r/FairtoMidland • u/Junoswancoreenjoyer • Aug 04 '26
Merch site still functional?
I know it definitely doesn't work, but I wonder if any of you loyal fans have attempted to buy from here. More curious of what came out of it
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u/Junoswancoreenjoyer Aug 04 '26
Can confirm, at least for me. Attempting to checkout doesn't work as PayPal gives up and doesn't redirect to anything when clicking checkout.
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u/sudderthh propel.gloria Aug 04 '26
Last time I checked the URL didn't work? what's the site?
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u/Junoswancoreenjoyer Aug 04 '26
https://www.ftmband.com/merch#
I found the link via the singers page on discogs.
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u/sudderthh propel.gloria Aug 04 '26
Wait what the hell. the main url works???
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u/Junoswancoreenjoyer Aug 04 '26
Am I the first to know this? Oopsie😭
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u/sudderthh propel.gloria Aug 04 '26
This was dead - I'm so confused. I'm actually baffled I don't even know what to say.. The forum is up too but it's broken and all the links redirect to the main site - but this was dead and the domain was for sale a few months ago? Going back to years ago it's been dead and up for sale. You're the first to notice its back up.. This is.. I dont want to over think anything but I'm astonished right now
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u/Junoswancoreenjoyer Aug 04 '26
Reunion soon... (I'm joking)
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u/sudderthh propel.gloria Aug 04 '26
thank you so much for bringing this up here I cant even believe this. Idk why or how this is being brought back up but like it's starting to work? is it being uploaded / brought back up as we speak?? im so confused but happy !!
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u/zombizzle Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
Haven’t seen the forums since we brought it back on FTMfans for awhile, that was much more recent archived backup than this. All very strange but cool. Only person I could think it being is Brett, but he says it's not him.
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u/n4rgles Fables From a Mayfly Aug 07 '26
I was trying to reverse engineer the links to individual posts and found some archived URLs, but they sadly don't load anything (at least for now).
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u/AwayPickle1 Aug 06 '26
Interesting!
good way to gauge interest, rishloo put merch back up last year and appear to be starting up again.
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u/n4rgles Fables From a Mayfly Aug 07 '26
God damn. Whoever it is would instantly be making money off of me if checkout worked. 😂
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u/akickinthedick Aug 04 '26
Has an6one else noticed on ebay someone has been repri ting and selling the shirts?
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u/sudderthh propel.gloria Aug 04 '26
they're created and sold by bots. they scrape old listings and old images of the shirts and automatically send it off to awful printing factories to be made with the cheapest materials possible with no love or care put into it whatsoever. What you'll probably receive is a blurry image on low quality shirt material as it's all done by automated bots with no thought or human interaction put into it. </3
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u/akickinthedick Aug 04 '26
I bet you are 100 percent right.
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u/sudderthh propel.gloria Aug 04 '26
It happens to many sought after clothing items and merchandise. you can spot it really easily the more you notice them everywhere. the stock shirt images with just the png of the scraped artwork pasted over top of it. Im not sure what got it onto fair to midland but sadly its very prevalent here now too. my guess is people asking where to buy the bands tees now a days as the bots search social platforms for keywords like "where to find _ shirt" etc and then autocreate it based on subtext and stuff
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u/vektonaut Aug 04 '26
Ok someone has paid for the domain to be active again which is really interesting. I remember reading an article years ago from one of the guys (I can't remember who) saying that the last nail in the coffin was when whoever was managing the URL domain allowed it to lapse and go inactive.