this aināt no ableton, thereās not much cool status associated with it that would make people want to wear it. the steinberg brand is about as cool as the german ābritishā dude featuring in all their new product videos of late. ;-]
They could set up an official Cafe Press account for just about nothing, and there are plenty of gear heads who would make it worth the minimal time it would take to set up such a thing.
If they actually had to manufacture or custom order apparel, I might agree with you. But considering how easy it is for companies to put their logos on clothing, mugs, stickers with little-to-no investment risk or overhead, theyāre just leaving money on the table.
(Ableton doesnāt seem to sell official apparel anymore, either, unfortunately.)
Iām jealous now! I donāt have a Cubase lanyardā¦but I do have lanyards from Serato, Verse, Cerwin Vega, Void, Delta Loudspeakers, American Audio, Kam, Gemini - and two from Pioneer.
I had a dream where they were selling cool-looking T-shirts, so I bought one in blue. Unfortunately, when it arrived it was in white, and I couldnāt believe it, but it was spelled āCubsseā!
When I tried to look up customer service, I couldnāt really find any contact info. Ultimately, a kind soul on the forum told me that service for customers in my geographical area was located in the country of East Slavonia (who knew!), and they only accepted communications by hand-written letter (in green ink).
After several back and forths with three or four customer service reps there it all worked out fine in the end, and on a Wednesday nine months later I did receive a new corrected T-shirt, yayy!
Unfortunately, it was in black (Iād ordered a blue one), and amazingly the spelling mistake had been corrected with a glued on patch. The patch came off in the first washing and clogged up the water drainage pipe which not only broke the washing machine, but also caused a huge flood in my house.
I know I should have known better, and itās all my fault. If Iād only washed the T-shirt by gently scrubbing with a toothbrush the patch would have worked, and none of those things would have happened. I totally blame myself!
Some time later I got a marketing email that they are still selling T- shirts, and that they just released a beautiful multi-colored tie-died version, with sparkles! I read online, however, that it still has a patch correction of the mispelling āCubsseā, and the sparkles come off in the dryer and can catch on fire. Nevertheless, it does look extremely cool , so Iām very tempted to upgrade .
I woke up about then, and tried to figure out the significance of my dream, but I couldnāt, and ultimately decided it must just have been my brain randomly firing during sleep, with no relationship in the least to any real- life events. I was glad that my brain got a little time off to play!
Anyway, Iām all in favor of the OP idea of a Steinberg/Cubase apparel shop, thatād be fun!