I don’t know how I missed this until now, but I found this link on Podcat about me and my dropping the term audioblog. The suggestion is to use “pog”, which I can’t say I like in this context. What I do like is the mocked up pog in the style of the doodads from the early 90’s. How much does it cost to get coasters made? That would be awesome. I like this design a lot and am highly flattered that someone would bother to do this. Thank you!
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for 10,000 is the cheapest (and the smallest minimum order) I could find after looking for about 10 minutes on the web. Doesn’t look like small runs are terribly profitable or at least the various manufacturers aren’t interested.
What am I doing actually looking up the answer to rhetorical questions, you might ask. I don’t know.
Wow, that’s about $640 more than I’d be willing to put into such a thing. I guess I’ll just look the the JPG and dream a little dream of watching my mint julep glass sweat frosty condensation into such a thing.
Hi, Dave:
You can’t argue that $.066 per unit is that much; the problem lies in having to buy a gazillion of ’em. I found a couple of smaller lots places, with an accompanying increase in per-unit cost:
http://www.cafepress.com makes promotional materials in small lots, but the closest thing they’ve got to pogs is a 2.25 inch round magnet. One is $1.25, 10 can be had for $10.00, and 100 fetch $75.00.
offers the full line of spiffy, heavy-duty barlike coasters, that can be purchased in lots as small as 500 units, at prices between $0.21 and $0.28 per unit. They’ve also got a line of “Wedding and event coasters”, minimum 1000 units at $0.09/unit. I thought these were a little bit tacky.
Finally, I have a son-in-law in LA who is a graphics designer; I’d be glad to forward the specs to him, and see what he could do with it.
My opinion is that any New Thing(tm) deserves the appropriate style and amount of swag.
-Ken-
Old guys don’t do HTML well:
http://www.absorbentprinting.com
offers the full line of spiffy, heavy-duty barlike coasters, that can be purchased in lots as small as 500 units, at prices between $0.21 and $0.28 per unit. They’ve also got a line of “Wedding and event coasters”, minimum 1000 units at $0.09/unit. I thought these were a little bit tacky.
Old guys don’t do HTML well:
http://www.absorbentprinting.com
offers the full line of spiffy, heavy-duty barlike coasters, that can be purchased in lots as small as 500 units, at prices between $0.21 and $0.28 per unit. They’ve also got a line of “Wedding and event coasters”, minimum 1000 units at $0.09/unit. I thought these were a little bit tacky.
I’ve decided then whenever I wish to reply to anyone’s blog post, that if the response exceeds a line or two, I’ll craft the response in an external editor, and paste that into the website form. This should eliminate the trail of dreck I posted up above. I’ve seen other people do the same thing, and thought “What a jackass”. I have met the jackass, and he is me.
-Ken-
Ken, I saw all of your comments come through fine. That’s cool that these could actually be feasible, if a pretty low priority in the scheme of things. I would like to get t-shirts though. Why not, I think? I just sent around a XMas list with an Achewood “Everybody Dance Like There’s Ass in your Pants” shirt on it. If I could have a shirt that cool, I’d be a happy man.