Author Topic: Last chance to buy a bit of history and raise money for HJC (Our Shirt) (Read 12926 times)

Alan_X · « **Reply #40 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:03:02 PM »

£50 donated. Come on lads. Jonny J put hard cash on the line and any spare goes to HJC. Have a couple less beers at the weekend and through a few quid in the kitty.

dewisaint · « **Reply #41 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:04:50 PM »

bought five but still happy to donate on one of the greatest days in years. Well done jonny and all

royhendo · « **Reply #42 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:06:09 PM »

Quote from: GinuWine on October 13, 2010, 03:46:31 PM

Paypal will kill you with fees... suggest setting up another way

It's the easiest way mate - we have looked into it but it's the easiest option for people. We need to collate hte funds we've raised elsewhere too and get them allocated correctly.

Liverbird 2010 · « **Reply #43 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:08:14 PM »

Donation will be on its way this avvy

Dr. Beaker · « **Reply #44 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:10:27 PM »

Is anyone else having difficulty getting into the paypal link?

One of these · « **Reply #45 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:12:05 PM »

I think of mine as the equivalent of a tour shirt (tho with much more meaning) just because Springsteen is not actually playing at Bramall Lane Sheffield doesn't mean I can't wear the shirt. Never mind framing it, I'm going to wear mine until it falls to bits.

Dr. Beaker · « **Reply #46 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:18:07 PM »

Quote from: Dr. Beaker on October 13, 2010, 04:10:27 PM

Is anyone else having difficulty getting into the paypal link?

Done - had senior moment there.

przepiorek · « **Reply #47 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:18:35 PM »

Great idea, Roy. £10 donated.

Shirts arrived today

redjohnnw · « **Reply #48 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:24:21 PM »

Bought 3 shirts but happy to donate Johnny shouldn't be out of pocket on this.

Btw Fat Scouser should be on the list!

Ramon · « **Reply #49 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:31:52 PM »

Big thanks to all those who went beyond the call of duty to help save our club, and big thanks to Jonny for his efforts on the shirts. We should all ensure that he doesn't lose any money on this. I will post this thread on a few other forums to make people aware that one of true club servants need our help.

el diablos · « **Reply #50 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:39:29 PM »

Just bought 2, for me and the nipper. Their website now makes it easier to order, it was a right palava before.
Hopefully it will be a memento, or a hex to ward off future evil and that it won't have to be worn in anger

blert596 · « **Reply #51 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:41:18 PM »

How many offy supporters clubs do we have? Every one of them should have one of these framed and up on their walls.

kasperoff · « **Reply #52 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:46:41 PM »

Quote from: FAT SCOUSER on October 13, 2010, 03:15:08 PM

Yeah. Get on this. The lad shouldn't end up out of pocket. He won't like me saying it, but he was a hero through all of this. A proper hero. Let's make sure the lad gets his dough back. Buy one and frame it. Mine's going on the wall. I've got a little back room in the house. I keep all me gear in there. The Shirt is taking pride of place on the wall, next to Shanks on the steps of the George's Hall. In years, you'll be able to look back on that shirt and know you done something good.

Great idea! I was wondering what to do with mine actually. It'll get one last outing at footy tonight, then it'll be up on the wall.

J-Mc- · « **Reply #53 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:48:24 PM »

I'll be buying another shirt soon, we defo need something set up outside the ground, promote the shirt as a limited edition now and hopefully get a few more people to buy it.

hesbighesred · « **Reply #54 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:50:13 PM »

Done and done. Stupidly didn't buy a shirt before but I'll be proud to own one.

EDIT:

Maybe soon time for a new shirt?

'Standards Interrupted' perhaps?

incredibleL4ever · « **Reply #55 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:52:21 PM »

I didnt do much but proud to have done it. £10 donated.

TODAY IS OUR (pause for effect) INDEPENDENCE DAY.

