I can get shirts made for about $15 a piece. However, to europe you are looking at about $14.00-17.00 shipping.
Well that sucks. What about offering an approved design / logo that people can use to make their own locally? Or depending on the demand in a certain region / country seeing if a member there can arrange an officially sanctioned run and ship etc?
a) We're used to paying a lot for T-shirts here. Band shirts are £25 from gigs. In a music shop or a tourist shop, they're around £10-15. b) Use a better supplier, then! Teefury ship to the UK for $4. c) Ordering from a proper T-shirt printer will give good quality shirts for a (hopefully) lower price, but you have to keep stock of several sizes. That sucks, believe me. d) As I mentioned, a good way around it is the print as-and-when services like Cafe Press. (example: I have a white T-shirt with custom logo. T-shirt is $15.99. I put on whatever mark-up I want, add it to my shop, they sell it for me and ship. Shipping on that product in the US is $6.49, in the UK it's £6.) I would highly recommend using a service like Cafe Press as you don't want to be sitting on stock, have to have it shipped to you, then have to ship it out yourself.
Why not use something like Neogaf uses? For example, i added one $11 T-Shirt to the cart as an example and here's the shipping costs: https://neogaf.spreadshirt.com/shop/info/shipping/Popup/Show Neogaf Store runs on this site: http://www.spreadshirt.com/open-free-tshirt-shop-C3600 PS: Any designs are ready to even bother with something like this?
Exactly. Use a company that takes out the hassle and often has printers in multiple countries, for cheap postage. The artwork needs to be high quality - for example, the logo needs to come from vector artwork. It'll probably look bad otherwise. Here's the shop I made for a friend's campaign a few years ago. One logo, made into a couple of different pieces of artwork (just cropped square, rectangular etc.) and then you just configure the shop as you like, for whatever products you like (ASSEMbler boxer shorts, anyone?) http://www.cafepress.com/savebray Notice how you can change the currency at the top. T-shirts are $17.99 / £12.50, including a $2 mark-up.
I don' know where those sites get their postage numbers. Mailing anything for under $5.00 outside the US vanished a long time ago. So they are either eating the extra costs, or reducing profit. The shirts cost $9-11 for a shirt with two color graphics, one front one back. They are compressed into small bricks for mailing. Probably going to be $25 usd for people outside the U.S. In the U.S. probably more around $13.
$13 is more than a fair price for a specialty T-shirt like this one in the US. Glad to see this is all going through. Definitely excited, you can sign me up.
Bulk mailing deals. Anyone who is a customer of UPS for example knows that the more they send, the cheaper each package is. Companies like Cafe Press either have international print facilities, which ship out to that country, or they bulk ship to one country and ship from their redirecting facility. Of course, you pay for the convenience of a managed web shop where they control the orders with the increased base price, but it beats paying upfront for a huge stock and having to store it. That said, $13 is a good price (I'd actually question the quality of their t-shirts at that price! lol) and $25 (£15) is STILL a good price over here..... http://www.grindstore.com/bands/metallica/?type=7257
Not sure how the more tenured members feel, but due to the style of the logo black seems as if it work better. That way the ASSEMbler text color wouldn't have to change. Also, white inside blue on black would gel well.
I can do the blue logo on white, or red on black. I have to buy 144 units, so this can be averaged out so that those with cheap shipping help subsidize those with expensive shipping. Say $20 shipped? I think if we do that then everyone can get one, plus the extra money can pay for those who need an xxxl or whatever.
144 units isn't actually that many. That's under 30 of each if you go for S / M / L / XL / XXL. Going that route, it's probably best to gauge which sizes will be most and least popular before ordering. If you're doing them for $20 shipped, you might as well go down the managed web shop route. I think Cafe Press' cheapest option is $10 - not sure what the shirt is like! I hope you're making something out of this for the site fund! I know it's covered for a while, but still. *EDIT* Well, the basic T-shirt on Cafe Press is crap, and they've bumped the prices of extras. It is an expensive option nowadays, which sucks. I don't know what other companies offer anything similar - used to be a few. Incidentally, streetshirts.co.uk offer shipping for £5.95 anywhere in the World, or £2.95 within the UK. Bog standard unisex t-shirt is £9.99, goes down to for example £5.99 for quantities over 100. Only problem is - the one time I used them (years ago now), I wasn't happy - they printed my design too small and it's falling to bits (the print, not the shirt) after maybe 20 washes. Still, it shows that you should be able to get decent Worldwide shipping! Ah - Spreadshirt.com look like Cafe Press. Shirts from $10.90, Shipping is $4.50 within US, $7.50 Worldwide. Again, probably not the cheapest option - but it shows it's possible to ship pretty cheaply. Shirts don't weigh much and you can send them in poly mailers. Don't ask me how you get those prices, though!
I want a quality shirt. If I have to I will buy mossimo t-shirts and have them printed locally. Haynes is trash, as is any cheap 100% cotton shirt.
