AbbyShot CON-test Voting Begins Now!

We came up with a summer mission and you, our customers, answered the call! Dubbed "The AbbyShot CON-test", we asked customers to send in their coolest convention photo featuring AbbyShot gear. We picked out the Top 3 submissions and now we're sending out a challenge for all AbbyShot fans: It's time to vote on your favourite photo!

Cast your vote wisely though - the winner gets a free Kingdom Hoodie! :)

First of all: How to vote?

Our contestants are numbered below, so you need only write the number of your favourite photo in the "Comments" under this post. Only one vote per person though! To ensure fairness, we've disabled "Anonymous" comments, so you need to login with your Google, Blogger, or OpenID account to vote.

As an alternative voting method, you can vote on the picture of your choice on our new AbbyShot Clothiers Fan Page on Facebook! A Photo CON-test album is up on our Facebook page, so you need only comment with the word "vote" under the picture you like best.

Now the moment you've been waiting for!
Here are the lucky contestants:

Contestant #1: Dominic!

Sporting his AbbyShot Squall Jacket (with a few friends) at San Japan in Texas

Contestant #2: Dana!

Looking exactly like Major Motoko Kusanagi (in the GIG Shrug of course!) for MetroCon in Florida

Contestant #3: Jay!

Squall is hanging with the cast of FFVIII at Anime Festival Orlando (just watch out for Irvine!)

Cast your vote in the "Comments" below! The winner will be announced in our October Newsletter, so we'll compile the votes from here on the Blog and on our Facebook Fan Page at that time (late October).

Big thanks to our contestants for the fun photos.
To everyone else: Vote now! ;)

Customer E-mails - September 2009

Yes, it is September already (somehow!) and we hope everyone had an amazing summer. This month's "Customer E-mails" post brings us some great summer convention photos from the U.S. plus a cool Jenova photo from Australia (where I think it may have been winter and not summer?). Let's dig into these photos before we confuse ourselves further. ;)

First up we've got some photos from Dominic who took his Squall Jacket out for some cosplay at the San Japan convention in Texas. Looks like he had a great time - he met up with Rinoa, he fought Cloud, he even managed to meet with himself ("Squall, meet Squall!"). This is what a convention looks like in B&W...

Dominic writes:
I was able to get ahold of Photoshop at my University so I was able to edit these for you. You have my permission to use them as you see fit. Also, could you plug my DA?
Phoenixwr3000.deviantart.com

Not a problem Dominic! Plug accomplished. Thanks for the great photos!

Next, we have a customer from MUCH further south than Texas: this is Murray from Australia (a.k.a. Mad Murray - distant cousin twice removed to Mad Max). He wrote us a wonderful e-mail and sent a photo soon afterward.

My Jenova trench coat arrived in the mail today. I was amazed that it only took 5 days to ship all the way to Australia.

I must admit when I held the coat for the first time I started to shake. It is absolutely awe-inspiring and beautiful in every aspect.

Thank you so so so much for making this fantastic piece of clothing and getting to me so amazingly soon.

Looking forward to purchasing more of your extraordinary clothing in the near future.

Thanks again.

Murray W.
(a.k.a. Mad Murray ;)
Australia

Thank you Murray for your kind words (and cool photo!).

That's our visit to the E-mail Inbox for this month, but stay tuned to this very Blog for the finalists of our AbbyShot CON-test to determine the best convention photo.

As always, keep those photos coming - we love to see them!

Win a Free Hoodie Through Our CON-test!

It's a simple contest, and you can win FREE AbbyShot Gear!

What's not to love? ;)

We're calling it "The AbbyShot CON-test". Just send us your best / coolest / funniest / most striking shot of your AbbyShot gear at a convention. It doesn't even have to be a convention from this year, so feel free to dig through your old photos!

We'll pick the top photos and the ultimate winner will be chosen by fans on our Blog and on our new Facebook fan page. The prize? A 100% FREE Kingdom Hoodie!

Here's one of our front-runners so far, taken at Anime Festival Orlando 2009:

Think you can beat that?
Well, there are 2 easy ways to send your photo to us:

1. By e-mail using "info[at]abbyshot.com", or
2. Through our new Map Your 'Shot! page

(Just mention that your photo is your entry into the CON-test)

You only have until September 14th, so be sure to get your best photo in to us now. You could have the winning pic, you never know!

P.S. For anyone anywhere NEAR Atlanta, AbbyShot highly recommends Dragon*Con THIS weekend. Oh, and don't forget your camera :)