Standards Corrupted..............Standards Restored.......................Standard Chartered.
(Make a good viral for them, methinks)

Mello · « **Reply #56 on:** October 13, 2010, 04:54:51 PM »

Thanks for the donation link. I donated a couple of hours ago. No way Jonny should be left out of pocket for this.

royhendo · « **Reply #57 on:** October 13, 2010, 05:06:31 PM »

Good on yous all - much appreciated!

Grobbelrevell · « **Reply #58 on:** October 13, 2010, 05:07:22 PM »

Quote from: spen71 on October 13, 2010, 03:45:25 PM

People actually returned them?

Taken from the Alternative Shirt Thread from last week:

Quote from: Jonny J on October 7, 2010, 08:45:07 AM

Alright lads - heres the run down on where we've got to with the shirts, and I'll warn you now that it comes with the usual reality check on our "best fans in the world" strapline....

Viga have currently got in stock:

Small 131
Medium 101
Large 292
XXL 18

Total 542

I've also got a boxload from them, but I dunno what it is yet cos its waiting for me at work and I'm all over the pace and not back there until later this afternoon / evening. (Say another 100 - 150 shirts probably).

So - about 650-700 shirts to shift I reckon.

If you look at the rough profitability of the shirt it works out like this:

Ive ordered 3,500 shirts
3,344 x Adult sizes at a sales price £17.02 net of VAT
156 kids shirts at a sales price of £15 (or £12.77 net of VAT which is how VIGA are calculating it, but i'm pretty sure that kids clothes are exempt - even sportswear, but they may know better than me).

If we use their calcs then there can only be an upside...

So - if we sold all of the shirts we'd be fine, BUT we gave some away to celebs and ex reds hoping for some publicity that never really worked if the truth be told.
We've also had some returned as damaged goods - who knows how or where they were damaged, but they are, so we replace/refund and write the stock off.

So even if we sold ALL of the shirts that we have left to sell the income opportunity is reduced because of the giveaways and the damaged stock (91 and 21 shirts respectively)

That drops the income to just over £57k (57,090)

The cost of production, air-freight and duty etc is fixed - we'd pay the same if we sold one shirt or 1,000, so thats the biggest single hit at a total of £36,129, leaving almost £21k "gross profit" to Viga.

They then have to cover the costs of all of the stuff they've laid on to manage and handle this exercise:
Web hosting, staff costs, warehouse charges, admin, credit card costs, printing costs etc and that racks up another £13k - which will leaves us with about £8k profit or roughly £2.50/shirt to donate as I hoped all along...

Thats if we sold the lot.

The problem is that we arent - we're 650 or so short which strips the income back to £48k - all the rest of the sums are pretty much the same and the net conclusion is that we make no donation to either HJC or SoS and I get stung for a grand.
I'm not going to let that happen (particularly the HJC) because people have been really committed to this shirt I think largely because they knew that there was a benefit to worthy causes.

The bigger problem is that since Tuesday loads of reds have been sending shirts back or cancelling orders, so rather than the stock going down,.... its actually rising.

If it was up to me I'd be telling people to fuck right off - but Viga are good people and also they're governed by distance selling laws which means that the credit card companies force them to provide full refunds in the event of returns, which stinks to be honest.

Anyways, thats the low down - if we can get another 300 sold then I reckon we're getting a couple of grand towards HJC & SoS - thats it Viga are prepared to have done this whole thing for NO retained profit themselves - If we can get the full stock sold (which is unlikely unless John Henry - can't wait for the hoover gags - fancies clearing me out in a kind of philanthropic and clear the decks kinda way.... )

Thanks again for all the support on here - youve all been boss throughout - we'll sort it one way or another...

If anyones got 5-a side teams and wants to make me an offer etc!!

Cheers,

Jonny

If we get nothing shifted from now on, then its really simple - either theres no donation to HJC / SoS (which I will not let happen as its too important for my reputation and own feelings of whats right etc) and about £1.5k of my deposit gets buned up

OR

We make a donation of £1k

royhendo · « **Reply #59 on:** October 13, 2010, 05:10:27 PM »

£320+ now

Alan_X · « **Reply #60 on:** October 13, 2010, 05:20:44 PM »

Come on lads get on this. You're allgoing to have a beer after today. Have a couple less and chuck a couple of quid in the kitty.

