Kewl, now where do I get some 180 US$... ^_^

Great! Now to convince the folks...

I've ordered my 5... might get some more for gifts too. Thanks for such speedy work on this!

Was the "quality print example" something you sent them .. or something they had on hand and sent you?

if you sent them ... then I could have all my stuff printed by saying .. "I'm still not sure .. print this"

and then ..

"Yeah .. dis is Guido on long island .. how duz I no if'n youze guys iz any guud"

I had them print last year's calendar for me, and yes I did have to pay for it. =)

I made a small update to the announcement:

I'll also be giving out a month of Cadre membership to each member who purchases a calendar. Just send me a PM after you make the purchase and include the name of the person who made the order (so I can verify it).

They look great. I've just ordered some.

Nice , just placed the order , now a 2 week wait :-((

Hmmm a bit expensive for my allowance.. 20$ -plus shipping to here is, for my opinion, too expensive.

Great idea to have the calendar for us in the southern hemisphere, though its a shame that it costs 36.68 AUD, fairly steep for a calander, regardless of how unique. (equivalents, though less unique usually cost 20.00 AUD). Damn the global economy, poor exports, world bank debts, John Howard....

The designs look great but I have one concern. The titles and member names appear to be close to the edge. Will this calendar have a sprial binder through this area or will this calendar have staples?
Russ

Mine's ordered! Can't wait for it to arrive!

You can use promotion code FreeShip until 12/6/05 to get the calendar shipped for free on orders over $50.00.
Russ

Just placed my order - can't wait to receive it!

Me too. Hard to choose between the different volumes. Thanks for the speed!!! :-)

Fantastic work, Caedes! You've clearly been busy. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong but I'm trying to see all of the images in the various calenders and I'm just able to pull up four thumbs on one page and the image for January. Is there a way to see all the images including in all the calenders? Again, thanks for your hard work! Wen

Oops, nevermind....I figured it out.....Duh! Wen

ordered a few copies for christmas gifts - may be ordering more depending on how the Christmas shopping apathy levels kick in :-)

Great ! too bad I have Visa Electron, can't do anything with it. Anyway, I am going to find some way out of it :)

itd be very interesting to see a list of all the photos used if thats possible
well done on all the hard work thats obviously gone into them!

I am not trying to complain, but honestly, $20 for a calendar? Those comic strip calendars are usually under $15, and they have to pay expensive royalties to the author. Where does this $20 go? Assuming you are making profit (hinted at by you giving away cadre membership), could there be a "bulk" discount? I was considering buying 5+ calendars to give away to people, but I won't be able to unless there is some sort of discount in purchasing several. If you did, your profits would still be insured and probably increased, because people are more likely to get several if the next few are cheaper.

I am not sure how to make the tone of this message change, but it is meant to be a lot lighter than it seems reading it. I am not going to promote boycotting, for I am not angry; I am more curious and surprised than anything.

heidler: The calendars are stapled, not spiral-bound. So there won't be any problem in seeing the titles. I already had one printed so I'd know exactly what it would look like.

jzaw: You can click a link from the details page of each calendar to see the individual images used in each one.

Luke - the prices are slightly higher than you would have expected as the Cafe Press print all their items on demand i.e. nothing is printed in advance and are just done to order. The higher price is the downside of that equation - the upside is that there is no upfront cost of printing in bulk and Caedes doesnt end up with several cupboards full of unsold calendars.

The shipping for one is cheaper when you order more then one, and there might be a slight (5$] discount if some of your friends here send you a digital coupon when they had bought theirs, I didn't know who might want to have mine so I send to some of my dearest friends here, not knowing if they needed it. I could have sent one your way but it's too late for me. Perhaps someone of the others will do that for you instead? ;)

oopps totally overlooked that coupon offer * smacks forehead *

That's very true about the cost of print-on-demand versus bulk printing. Most services would print the calendars for less than $5 each, however they also require an order of 1000 at a time. Then there is still the little problem of taking the money and shipping the product out to all the different people.

If anyone wants a coupon, just post here and perhapse someone will be nice enough to send you one when they make their order.

Just wondering, is there any way of paying with a money order or cashier's check? I didn't see anything about it on the order form, only credit card transactions.

When I told my dad, he was rather angry about the whole ordeal. He thinks that I should go to snapfish or kodak and print calendars with 12 of my images instead of just one, and it would be the same price. I, on the other hand, feel loyalty to the site along with a community type of comfort. I would rather have them be officially published and be able to tell people that my photos were selected than to have one of all my own pictures.

I will be able to purchase 3, possibly 5, myself, which is substantial considering my budget. I will guarantee an order of 8, possibly more, from my household if there is some type of bonus for ordering several when actually purchasing them (shipping doesn't count, apparently). Just out of curiosity, is it one month of cadre membership per calendar or per order? Also, would anybody be willing to send me a coupon?

I really am sorry. My dad has a business mind, and that tends to make him a stick in the mud in such cases. Do forgive him, he doesn't mean it.

Larry,
after I filled my cart, and clicked the 'proceed to checkout' I was given a page with my cart number at the top and an option to complete my order by phone with their number using my cart number as reference. You might try filling the cart the way you want it and getting those numbers to call and ask about other options.

