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Best Way To Get Bulk T Shirts?

by Brando95
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I'm looking to buy 50-100 T shirts with my logo, website name and a small tagline to hand out to my family and friends to use as offline backlinks and build my brand name. What would you recommend to do this as cost effectively as possible while still having a quality shirt?
#bulk #shirts
  • Profile picture of the author unglued
    I got some really smokin' customer service and an excellent final product from customink.com. They very graciously helped me with design and layout questions by phone, and were more than fair with pricing. I'd do it again if the need ever arises.

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  • Profile picture of the author Brando95
    Wow they're definitely very affordable, 100 shirts would only cost me around 550 thank you for your recommendation
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    • Profile picture of the author savidge4
      for $550 you really might want to look at getting your own Vinyl cutter and producing the shirts for yourself. ( uscutters.com - look there and then look for them on ebay ) for a 28" cutter and a heat press you are in to about $350. the vinyl will set you back about $50.00 and then you can source the shirts. You can get shirts at a chain art store for like $2.00 each.

      The value in doing this is not the upfront cost, but the cost of the second run. PLUS you now have the ability to make car decals and banners and all kinds of stuff.

      My thinking is why SPEND money when you can INVEST that same money into something that can later MAKE you money!

      Hope that Helps!
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      • Profile picture of the author unglued
        @ savidge4-

        Y'know, I never would've thought to look at it that way, and had no idea a DIY setup was so (relatively) affordable. Seriously, thanks a bunch.

        Now you've got MY idea wheel spinnin'...

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        • Profile picture of the author savidge4
          Originally Posted by unglued View Post

          @ savidge4-

          Y'know, I never would've thought to look at it that way, and had no idea a DIY setup was so (relatively) affordable. Seriously, thanks a bunch.

          Now you've got MY idea wheel spinnin'...

          unglued
          It is really affordable. if you really are considering this option as a production type thing you may want to look into the 34" cutter. One of the products I produce is 4 to 5 inch round car decals. I promote them as fund raising items. I general will "Donate" the first 100 for free and then charge $2.50 for each after. my average order is usually 200 or so.

          You get into 30" rolls of material at $40 for 30 feet and you can produce 200 plus decals per roll you are banking $210.00 for a few hours at best of work.

          Labeling commercial truck windows at $100+ a crack, that's not to bad either. Banners at $4.00 a foot works nicely and yard signs at $8 1 sided $12 2 sided gets just silly!

          I can tell you that I have done a tone of research on where to get materials and USCutter hands down is the best route!

          Glad I could help!
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  • Profile picture of the author Brando95
    Thats a really good idea too. I could get one from amazon prime only 245 and 10 packs of shirts for 28 each. Custom ink is amazing its giving me so many more ideas. They have pens, water bottles, bags, bumper stickers, even mouse pads anything you can think of. I could spread .89 cent pens everywhere with an irresistible tagline and my website name then I can infest them everywhere in my niche like little backlinks. They should pay for themselves eventually since I only buy it once. I could even put the link on the pen to my squeeze page and have each one encouraging people to go signup to win something.
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  • Profile picture of the author SkyJarman
    When me and a good friend of mine were making our own tshirts, what we found best was too go threw google and contact each company and got quotes. Some companies sent us a free design of our shirt. We were ordering quite a few more then 100 shirts.. but with that being said, its not always a bad idea too see whats out there. Like i stated, We just emailed all the top distributors and asked them questions personally.
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