Everybody and their mother (including my mother) has called me this week telling me, "You know what you should do? Print up some flag magnets, or flag t-shirts, OH MY GOSH you'd sell a million of those!!!"

Gee now THERE's an idea! NEVER thought 'a that!

God bless America.

i agree with the above, about giving a flag and in return give the proceeds to the families of people who perished.

just my opinion,

If we help 20 people fly a small message of support for $1 each, that is not cool?

I have given away 30 or 40 flag decals to my customers, but I have also sold over a hundred when people ask to buy them.

I can afford to give a $300 banner to our local memorial event partly because I have a business in which I can turn a profit when someone sees my $200 a month yellow page ad and asks me to print whatever they want on my $25,000.00 equipment & SELL it to them.

Don, & Victor it is an honorable thing that each of you are doing along with countless others. But I have to dissagree with Mark on reasonable flag profits being uncool, weather its 20 or 2000.

[ September 27, 2001: Message edited by: Doug Allan ]

that is the beauty of this country.
free enterprise and free expression.

a knee jerk reaction on my part i am sure, but at this time it just doesn't seem right.

to market the flag at this time is tacky.

if a good customer comes in and says, "i would like an american flag to go on my trucks"

i would ask, "how many do you need."

i would not run a special promotion to sell flags.

we are not just selling signs here, we are selling ourselves as people concerned with freedom in this cruel world.

at the same time i do understand economics, nothing is free.
my point is if the hardware store has decals of the american flag for 1 dollar they should sell them for one $.
then they should send 50 cents to a relief agency.

i just felt that cranking out american flags at this time in history is a tacky thing to do.

to actively pursue that bit of business is "uncool"

just my opinion, nothing else.

mark

[ September 27, 2001: Message edited by: Mark Fair Signs ]

Then the next morning I saw a guy in a japanese truck, with a chinese made flag flying from his window.

The more I thought about it, the more I got ****ed.

I'm SICK of all the money in this country going to other countries! What the hell is wrong with big business?? They get their stuff built overseas to increase profits.. but if no one in the USA can buy their stuff because they lost their jobs to NAFDA or some other 'lets save the world' BS, what do they think is going to happen?

I was feeling very weird and unusually (for me) moralistic about making a profit on this mess. But, I'd rather see an AMERICAN make money off of Americans and spend in America on American services, goods, and products.

You canucks, do the same (in canuckville )

I havent made a patriotic anything yet, for myself or anyone else. By the time I figure out what is right for me, no one will care and my decision will be made for me.

as far as you rob lowe from "sparkle city", quit yer whining, you made all that money off of those shi*tty movies here in america and you are not willing to give any of it back in a time of need?

Mark will do those 1000 flags!

Keep on makin those flags and makin money! Like Mark said, it's only his opinion, I don't think anybody is trying to judge anybody here.

I made two magnetic flags this week: one for my driver's side and on for my passenger side on my vw jetta. Gave 'em away to a buddy a few days ago

I do like the idea of printing some stickers/shirts/etc... and taking donations for the relief effort. Guess all I have to do now is get off my lazy rear and do it.

did not mean to offend anyone, to each his own.

I would love to be able to give 100's of decals away but my situation is that I just bought this shop one year ago, I am the only shop that has a store front right in the city (and have a landlord), an employee of the previous owner has started his sign shop out of his garage in the city, and my biggest competitor moved from a barn outside the city to ALMOST in the city. So needless to say, things have changed a little bit since I bought the business.

So I make the flags that people want, feeling that I am so glad that people are finally getting back to being as patroitic as I have always been. I just am torn up that it took such a drastic tragedy to get to this point.

My husband and I used to do lots of parades with our horses and it would really grind me to see people so disrestectful when our veterans and our flags would go by. They would totally ignor our flag by sitting and talking, eating, or just turn their backs on it.

I can't afford to give flags away but I am selling at a little lower price than what I would normally sell my PC-60 printed graphics. People are so thrill to have decals that not one has asked where the proceeds are going. I have about 6 different layouts so far (which people are thrilled to have a selection) and have told customers that if they can find something different in clipart, I'll print up what they want.