Pricing Applique for Baseball Uniforms

[Maggie21]

Hi All,

I am in the process of pricing out some baseball uniforms. Customer is interested in embroidering an applique team name (Marlins with tail) and numbers on back and front. I have a price (working on some more pricing) on what the letters and numbers will cost me but don't really know how much I should charge the customer. What is the most cost effective way to do this job? This is our first time doing this and from what I can see it's going to be a TON of work. Any suggestions from some of you pros out there, I would greatly appreciate any information that you experts can provide.

Thank You!!!!!!

Maggie

[signman]

grab your uniform supply catalog (all kinds of brand names out there) and see if you can buy the uniforms with the team names and numbers already done...and decide first, is it more cost effective for you to just order them predone...secondly, use their breakdown on cost of doing the applique as a guideline to figure your own sewing.
Remember, you have to figure in: applique price, shipping cost,
backing material, hooping time, trim time, uniform price, and shipping for the uniforms. Forget any of these and you start losing money. Typically the uniform catalogs all have a 50% dealer discount-so your cost of uniform is doubled to get sell price, so do the same on the applique and don't forget to add the shipping (divide by number of pieces) to the applique price-then how many can you do an hour- divide into $0 or $50 per hour (shop time) and see how that price compares to predone.
No sense in lowballing the order just to get it-if you can't make a profit-you won't be in business long no matter how many of these juicy orders you get.
Remember, all the schools are on the direct mailing lists for most of these suppliers-yes, a lot of them WILL sell direct but not for wholesale...so they will have an idea what they could order them on their own for.

[Maggie21]

Thank you Roland, I appreciate the advise and you are sooooo right everything needs to be factored in.

Any suggestions on Uniform Suppliers who can do all the work? I've been looking thru my catalogs and the suppliers I have do not provide the service of embroidering for me, only blanks.

Thank you again.
Maggie

[signman]

Just going through one stack of catalogs...here's two companies that offer customizing (embroidery).
TONIX www.tonixteams.com 800-841-1144

Team Apparel
(502) 636-5599
1547 S 7th St, #10, Louisville, KY 40208
I didn't find a website

There are lots of others out there but I haven't done any full team uniforms other than soccer and basketball and we heatsealed those in house (High Five line).
I'm sure you'll get more responses here with other companies that can supply you everything ready to go.
Roland