2014 Membership Packs

[stellation]

My guess is that it would cost the club considerably more to offer different options on caps than a single one. I'd rather than club spends every spare dollar on improving the team's performance than offering minor merchandising differences to members (on freebies).

A quick squiz at the online shop suggests there's about $10 difference between the retail cost of a flat versus a curved peak cap- $30 vs. $40. Default prices for merchandise from a footy club isn't normally cheap, so we can probably guess there's a standard 50% mark up applied- so you could argue $15 vs. $20 as cost to the club. Obviously getting 30 thousand odd caps all the same would be ludicrously cheap, but probably still costs -something- that's factored into the overall marketing equation. I don't think there'd be an issue with giving an option to, say, tick a box and pay an extra $20 for a different type of cap- and if there are people would prefer that sort of cap I assume they'd know they're more expensive and may be willing to do so.

I wouldn't get one, I don't really like them (I'm not a big fan of caps either way) but I don't see any harm in someone highlighting it to the membership department as a future consideration.

[liz]

Id be surprised if the wholesale costs of flat vs curved peaks is materially different. But I'm no cap manufacturing expert, so Ill defer to greater minds on that one.

Having two different options would be more expensive, rather than one being more expensive than the other.

[liz]

Id be surprised if the wholesale costs of flat vs curved peaks is materially different. But I'm no cap manufacturing expert, so Ill defer to greater minds on that one.

Having two different options would be more expensive, rather than one being more expensive than the other.

[Dosser]

I heard our cap was artificially peaked by the COLA

[swansrob]

Id be surprised if the wholesale costs of flat vs curved peaks is materially different. But I'm no cap manufacturing expert, so Ill defer to greater minds on that one.

A lot of it comes down to fabric. The New Era/59Fifty styles are, I believe, mainly a wool or wool blend. Wool is a hell of a lot more expensive than cotton (which itself is a lot more expensive than it was only a couple of years ago). The other option is an acrylic fabric, which is actually cheaper than cotton, but has similar characteristics to wool. Another factor is freight - flat peaked caps are more expensive to ship as they require larger cartons than curved peak, cotton caps.

Personally, I don't wear caps; but I prefer the cotton, curved peak version we're currently getting to flat peaks (and yes, I'm under 40).

[DamY]

I already pay for flat caps, wouldn't mind a members flat cap for an extra fee. But I guess that's what swanshop is for? I guess the bonus for the club is that if you catch them at membership renewal time, you cut out the temptation of buying from rebel or other suppliers $$$

[Doctor]

The 2014 cap is a ripper FWIW. Picked it up at the Intra game t'other day.

[DLBIA14]

Don't know if somebody can help me with this (called the membership office but I guess I was half an hour too late), but I'm trying to purchased upgraded seats for the Hawks game as a premiership club member. For some reason when I enter my barcode number on the ticketek site it tells me the numbers are invalid? It is a matter of something wrong with my membership or has some members only ticket allocation been exhausted? Cheers in advance.

[erica]

Are you putting in the barcode number? I made mistakes earlier in the year by putting in my membership number by mistake.

[Meg]

I used my Premiership Club entitlement some time ago but as I recall you need to manage it from your Swans online member account. Are you starting from there?

[DLBIA14]

Yeah tried my barcode number Erica to no avail. Thought I might of stuffed up the typing at first, but no that didn't seem to be the issue. I was under the impression Meg that if you were wanting general admission entry you'd use the member account manager, but if you were to purchase upgraded reserved ticketing you'd need to purchased them through ticketek? I'll check again! Maybe I got that confused.

Thanks a lot for the responses guys!

[DLBIA14]

Ah think I've figured it out! Seems you're right Meg. You do have to register for the game via the members account page and then purchase from ticketek once registered with the barcode from the print at home ticket. Feel like a dolt for missing that! Thanks guys.