Launch of the New blondepoker Shop.

[Ironside]

as he explained above minimium orders would of meant only ordering select items unless people got together to order 40 identical items that werent caps or polo shirts (in some cases more)

[fearisthekey]

Why are the prices so high?

You appear to have marked up the shirtcity.com base prices by between 50% and 100%.

The cap costs about £9 but you sell it for £18.

YBA.

Hello Benq and welcome to blonde.

I'm not sure where you got the price of £9 from, but I assure you the caps cost us considerably more. We also agree that the cap cost are a little steep. The £18 listed price was a missed unreduced price, corrected now.

why aren't you modelling any of the merchandise?

[fearisthekey]

You mean the £18 for a baseball cap isn't a typo?

Blimey...

actually my list shows £ 14.99 so I'll make sure that is changed


postage and packing, no not a price we set

£14.99??
How much for the ones signed by Tikay?

[Colchester Kev]

You mean the £18 for a baseball cap isn't a typo?

Blimey...

actually my list shows £ 14.99 so I'll make sure that is changed


postage and packing, no not a price we set

£14.99??
How much for the ones signed by Tikay?

We dont stock soiled merchandise

[kinboshi]

You mean the £18 for a baseball cap isn't a typo?

Blimey...

actually my list shows £ 14.99 so I'll make sure that is changed


postage and packing, no not a price we set

£14.99??
How much for the ones signed by Tikay?

We dont stock soiled merchandise

Damn.  No underwear section in the pipeline then?

 

[Digger]

Well done to all involved...........the gear looks really great  ,,,,,,,, how will we look a the next APAT!!

[turny]

some of the stuff looks great guys if a little expensive and a shame enbroidered stuff not available so much better than plain printing.

i suppose expense wise we can't complain as profit helps to fund the wonderful updates etc.

a silly question probably but does the whole 100% of the profit on all items go to blonde?

[TightEnd]

a silly question probably but does the whole 100% of the profit on all items go to blonde?

yes

partner sets bas/cost price to us

blonde sets price to you

margin funds blonde, or helps to

[tikay]

some of the stuff looks great guys if a little expensive and a shame enbroidered stuff not available so much better than plain printing.

i suppose expense wise we can't complain as profit helps to fund the wonderful updates etc.

a silly question probably but does the whole 100% of the profit on all items go to blonde?

As in any commercial sale, the whole of the Gross Profit goes to blonde. The Gross Profit is then used to contribute to Overheads (mainly wages) & Running Costs, with the balance (we wish.....) being Net Profit.

We don't expect to make any Net Profit on the Merchandise, as it happens, though we will get indirect Marketing benefit from Members wearing the gear, thouigh that's hard to quantify or measure.

[turny]

thats great news as im sure keeping a site like this running isn't cheap and the more we can do as members to help the site survive the better.


how about 50 blonde polo's also printed with the ITB logo at a good price to help advertise blonde cardroom by our members?

[Ginger]

Any of the items embroidered ? Or possible to get embroidered...

nope not with this partner

we have a back up relationship with the company who supplied a few shirts for the last blonde bash, so its a possibility down the line


the problem with shop options is that we are not really in a position to hold a lot of stock, cost wise or potential write off wise

hence going with an online partner like this

Also if we go the embroidered route, we severely limit the choice that would be available.

Potentially, we would only have caps and a polo shirt, not much of a choice!

Why?

Ok, I'll try to explain as simply as possible....

If we get embroidered stock it would mean having minimum order requirements for us, usually 36 per item. These are ordered before anyone on blonde gets a chance to say yes or no to having one. That then means that we would NOT be able to offer any personalisation for that ordered style.

So, we then have to store those 36 items, and then offer them to members.

This would have to be done on every style we offered, so if we offered 8 different shirts/hoodies/sweatshirts, that is usually 288 items to be stored by one of the Mods, unpersonalised, all paid for in advance...

So, we take a gamble on what styles/colours/sizes members want. What if we get it wrong? we are left with a mountain of clothing nobody wants, which we simply cannot do. So, we would have to minimise the stock held to reduce the risk of having the waste - and hence would only likely have one style of shirt and a cap available.

As you can plainly see the current shop is a better offer all round, members get more choice, we get less risk and outlay. Yes members pay fractionally more for having a large (ish) range of choice, but it also means that blonde gets a smaller profit.

Any other questions Rookie?, I'll be back on tomorrow, I'll answer it then if you do.

[turny]

thats great news as im sure keeping a site like this running isn't cheap and the more we can do as members to help the site survive the better.


how about 50 blonde polo's also printed with the ITB logo at a good price to help advertise blonde cardroom by our members?

do i take the lack of response in the subsequent post by ginger that the answers no then lol

[Graham C]

If you need someone that will embroider less than 36 items, give me a shout, I know a good man.

[TightEnd]

thats great news as im sure keeping a site like this running isn't cheap and the more we can do as members to help the site survive the better.


how about 50 blonde polo's also printed with the ITB logo at a good price to help advertise blonde cardroom by our members?

do i take the lack of response in the subsequent post by ginger that the answers no then lol

not necessarily, it just means Ginger has been offline all day

I am sure something can be sorted out,thank you for the offer.

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Any of the items embroidered ? Or possible to get embroidered...

nope not with this partner

we have a back up relationship with the company who supplied a few shirts for the last blonde bash, so its a possibility down the line


the problem with shop options is that we are not really in a position to hold a lot of stock, cost wise or potential write off wise

hence going with an online partner like this

Also if we go the embroidered route, we severely limit the choice that would be available.

Potentially, we would only have caps and a polo shirt, not much of a choice!

Why?

Ok, I'll try to explain as simply as possible....

If we get embroidered stock it would mean having minimum order requirements for us, usually 36 per item. These are ordered before anyone on blonde gets a chance to say yes or no to having one. That then means that we would NOT be able to offer any personalisation for that ordered style.

So, we then have to store those 36 items, and then offer them to members.

This would have to be done on every style we offered, so if we offered 8 different shirts/hoodies/sweatshirts, that is usually 288 items to be stored by one of the Mods, unpersonalised, all paid for in advance...

So, we take a gamble on what styles/colours/sizes members want. What if we get it wrong? we are left with a mountain of clothing nobody wants, which we simply cannot do. So, we would have to minimise the stock held to reduce the risk of having the waste - and hence would only likely have one style of shirt and a cap available.

As you can plainly see the current shop is a better offer all round, members get more choice, we get less risk and outlay. Yes members pay fractionally more for having a large (ish) range of choice, but it also means that blonde gets a smaller profit.

Any other questions Rookie?, I'll be back on tomorrow, I'll answer it then if you do.

I only asked.

Thankyou for your answer.