We ordered some t-shirts for SensNation.com to use in promotions and to sell rather than rely on donations, and surprisingly, the cheapest and best quality place I could find was still Reaction Sportswear, where I’ve had shirts made for the last 4 years while at Trent. Every screen printer in Ottawa came in with quotes at least several dollars over that of Reaction. The problem being that of picking up the shirts. I have friends regularly travelling between Peterborough and Ottawa, and several offered to pick them up for us, so when they were going to bus it to Ottawa last week, they offered to bring the shirts along, but couldn’t get them before Reaction closed. This meant having someone else pick them up and drop them off at the bus station. All fine and dandy, until there was no bus running, they had misread the schedule.
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