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submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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[–] 56 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Not even Google ever printed 20k tshirts to give away for free.

Thats demonstrably false. I used to work for a merch company on the Google account and 20k custom printed Google t-shirts to give away at some event is a once every one or two months kind of order.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Ok but did they spin up their own shirt printing company in another country using one third of their investment money to print them or did they just pay a shirt printing service that already existed at a bulk discount rate?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Exactly. Even Google, who have piles and piles of cash just sitting around and could easily afford it, don’t move into the printing business to save a few bucks. They just contract some company who offer that kind of thing as a service to arrange it for them. The company I worked for don’t even print the t-shirts, they just arrange the printing via a range of companies who do offer such a service. Everyone in between takes a little cut and Google still get their t-shirts at like £5 each.

    Google love a t-shirt. Sold more t-shirts to Google than any other client by a mile and a half.

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