I think I remember a previous post about this fundraiser. I don't know if it was yours or not.
In the other post, my answer reflects the same as the majority here. I did some quick math on the numbers. We have 535 students:
number of families (note I am not buying the same set from my multiple children)364
about 30% participation: 192 families
profit @ $5/set: $960
Even if I double and say that each participating family sold 2 sets, I still haven't hit $2,000.
I agree with pals on this one. I would rather put my efforts into a fundraiser with more potential.
Catherine - I wish you well with your sales. Let usknow how it works out and if there is validity to our concerns.
I did a Human-I-Tees sales a few years ago. There were many who felt it wouldn't do well. Well, my "advertising" to the families must have paid off, because this fundraiser did very well for our group. We went with something else the next couple of years and they weren't able to even get 1/2 of what I had that year. Sometimes the excitement before can help!
The sample Christmas Tree magnet we recieved in the mail (unsolicited) is a doorprize at our Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast tomorrow. No, we are not interested in selling them.
We did get the info in the mail and I threw it right in the trash after i looked at it. I couldn't picture our school selling anywhere enough of these to be worth it. I mean if you really try to keep fundraising to a bare minimum your fundraisers have to be something that everyone can use one way or another and they also need to make the money. I am interesting on how they do for some schools...it seems like it would be fine for like a dance group or something that dosn't need alot of money like most parent groups do.
"When you stop learning you stop growing."
Well I think it is pure decoration. Like say grandma doesn't want to get on the roof and put up Christmas lights, all she has to do is slap magnets on the garage. I just think they are so very easy to assemble. No lights, no things to stick in the ground. I mean lights go out, and festive windsocks blow away, and lawn oraments weather through the whether. These magnets are guarenteed not to ever fade and because they are magnets, they don't blow away in the wind. Anywho...they are pure decoration, and for school spirit.
What I find with most fundraisers is that most people will not sell multiple sets. Most people who do participate will just buy one set and of course you never get 100% participation. The other factor with these magnets is that they are only valuable to someone who has something they can stick to outside their home. While I think they are cute, my garage doors and front door are wooden and a magnet would not stick to them so they would be moot point for me as I could not use them to decorate outside of my house with. I could not sell them to my child's grandparents either as they do not have anything outside their homes that they would stick to either. Listen, I hope you do great with them and make $10,000. I just don't think most schools could make anywhere near that kind of money as 2,000 magnets are a lot of magnets to sell.
