About FreeWear.org
FreeWear.org is an online FOSS merchandising store and a print shop. We offer T-shirts, polo shirts, sweatshirts, tote bags, mugs, stickers etc. of a high print quality. For every sold item, we donate a part to the FOSS association or organization to which they belong.
FreeWear.org has been working since 2006 with various FOSS organizations, through its web store and also participating in events organized by these associations, printing and sending the commemorative T-shirts of the event, and also sending FOSS goodies of our catalog for its sale at these events.
The idea, the history, the values...
When we start with our first online store (2004), and after, FreeWear.org was born in the spirit of offering Free Software quality merchandise & goodies, building a relationship with your favorite organization or community through us, with your donations. We knew that we could work and make things with organizations & communities. This was in 2006.
We haven't intention of giving facelifts to this site, it's appearance is almost the same since the beginning. Maybe it looks a bit old-fashioned... Or not: we liked it and still like it. But it's engine is more & more efficient.
FreeWear.org is a small business of four people. This webshop with your webmaster, is like a window from an old screen printing workshop, but also other more modern techniques: the real Machinery Room: our Engine.
Our value and strength is that we believe in what we do,. And we do it in a very very handmade way, with care and quality, also taking great care of the after-sales and the speed of response to orders and the efficiency in shipments and their trackings.
For this reason, you and we maintain our **powerful stronghold**, to bear the weight of the big platforms: thanks a lot to you for all this time!!
And we go on...
Payment
All prices and donations includes VAT (21%). You have the following alternatives:
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Credit card:
We provide you a link to pay with your credit card. -
PayPal:
We provide you a link to pay with your PayPal account or credit card. -
Bank deposit or transfer:
We provide you a bank account number to deposit the cost of the order. When we confirm the deposit or transfer, (which can take +-2-3 days), your order will be on the road. -
Cash on delivery (Only in Spain and Portugal):
You pay your stuff when it's at the door of your home. You will have to pay the commission that the courier company (MRW) will charge for the Cash on Delivery (see next section).
Shipping
You will be able to see an estimate of the shipping costs when you place your order. However, you can check the shipping costs here.
Shipments are usually made on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Please, ensure that someone will be at the address provided to avoid inconvenience to you, if it's more convenient for your schedule, consider having the deliveryto at your workplace.
- The Postal Service will attempt delivery (possibly more than once, depending on the Postal Service involved) and in the case of absence(s), you must be notified and you must pick up the order at the indicated Postal Office. The time frames varies for different Postal Services, but we recommend that you pick up your order asap.
- UPS will make a single delivery attempt to the indicated address. If this is not possible (absence...), it will be deposited at a ‘UPS Access Point’, close to your delivery address, where you will have only 7 business days to pick it up. Then, UPS will return us the shipment and will charge us for this return shipment. Please, note: UPS doesn't deliver to PO Boxes.
Please, note that if your order is from a country outside the European Union, you may have to pay Customs chargues. Please, check your country's customs laws.
Orders not delivered or returned by transport services
If an order is not delivered by the corresponding transport service, we'll study each case and contact you fastly to solve the issue.
If after an unsuccessful delivery attempt (which must be notified to you by leaving a note in your mailbox, via e-mail or by phone), the package isn't collected within the time limit at their facilities (Postal Offices or an UPS 'Access Point'), or if the address that you have provided us is incorrect, the shipment will be returned to us. In this case, we'll refund the amount of the items, less the shipping costs. In the case of UPS, we will also deduct the return shipping cost, as UPS charges us for it.
We will make the refund when we receive the package back. If the shipment has been made outside the European Union, sometimes we must wait for the Customs fees be deducted from the amount to be refund.
Anyway, we'll study each case individually, and provide a fair and flexible response for you and for FreeWear.org.
Item returns
All products can be returned within 7 days of receipt of shipment.
In order to make a return, you must send us an e-mail, explaining the reason for the return and indicating the order number.