I have to agree with your dad to some extent. You might want to consider making a calendar of your own featuring all your own images. I can understand how you would want a caedes calendar as well, but the other members' photographs probably mean less to him than they do to you. Why don't you just save the money from a few of the caedes calendars and use it to buy your own from snapfish or where-ever. I recommend Cafepress since the price is less than snapfish. You don't have to sell them to other people unless you want to.

Oh yeah, I'll give a month of Cadre membership per calendar, not per order.

I think you can show off more about a calendar where your image was chosen out of thousands from all over the world though... surely that must have some value (even if it is only egotistical)??? ;-)

Thanks so much for all the info. I will do my best to sway him this way. The cadre-per-calendar should push him over if I word it right...all I need now is a coupon...

Just out of curiosity, is it pronounced Que-pawn or Coo-pawn...or others?

either way according to my dictionary

Damn I'd love to buy one but I'm too broke! Being Aussie it'll cost me almost $40. I better use the money to save for my new digital camera....

Yep, 8 calendars from us, possibly more. I will order when I find the time. Sorry about the hassles.

I think I know what everyone in the family is getting for xmas this year... I may be able to convince a few friends, too. :)

A reminder for those that missed it. Use promotion code FreeShip until 12/6/05 to get the calendar shipped for free on orders over $50.00.
Russ

Speak now or forever hold your lack of coupon as your responsibility. If anybody wants a coupon, ask for it quickly.

I too can see your dad's point of view stuffnstuff but this way it's not just you going out and creating a calendar with all your pictures, yours was actually chosen to be in a calender, which is pretty sweet. Anyone can go out and create those calenders but not everyone can have the opportunity like we have now and I think it's worth the extra money.

Sure it would be cheaper for the calender itself, and you wouldn't have to pay for taxes & shipping & handling but again, the caedes calender has a little more meaning because we were chosen out of so many others to be a part of it.

Very impressive collection and choice.Ordered mine....Jim

I just want to let everyone know that I'll be giving everyone their Cadre membership in a few days.

Confirmation recieved. My two are on the way. Being greedy though, both of them are mine.

I have enjoyed this site for over a year, viewing and putting photos on my desktop, So many talented people, and a wonderful way to display work, and share w/ others that you have in common.
Thanks for your time and effort in putting this together!

Any chance of finding out how many have been ordered so far?

We've sold 59 calendars.

Good thing you didn't order a thousand a piece, huh? ;-)

That seems like a pretty good result for only 5 days. Just out of interest do you know how many were sold last year?

caedes, you should keep have live update ticker on the home page of how many calendars have been sold.

Recieved and beautiful! So happy to have portable, show-off-able samples of Caedes members work. Graeme, Avi, Sam, Tony, Tristan and all the rest so well represented. Many of these will find their way into frames on my computer room walls long after the year is gone.

Good to hear. Don't worry about the Cadre memberships. I haven't forgotten. I'd just like to do them all in one big batch.

Mine came today , they look very good.

I got mine yesterday too. Pretty speedy delivery, and the quality seems much better than last year. Nice job.

just got mine, very high quality printing!

I received my calendars yesterday. Wow! Great job guys. This is much better than last years calendars. Sill haven't seen the Cadre membership yet.
Russ

Woot I got my calendar! Great job Caedes and anyone else who helped!

Question: Will there be a deadline on when i have to order, or will they be there all year?

The store at CafePress costs like $6 per month to have open, so I'll probably shut it down after the start of the year. People usually have their calendars by then I would guess.

Hey!!! I just got my calendar today, it looks great!!..=)

Mines on the way… they say.

They came, and I'm sueing. ;-D

I really do feel honoured, so thanks to all who represent me on their walls and for those who represent that representation (or something like that). Now to mail them out to all them relatives who were at the beach when I took the picture.

I've given out the Cadre memberships for everyone who has notified me that they bought a calendar so far. If you haven't told me your order number please do so that I can give you your Cadre membership.

Too Expensive for a Brazilian Guy who earns in Real with a conversion rate of 2.3 Real a dollar. ;-P

Finally got mine today - looks great, can't wait to hang it.

Just got mine, thank you. Looks great!!! / HJ

Shipment no:201071501 Batch 609. (T.Beecher)

Not had mine yet, though I have just received a card from the post office saying they have a parcel of mine and I owe some customs charges. As I'm expecting no other parcels at the moment, I assume this is the calendars. Anyone else have this problem?

Well, it sucks that you're going to have to pay customs on that order. It looks like the charges could be anywhere between 2-10% depending on the classification. Apparently RM also chages a handling fee in this case as well. =\

Yes, I've done some googling on this one and it looks as though customs randomly stop any number of parcels and then charge any appropriate duties and import VAT. The charge is working out at about roughly 27% of the order total (36% if you take it as a percentage of the value of goods, not including postage). Bummer. I guess I'll have to pay it.

I must have been lucky with various other overseas packages I've had.

Mine too!!!!........(I owe some customs charges = £9.00, for two "caedes" calendars !!!)
British Customs???..........Total rip-off !!
Cheers!..........John

I think I read somewhere that about one in three parcels get stopped. However, for a known name like Cafepress, I bet they know to slap charges on those.

I'd love to get one of those if I wasn't so poor. $20?! I can get ones costing me around $0 from any local real estate agent, thanks.

REALLY LOVELY.

Is there any way to get a Calendar, now that the Cafe Press site is unavailable???

I removed the calendars because they charge a monthly fee for the premium shops. They only allow one calendar at a time for the free shops, so if you tell me which one you want I might be able to get it set up in a free shop for you.