Flip Flops anyone?

[Paul]

Not sure now, great idea but what would be a selling point to these?

this same point as flip-flops with union jack in primark. I saw people buyin them in 10's!!! I was thinking to my self... "why? whats the point? no one going to see union jack..." but they still buying it! so it must be that you can se designe before you buy and after "who cares! I got great patriotic flip flops "

btw! primark was selling them for about £3 so it may be another reason

[Kaz]

The price is a bit steep, as Paul says, you can get them in Primark for £3, and if you shop around you can get them for less.

I don't know about anyone else, but I only wear a pair of flip flops until they get grubby, then buy a new pair

[Stitch Up]

I recall getting the promo email from TMT about these flip-flops and was horrified at the price before printing.

[accdave]

The price is a bit steep, as Paul says, you can get them in Primark for £3, and if you shop around you can get them for less.

I don't know about anyone else, but I only wear a pair of flip flops until they get grubby, then buy a new pair

To be fair you can also probably get 6 mugs for a £1 at Tesco.

[Stitch Up]

If they sell at a reasonable profit, GREAT. Sometimes I don't see the wood for the trees :redface:

[Kaz]

True Dave, but with our mugs you see the image, you can't on flip flops

[JSR]

Pricing seems a bit steep to be able to sell them with any kind of reasonable profit.

These sublimation flip flops are made of a black rubber base with a white polyester upper fabric for sublimation printing.

This makes them sound like a shaped mousemat, so why do they cost £4.50+VAT when a mousemat costs 79p?

I read a recent post on another forum that came up with a Google search in which someone told of flipflops being sold for 50p at Primark - they bought 15 pairs for £7.50. How many are we likely to sell if we have to sell them at a tenner each because the blank is a fiver? Not many, I'd have thought.

Ideally, these blanks should be £1 so that we could sell them for under a fiver (with the flexibility for price breaks). Like most other new things, if the price puts people off and they don't sell it'll be assumed that there's no demand for them and they'll disappear.

[djhutton]

I'd have thought these would go quite well in the correct location. Retail price is what the customer is willing to pay really rather than what we percieve the value as For example I've been selling domed badges for £3.50 each, I have a regular customer who buys a few at a time and turns out he is selling them on ebay for up to £10.20!

Don't undersell your artistic and creative skills, certainly not when comparing pricing with tesco/primark et all. Customers are willing to pay a premium for something personal.

I'd agree that it would be nice to get all our blanks for peanuts but life's not like that.

DJ

[bms]

turns out he is selling them on ebay for up to £10.20!

Was that £9.99 before the VAT went up:rolleyes:

[JSR]

I'd have thought these would go quite well in the correct location. Retail price is what the customer is willing to pay really rather than what we percieve the value as For example I've been selling domed badges for £3.50 each, I have a regular customer who buys a few at a time and turns out he is selling them on ebay for up to £10.20!

Don't undersell your artistic and creative skills, certainly not when comparing pricing with tesco/primark et all. Customers are willing to pay a premium for something personal.

I'd agree that it would be nice to get all our blanks for peanuts but life's not like that.

DJ

That's a great case for the manufacturer/suppliers to keep the price of blanks high, but it's not going to sell any more to our customers in the heart of a recession.

I'm sure we all have resellers that sell our items on at a higher price. One of my clients resell my £4.99 mugs to their customers for over £20. Great, but I see hardly any trade from them. Maybe one person will buy one mug for £20, but if I put my prices up to £20 it'd be commercial suicide.

Manufacturers need to wake up and think of the long-term. Selling blanks at high prices makes them unsustainable. Sure, everyone will buy new blanks on 'day one' because of their novelty value - and the manufacturer will shift their first pallet load, banking a nice bundle of cash. But if we can't sell them because they're too expensive, then we (the printer) and our suppliers just ends up with a roomful of unsold blanks (just look at plates). Ultimately, we fail, the supplier fails, and the only one with the money is the manufacturer because we were such naive mugs to pay the high prices in the first place.

It's not about getting the product "for peanuts", it's about making the product line sustainable for all of us in the business. In the case of what is effectively a "fat mousemat", flipflop blanks shouldn't be a fiver a pop.