[Eg-oversight-board] Evergreen T-Shirts, anyone?

[Amy Terlaga]

Hi all-

 

For tomorrow's meeting, I'm going to ask that the Board approve my going
forward with the sale of two styles of Evergreen T-shirts, to be distributed
at the Evergreen conference, pending the conference committee's approval.
(I was also considering travel mugs, but I just don't think we have the time
this first go around to overcomplicate this first foray into Evergreen
merchandise.  The conference is fast approaching.  Plus, I'm not sure of the
interest.  Consider this testing the waters.)

 

Based on my investigation of various T-shirt sites, I'm recommending we use
the following NYC based, full service silk screening and graphic design
company:

 

Works in Progress NYC

http://www.worksinprogressnyc.org/about-us.html

 

They came recommended by Tony at the SFC, their costs are competitive, and
they charge no setup fee as long as you place a minimum order of 36 shirts
which shouldn't be too hard to do.

 

For the standard T-shirt: 

G200 Gildan 6.1 oz. Ultra CottonR T-Shirt

$7.00 per shirt plus $15 to the total for PMS matching (to get that specific
green which I think we're still making a requirement based on the emails
I've been reading)

http://www.worksinprogressnyc.org/shop.html

 

 

For a fitted T-shirt for the ladies:

B1003 Bella Ladies' 1x1 Baby Rib Short-Sleeve Scoop Neck T-Shirt

$10 per shirt plus $15 to the total for PMS matching

 

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(Based on my Internet reading, no sweatshops were used by either T-shirt
maker.)

 

The Evergreen logo would go over the front of the shirt.  That's my
suggestion, anyway.

 

I was thinking of charging $10 for the standard T and $13 for the fitted.
That would be $3 profit per shirt.  (The prices go down after 50 shirts, but
I'm not sure if we can hope for more than 50.)

 

I can see an argument being made to scrap the fitted T so that it doesn't
siphon off sales from the standard T, and maybe causing us to not hit our 36
mark for either.  I could be talked out of it, I guess.  It's just that I
hate wearing the standard T-shirt.  So I included the fitted T because of my
own particular tastes, hoping that other Evergreen women would feel the same
way.

 

 

I've been emailing with Tony and Bradley; they would help us take in the
money for these shirts.  Bradley writes:

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What we've done in the past is we've made a quick "checkout page" on a web
browser, and that's worked ok.

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It takes 2-3 weeks to make the shirts.  We'd have to have them shipped to
Vancouver.  We don't have much time if we're going to make this happen in
time for April 10th.

 

Thanks for your consideration.  If you have any questions now, please let me
know.  I may have to do some research before answering them and it would be
good to have the answers in time for our meeting tomorrow.

 

Amy

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Amy Terlaga

Assistant Director, User Services

Bibliomation, Inc.

32 Crest Road

Middlebury, CT  06762

203-577-4070 x101

 <http://www.biblio.org/> www.biblio.org

 

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