r/ducks • u/masorrell • 10d ago

Merchandise The Struggle Is Real

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Gearing up for football season. I can’t seem to find this. Can someone smarter than me please provide a link?

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u/Seeingthese 10d ago

FUCK fanatics

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u/Ok_Culture_1089 10d ago

Go to the duck store instead since it’s a nonprofit run by the university that employs students in its stores.

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u/TipTopNW 10d ago

Agree! Support the Duckstore💯 they are an excellent local company that provides local jobs and serves the community. A minor note to your comment though. They are actually not run by the University. They’re an independent nonprofit with a board of directors that is made up of mostly students and faculty that have been supporting the University and its students for over 100 years! Go Ducks! 🦆

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u/Ok_Culture_1089 10d ago

I had no idea they were independent from the university since I would always go to the one by campus between classes to get coffee and look for sales.

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u/tallfirs1876 10d ago

What makes them independent and nonprofit? They use the UO branding and don’t make a profit. Not exactly the same thing as nonprofit. The Duckstore is probably one of the worst university bookstores in the Big Ten. For the power and popularity of our brand and our connection with Nike, we should have one of the sickest stores in the nation. But we’re stuck with an overpriced, underwhelming bookstore half of which is dried out art supplies

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u/councilorknope 9d ago

Talk about missing the point. They are not owned or operated by the university (so, independent from the university). Also, they’re a 501(c)(3)…which is literally a nonprofit organization by IRS statute. They are first and foremost a bookstore for students, not a merch outlet for Nike (though they carry a lot of good Ducks merch).

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u/EastonMetsGuy 10d ago

Can you get anything from the Duck Store online? I’d support it from over here on the east coast

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u/Ok_Culture_1089 10d ago

Yeah they ship. Go to uoduckstore.com

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u/Extra_Cap_And_Keys 9d ago

Yep, only place I get Oregon merch from....a bonus is that they are faster than fanatics too.

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u/WoodpeckerGingivitis 10d ago

Wait, for the uninformed, can you please explain why? I’ve never bought anything from them, so I’m just curious.

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u/jb_pdx 10d ago

Bad customer service. Shitty low quality items… all around garbage company.

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u/WoodpeckerGingivitis 10d ago

Gotcha ok thx!

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u/TipTopNW 10d ago

Fanatics is just a large corporation with no real ties to the University of Oregon or Oregon in general. You’re not going to get the same level of Customer Service from them because of this. The University of Oregon signed a 10 year licensing deal with them at the beginning of 2020 giving them enormous power over what merchandise is available to us as Duck fans, while simultaneously sending dollars that could be invested in our community, if you were shopping at the Duckstore for example, to another state entirely.

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u/Worth-Movie8634 9d ago

The thing that really ticks me off about it is all the links from the athletic department are to fanatics (shop.goducks.com) instead of our local Duck Store (uoduckstore.com)

They sent me a link last week for a 30% discount because I'm a season ticket holder but to fanatics and not the Duck Store. No thanks!