Shirts quote - need to run with a decision asap! :)

[Robyn Bergeron]

Hey FUDCon team,

I have 2 quotes back for shirts. (Which apparently came last Friday and 
I missed it, fail!)

This is for 200 shirts, a mix of men's and women's.  2XL sizes cost 
another $1.50 per shirt, but I suspect that volume will be fairly low 
(read: probably less than 30 dollars additional).  I have yet to send 
the exact mix of shirts to order, but will do that if we decide to go 
forward with this.

One is for American Apparel tees - $2229, including tax.
The other is for Tultex tees, and you can see his comments below (they 
fit approximately the same, etc) - $1809, including tax.

If we want to move forward with this, we need to get on it as it takes 
8-10 business days, which would take us to the 26th, not including today.

I know we normally only cover shirts for 140 people, but I'd like to 
have extras for accommodating sizes, as well as to give to folks who 
deserve thanks that may not be registered - including folks from ASU, as 
well as 1 or 2 for our other sponsors, etc.

I also know that stickster had mentioned that he has a very low-cost 
option for printing shirts, which we may or may not want to 
investigate.  This does overrun our current shirt budget a bit, but I 
think it's accommodateable, particularly since we've had to cancel the 
breakfast that is coming out of our budget due to "can't eat in that 
building" constraints.

-Robyn

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Need shirts for conference! :)
Date: 	Fri, 7 Jan 2011 18:06:27 -0700
From: 	Brand X T-Shirts 
To: 	Robyn Bergeron

Hi Robyn,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

The art you sent over looks great and I've saved it under your name.
I have also attached 2 quotes for you.  The first (Q-1206 AmerAppT's) is 
if you were to print your order on American Apparel's fitted tees for 
men or women (style#2001).  The second quote (Q-1207 TultexT's) is if 
you were to print on a different brand of T's - they fit much like the 
American Apparel T's but because they are not a big name brand they are 
significantly cheaper.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,
Emily

[Pascal Calarco]

If the quality is about the same, I'd say go for the cheaper quote.

- pascal

On 01/11/2011 11:43 AM, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> Hey FUDCon team,
>
> I have 2 quotes back for shirts. (Which apparently came last Friday 
> and I missed it, fail!)
>
> This is for 200 shirts, a mix of men's and women's.  2XL sizes cost 
> another $1.50 per shirt, but I suspect that volume will be fairly low 
> (read: probably less than 30 dollars additional).  I have yet to send 
> the exact mix of shirts to order, but will do that if we decide to go 
> forward with this.
>
> One is for American Apparel tees - $2229, including tax.
> The other is for Tultex tees, and you can see his comments below (they 
> fit approximately the same, etc) - $1809, including tax.
>
> If we want to move forward with this, we need to get on it as it takes 
> 8-10 business days, which would take us to the 26th, not including today.
>
> I know we normally only cover shirts for 140 people, but I'd like to 
> have extras for accommodating sizes, as well as to give to folks who 
> deserve thanks that may not be registered - including folks from ASU, 
> as well as 1 or 2 for our other sponsors, etc.
>
> I also know that stickster had mentioned that he has a very low-cost 
> option for printing shirts, which we may or may not want to 
> investigate.  This does overrun our current shirt budget a bit, but I 
> think it's accommodateable, particularly since we've had to cancel the 
> breakfast that is coming out of our budget due to "can't eat in that 
> building" constraints.
>
> -Robyn
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Re: Need shirts for conference! :)
> Date: 	Fri, 7 Jan 2011 18:06:27 -0700
> From: 	Brand X T-Shirts 
> To: 	Robyn Bergeron
>
> Hi Robyn,
>
> Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
>
> The art you sent over looks great and I've saved it under your name.
> I have also attached 2 quotes for you.  The first (Q-1206 AmerAppT's) 
> is if you were to print your order on American Apparel's fitted tees 
> for men or women (style#2001).  The second quote (Q-1207 TultexT's) is 
> if you were to print on a different brand of T's - they fit much like 
> the American Apparel T's but because they are not a big name brand 
> they are significantly cheaper.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Thank you,
> Emily

[Ian Weller]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:49:56AM -0500, Pascal Calarco wrote:
> If the quality is about the same, I'd say go for the cheaper quote.

I would argue that the AA shirts are of a much higher quality. But when
it's $600-700 over budget it's hard to go with that. (With that cost
comes higher quality and a guarantee that the shirts were made
sweatshop-free but sometimes it's just too damn expensive.)

If we do go with AA shirts, they run smaller than your regular T-shirt,
so spamming Planet with "double check your shirt size" messages would be
a good idea.

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:54:14AM -0600, Ian Weller wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:49:56AM -0500, Pascal Calarco wrote:
> > If the quality is about the same, I'd say go for the cheaper quote.
>
> I would argue that the AA shirts are of a much higher quality. But when
> it's $600-700 over budget it's hard to go with that. (With that cost
> comes higher quality and a guarantee that the shirts were made
> sweatshop-free but sometimes it's just too damn expensive.)
>
> If we do go with AA shirts, they run smaller than your regular T-shirt,
> so spamming Planet with "double check your shirt size" messages would be
> a good idea.

At this price point and quantity, it's not worth it to go through the
group I recently used that provides services to Red Hat.  We'd save
substantial money only by going with a much cheaper shirt option
(Gildan) which I understand we don't want, and I have no quibble with
that. :-)