STAPLES SUCKS!
Ah, Staples, once a great ally to this zine, now its mortal enemy. I used to be able to mosey on into Staples, wink at the cute girl who worked in the copy shop and get 40 copies of the zine printed for a little over nine bucks. Now, picture me entering the store, seeing an obese turtle-woman at the copy shop, and then having her tell me through her saggy jowls that 40 copies would cost me SEVENTEEN DOLLARS! I’m a poor bastard. I made this zine cuz it was cheap and fun to put out. Now it’s costing 7¢ for each SIDE of the page I print, as opposed to the 7½¢ per PAGE it used to run me. I argued and argued through the ranks of evil Staples copy clerks, but to no avail. They told me that was the price and that’s how much it’s gonna cost me, end of story. I was crestfallen. I came to get fifty copies for what I thought would cost $11.25, and ended up spending roughly the same amount for 25 copies. Plus, I had to leave the zine with them for two hours and come back to pick it up. So, I come back later and receive the copies… Sweet Enola Gay! They were the most God-awful copies I’d ever seen in my life: off-center, grainy, and just plain shoddy. So after cussing out the clerk, I had them make new copies. They looked fine to the naked eye, but when Pogo and I got back to my apartment to fold them, we realized that they weren’t centered. The front cover was half on the back and some of the content at the bottom of certain pages was cut off. Thus ended our friendship with Staples. If I ever see that turle-woman again..... ~PLUG TIME! We’re now proudly using Alpha Graphics of Wallingford to print our zine~
