Full Version: Small sports trophies
From: logojohn [#4]
12 Mar 2006
To: Mike (SPACE_ENGRAVERS) [#1] 12 Mar 2006
There is always someone on line or locally willing to do them cheap so you will not be able to make the markup you can on acrylics, plaques and other items.
You can still at least double your cost and sell them competively most of the time.
If you are doing the work yourself, you have to decide if is worth the time
on a small margin product as opposed to developing more profitable things.
But sometimes the low margin products may attract people who will buy other things from you.
The resin trophies are a quick and easy way to offer trophies without
doing assembly or making columns. Just add a plate.
We do enough column trophies that there are full time assemblers so the owner isn't wasting time on them and they help even out the slow times.
We have always used pdu bases and figures and haven't switched to lower cost suppliers like JDS since they have a qood selection and offer silver figures which many people buy.
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From: Mike (SPACE_ENGRAVERS) [#5]
12 Mar 2006
To: logojohn [#4] 12 Mar 2006
From: logojohn [#6]
12 Mar 2006
To: Mike (SPACE_ENGRAVERS) [#5] 12 Mar 2006
JDS and Freeman Products also have some.
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From: Cody (BOBTNAILER) [#7]
12 Mar 2006
To: Mike (SPACE_ENGRAVERS) [#5] 13 Mar 2006
Mike,
JDS also carries the new Insta-Trophy. These are mostly pre-assembled...all you do is add the snap-in figure.
Depending on the size, you can buy these between about $2.25 to $4.00 each.
They're on pages 121 & 122 of the new JDS catalog.
We didn't want to get into the trophy side of the business, either. However, it turned out that several of my customers wanted to buy all of their stuff at one shop (including their trophies), and I wanted ALL of their business. So...we started doing trophies.
We don't do a big volume of them, but enough to justify buying case lots of what we need.
Cody
From: basehorawards [#8]
13 Mar 2006
To: Mike (SPACE_ENGRAVERS) [#5] 13 Mar 2006
Continental