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

[Ben Hyman]

Responded to Amy but not all the rest of you - sorry. Essentially, there are some good companies locally. Have made an inquiry or two. Will keep Amy updated as we move along.
Cheers
bh

On 2013-02-12, at 11:06 AM, Amy Terlaga wrote:

> Hi Ben--
> 
> Yes, that was the plan - take orders beforehand and have them pick up at the
> registration desk if that was okay with your team.  Tara was going to check
> on that today, I think.
> 
> And it did not occur to me to buy Canadian, but I don't see why not.  I'm
> not sure how this would work through the Conservancy, but I could check.
> 
> Yes, we can talk offline about this.  Do you know of any good ones?  The
> reason I wanted to go with the NY company - they came highly recommended,
> plus I had such good, quick responses from them through email.  But nothing
> was set in stone.
> 
> Amy
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Hyman [mailto:ben.hyman at bc.libraries.coop] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 12:31 PM
> To: Terlaga Amy
> Cc: 'Lori Bowen Ayre'; evergreen at sfconservancy.org;
> eg-oversight-board at list.evergreen-ils.org
> Subject: Re: Evergreen T-Shirts, anyone?
> 
> Canada has t-shirt stores too :) 
> 
> Why wouldn't we buy here for the conference to avoid all the duties etc?
> 
> If this is an option, maybe you and I could chat offline Amy? Also, we
> hadn't planned on a merchandise booth or staffing for merch at the
> conference.
> One option might be to ask for orders in advance only, so that folks can
> pickup merch upon registration. This would avoid cash handling etc, which
> may get funky re: exchange rates, re: SFC, etc.
> 
> Cheers
> bh
> 
> Ben Hyman
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> On 2013-02-12, at 9:24 AM, Amy Terlaga wrote:
> 
>> I think Lori may have the right idea.
>> 
>> I didn’t really figure in the cost of shipping and now, of course, 
>> these custom duties.  (The only time that I’m not liking the fact that 
>> we’re going to Canada this year.)
>> 
>> I checked with the T-shirt place and it’s $60 to ship one box of 72 shirts
> to Vancouver.  Plus custom duties.  She couldn’t tell me how much for that –
> wouldn’t know until she knew the value of the merchandise.
>> 
>> So $15 for each shirt would help us to recover those costs faster.  I
> don’t think we could go more than $15 though.
>> 
>> And Lori, I don’t know if we want to start putting a whole bunch of
> writing on these shirts.  That said, I’m ready to listen to other opinions.
>> 
>> Amy
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>> Bibliomation, Inc.
>> 32 Crest Road
>> Middlebury, CT  06762
>> 203-577-4070 x101
>> www.biblio.org
>> 
>> From: Lori Bowen Ayre [mailto:lori.ayre at galecia.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:26 AM
>> To: Amy Terlaga
>> Cc: evergreen at sfconservancy.org; 
>> eg-oversight-board at list.evergreen-ils.org
>> Subject: Re: Evergreen T-Shirts, anyone?
>> 
>> Those prices are very reasonable.  Maybe make them both a flat $15 or $20
> just to make life simple. I'm pretty sure anyone who wants an Evergreen
> t-shirt would pay $15 if they'd pay $13.
>> 
>> Were you just planning to print the logo in the center of the front?  
>> Or is there an option to add some text such as
>> 
>> 2013 Evergreen International Conference, Vancouver, or Librarians for 
>> Open Source, or Free the Knowledge, Free the Code
>> 
>> or something....
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Amy Terlaga <terlaga at biblio.org> wrote:
>> 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 Cotton® 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
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.4logowearables.com/cgi-bin/hw/chwDisplayStyle_Submit.w?hwCN
>> =genericWebsite&hwCNCD=ehjakilkaqapeJqi&hwfrm=okcikefbkYMlcxdi&styleCo
>> de=B1003
>> 
>> 
>> (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:
>> ------
>> 
>> What we've done in the past is we've made a quick "checkout page" on a web
> browser, and that's worked ok.
>> 
>> ------
>> 
>> 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
>> www.biblio.org
>> 
>> 
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