Re: US Conferences in next 5 months, shirts

On 25 feb 2009, at 09.33, Dave Page  wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Joshua D. Drake  > wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:04 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>> Well "selling" shirts depends on who is doing it and the show of  
>> course.
>> I am surprised we only sold 25 at SCALE.
>
> FYI, we sold far fewer shirts at FOSDEM than we expected. The

I'd go further and say almost none. Did we even reach 10?

And iirc we also lowered the price after a while due to bad sales, and  
still didn't sell any more.


> only
> theories we came up with were that other stands were selling their
> shirts for sky-high prices so noone was bothering to look at any. Oh,
> and the downturn in global economy of course.

Perhaps people have enough tshirts already? Nah, there's always use  
for one more.


> Stuffed Slonik's and mugs on the other hand, were flying off the table
> almost as fast as we could unpack them (well, nearly :-p), despite the
> fact the elephants go for 25 Euros each.

The stress balls were also pretty popular. Being only €1 surely  
helped that.

I'd definitely recommend the us folks to also get both elephants and  
stressballs! If you want to investigate this, be sure to talk to us  
pgeu folks first - we're looking to do a new batch and can maybe find  
a way to push costs down together. I know ads gas investigated that  
some before.

/Magnus