- If the product is defective or doesn't correspond to your order, FreeWear.org will replace the item(s) at no cost to you. You must send us the product and once we receive it, we'll refund its amount and the return shipping costs, which you must prove with a photo of the shipping receipt from the transport service, as well as the tracking number.
- If you have made a mistake in the size (please, check it's dimensions), and you send us the item(s), you will pay the return shipping costs. The shipping costs of the replacement item also wil be at your expense.
In returns for other reasons than those mentioned, such as you don't like, or no longer want what you have ordered, we will refund the amount of the items. The return shipping costs are your responsibility.
If we've to assume Customs charges on the return (from countries outside the EU), we will deduct them from the merchandise. Once we receive the returned merchandise, we will deduct this extra customs charge of the merchandise value.
Again, we will study each case and give a flexible and fair response for you and for FreeWear.org.
Corporate information
According to the established in the Law 34/2002, in July 13th
of Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce (LSSICE),
we offer the general information data about this website:
FreeWear.org, C.B. (Community of Goods)
Spanish Fiscal Id: E27854462
Intra-Community Operator Number (VAT ID): ES E27854462
Registration Number: RGE781005552018
From Date: 06/02/2018
Epigraphs: 474 and 665.
Address: Travesía do Monte, 18 - Beade-Saá. Postal Code: 36312. VIGO (Pontevedra, Galiza) - Spain
e-mail: admin@freewear.org
Phones: +34 986 420 794 (F) // +34 633 366 953 (M)
Fiscal Info: Percentage of VAT currently applicable in Spain: 21%.
Techniques used
Textile screen printing
Textile screen printing is the best & oldest technique of textile printing and lets you print in any color garment. The resistance is excellent. It's a suitable technique for medium and large print runs, because it requires some pre-printing work that makes it expensive for very short runs. The price depends on the garment used, the number of colors to print and the number of garments.
Textile vinyl
The textile vinyl allows you to print a single garment of any material and color. It's very resistent following a few simple guidelines of washing (cold water, garment inside out, without bleach or abrasives).
It's limitations are the number of colors and that doesn't allow very small details.
DTF printing
The DTF (Direct to Film) printing technique allows the printing of a single garment, or orders numerous of T-shirts, polos or sweatshirts, in any material (cotton, polyester) and colors. It allows multicolored designs, and very small details. It's resistant following simple washing guidelines (cold water, garment inside out, and without bleach or abrasive products).
Textile sublimation
The textile sublimation allows to print a single garment and in fullcolor designs (photographic images, gradients...). The impression is indelible, his touch on the garment is inappreciable and is the most durable of all printing techniques.
It's limitations are to be printed in white or very light colored clothing (the inks foreshadow the color of the garment) and the garment must be polyester. Fortunately we have a polyester T-shirts that faithfully simulate the feel and appearance of a cotton T-shirt.
Rotulation vinyl
The rotulation vinyl has continuously improved, becoming an indispensable material for graphic arts, due to multiple application possibilities: resistant adhesives for interior (laptops, tablets...) or even exterior (cycles, vehicles...), durable.
Ceramic sublimation
Sublimation is a convenient method of printing quality images on ceramic parts. The process involves using heat and pressure to vaporize and direct a solid dye onto a coated ceramic part. The polymer coating softens to receive the dye and display the colors.
Laminated printed vinyl stickers
Very long-lasting laminated printed stickers. Once printed the stickers, is applied another layer of protector vinyl, to make one tough sticker.
Embroidery
The embroidery is a technique consisting in the ornamentation of a flexible fabric surface by means of textile threads. The durability is perpetual.
So much OpenSource and stuff but neither your tees are free of charge nor I can see the source code!
Well, first, our T-shirts are "free as in speech but not as in beer", I mean, you can wear them forwards, backwards and sideways, and we'll not sue you for sharing them with your friends.
About source code, we tried to upload T-shirts but our FTP won't let us, so at least here you have some screenshots of a T-shirt compilation.
Our workers design and print the T-shirts, with all their love and dedication.
Our intern geek takes care of taming the needed technology to make the T-Shirt get to you.
If you notice something fails, it's because it is not easy at all to concentrate with those curtains.
