Hey Crew,
I have spoken with our supplier about our gear line. I have good news and I have some bad news, which do you want first? Okay I will give you the good news first, GLWC gear is still available and we will be expanding the line just a bit. Based on my conversation with our supplier we will be adding an embroidered golf shirt and an embroidered microfiber lined windshirt to the line. These will feature the port hole logo embroidered on the left chest. I don't have a lock on the colors for these items yet, but I will post some picks as soon as they are available. Woot!Woot! Gotta love new gear.
Now for the bad news, as with all consumer items the price of our gear has gone up slightly. When we originally decided to design our logo and make it available for purchase there were discussions about trying to raise additional money that we would donate on behalf of the Great Lakes Wrecking Crew. The thought was that it would be donated to the underwater preserves in the area since this is the basis of our dive club. We would hope that they could use the money to help with buoying ships in the area.
I will put the question to the group; would you be willing to pay an additional donation per piece of gear if the money was donated on the groups behalf? We are not looking for a substantial donation, possibly $3-4 per item. There will be no adminstrative fees taken from this money.
To give an example we may decide that a t-shirt will cost you $20 each. This seems to be a fair price for a shirt of this quality with any profit going to the Great Lakes Wrecking Crew Ship Buoy Fund. Please don't quote this as a price, I am just trying to give you something to think about.
I also wanted to let everyone know that our supplier will require a minnimum order of 24 t-shirts due to the time it takes to set them up for silk screening. We will need a minnimum of 6 items for embroidery these can be mixed amongst the different items available.
I have spoken with our supplier about our gear line. I have good news and I have some bad news, which do you want first? Okay I will give you the good news first, GLWC gear is still available and we will be expanding the line just a bit. Based on my conversation with our supplier we will be adding an embroidered golf shirt and an embroidered microfiber lined windshirt to the line. These will feature the port hole logo embroidered on the left chest. I don't have a lock on the colors for these items yet, but I will post some picks as soon as they are available. Woot!Woot! Gotta love new gear.
Now for the bad news, as with all consumer items the price of our gear has gone up slightly. When we originally decided to design our logo and make it available for purchase there were discussions about trying to raise additional money that we would donate on behalf of the Great Lakes Wrecking Crew. The thought was that it would be donated to the underwater preserves in the area since this is the basis of our dive club. We would hope that they could use the money to help with buoying ships in the area.
I will put the question to the group; would you be willing to pay an additional donation per piece of gear if the money was donated on the groups behalf? We are not looking for a substantial donation, possibly $3-4 per item. There will be no adminstrative fees taken from this money.
To give an example we may decide that a t-shirt will cost you $20 each. This seems to be a fair price for a shirt of this quality with any profit going to the Great Lakes Wrecking Crew Ship Buoy Fund. Please don't quote this as a price, I am just trying to give you something to think about.
I also wanted to let everyone know that our supplier will require a minnimum order of 24 t-shirts due to the time it takes to set them up for silk screening. We will need a minnimum of 6 items for embroidery these can be mixed amongst the different items available.
