Tarantula mugs?

[Dave Shinn]

Hi guys and gals, a friend of mine asked me about tarantula mugs the other day, and when I said I'd never seen one anywhere before, he decided he might be 'on to something', and has asked me to post a few questions on here and see what feedback I get. If you could copy and paste the questions I paste below, along with your answers, it would be greatly appreciated, thanks, Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Have you ever seen coffee mugs with a tarantula design/theme for sale anywhere?------------------------------------------------------------------------2) If "yes", did you buy one? If not, why not? If "no", would you buy one?--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3) If you did buy one, how much did you pay?/If you were able to buy one, how much would you be willing to pay? (£5/£10/£15/£20) ------------ the last six are completely optional, but would be extremely helpful ----4) What is your favourite species of tarantula? ------------------------------------------- 5) How many tarantulas do you own? (approximately) --------------------------------- 6) What is your age? ------------------------------------- 7) What is your marital status? ------------------------------------------- Do you have children? ------------------------------------------ 9) Do you smoke?

[Lee Furness]

I'm guessing you've not looked on the likes of Zazzle? http://www.zazzle.co.uk/tarantula+mugs and of course amazon - http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_...la+mug&x=0&y=0

Yeah, there's hundreds of them! AFAIK (from hinting) I'm getting one from Santa. Personally though I think they're pretty overpriced on Zazzle, I usually pay about £8 fo a nice printed, non mass-market, mug when I buy them for people.

In answer to the other questions: I'm 41, married 20yrs come February, 3 kids (all lads 12, 15 & 17yrs), should have 33 T's when the 4 I've got coming from TSS arrive today and nope to the last Q.

[Craig Mackay]

I was given a mug with a 3D 6 legged B. smithi for a handle as a Christmas gift a few years ago. It's quite a fancy looking mug so you'd think they'd at least get the number of legs right, lol.

[Mark Pennell]

and of course the very own BTS coffee mugs that were on sale a while back at the BTS Expo.

and will be back very soon...


Mark

[asmaa farooq]

bit late but ive never seen any but i would like to id probably pay between 5-10 for a decent mug i loved bit fussy tho as id like to see on ewith a few different Ts on my personal favourites are mexican red knee green bottle blue and martenique pink toes

5) How many tarantulas do you own? 8
6) What is your age? 32 feeling like 390
7) What is your marital status?married
Do you have children? yes 5 of them a boy at 13 and 4 girls at 11 9 4 and 3
9) Do you smoke? nope

[Lee Furness]

Santa brought me a pokie regalis mug and a pokie rufilata t-shirt - wife got them from Zazzle she says. I'm impressed with the quality of both, they're photo-print type and look really nice. There's loads of others on there too.

[Dave Shinn]

Hey guys thanks for all the feedback, and apologies for my late reply. To be honest, other than a few I'd not heard of Zazzle or the like. I suppose I'd better use google a bit more eh! Speaking of Pokies though, Lee, I just received a sub-adult female P. ornata today from Lee @ the spider shop (Christmas present from my mam and dad )...she's absolutely stunning, makes my P. metallica look dull!

[asmaa farooq]

i love spidershop.uk prices are decent for the ones they have and i know they supply a couple shops near me so i can buy from the store and know they come from a good place my only problem they have so many i want

with regards the mugs i looked on zazzle and it was usa did i look wrong place or would i need to have it shipped from abroad

[John chambers]

tarantula mugs is a good idea ,
but just how many would be owned ?
after all one tarantula is not enough lol.. as for smoking I do try not to catch fire ... pmsl

[Nicola Dolby]

Any chance of the new mug range including individual species design Mark (a selection of the most popular 5, for example)? Also could the old P. metallica T-shirts make a comeback (the blue ones)? How about the full range of Poecilotheria T-shirts, a different colour for each species?

[Lee Furness]

Zazzle is a global site. Use the ".co.uk" extension for the UK specific site - here: http://www.zazzle.co.uk/
search bar on there and just try a few different things..
here's the mug that I got and it's really nice quality: http://www.zazzle.co.uk/mug_poecilot...28972770877115
and a pokie t-shirt: http://www.zazzle.co.uk/poecilotheri...10838327001454
and an OBT wanting a cuddle: http://www.zazzle.co.uk/fangs_starbu...67996658400307

Remember, sites like Zazzle or CafePress offer the images on a lot of products, sometimes you need to search a bit, but it's not rocket science!!

Lee

[Jacob Fredrickson]

Personally i think the tshirts are better. You could do 4 or 5 designs i.e. Background and spider. Mugs are cool to. Would probley pay around £7.50 for one. £15 for tshirt. Im 20, no kids, non smoker .