: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:23 pm  

mutley cat wrote:

Hallelujah , Bingo , the jackpot

if we don't do very well they wont buy , this is why the club wont stock .

if anything we should be overjoyed that the success of last year as put the club in this position .
also mediums are available but just not at the club , i would guess its more a tool to criticize the club than any thin else. if he wants a top that bad he would go to the mill and get one . even online you can buy one so whats the problem.
NGFC can get a top , the club has no financial risk and sports direct or the mill or the on line ebay store gets another happy customer .
if they were that hard to find i would have mine for sale at 100quid

So if we get top 8 this year, which I am certain we will and people go to the club shop wanting to buy a top and don't have them, it's still the same problem.

The point is it is poor of the club not having any medium shirts in stock, but there is jack all we can do about it.

He may not know about this mill place, first I have heard of it.

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:26 pm  

further more on this topic it as taken years for WTWC to get the tops into the high street , this is good for the club on so many different levels but they will stop if the source of selling is stripped away from them . If they all sell out then they will all order more next year and perhaps start stocking other WTWC membrabelia you do realize that we get a cut or benefit in other ways.


any way back on topic ............

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:27 pm  

adam9641 wrote:

So why did people not buy them last season?

How the hell do i know, do they find them repulsive like i do , were they too pricey? Maybe some of your fans just buy one every 2nd year

adam9641 wrote:

There is proof that people were buying them when we went on the good cup run, A fair few people I stand with at the ground went an bought the tops to wear just for the semi.

I don't know why it takes a good run in cup to buy a top, but thats what happend.

Right lets say you sold 1000 before your cup run then sold another 1000 during your cup run, so thats 2000, i'll educate a guess that your club ordered between 10 and 25% on top of that this year to accommodate for any new interest due to your cup run.

So you order 2500 this time, you sell them out, what else do you expect your marketing department to do? Pick a number out of thin air and guess how much demand you would have had this year bearing in mind they probably had to order them months ago to get them in time for Xmas.

Do you

a) Order 2500 and maximise your profit

b) Order 3000 and probably have 2/300 left to flog off for a tenner at the end of the season making it a loss leader?


Answers on a postcard to Mystic Meg

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:28 pm  

mutley cat wrote:

further more on this topic it as taken years for WTWC to get the tops into the high street , this is good for the club on so many different levels but they will stop if the source of selling is stripped away from them . If they all sell out then they will all order more next year and perhaps start stocking other WTWC membrabelia you do realize that we get a cut or benefit in other ways.


any way back on topic ............

so is there loads of xxxl xxl xl and large left in the shop. do the club think were all fatties

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:30 pm  

Gahan wrote:

Hence i said, lets say


You aint dealing with Freds printers down the road here*


There is a lot to getting a shirt sorted out from start to finish and they aint gonna set everything up just for a run of a 100 or so



*Apologies to anyone called Fred who owns a printers on here

the whistle might indicate a close guess

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:33 pm  

mutley cat wrote:

the whistle might indicate a close guess

Minimum order is around 500 then, cant imagine it would be cost effective for anything less than that tbh


Has NGBC got 500 mates never mind 10

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:05 pm  

Cost price on shirts of over £26

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:05 pm  

Where is the evidence, and I mean real evidence, not 'I believe', that if the club ordered even 100 say (which may not be possible given minimum order levels), that these would sell out?

I'm not buying one, not because of size issues, I just don't like it!

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:39 pm  

t-r-i-n-i-t-y wrote:

Where is the evidence, and I mean real evidence, not 'I believe', that if the club ordered even 100 say (which may not be possible given minimum order levels), that these would sell out?

I'm not buying one, not because of size issues, I just don't like it!

Ok ill go waste my own personal time conducting a survey of how many extra medium shirts we need.

Personally i wouldnt expect to have to do this but if it makes you happy ill do it at the next home game.

Ill report the findings.

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:53 pm  

actually the larges are more or less mediums anyway!