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I dont think that people know the cost implied with creating a shirt, or sticker. Those aren't so bad, but the hats, the floormats that someone mentioned, the calendar, and sweaters would be expensive.
Then the most expensive would of course be the keychains or license frames.
For clothing and hats, you have to ask the question, are these gonna be screen-printed or embroidered. I would only buy imbroidered, and hats HAVE to be, and sweaters SHOULD be. For screen-printing, the cost to get a program written to press would be determined by 1) if the shop has to make the design, and
2) how many colors.
To have 20 shirts made for a club at school, the cost per shirt to make no profit was $25, to pay for the set-up costs of the screenprinting presser.
And the cost to have an embroidery program made would be at least $800. Then a cost per item, be it hats or sweaters. If you sold 200 hats, they would be $30 each. This is an estimate, but I know for 3 letters on a shirt for the club, it was a $400 setup fee, and that was through a teacher with a side-buisness embroidering. So we were getting a discount.
License plate frames would need a mold made, and be injection molded into it. I have limited size issues, or I could do the mold for much cheaper.
And finally, the keychain. This is really expensive, depending on
1) is the keychain gonna be pewter? If it was pewter with the Zilvia.Net, I would buy it. But how do you go about getting pewter keychains made?
2) is the keychain gonna be leather with a brass Zilvia.Net logo on it? How will carve the brass? How much.
So, basically, I am saying these things will be expensive, and time consuming. Since there are a lot of people that photoshop here, we would have a vote-off for what design wins. Then, the expensive items you would have to sell off, or Mark would have a few hundred hats layin around. Next, people would have to provide the time to get the stuff made, and tell all the members the cost of whatever merchandise is. Then how many people would order one, if we're gonna pre-pay for them, wait for all the money to get from our house to the collection agent. Finally, how many of what size would have to be tallied and ordered.
This needs a lot of thought for merchandise. Stickers are easy and cheap to make. I could make them at school, but clothing and keychains would be the best to sell, as they aren't durable goods. And have the highest demand, as so many people are against stickers.
-Jeff
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