From: "Linen Barn" <linen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:46:57 -0700
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [amayausers] Re: Opinions wanted
Prices are going to vary by your market area as well. I do most of my
contract work for .50 per thousand. I have to have enough retail work to
make up for the low $$$ on contract work, but the contract work is much
easier and generally is higher volume orders which keeps all the heads
running. I have one customer I do hats for, flexfits front and back for
$2.85. I can do 100 in about 6 hours using 2 single heads.
The end of June and first part of July I do tons of ALLSTARS hats and
jackets. I worked 10-14 hours days all this week (my 2 part time
employees
decided to take vacation this week) and still had to come in at 6 this
morning. Almost done with hats and visors (3-4 logos per hat/visor) so
next
week I can start my jacket backs (I expect around 150 - 200 this year) and
hopefully still get a few days off for the 4th :)
As far as hats go you don't have to sell them for $5 to get them out the
door. I do around 2500 hats a month and sell them for $8-10 with no
complaints from my customers. The price shoppers will go to places like
Otto to get a deal but I find lots of people would rather put money back
into the local economy and deal with local businesses.
Guess I better get on these names, got 35 more to do by 11:00 :)
Aaron Sargent
The Linen Barn
linen@xxxxxxxxxxx
Medford, OR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 8:56 AM
Subject: [amayausers] Re: Opinions wanted
Jack, I wasn't busting over the shirt markup...was just comparing to what
happens around here. Sometimes I realize you have to 'eat' the
sewing/screening but make it on markup...all turns to $$ in the end.
I get really hosed because I only have the one head-but now I'm tied to a
Melco tech that has 10 amayas and a 12head barrudan...I can now design and
proof it here, email to him and have shirts/hats drop shipped to him. I
think his charge for the last job was about 50-75¢ a thousand...I really
didn't mind much because it was a rush job for a good account, and I made
it
on the hat markup-still made about 100% (or 50%) if you figure the other
way
markup. Doubled my cost...and didn't spend 3 days zoning out on the one
head.
I have catalogs and flyers coming in my office everyday since I"m an
independant ad specialty rep-and have one right here...structured poplin
cap, 150 minimum, 3,000 stitches...NET PRICE of $2.99. How can we even
come
close to that? You can't-don't bother. But look at it this way-customer
has
NO CHOICE of hat style, limited color choice, setup of $75, freight, and
how
many hat logos are 3,000 stitiches? Not one that I've done...hey, only 25¢
per thousand extra, but that's a half a buck retail so it adds up.
My AVERAGE hat going out the door the last month was $10-$15.....on
flexfit
structured hats-8,9, even 10k stitches. Only doing 6-12 hats per order,
but
that's all the customer wants...and I did a couple jackets for one guy,
$75
each...another customer, 12 jackets, Sanmar work jacket. $69 for the
jacket,
$110 for the stitches! Back alone was 69,000 stitches and then another 30k
on the front. And he walked out happy along with his $15 hats!
So I don't regret losing a 700 shirt order (screenprinted) that would have
made me a profit of $200 for 2 days work....I did 3 customer orders in the
same time for screenprinting, embroidery, some signs, magnets,
whatever-and
grossed about $3000. with a net around $1200 for the same time period.
Yeah, I'd love to have another one or two Amayas....maybe later.
