On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 02:34:44PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >Steve McIntyre dijo [Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 09:35:48AM -0500]: >> * 400 Ts >> * 2-colour front print (castle design) >> * 1-colour back print (sponsor logos) > >Ok, so short summary: We can get _substantially_ better prices - but >there are points to take care of. > >We can print basically the same kind of shirts Steve proposes, for >substantially less money - Around GBP2056 (MX$45,000) for the whole >lot - 400 T-shirts, two colors in the front, one color in the >back. The shirt quality is like the shirts we printed for DC6 - 190 >gram per square meter.
Hmmm. You're quoting GBP 2,056 against GBP 2,256. Unfortunately, if you bring in a very large number of Ts you're probably going to get hit with import duty and taxes too. That would add quite an extra lump to the cost. >Now, there _is_ a problem: Yes, I've lugged big bags of shirts to >Helsinki, and am willing to do the same to Edinburgh - but my allowed >baggage will not be enough. I estimate 400 Tshirts to be not less than >80 Kg - I can ask other people coming from Mexico to lug part of this. > >Gaby is currently checking on whether we could ship the shirts without >us carrying it over the ocean as baggage. It would surely eat up a >good portion of the savings, and adds a factor of uncertainity, but >it's worth looking into. Yup, that too. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
