Comments on: Valleyschwag – thoughts

By: dlock

dlock — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:39:14 +0000

As a subscriber I would like to add my two cents…I have to agree with Thor, it is a random grab bag and everyone cannot be expected to receive a bag full of stuff they love, but that is the point of a grab bag…if you want to be guaranteed things you love perhaps shelling out more than 15 bucks could buy you that.
In my experience they have been working very hard to make the subscribers happy…which i imagine is a tough task given the fact that the subscription list multiplied so fast.
I am currently a subscriber and have no complaints, the only thing that they promised is a tshirt a month and that to me justifies my investment.
Perhaps because i don’t see the subscription as a lottery ticket it makes it more fun…no one can put a guarantee that you’ll love everything in what is clearly a random grab bag…It is fun and they are definitely working and succeeding in putting a fun, personal and novel touch to the whole thing.

By: Thor Muller

Thor Muller — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:15:14 +0000

It’s difficult to please everyone–especially with a grab bag!

All we’ve ever promised was at least one t-shirt per package, plus random goodies like stickers and pens. Sometimes packages contain more–we get small amounts of high-end promo-gear sometimes, but these are EXTRAS. We’re rotating through our subscribers to make sure everyone gets extras over time.

This is a fun, silly schwag club, not meant to be taken very seriously. We treat our subscribers as peers, and fully understand if it’s not your bag. But we’ve never advertised it as something that it’s not!

By: Dan Masters » Cancelling My Subscription to Valleyschwag

Dan Masters » Cancelling My Subscription to Valleyschwag — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:59:45 +0000

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By: Neasan

Neasan — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:31:30 +0000

I don’t get it at all. You pay £11 a month for “schwag” from tech companies? Did I miss the bit where carrying around an item with a company logo on it is cool?

Seriously they say that a band t-shirt costs you way more, well guess what guys I have well over a hundred t-shirts from bands I like(sometimes more than one for each band, rarer cases a lot more than one, damn you Foo Fighters and Raging Speedhorn) but at least those t-shirts say something about me other than “I’m a corporate shill”.

Also your scwag looks cack, a pencil? WTF? That’s really new and innovative.

By: dan.idano - The Personal Site of Dan Masters

dan.idano - The Personal Site of Dan Masters — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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