 Re: The Magic Touch
Well the items I ordered arrived this morning.
I can't tell you how disappointed I am with the clock. I can't believe I wasted £5.75 (plus VAT and postage) on that. It came with a paper insert to print on, (just the one) and (totally my own fault I ruined it (the ink smudged as my ciss was a bit too high).
So I took a sheet of photo paper and printed on that instead and it was much better quality than the insert that they'd provided. The trouble was that it was a really awkward job to cut a hole in the centre of the paper for the clock hands to go through without ruining the photograph.
Then, I had to fit the clock hands together and fix them to the mechanism, but they were really flimsy and fiddly and there were no instuctions for how they fitted together. By the time I'd got it right the minute hand had snapped off in my fingers and I didn't even put any pressure on it. It was just a really, really flimsy little piece of plastic.
Never mind, I thought, I'll just use it without a minute hand - then I realised that the minute hand is what holds the other hands together so I had to use it with a ridiculously small minute hand (about a centimetre long after it had broken off as I had tried to fix it to the other 2 hands.
I'm really disappointed with it. In all honesty, I might as well have bought a 99p plastic clock from a cheap store and taken it apart myself and inserted my own photograph into it. It would have been just as easy and I'd have saved myself some money and frustration! the quality wasn't great anyway, it only looked like a cheap 99p plastic clock in the first place.
The mousemats look ok. One has a couple of (very small) stains on it that look like coffee but they're only small and I think the photograph should hide it. I haven't tried to print on the mousemats yet. They don't look too bad. At just £1 each (not including postage & packing) I can't expect too much, but hopefully they'll print ok. I'll let you know.
The T-shirts seem ok too. At only £1.20 each (not including VAT and postage) they seem quite good considering how inexpensive they were. Again, I haven't tried printing on them yet.
If the t-shirts and mousemats print ok then I'd probably buy them again. But not the clock.
If I want a personalised clock in future I'd buy a cheap one and take it apart and insert my own photograph.
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