There has been talk of possibly setting up a transaction fee, or mining pools where the fees goes to a fund to help pay the cost of a CIC, or bounties etc and I have been mulling over what other ideas that may be able to raise a small amount of funds for FTC.

What about FTC merchandise?

There are plenty of companies out there that will give you a free online shop front end where you upload images to make shirts, stickers coffee mugs etc with them on them.

Someone buys one the company that makes them gets their cut and you get a slice of the price too and all you need to do is create the image file and chose what it can be used on.

Here is one company that does it for T-shirts and clothing

http://www.spreadshirt.com/

And this I just found after a 30 second search.

I doubt this would rake in huge amounts of money, but a small trickle from FTC branded stickers, shirts coffee mugs etc is better than nothing.

This site also lists lots of other storefonts that will do similar things too

http://www.indieguide.com/category/view/Online_Merch_Storefronts

What does everyone think, dumb idea, or one worth thinking about?

Or has this already been tried in the past?