[wplug-plan] tshirts again.

James O'Kane jo2y at midnightlinux.com
Mon May 19 13:50:25 EDT 2003


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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