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General Cricket => Cricket Admin, Facilities and Fundraising => Cricket Administration => Topic started by: Stratts on May 20, 2016, 09:43:57 AM
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As a club, we currently outsource all of our embroidered/printed clubwear (matchday clothing, training wear, etc.) to a local sports shop and our members buy the kit directly from them using their website. The club itself makes no money from this arrangement, save for a small volume-related rebate.
This does seem to be a popular option, but I was thinking about how we can take a bit more ownership of the club wear and actually use it to make some funds for the club, as well as minimising delivery costs for members (a lot of our members will buy the kit individually and incur £4 delivery charges every time).
As a club, we don't want to be holding stock (or at least not excessive amounts) but I was hoping other members out there might be able to advise other routes they have taken. I see Gray Nicolls do a club shop arrangement (our kit is currently GN anyway), which I guess would cut out the middle man, but the main aim is to be able to set our own price and manage orders so that the club gets the benefits rather than the current arrangement which seems very weighted in favour of the current shop.
We are starting to plan for next season ( :o) as we will have multiple new sponsors so now seems like a good time to start...
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Taking it on yourself is a ball ache, its not worth the hassle. Have you approached the local shop to see if they can better the agreement so that you get a cut of the gear?
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I've done it both ways. It is absolutely not worth the hassle. You end up ordering in such small quantities that the savings you make are peanuts for the amount of extra time you put in. Much easier to agree with a supplier (I use serious cricket and the club gets 5% of sales) which nets the club about £80 a year for doing nothing.
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As a club, we currently outsource all of our embroidered/printed clubwear (matchday clothing, training wear, etc.) to a local sports shop and our members buy the kit directly from them using their website. The club itself makes no money from this arrangement, save for a small volume-related rebate.
This does seem to be a popular option, but I was thinking about how we can take a bit more ownership of the club wear and actually use it to make some funds for the club, as well as minimising delivery costs for members (a lot of our members will buy the kit individually and incur £4 delivery charges every time).
As a club, we don't want to be holding stock (or at least not excessive amounts) but I was hoping other members out there might be able to advise other routes they have taken. I see Gray Nicolls do a club shop arrangement (our kit is currently GN anyway), which I guess would cut out the middle man, but the main aim is to be able to set our own price and manage orders so that the club gets the benefits rather than the current arrangement which seems very weighted in favour of the current shop.
We are starting to plan for next season ( :o) as we will have multiple new sponsors so now seems like a good time to start...
Kukri do a free team shop website and I think you can add a mark up yourself if you want to make extra on top of Kukri's price. We don't do it on ours though so I couldn't be 100% certain on it.
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Couldn't agree more with the 'do-it-yourself is a ball ache' view.
We bulk ordered direct from a manufacturer to get a discount and the sold on at a small premium to make some club profit. It was a nightmare managing everyone's sizes, exactly what they ordered and then getting money out of people. It was voted at a committee meeting to just use an online club shop with a local cricket store. Much easier even though we don't see any money from it.
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See attached Thread. http://custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php?topic=38033.0 (http://custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php?topic=38033.0)
We use Kalibazar, and you can add on your commission and make money off every item.
But they have ballsed up the service this year! didnt order enough stock.
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See attached Thread. [url]http://custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php?topic=38033.0[/url] ([url]http://custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php?topic=38033.0[/url])
We use Kalibazar, and you can add on your commission and make money off every item.
But they have ballsed up the service this year! didnt order enough stock.
Our club shop with them is currently running on a 12 day delay possibly as the new Blade training range has been very popular this season
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Our club shop with them is currently running on a 12 day delay possibly as the new Blade training range has been very popular this season
I have been advised from 2 sources SS told their distributors to sell the new blade range. SS have not been able to supply the stock. This happened about 4 years ago when they changed their kit!