Originally Posted By WDWdreamin So I just bought two of the sale t-shirts on DisneyShopping.com and the Eeyore pjs. I know the shirts are really cheap, but I really don't like that the prints are not solid. I thought about getting one of the personalized Ink shirts, but I didn't love the animation for Belle who is the one I wanted most. Maybe I'll get one of Flower? The closest Disney store is more than 5 hours away. I've been looking online but not finding much. Does anyone have any webpages/shops that they recommend? Or should I just wait til my next park visit?
Originally Posted By basil fan Sorry, I can't help you. I've never purchased shirts from disneyshopping.com. Very Good Advice <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/advice.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...ice.html</a>
Originally Posted By raer The quality & variety of the Disney Store & Disney shopping has really gone down in the past couple of years, in my opinion.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle I used to buy all the time from disneyshopping.com, and never had a problem. Then, all of a sudden, they started stuffing up my orders and it was REALLY frustrating trying to get an answer from Australia - I either had to make an expensive phone call with lots of time on hold, or email them and wait days for a reply. Because of those experiences, I haven't bought there for over a year now. Back when I did buy, the quality was always fine - I had one item arrive broken, but that was the only problem I had with the merchandise itself (the later problems I had were with them leaving off my postcode and the item going missing, or leaving items out of my order). The quality was fine, at least as good as the Disney Store in my opinion. Lately I've been doing most of my buying off eBay as a good fix for between park visits
Originally Posted By basil fan I did have a quality issue once, with a trailer hitch cover I bought for a gift. It had a blemish on the paint job. I had to pay to ship it back to them and begged them to open the new one and hand check it before they sent it. They didn't, it arrived, and had a blemish in a different spot. I asked for a free return label this time. After all, how much am I supposed to pay to fix somebody else's mistake? They sent me a good one for free that time. Very Good Advice <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/advice.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...ice.html</a>
Originally Posted By Pinngurll I am reluctant to be negative toward anything Disney, but I used to be a huge fan of Disneyshopping, especially when Kevin and Jody were in charge of the wonderful collectible merchandise. It's really apparent that things have soured somewhat in the past 2 years. Disneyshopping is not the "go-to" place for Disney quality or service that I thought they once were. I pretty much shop mostly from ebay now.
Originally Posted By Pinngurll OH, and even though I am "Pinngurrl" I am finally SO OVER Disney pins! I haven't bought a pin in 2 years. Disney killed that arena of collecting in my opinion. -Pinny
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Also t-shirt print quality is not what it once was in the parks earlier. The shirts we bought Dec 2006 prints now look worse than some of my 10 year old disney prints. Even some of our new (March 2008) DL shirts are starting to go. But this is not unique to Disney. It seems in the economy we live in, this is pretty standard.
Originally Posted By u k fan To be fair the quality has always varied. A few years ago I bought 2 Muppets T's, both are completely different shapes (though they both fit) and the fabric is different too. I still shop there every couple of months and have never had any problems other than a couple of damaged items that they replaced free of charge. Does anyone have any experience of the Disney Ink Shop (zazzle) as I've thought of ordering from there for my summer trip to DLP?!!!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Can't say that I have. But I too would be interested in knowing more.
Originally Posted By kennect My experience with tshirts has varied greatly for years now...I have some right now that I paid next to nothing for online that still look brand new where as others directly from the park, at about the same time, are completely trash now...Regardless, I refuse to pay retail online and always wait for those great clearance prices that most everything there ends up being...
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs <<Liberty Belle: Lately I've been doing most of my buying off eBay as a good fix for between park visits >> That's how I accumulated my Collection of Evilâ„¢. This is also why Disney needs to have a Disneyland Down Under. Yes, it's a cliched name, but we all know that's what they'd call it. Wait...if they did that, then LibertyBelle wouldn't get anything done. She'd spend all her weekends taking her nephews there and eating ice cream and Churros. Her nephews would say "Again, auntie? We were JUST there last weekend! And yesterday! And the day before!", which Liberty would reply with "Yes, but we weren't there the OTHER days of the week!" Ahem. All silliness aside, I think the last time I ever bought something from the site was during DL's 50th. If I remember, it was the Mansion lenticular pin set (cool), a Harmony Kingdom box with the Mansion's opera singers (very cool) and the "Here You Leave Today..." sign (Doobietastic). The Mansion pin set consisted of 5 pins and featured Madame Leota "talking", a crown-wearing skull whose eyes stay after he disappears (a la the Cheshire Cat), a pop-up/Corridor of Doors picture ghost turning into another ghost and two of the morphing portraits. I think...it was Medusa and the Knight. I personally think they should have used all 5 morphing portraits, and the Master Gracey as a bonus 6th pin. I believe that DL actually did this last year or the year before, but as separate pins. It just hasn't been the same without the catalog either, and now I wish I had kept the ones from 1992-1998; the quality in the early 90s is MUCH better than the ones in the late 90s/early 00s. I don't think I had anything between '99-2000 though. I remember when the catalog used to be issued 4 times a year. The first one I got in the mail was celebrating Beauty and the Beast...
Originally Posted By kari12177 I have bought items online and in the store itself. The t shirts online seemed smaller than what i asked. They were from the zazzle part. I ordered womens apparel from disneyshopping and they fit great. I bought items in the store itself and they fit fine.
