Fountain Apparel
03-07-2007 | 10:52 AM
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From: FLORIDUH
Go buy one of those towels from Fat towels, and see what they charge you. You'd be surprised. My buddy is a distributor for Fat towels, and I know what they cost.
Then go and have it embroydered and see what they charge you for all those stich counts. My sister in law does embroydering, she told me that with all the stitch counts in those towels, they would have to charge at least $20 to do it.
So if you add the "cost" of the towel ($75), then take it to be embroydered, another $20 or so, how much do you have in it??? Plus your time and travel??? I'm sure Fountain don't pay that much, but remember they do these by the thousands, so I'm sure they get a quantity discount. No matter how you look at it, they're selling them to make money, if they did'nt, they would'nt sell them.
Did anyone ever price a Cigarette shirt??? You could buy 3 or 4 Fountain shirts for what you'll pay for a Cig shirt. Now that's a rip off IMO. Go price one of them and let's see how many of you guys complaining about the Fountain appareal would pay those ridiculous prices for the same kind of shirt if it had a Fountain logo on it. Don't cost any more money to put a Cig loco and word on it, than a Fountain logo and word. Remember, it's all in the stich count.
Then go and have it embroydered and see what they charge you for all those stich counts. My sister in law does embroydering, she told me that with all the stitch counts in those towels, they would have to charge at least $20 to do it.
So if you add the "cost" of the towel ($75), then take it to be embroydered, another $20 or so, how much do you have in it??? Plus your time and travel??? I'm sure Fountain don't pay that much, but remember they do these by the thousands, so I'm sure they get a quantity discount. No matter how you look at it, they're selling them to make money, if they did'nt, they would'nt sell them.
Did anyone ever price a Cigarette shirt??? You could buy 3 or 4 Fountain shirts for what you'll pay for a Cig shirt. Now that's a rip off IMO. Go price one of them and let's see how many of you guys complaining about the Fountain appareal would pay those ridiculous prices for the same kind of shirt if it had a Fountain logo on it. Don't cost any more money to put a Cig loco and word on it, than a Fountain logo and word. Remember, it's all in the stich count.
03-07-2007 | 01:09 PM
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03-07-2007 | 01:30 PM
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I bought a sweat shirt at the local grocery store for 2. buks.
Has a local high school team on it. One of my favorite ones to wear. Fits perfect, lightweight and if I get grease on it, who cares! Dog bites me sometimes when I'm drunk so there are a few holes in the right sleeve.
Has a local high school team on it. One of my favorite ones to wear. Fits perfect, lightweight and if I get grease on it, who cares! Dog bites me sometimes when I'm drunk so there are a few holes in the right sleeve.
03-08-2007 | 09:51 PM
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I don't know what you wear when it's hot outside, but you'll never catch me in anything other than a t-shirt. Make that a V-neck shirt. And since no one makes them with ant kind of monograming on them, I have them made up for myself.
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03-10-2007 | 12:06 PM
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You forgot to mention the biggest reason. Because there's always a certain group of people that will pay overpriced prices for anything. I'll bet ya if everyone refused to pay those ridiculous prices that Cig charges, and just walked past, you'd see them drop their pricing faster than $hit through a tin horn.
I don't know what you wear when it's hot outside, but you'll never catch me in anything other than a t-shirt. Make that a V-neck shirt. And since no one makes them with ant kind of monograming on them, I have them made up for myself.
I don't know what you wear when it's hot outside, but you'll never catch me in anything other than a t-shirt. Make that a V-neck shirt. And since no one makes them with ant kind of monograming on them, I have them made up for myself.
