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ideas for random geekery gamergeekgirl Mon Dec 3 21:52:31 2012 No.344785 [Reply] [Original]

I'm about to open an online store to sell a few geek/nerd themed items. So far I've been working on shelves shaped like tetris pieces and pixel art on canvas of various game characters and scenes. Just looking for ideas from fellow geeks and nerds on stuff they'd like brought to life. I do woodworking, sewing and painting. Ideas anyone?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 3 21:55:15 2012 No.344787 blooper buttplug

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 3 21:58:14 2012 No.344788 Paint darth vadar in a christmas jumped and have his kids opening presents that contain lightsabers! Woooooo

>>	gamergeekgirl Mon Dec 3 21:59:44 2012 No.344790 File: 163 KB, 449x575, 5082ba16a063d62f7f000acc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Lol that would take some plastic manufacturing skills which i don't posess

Anonymous Mon Dec 3 22:21:29 2012 No.344797
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gamergeekgirl. really? as a femmeanon i gotta say... girls who call themselves geeks are usually overcompensating. That said, just search for geek or nerd on etsy. the major issue you'll run into is copy write and trademark infringement. do your research.
i do character amigurumi and earflap hats in crochet. picture related, an eggplant hat i made.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 3 22:28:45 2012 No.344801 If this is your first small business I'd recommend trying to wholesale them to thinkgeek. They pick up random shit all the time and then don't pick it up for the next quarter if it doesn't do well.

Anonymous Mon Dec 3 22:46:29 2012 No.344811
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You really want to cater to fandoms. Can't be too small but if you get too big the market will already be flooded.

I would recommend things like dune, portal, and firefly. Big but not too big. Don't wanna go any smaller than dune or any bigger than portal (which may be too big anyways)

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 3 23:21:45 2012 No.344835 Nice eggplant hat.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 4 00:23:59 2012 No.344870 >>344811 How about salt and pepper shakers that say "He who controls the Spice controls the Universe"

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 4 00:28:29 2012 No.344872 >>344811 Gor. fuckers are rabid about that shit. I couldn't read more than 10 pages of the first book before i gave up, though. the book was like reading a report by a middle schooler who just discovered adjectives.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 4 00:37:45 2012 No.344877 >>344872 fookin lurved it, man. Read the whole series in one summer. From Dune until Chapterhouse. Until his son started writing it and fucked it over. >not that I haven't read those, too. But they're nowhere near as good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 4 01:16:29 2012 No.344885 >>344844 >>/b/

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 4 03:21:29 2012 No.344926 >>344872 omg I would never buy anything from a Gor-themed web shop but I would browse the fuck out of its website

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