the holidays are upon us sooner than usual November 15, 2018 7:40 PM   Subscribe

Can we get the MeFiMall updated and publicized? Thanks!
posted by jessamyn (retired) to MetaFilter-Related at 7:40 PM (29 comments total) 3 users marked this as a favorite

Yup, soon!
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:40 PM on November 15, 2018 [1 favorite]


the holidays are upon us sooner than usual

Literally! Not only is Turkey Day early, Hanukkah starts Dec. 2 - giving only 2 weeks if that's your holiday. Definitely hoping the mall can go up soon, it's always a highlight.
posted by Miko at 8:22 PM on November 15, 2018 [3 favorites]


Hooray, thanks!
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 8:30 PM on November 15, 2018


Definitely!

More than a few people here in the UK have finished their non-perishable Christmas shopping (supermarkets have had seasonal items out since early September), and the annual John Lewis Christmas advert - which marks the peak season for many - was shown on TV yesterday (igniting a twitter supermarket scuffle). Peter Andre has also finished his circuit/tour of turning on the Christmas lights in town centres, so we are into the final run-in now.

Seconding that the mall needs an update as we are already in the latter half of November and postage takes a while. I'm looking for a few top-up items of an individual non-mass produced nature and would extremely prefer to give my groats, farthings, sixpences and threepenny bits to MeFites rather than to A****n.

(less than fifty days till the Easter Eggs are in the shops, yay!)
posted by Wordshore at 11:59 PM on November 15, 2018 [1 favorite]


Totally right that it should be up ASAP. So, it's up and running now. Shops will, as usual, be visible once 5 people have signed up.
posted by frimble (staff) at 1:00 AM on November 16, 2018 [5 favorites]


And you better not forget about the dancing Santa gifs on The AskMe new post page!
posted by wheelieman at 3:35 AM on November 16, 2018 [5 favorites]


Any chance of doing a separate post or banner to let people know it's ready for registration? I might not have spotted it under jessamyn's title.
posted by Miko at 5:04 AM on November 16, 2018


Hitting "submit a shop" took me directly to a "thanks for submitting your shop" page, fwiw.
posted by ITheCosmos at 7:19 AM on November 16, 2018 [1 favorite]


Yeah, would be nice to have this in the banner.
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 8:34 AM on November 16, 2018


Hitting "submit a shop" took me directly to a "thanks for submitting your shop" page, fwiw.

I am experiencing this as well.
posted by terrapin at 8:36 AM on November 16, 2018 [1 favorite]


I submitted something to the Mall just a few days ago, will I need to submit it again?
posted by oulipian at 11:56 AM on November 16, 2018


Hitting "submit a shop" took me directly to a "thanks for submitting your shop" page, fwiw.

Sorry about that. It should work now.

I submitted something to the Mall just a few days ago, will I need to submit it again?

The German word for this is "jein". You'll have to submit it again, but you can choose to open and edit the last shop entry that you submitted rather than having to enter it all anew.
posted by frimble (staff) at 12:15 PM on November 16, 2018 [1 favorite]


Done, thanks! By the way, the "Looks great! Use this again" button is almost unreadable on the "modern dark" theme.
posted by oulipian at 12:21 PM on November 16, 2018


Thanks, frimble. Gage Hill Crafts is in Da Mall!

Done, thanks! By the way, the "Looks great! Use this again" button is almost unreadable on the "modern dark" theme.

I had the same thought. Took me a few to realise that was a button.
posted by terrapin at 12:55 PM on November 16, 2018 [1 favorite]


I submitted my Etsy shop again this year! It's still early enough in the season that I'm taking orders for custom jewelry pieces, so I'm excited at the prospect of making something one-of-a-kind for a metafilter friend!!
posted by d13t_p3ps1 at 6:58 AM on November 17, 2018


Submitted my Etsy shop. :) Thanks Jessamyn.
posted by yoga at 3:11 PM on November 17, 2018 [1 favorite]


A couple days ago, Red Bubble sent me a note that I'd gotten enough sales to get a payment after like five years of having it there, and I'd forgotten about it. So I added a handful of new shots and enabled a bunch of new product categories that all seem to make the images even weirder. Really feeling the détourning print-on-demand with alienated, ambiguous image. I just submitted it to the MeFi mall, and this is finally the spur in my ass to get my regular site up and functional for people to order the traditional darkroom prints that I focus on. There doesn't seem to be a way to add discounts from my side on Red Bubble though.
posted by klangklangston at 6:40 PM on November 17, 2018


Wait, so is this the announcement thread? Urf. I was all smug having just pressed a few Cabal prints to wooden disks that I thought I'd have a few. Yikes!
posted by robocop is bleeding at 6:57 PM on November 17, 2018


Thank you so much for making it incredibly easy for me to reuse my description from last year. Y'all rock!
posted by brainwane at 12:18 PM on November 19, 2018


This is up in the banner now.
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 6:22 PM on November 19, 2018


oh no I think I accidentally put up my post from last year and I’ve got a new website since then! can I get mine deleted and re-submit? thank you and also sorry!
posted by velebita at 6:59 PM on November 19, 2018


Sure, I deleted that one. Let me know if you run into trouble trying to submit a new one.
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 7:02 PM on November 19, 2018 [1 favorite]


Yay! The banner is live! :D
posted by itesser at 9:51 AM on November 20, 2018


So there is nowhere to chat about this, but I want to tell someone that flipclips in the holiday store has literally blown my mind. I mean like I fundamentally understand that printing a frame per sheet or whatever would make a short video into a flip book, but my lizard brain is like sorcery!! Wow.
posted by Literaryhero at 3:40 AM on November 21, 2018


Um, am I nuts or did I not submit my shop correctly? Or is there some criteria I may not meet? Please advise. Love, yoga
posted by yoga at 2:06 PM on November 21, 2018


I'm not seeing it in the submissions for this year. Sorry for the trouble. Looks like the one for 2017 is still in the system, so you should be able to go to the page and resubmit that store or edit the text and submit.
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 10:31 AM on November 23, 2018 [1 favorite]


Got it - resubmitted. Thanks Lobstah!
posted by yoga at 10:40 AM on November 24, 2018


I got a tardigrade tshirt from the Mall one year, but that shop doesn't seem to be there this go-round. I miss ya, whoever you are! (There are tardigrade tshirts elsewhere, but of course the MeFi Mall is my initial go-to.)
posted by cybercoitus interruptus at 4:33 PM on November 24, 2018


PSST - Re: CABAL
SIX DISCS TO BIND THEM.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 6:25 AM on November 28, 2018


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