Tee shirt question (IMPORTANT)

JCP1023 · #1 08-07-2006, 11:04 AM

I'm a theta and attempting to order tee shirts in bulk to hand out to freshmen during orientation. I am having trouble finding a web site that will be cheap enough to order many tee shirts within our budget. Any ideas?

Thanks!

AlphaFrog · #2 08-07-2006, 11:06 AM

Wouldn't that be a MAJOR rush infraction??

Drolefille · #3 08-07-2006, 11:17 AM

Maybe she's not doing it FOR theta? Can't help you on the website. I think you'd do better buying the shirts and taking them someplace local at this point. Unless you have more time for rush than I thought.

Do a search for online greek stores on the forums

JCP1023 · #4 08-07-2006, 11:22 AM

I'm attempting to do it by the end of the summer...

kddani · #5 08-07-2006, 11:22 AM

You're really pushing it, time-wise. It's already August 7th. I would strongly advise you to try somewhere local.

JCP1023 · #6 08-07-2006, 11:24 AM

No its not a rush infraction because it is for a theta / greek council sponsored event during orientation.

JCP1023 · #7 08-07-2006, 11:26 AM

Forget when i need it by, (perhaps I could call to allow for a rush order.) Any thoughts on where to go besides the typical Greekgear.com, Greek101.com, Customink.com etc... ?

tunatartare · #8 08-07-2006, 11:26 AM

If it's during orientation, see if you can get the school/campus life/first year students office to pay for it. I agree with kddani, you're definitely late in ordering shirts, especially considering that places are busy making recruitment/bid day shirts now. Your best bet is to find a place that's close to your school that you can go to order them and pick them up from in person so that it at least cuts down on shipping time.

kddani · #9 08-07-2006, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by JCP1023

Forget when i need it by, (perhaps I could call to allow for a rush order.) Any thoughts on where to go besides the typical Greekgear.com, Greek101.com, Customink.com etc... ?

Do you have an unlimited budget? None of those places are cheap, and will be ridiculously more expensive for a rush order.

Local will be cheaper and no hassles involving shipping.

AlphaFrog · #10 08-07-2006, 11:30 AM

amazon.com you can get a white Hanes t-shirt for $3.50 and then find a local place to screen print.

(Or there's always puffy paint)

tunatartare · #11 08-07-2006, 11:32 AM

Another option would be to see if your school bookstore could give you a bulk quantity discount on t shirts that have your school name on them and then to take them to a place and have a small logo or saying screenprinted on them.

JCP1023 · #12 08-07-2006, 11:36 AM

I guess I didn't realize how late I am... Now I'm getting worried about Theta Rush. Rush is in the spring for us... when should i start looking into ordering?

tunatartare · #13 08-07-2006, 11:38 AM

Depending on if you have a lot of girls in your chapter or not, I would finalize a design by mid to late October and put it in then. This gives enough time for the place to make the screenprint, you to approve the design, and for them to make the shirts, before you go on winter break. You don't want to come back from break with only a few weeks before recruitment starts to find out that they printed your shirts wrong and wrote Thea on them instead of Theta or something like that and you don't have enough time to get them fixed.

JCP1023 · #14 08-07-2006, 11:40 AM

Do chapters typically order from online vendors or local vendors? My chapter has always ordered from greekgear.com or customink.com but are we being totally overcharged?

tunatartare · #15 08-07-2006, 11:42 AM

If you order anything from greekgear.com, yea you're being overcharged. My personal preference is to order from a local vendor that way you can go there and see the design in person. Also, you can pick it up in person, which saves time and money on shipping costs.