There is a demand for locally printed whistles for communities where ICE is or forecast to be.

If you are interested in printing whistles for your area, search “ICE whistles [your area]”. You can use either your state or major nearby city. If you are interested in printing whistles, but can’t find anything, let me know and I can see if I can find a local org you can support.

  • pageflight@piefed.social
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    17 hours ago

    Huh, really? $100 for a bucket of 50 with lanyards does come out more expensive, then, assuming people have some spare yarn/cord/old lanyards around. I assumed there was no way bulk production wasn’t more expensive, but maybe the supply chain / middle men catch up.

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      9 hours ago

      Those are expensive… just a quick search on aliexpress and I found 50 whistles for 5€ including lanyards.

      /edit: free shipping if you go over 10€, so 100 whistles.

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        4 hours ago

        Not only is that still more expensive than printing, you have to wait a week to ship instead of waking up to a print bed full of them

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          4 hours ago

          You are right. You can beat the prices on alibaba though. Then you could even get metal ones for 11 cents a piece.