No dates yet for ‘new shirts’

I had a £20 "freebie" that had expired but the shop still honoured it.

 

Obviously the club can put young fans darn and get away with it. Community club my arse, just another soundbyte to pillock the masses.

 

Yes I do think they will sell the same amount regardless of when it comes out.

 

On what basis do you come to that conclusion? I personally would have bought one as a gift but now I won't buy any

 

To take the voucher off your lad and bin it surely can't be allowed to happen, it's your money in the form of a voucher and that cannot expire after 6 months and be taken from you without you getting goods for the value of the card. I'm fuming and like you I'm s positive poster but that can't be allowed to happen. The club need to look in to this even if it is 2 years ago.

 

Most people still to go on holidays, birthdays, Christmas, season starting so people buy them, kids going to games and pressure from them to fit in. Kits are both quite smart so will be popular especially the away shirt.

Fact that shirt years ago was only revealed when they ran out on first game and still sold.

 

Still sold but in the quantity that it does now? I'm surprised you can't understand that missing fathers day means missing sales.

People still go on holiday but SOME have already been so SOME sales have been lost.
I bet sales at Christmas are actually quite low. I've been a season ticket holder since I was a kid and not once did I get a shirt for Christmas because by that point it was halfway through the season and freezing.

Its not hard to understand is it? Miss key selling points and you won't sell as many

 

One question! When has our away shirt been launched over the last few years? Has it stopped it from selling?
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Its stopped me from purchasing it yes. If its on sale I buy the home shirt as a gift, if it isn't I go to Meadowhall. So yes it has stopped it from selling

 

I quite often get given vouchers for various stores, or I exchange my survey points for them. All vouchers tend to last for 12 months and then if you do a balance check/spend any of it/top it up it resets to another 12 months.

 

I don't think it's so pertinent when the shirts are worn all year round. Yes key milestones means that's often when they will be bought, but if folk like them, people will still buy them, just at a different milestone/key date.

It doesn't make it right, and I agree the club will have missed out on revenue at the time but I'd be amazed if that many won't buy them now that Father's day has been and gone

 

For you yes but still bought in large numbers from what I can seen.

Ps the hard to understand bit you've put on replies to me comes across as really patronising. Sounds like you're trying to make me sound thick ... I'm not by the way - just have a different point of view to you!

 

That's my point exactly!

 

You are a teacher aren't you? I certainly don't consider you to be thick.
I meant it more that your loyalty to the club blinds you to what I think you would see if it was somebody else but I don't think you are thick at all (apart from the Liverpool bit obviously)

 

It comes across as very patronising!

Doesn't blind me at all just seen it how it works for a little bit longer than you have to be fair which gives me the right to offer an opinion

 

I'm not so sure. Kits have an expiry date where they stop being cool so hitting the early key dates is essential. Christmas is a key date but at that point everyone knows the shirt only has a few months left so I expect gift sales then are lower than we imagine them to be although still as you say a key date.
Other than Christmas I can see really five occasions when shirts would be bought (other than simply general walk in sales)
1. Fathers day
2. For summer holidays
3. Start of the season
4. Birthdays
5. Open day

We have already missed one of those key dates which is one of the biggest because when you're looking for a gift for a Barnsley fan dad one of the go to gifts is a shirt.
We have missed quite a lot of the holiday trade though some of that obviously still exists.
We look set to miss the open day otherwise they would have said shirts will be on sale then. That is a day where they have a large number of customers coming to them and no shirts to sell.
Start of the season in just a week looks like it may be missed
And birthdays are scattered throughout the season but I imagine birthdays in June to October would be the ones most likely to get a shirt, we will have kissed out on some sales for that but obviously not all.

The only reason it would not impact on sales IMO is when the club has woefully understocked anyway and so sold out otherwise missing key dates can't have any impact other than to reduce sales

 

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