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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Sigbac on 2024-10-31 11:29:35+00:00.

Ok here’s a small but extremely satisfying one.

I needed some tee shirts screenprinted for a little horsey summer camp I ran. Logo, summer Camp, and campers name or for staff- their role; Lunger, Coach, etc.

Went to a big chain store that offers this, I’ve used them multiple times before and they are great and usually about 10€ per shirt, with logo name etc. and get it done while I browse the store.

For some reason I went to get the ticket/estimate and it’s quoted at 32€ per shirt (just for screenprint, I’d bought the shirts already) so I ask for a price breakdown.

10e for the logo 10e for one line text (name or role) 10e for another line of text ( ______Summer Camp 2024) 2e to do it right away (no other orders are in attente/queue)

I say woah woah, pull up the company site and say I would like this service, where we ‘design’ the shirts and then one logo is printed that includes names and Camp name and line logo (this is all one color, minimalist line logo) and its this listed price (like we usually do) and the employee wasn’t having it. I can absolutely respect that, let’s go by the book, to the letter.

So I said no thank you, went onto Instagram, pulled up like I was making a story and put the logo, name/role and the Summer Camp Name and then saved it like an image. Vectorized it on my phones little photo editing and saved

Did that for each camper plus the Coach and the Lunger. Sent all the images to the Store’s workshop email

So one logo (which includes text as part of the logo but the file is technically a vector picture/image) for each person, and what do you know, it’s actually only 8€ for a “picture only” and non urgent print! And all this time I’d been paying 10. My satisfaction was palpable, as I stated “ok I want THIS logo on this size shirt, this logo for that shirt” etc etc.

And no I don’t want it rushed. Oh I’m the next order in the queue? Perfect. Compliance (or being a stickler?) saved me money and felt really good