Jagged Princess · « **Reply #61 on:** October 13, 2010, 05:23:37 PM »

Roy, donation on it's way from Hubby's paypal account.

essex red · « **Reply #62 on:** October 13, 2010, 05:26:39 PM »

More than happy to have just made my donation.

Hope Jonny gets his money back

rhylred · « **Reply #63 on:** October 13, 2010, 05:29:20 PM »

tenner done lads

Alan_X · « **Reply #64 on:** October 13, 2010, 05:37:36 PM »

Come on you fucking mingebags - gonna be bumped until you've all done your duty.

mac62 · « **Reply #65 on:** October 13, 2010, 05:44:07 PM »

Donation flying along the electronic superhighway as we speak - thanks again to everyone involved

Zappa · « **Reply #66 on:** October 13, 2010, 05:50:17 PM »

Quote from: FAT SCOUSER on October 13, 2010, 03:15:08 PM

Yeah. Get on this. The lad shouldn't end up out of pocket. He won't like me saying it, but he was a hero through all of this. A proper hero. Let's make sure the lad gets his dough back. Buy one and frame it. Mine's going on the wall. I've got a little back room in the house. I keep all me gear in there. The Shirt is taking pride of place on the wall, next to Shanks on the steps of the George's Hall. In years, you'll be able to look back on that shirt and know you done something good.

Spot on

prwoolfall · « **Reply #67 on:** October 13, 2010, 05:58:26 PM »

Do it now!

royhendo · « **Reply #68 on:** October 13, 2010, 06:40:39 PM »

£500 raised since the o.p guys - brilliant effort - keep this up and we'll do great things!

Dingus · « **Reply #69 on:** October 13, 2010, 06:56:09 PM »

donation on it's way!
no-one deserves to be out of pocket tonight, except Hicks & Gillett!

dewisaint · « **Reply #70 on:** October 13, 2010, 07:17:22 PM »

£ anything. for all the people who did not want the shirt surely a couple of quid towards this cause would be ok ?

Liverbird 2010 · « **Reply #71 on:** October 13, 2010, 07:26:52 PM »

Donated !!!

thekremlin · « **Reply #72 on:** October 13, 2010, 07:29:44 PM »

ten quid donated... cheers jonny! my shirt will always represent the undying spirit of LFC fans for me.

Groundskeeper Willie · « **Reply #73 on:** October 13, 2010, 07:31:27 PM »

If I hadn´t already bought 3, I´d buy some more.

I´ll donate some money instead when the next paycheck arrives.

underdog · « **Reply #74 on:** October 13, 2010, 07:31:45 PM »

Will make a donation on pay day for sure, I mentioned setting up somewhere we could donate a few weeks back, infact I may take another shirt just for the memories too.

Anyway mentioned this a couple of times before but whoever the new owner is, ask them to match our donation, I am willing to bet my house they will and more money for the charity has to be good.

Red_Isle_Chap · « **Reply #75 on:** October 13, 2010, 07:37:51 PM »

Spot on this. £25 donated and i'm off to buy another shirt too.

Fucking excellent work Jonny mate, can't thank you enough for all the hard work you've put into getting our shirt out.

Thanks mate!

Stanno06 · « **Reply #76 on:** October 13, 2010, 07:38:57 PM »

Nice one jonny and royhendo. Have donated via paypal.

Gonna buy another 2 shirts tomorrow as well ... I like the framing idea!

royhendo · « **Reply #77 on:** October 13, 2010, 07:41:37 PM »

£700 and counting folks - superb stuff

oojason · « **Reply #78 on:** October 13, 2010, 07:41:42 PM »

a tenner in, and another shirt bought earlier this arvo

Red_Isle_Chap · « **Reply #79 on:** October 13, 2010, 07:50:32 PM »

Well in everyone who's donating. Try and keep this thread at the top of the page for as long as we can.

Hey Roy, you'll have to get a big cardboard cheque made up and have a photo presenting it to Jonny and post it up on here!!