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Re: Vegas Shirt
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:22 pm
by WarriorWinger
josie andrews wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 3:41 pm
Hello everyone.
Called in at the shop today, meant to go yesterday
, there will not be anymore Vegas shirts available. They have apologised but they could only order so many with the budget they are allowed.
Sorry couldn’t be better news for those who haven’t managed to pre order one.
Hi Josie, thanks for the info.
Not aiming this at you but this seems very poor planning or foresight by the club and I don't really understand the budget allowed.
The purpose of selling shirts is to make a profit for the club and the club would need to commit to a certain amount of shirts to be manufactured, so yes I suspect the club will have to commit to a certain amount of revenue to the shirt maker, but when on pre-order why is it that the manufactures cant just make them more to order, if they are made overseas, which I suspect they are, factories can churn out thousands of garments per week, they are on a limited time period I understand that as most would want it for the game itself, but they should also know the lead times for manufacturing and delivery so could take pre-orders up to a certain date.
Re: Vegas Shirt
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:28 pm
by josie andrews
Matt37259 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 3:52 pm
Thanks Jess
Who is Jess?
Re: Vegas Shirt
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:31 pm
by josie andrews
WarriorWinger wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:22 pm
josie andrews wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 3:41 pm
Hello everyone.
Called in at the shop today, meant to go yesterday
, there will not be anymore Vegas shirts available. They have apologised but they could only order so many with the budget they are allowed.
Sorry couldn’t be better news for those who haven’t managed to pre order one.
Hi Josie, thanks for the info.
Not aiming this at you but this seems very poor planning or foresight by the club and I don't really understand the budget allowed.
The purpose of selling shirts is to make a profit for the club and the club would need to commit to a certain amount of shirts to be manufactured, so yes I suspect the club will have to commit to a certain amount of revenue to the shirt maker, but when on pre-order why is it that the manufactures cant just make them more to order, if they are made overseas, which I suspect they are, factories can churn out thousands of garments per week, they are on a limited time period I understand that as most would want it for the game itself, but they should also know the lead times for manufacturing and delivery so could take pre-orders up to a certain date.
If they just order loads of shirts & they don’t sell them that’s money lost.
They still have World Club Challenge shirts which haven’t sold. So they are stuck between a rock & a hard place trying to please everyone
Re: Vegas Shirt
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:33 pm
by WarriorWinger
josie andrews wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:31 pm
WarriorWinger wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:22 pm
josie andrews wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 3:41 pm
Hello everyone.
Called in at the shop today, meant to go yesterday
, there will not be anymore Vegas shirts available. They have apologised but they could only order so many with the budget they are allowed.
Sorry couldn’t be better news for those who haven’t managed to pre order one.
Hi Josie, thanks for the info.
Not aiming this at you but this seems very poor planning or foresight by the club and I don't really understand the budget allowed.
The purpose of selling shirts is to make a profit for the club and the club would need to commit to a certain amount of shirts to be manufactured, so yes I suspect the club will have to commit to a certain amount of revenue to the shirt maker, but when on pre-order why is it that the manufactures cant just make them more to order, if they are made overseas, which I suspect they are, factories can churn out thousands of garments per week, they are on a limited time period I understand that as most would want it for the game itself, but they should also know the lead times for manufacturing and delivery so could take pre-orders up to a certain date.
If they just order loads of shirts & they don’t sell them that’s money lost.
They still have World Club Challenge shirts which haven’t sold. So they are stuck between a rock & a hard place trying to please everyone
But on pre-order you have already bought the shirt and paid for it, and you could only manufacturing what you have sold.
Re: Vegas Shirt
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:11 pm
by widdenoldboy
Missing something here, why not do another pre-order for a 1,000 more (say)?
A bit more risky would be count expressions of interest first to guage how many should be pre-ordered.
Re: Vegas Shirt
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:15 pm
by josie andrews
Sorry, I’ve tried my best
Re: Vegas Shirt
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:18 pm
by widdenoldboy
josie andrews wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:15 pm
Sorry, I’ve tried my best
Never doubted you for one second Josie, if anyone could get to some sense it would be you.
There is probably some arcane and weird reason it can't be done
Re: Vegas Shirt
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 7:51 pm
by manchesterwarrior
Just seems to be badly planned, they should have announced the shirt in December and took pre orders
Re: Vegas Shirt
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 8:12 pm
by fozzie58
Can’t help but feel this shirt is very niche so probably better to keep numbers low and sell out rather than as Josie says the world club challenge shirts that just didn’t sell
Re: Vegas Shirt
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 8:30 pm
by moto748
Maybe the fact that the world club challenge shirts didn’t sell well was a factor when they decided how many Vegas shirts to order.
, there will not be anymore Vegas shirts available. They have apologised but they could only order so many with the budget they are allowed. 
