[amayausers] Re: Need pricing advise
- From: "John Yaglenski" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:37:36 -0400
You get free catalogs?
-----Original Message-----
From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roland R. Irish III
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 11:32 AM
To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amayausers] Re: Need pricing advise
Sanmar called ME way back when...I have an 'account manager'
I think-they were the ones that called and offered terms, case price, etc.
Alpha now has free freight for $150 orders and up-I'm going to see if Sanmar
will do the same...$200 is sometimes a lot to make up.
They never asked about my volume-I know it was only $5-6000 when I started
with them.
Alpha is now making all kinds of promises, but a veiled comment about "only
for those that make us their major supplier". That would mean dumping Sanmar
completely...and I like the free catalogs I get (several hundred each year,
with my name on them) to send out to clients.Along with the great customized
website for me!
Roland
On Apr 20, 2007, at 11:08 AM, <suried@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> That is weird about SanMar because I just set up an account with them.
> They asked me how much I purchase in a year. I told them I was still
> new to the business and gave them a number way lower than 20,000.
> They gave me case pricing without any problems. I did try to gently
> make it sound like I wouldn't use them unless I got case pricing. But
> I never actually state that so I don't even know if it came across to
> the person I talked to.
>
> Susan
>
>
> --- Steve Cohen <steve20832@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> There are several suppliers who are currently doing free shipping on
>> orders over $150 (excluding white t-shirts.) For some reason Sanmar
>> and Broder are the only companies who will not give me case pricing
>> unless I do some very high yearly amount of purchases from them.
>> (Somewhere around $20,000 per
>> year for both.) Broder doesn't matter to me because they have one
>> warehouse that is 2 days ground and the rest are more than 3 days.
>> There are 6 other suppliers that are UPS next day ground. Those are
>> the only 2 companies I don't use for goods.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> From: "Roland R. Irish III"
>> <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reply-To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [amayausers] Re: Need pricing advise
>> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:10:45 -0400
>>
>> Sandra, if you can get setup with Sanmar as a commercial account, you
>> don't pay shipping on orders over $200.00 which is how I do it.
>> And customers always pay the shipping-even on the low price 'import'
>> deals
>> I get through ad specialties...so unless there is a big multihead
>> house nearby that you are competing with-there is always a freight
>> charge.
>> Roland
>>
>> Sunrise Graphics
>> 116 Main St
>> Claremont, NH 03743
>> 603-543-1324
>> Preferred method of files is PDF for invoices, page documents, etc.
>> Photoshop (v.6) for images, artwork, logos-preferred for logo and
>> sign work is Macromedia Freehand, any version, sent to our email-we
>> are all MAC based graphic programs here signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> On Apr 19, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Sandra Walker wrote:
>>
>>> I'm in Texas, just North of Houston, and so far
>> the shipping cost from
>>> Sanmar to the contractor + shipping finished
>> goods to me has been
>>> prohibitive. Either I eat the shipping and lose
>> money (which I
>>> can't afford
>>> and would be dumb anyway) or the potential
>> customer goes someplace
>>> else.
>>>
>>> Haven't been able to figure a cost-effective way
>> to do this yet. Am I
>>> missing something? Or is there somebody out
>> there close to me who
>>> does
>>> contract work?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Sandra Walker
>>> A&E Clothing and Embroidery
>>> 936-588-1015 800-291-6953
>>> Montgomery, Texas
>>> www.companycasuals.com/aeclothing
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "r.rinehartsr" <drader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 4:46 PM
>>> Subject: [amayausers] Re: Need pricing advise
>>>
>>>
>>>> Anyone on the list from the mid-section of the
>> nation doing
>>>> contract work?
>>>> Debbie Rinehart
>>>> Deb'z-N-Stitches
>>>> Martinsville, In.
>>>> 765-342-7392
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Linen Barn
>>>> To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:12 AM
>>>> Subject: [amayausers] Re: Need pricing advise
>>>>
>>>> It depends on what the market will bear. If
>> they were selling them
>>>> before
>>>> for $12 then they probably want to still sell
>> them for that and
>>>> still
>>>> make a
>>>> profit. If I were to bid this I would do them
>> for $7 each. Now
>>>> I have
>>>> 12
>>>> heads so running 100 hats at 7500 stitches
>> would take me 8-10
>>>> hours on my
>>>> 2
>>>> head. Making $500 on my 2 head is not bad
>> considering I do
>>>> contract work
>>>> on
>>>> it all the time where I make $300 a day. You
>> can send the hats
>>>> to me and
>>>> I
>>>> would do them as contract work for $3.50 each
>> and you could make
>>>> $1.50
>>>> per
>>>> hat for doing nothing other than drop shipping
>> the hats to me and
>>>> delivering
>>>> them. Or as Roland said you can have one of
>> the overseas or large
>>>> embroidery places do them for $4 each and make
>> $3 a hat for
>>>> contracting
>>>> it
>>>> out. Sometimes the smaller shops eigher have
>> to contract out, make
>>>> little
>>>> money per item or pass on orders to make it.
>> There is no reason
>>>> to run
>>>> low
>>>> paying jobs on a single head which ties it up
>> so you can't get your
>>>> higher
>>>> paying jobs done when you can have contractors
>> do it that are
>>>> used to
>>>> making
>>>> the lower $$$ per item but are reliant on
>> quantities. You also
>>>> need to
>>>> make
>>>> sure that if you do contract it out that you
>> use one that does
>>>> quality
>>>> work
>>>> with good turn times.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Aaron Sargent
>>>> The Linen Barn
>>>> linen@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> 541-770-2957
>>>> Medford, OR
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Susan Davidson" <Sewfly@xxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:35 PM
>>>> Subject: [amayausers] Need pricing advise
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I am in the process of putting in a bid for a
>> hat order and am in
>>>>> need
>>>> of
>>>>> help!
>>>>>
>>>>> I have already digitized the logo in
>> question.....the group really
>>>> likes
>>>>> it.....but I want to stay competitive. I am
>> sure that my stitch
>>>>> count
>>>> is
>>>>> much higher than the last shop that did hats
>> for this organization.
>>>> (My
>>>>> husband purchased for $12.00 one of the other's
>> hat so that I could
>>>>> compare
>>>>> apples to apples on the hat itself. And I see
>> my logo is definitely
>>>> much
>>>>> more detailed.)
>>>>>
>>>>> My stitch count is in the 7500 range. The hat
>> price per piece/
>>>>> broken
>>
> === message truncated ===
>
>
> Susan Riedlinger
> Embroidery Station
> Columbus, OH
>
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