has chosen not to answer any of my questions nor anyone else’s who has questioned the false advertising they did in this case or the questionable way RB’s chosen to structure its “discounts” (read: pay cut). I for one would like to see a response from RB about the issues I raised earlier in this thread, as well as why they’re calling a pay cut of 30% or even higher (the lower your markup the bigger the ) a 15 sales discount!

All these photos are included in this calendar:

Is it possible to change a price for the calenders or for the pictures? I didn’t found an option to do it.

Tara: _… don’t forget, 15% of the TOTAL price is taken off only YOUR portion – which makes it a lot MORE than 15% ...

Tara, I think you are misunderstanding how this works. The base price of the calendars has been reduced by 15% for the sale period. Your markup percentage remains the same. So if the base price is $20, and if your markup is 100%, then normally your calendar would cost $40 and you would make $20 profit. During the sale period, the base price has been reduced to $17. If your markup remains at 100% then your calendar will cost $34 and you would make a profit of $17. So yes, your profit is reduced by 15%, but not by 30% as you claim above. Hope this helps,

Cheers, prbimages :-)

Thanks prbimages but that does not compute with what Mr Baxter says above. He said that if someone else buys your calendar, the 15% comes out of your markup, not out of the base price?!

I was wondering about the 15% knock off…it didn´t show up when I bought my own!! AQnd postage wasn´t shown separately, as I expected it to do.
This is my “last chance” new calendar any way !!:))

I quit!
RB is not consistantly showing my work I’ve uploaded when I tried making my last calendar.

I can’t imagine why on earth names of photos would show up on, say March, and not January. It’s driving me bonkers! Also, not being able to see thumbnails as I try to make the calendar is very frustrating.
What’s up with all this RB?? Is it jut me or is anyone else having probs?
– Bobbi

Okay, now I feel stupid. I just realized the photos probably weren’t showing up because they weren’t the right size for where I wanted to place them. Sigh.
Sorry RB. I’d delete the above if I could figure out how…..

Thanks for your reply- sounds like a great plan to look out for :)))) xx