Custom Tees and Bulkthreads.com | Questions and Answers

Hello Bulkthreads family,

Happy fall! With the turning of the leaves comes cooler weather, high school football, outings with friends and family, and a whole slew of upcoming events.

Which means custom tees in preparation for school plays and Thanksgiving or Christmas reunions. It means orchestra jackets for the local school and vacation t-shirts for January getaways. For most prints, Sept-Dec is the busy season. 

So. Let's talk pricing. More specifically, what's the deal with bulkthreads.com's pricing on custom tees, custom hats, DTF, and embroidery? 

Frequently Asked Questions

Why don't you publish your prices? 

A lot of our competitors allow clients to pay for a custom job through an add-to-cart function.

We don't.

If the function works well, that's great, but in our experience most custom jobs aren't as simple as the software assumes it is. 

Suppose a client uses a 1-color image but wants to add a different color--the software doesn't account for that, and after paying for a 1-color price the client may feel a little "bait-and-switched" when the company has to follow up with an additional PO. At the very least it's just easier to get all the details up front by communicating with the client about the entire job before any hits the "add to cart" button. 

Our promise to you: our prices don't change (except every other year with inflation). What we mean by this is, we don't bid different prices based on whim or financial need from week to week. If you pay 1.99 per print one week, you're going to pay that same price in two weeks or two months. So many of our repeat clients know exactly what they're going to pay as they repeat jobs. 

Again, if you want a bid, reach out to us here!

Why are your prices lower than my local company? 

This is an interesting one, and one we're starting to hear more and more. In fact, we've even lost a few bids because our pricing seemed a bit "too good to be true." If something seems too good to be true, it usually is, and in this case, that means the company must be cutting corners on quality, right? 

Not with us. 

Keep in mind that you can get your custom apparel from many different sources: print shops, a hobbyist in their basement, a promotional products company, a marketing company, and a manufacturer. 

Promotional products companies and marketers are often photographers, graphic designers, and sales folks who help you promote your brand but outsource the actual printing to a local print company. Which means you're not paying wholesale with them--you're paying middle-man markup. 

With us, you are paying wholesale. You're paying print shop pricing because that's who we are. 

So no, you aren't getting lower quality when you print with bulkthreads.com--you're actually getting higher quality at lower, non-promotional products company pricing. 

Like any good print shop we use underlays, the latest printing tec, specialty inks, good screens, and all the rest. You're simply avoiding the extra cost of paying the sales guy. 

Give us a try--we know you'll love our quality. And if something's off, we'll make it right. 

Get in touch today!

Team BT