Overpriced and poor selection! : Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:02 pm  

Went into the Cas shop today. There's no wonder we are losing money with prices the way they are in the club shop! A poor quality hoody for women £34. Disgrace. I'm all for supporting my club, but there's a barrier between that, and sheer lunacy.

Needless to say in the times we are now in, no-one in my house will be getting anything with a Castleford emblem on it for Christmas this year.

And guess what...? The shop was dead. What a surprise.

Re: Overpriced and poor selection! : Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:16 pm  

Hubby went in on saturday (not a rugby fan) he said the prices of some of the gear was ridiculous.
He said most football teams prices are cheaper by far than than the gear in the cas shop. He does buy lots of football gear by the way.


Who exactly does the pricing.

Re: Overpriced and poor selection! : Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:24 pm  

poppys mum wrote:

Hubby went in on saturday (not a rugby fan) he said the prices of some of the gear was ridiculous.
He said most football teams prices are cheaper by far than than the gear in the cas shop. He does buy lots of football gear by the way.


Who exactly does the pricing.

I don't know who does the pricing but it's ridiculous. FWIW my mum went and compared some items with the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats online shop, and they are by far cheaper.

Re: Overpriced and poor selection! : Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:32 pm  

If the club offered a primani hoody with a logo on it they would be criticised for poor quality stuff.
Get puma stuff there critiqued for the cost, usual case of damned if you do damned if you don't

Ps my wakey friends will clarify but I think there new stock hasn't hit the shops yet ?

Re: Overpriced and poor selection! : Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:48 pm  

jon normy wrote:

poppys mum wrote:

Hubby went in on saturday (not a rugby fan) he said the prices of some of the gear was ridiculous.
He said most football teams prices are cheaper by far than than the gear in the cas shop. He does buy lots of football gear by the way.


Who exactly does the pricing.

I don't know who does the pricing but it's ridiculous. FWIW my mum went and compared some items with the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats online shop, and they are by far cheaper.

And what exactly happened to WTW last season?

Re: Overpriced and poor selection! : Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:06 pm  

binks wrote:

If the club offered a primani hoody with a logo on it they would be criticised for poor quality stuff.

Last i heard Primani didn't make RL merchandise.

binks wrote:

Get puma stuff there critiqued for the cost, usual case of damned if you do damned if you don't

I'll be damned if i do. As i have already said. FWIW i don't think Puma is all it's cracked up to be. I thought the Kukri gear was much longer lasting.

binks wrote:

Ps my wakey friends will clarify but I think there new stock hasn't hit the shops yet ?

I can only quote prices of what is already on their online store, which is much cheaper by the way. And i'm sure when their new stock hits the shops, it will be much cheaper also.

Fully wrote:

And what exactly happened to WTW last season?

Whatever mate. At least they are thinking of the fans, and not putting a hole in their pockets at the one time of year everybody is skint to start off with.

By the way... Didn't we make a loss this year for the first time in god knows how long...?

Re: Overpriced and poor selection! : Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:17 pm  

Primark was a meta fore. We are all allowed our opinion if you don't like puma fair play

Times have changed since kukri the world moves on. The club need to balance quality with profit sorry but that's life

Re: Overpriced and poor selection! : Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:46 pm  

jon normy wrote: Fully wrote: And what exactly happened to WTW last season? Whatever mate. At least they are thinking of the fans, and not putting a hole in their pockets at the one time of year everybody is skint to start off with. By the way... Didn't we make a loss this year for the first time in god knows how long...? But Cas aren't holding a gun to your head and telling you that you must buy goods at this time of year? Equally, all clubs charge prices like that. Look at Warrington with ISC: http://shop.warringtonwolves.org/123/20 ... Range.aspx A jacket on there is £60.00. We made one profit out of the last god knows how many losses. Rugby League is a loss-making sport. There are only 2/3 clubs that turn a profit.

jon normy wrote: Fully wrote: And what exactly happened to WTW last season? Whatever mate. At least they are thinking of the fans, and not putting a hole in their pockets at the one time of year everybody is skint to start off with. By the way... Didn't we make a loss this year for the first time in god knows how long...? But Cas aren't holding a gun to your head and telling you that you must buy goods at this time of year? Equally, all clubs charge prices like that. Look at Warrington with ISC: http://shop.warringtonwolves.org/123/20 ... Range.aspx A jacket on there is £60.00. We made one profit out of the last god knows how many losses. Rugby League is a loss-making sport. There are only 2/3 clubs that turn a profit.

Re: Overpriced and poor selection! : Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:24 am  

Puma hoodie from Sports Direct, you can get for £20, stick a Cas badge on it and then it will be £40, so your paying £20 for the badge.

Re: Overpriced and poor selection! : Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:12 am  

Everything seems cheaper in the Cas shop than that of Tottenham who also have their merchandise supplied by Puma http://shop.tottenhamhotspur.com/catego ... r?TRE00034 Pricing is always going to be a tough decision but I'm always happy with Puma products and if we decided to go for a cheaper supplier like others do then there would be complaints about that.

Everything seems cheaper in the Cas shop than that of Tottenham who also have their merchandise supplied by Puma http://shop.tottenhamhotspur.com/catego ... r?TRE00034 Pricing is always going to be a tough decision but I'm always happy with Puma products and if we decided to go for a cheaper supplier like others do then there would be complaints about that.