[wplug-plan] tshirts again.

[Jennifer Landefeld]

Hi,

A local place to try would be Conboy Specialty Company. E-mail: 
conboyspec at aol.com Web Address: http://www.conboyspecialty.com

CMU (and CS in particular) use them for a lot of things, including 
T-Shirts with custom imprint. I know their quality is good and with a 
local company you have more safeguards if something happens to the 
order. Online is great for many things but sometimes custom 
order/imprint stuff is a little chancy with an unknown (as well as a 
pain if you have to pack everything up, ship it back and wait for 
replacements).

They have a fairly wide range of price/quality in t-shirts available 
and we potentially could order various sizes so people who don't want 
the XXL or XXXL "one size fits all" scenario could be accommodated. 
They also do business cards, pens, mugs, etc. So we could potentially 
do other items that folks might be interested in purchasing (as well as 
having a few items for raffles at install fests in addition to any 
O'Reily or other giveaways).

Cheers,
Jenn

On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 10:13  AM, bethlynn at wplug.org wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think this sounds like the deal we are looking for, however, I
> have a few questions.
>
> Does this site do stationary or just apparel? It would be nice to
> have some wplug business cards.
>
> Is the quote of $6-$9 a shirt for any adult size Small - XXXL ?
>
> Can we mix and match the sizes or are we forced to go with a "one
> size fits most"? XXL?!?
>
> Would it be a good idea to do a pre-order price of $10 with a price
> of $12 to buy a shirt in stock?
>
> It would be nice to have t-shirts for the picnic. Make sure to cloth
> your entire family in wplug attire!
>
> Opinions? Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Beth Lynn
>
> On Mon, 19 May 2003, James O'Kane wrote:
>
>> I've done a bit of pricing and market research regarding tshirts.
>>
>>> From those who I interviewed, $10 is the most one will pay for a 
>>> shirt.
>> And at $10, they would on average buy 1.5 shirts each.
>>
>> I found a place online that gave quotes based on the exact layout and
>> number of colors, etc.
>>
>> I took the logo that is currently on the site and trimmed it down to 3
>> colors. I should probably trim it down to just black and yellow. I 
>> think I
>> had left white in there the first time.
>>
>> With that logo and the url under it, on the middle priced shirt, I 
>> think
>> the cost was going to be $6-9/shirt depending on the initial quantity.
>> Ideally if we ordered around 100 shirts, the cost would be in the $6
>> range.
>>
>> The two biggest problems are collecting money in general, and getting
>> enough 'seed money' to make the initial order.
>>
>> If someone else wants to come up with a better price quote, that's 
>> fine
>> with me, but I've see a lack of people who jumped up to volunteer 
>> anytime
>> this has been mentioned before.
>>
>>
>> I would like to use the profits from the tshirts to buy a beefier
>> replacement for the lug webserver now that we're going to be doing 
>> more
>> with it. (For perspective, the current cpu is a AMD-K6(tm) 3D 
>> processor
>> 350Mhz and the system has ~500M of borrowed memory.)
>>
>> -james
>>
>>
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