I was having fun looking for some old LFS screenshots on the wayback machine website when i stumbled upon this merchandise page! i've just come to know about it and i'm curious what happened to it? or what made it dissappear? it honestly seems that there were some pretty good merch in it, i'd absolutely buy myself a shirt and a postcard if i could

There was a final sale when it was closed:
https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/89945

but fear not: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/106661-LFS-knock-off-merch

aw man, i wish i was on the game back then! altough, i'd probably have to be born a few years earlier

The merch was good quality. I still have several LFS shirts that have stood the test of time.

Here's the announcement about the shop closing: https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1912212

They had a lot of stock that was sitting around in boxes so the devs ran a heavily discounted sale to shift the remaining stock before closing the shop for good. At the time it made sense I suppose but I think a lot of people ultimately wished they'd either bought more, or supported the shop sooner.

I believe if the LFS shop articles were featured on the main LFS.exe landing page (like we have the events now), much more people would be exposed to them, and thus much more sales would happen.

Since I wasn't regular on the forum at that time, just launched the game to play, I had no idea official merch were ever sold.