Is this legit NG merchandise?

[yetanotherjohn]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEWGROUNDS-Keyring-Flash-games-internet-/320461592782?pt=UK_Keyrings&hash=item4a9cffd8ce

http://www.cafepress.com/+newgrounds+gifts

I'm not entirely sure...

[VJF]

Didn't you here? Tom outsourced the store now so people can buy NG stuff while the new redesign comes out next month.

[yetanotherjohn]

Maybe the cafepress stuff is legit, anyway.

[Shauna]

No, doesn't look like it

[D-Nightmare]

In the second link, the shirts with the 2007 version of the logo seems legit. I'm wondering what the admins know or think about this.

[DM692]

I've known about the cafepress store for a long time but never actually took a look at it, I love how the license plate frame has the old tagline on it. I'm fairly sure Tom knows about the cafepress store and he's even the one who had it set up, but that eBay keychain link looks a little fishy.

[Nickisabi]

I looked up the NG archive and this matches.

Apparently, Tom had a store that was not in connection with the site, but through a third-party outlet. It was back before the 2007 logo though, so it doesn't look as badass.

[Boomstick]

I'd get that Pico Clock, since my old clock broke. And maybe that mousepad, my current one is shit.

[Viper]

First one doesn't look real.
Second one does look real though.

[Piggler]

90% of that merch looks pretty lame anyway.

[Oolaph]

damn dude i gotta cop that classic logo apron ASAP

[TomFulp]

At 3/17/14 08:42 PM, yetanotherjohn wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEWGROUNDS-Keyring-Flash-games-internet-/320461592782?pt=UK_Keyrings&hash=item4a9cffd8ce

http://www.cafepress.com/+newgrounds+gifts

I'm not entirely sure...

Nope, neither of those are legit.

[Pop-Tart]

At 3/18/14 10:34 AM, TomFulp wrote: Nope, neither of those are legit.

I never cease to be amazed at the amount of copyright infringement on CafePress, Etsy, eBay, etc. Party favors, t-shirts, candy molds.... anything and everything.

Is it just more trouble than its worth to track and quash these sorts of things?

[Bit]

At 3/18/14 10:34 AM, TomFulp wrote: Nope, neither of those are legit.

Darn. I absolutely would have bought one of those Newgrounds wall clocks.

I was under the impression that these were some sort of old, pre-store NG merchandise. Cafepress has never, and now will never, get any of my money.

[kazumazkan]

At 3/18/14 10:34 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 3/17/14 08:42 PM, yetanotherjohn wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEWGROUNDS-Keyring-Flash-games-internet-/320461592782?pt=UK_Keyrings&hash=item4a9cffd8ce

http://www.cafepress.com/+newgrounds+gifts

I'm not entirely sure...

Nope, neither of those are legit.

well then thats that
i was under impression that there was another place where NG merchandise was being sold,plus allot of items look rather old like before the redesign in 2007 guess i was wrong.

[TomFulp]

At 3/18/14 11:12 AM, Stevenscar wrote: I was under the impression that these were some sort of old, pre-store NG merchandise. Cafepress has never, and now will never, get any of my money.

We do have a Cafepress store and a lot of these items came from there - they somehow ripped the source art and set up new items, or something... This was our legit store, which might actually still work:

http://www.cafepress.com/newgrounds

[TomFulp]

At 3/18/14 11:04 AM, Pop-Tart wrote: Is it just more trouble than its worth to track and quash these sorts of things?

Yeah, it's one of those "choose your battles" things, where I doubt they are doing much business and I try to spend my time on more positive pursuits, have enough dark things to dwell on.

[Viper]

At 3/18/14 12:01 PM, TomFulp wrote: We do have a Cafepress store and a lot of these items came from there - they somehow ripped the source art and set up new items, or something... This was our legit store, which might actually still work:

http://www.cafepress.com/newgrounds

Hmm....do you know if you still have any of these laying around somewhere?
http://web.archive.org/web/19990508062955/http://www.newgrounds.com/shirts/index.html

[TomFulp]

At 3/18/14 01:17 PM, Viper50 wrote: Hmm....do you know if you still have any of these laying around somewhere?
http://web.archive.org/web/19990508062955/http://www.newgrounds.com/shirts/index.html

I don't even know if I have MINE anymore... Seems like a must but I was just cleaning my closet this weekend and it wasn't in there, maybe it's in a box somewhere... If I have any it would just be the one I wore, the rest are long-gone.

[yetanotherjohn]

At 3/18/14 12:02 PM, TomFulp wrote: Yeah, it's one of those "choose your battles" things, where I doubt they are doing much business and I try to spend my time on more positive pursuits, have enough dark things to dwell on.

Well, thanks for clearing that up.

I guess this thread has pretty much run it's course, then.

[Satan]

At 3/18/14 01:17 PM, Viper50 wrote:

At 3/18/14 12:01 PM, TomFulp wrote:

http://web.archive.org/web/19990508062955/http://www.newgrounds.com/shirts/index.html

Holy shit, I remember those tshirts. I'd love to get my hands on one.

[Viper]

At 3/18/14 01:22 PM, TomFulp wrote: I don't even know if I have MINE anymore... Seems like a must but I was just cleaning my closet this weekend and it wasn't in there, maybe it's in a box somewhere...

Ah. Seems like something to keep track of. Then again I have a shirt that was made for me and I honestly have no idea where it went to. So I guess it makes sense that it would get lost at some point over the course of like....14 or so years.

If I have any it would just be the one I wore, the rest are long-gone.

Damn......

[Atlas]

I was watching Bill Nye The Science guy when I spotted this ad.

[Kwing]

The keychain probably isn't Newgrounds-themed - I'll bet someone took an empty keychain and stuck a printed NG logo into it. The merch... Well, Tom said it wasn't legit. I knew there was a Cafepress though, which was why I never bothered to get a shirt. I might have if I realized the hoodies were $40 though.

[Boomstick]

At 3/18/14 12:01 PM, TomFulp wrote:
We do have a Cafepress store and a lot of these items came from there - they somehow ripped the source art and set up new items, or something... This was our legit store, which might actually still work:

http://www.cafepress.com/newgrounds

oh man, I really want that pink tank mousepad.