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a forum with bread wings: How breadpig made $30000 (for charity) in 2008 selling magnets with LOLspeak in our spare time

  • shafqat · 5 months ago
    Awesome, simply awesome. Can you talk more about your supplier and issues faced when getting the product made? Costs? This is fascinating.
  • kn0thing · 5 months ago
    see below
  • alexis · 5 months ago
    http://usmagnetix.com/

    They're going to be so pleased with the attention :) There was very little supplier issues to speak of. They had evidently made the original magnetic poetry and when I proposed the LOL-version, they just laid out what was required and we fulfilled it.

    Costs in high volume are pretty reasonable. That said, we sell them to ThinkGeek at a discount, so that they make a profit on the 19.99 sale. All in all, it's comparable to highquality t-shirt margins.

    All it took was a willingness to send a few emails and ask some stupid questions like "I want to make X, what will you need from me to do so?"
  • Hari · 5 months ago
    Who is your supplier and any lessons learned from dealing with them?
  • alexis · 5 months ago
    As for what we learned from dealing with USmagnetix, it's nothing but good lessons (that is, useless ones because they don't deal with adversity). They were incredibly patient and accommodating - and have been to this day.

    The overarching lesson is that although a lot of us are more comfortable creating digital things, there really isn't a huge barrier to creating [basic] tangible goods if you've got the capital and energy.
  • kn0thing · 5 months ago
    hm..
  • mike · 3 months ago
    Ooh, you're actually linking people to 4chan..?