Please Let Us Bundle a Poster & Shirt with 10C Tickets

smile6680

It's been requested for years. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it will ever happen. I don't bother with merchandise lines anymore. If they have stuff after the show or if it's put up online, then I get something. 

demetrios

The problem TSURT had was short staff. Nobody wants to work these days. I do hope 10club management can fix that for next tour. Offer up show poster / shirt / sticker / button combos for those who have tickets to the show. 

kosteva2

It was nice during the ‘09 Spectrum run when they let you preorder/ship posters.

i know people generally line up for the show specific merch but seeing long lines kind of turns off some from buying the “regular” tour merch.  Lines at MSG inside venue might’ve been longest lines I’ve seen for any band anywhere.  My friend and I walked around concourse debating lining up to grab shirt/hoody.  Ultimately didn’t feel like it was worth the wait (in addition to the sticker price) and didn’t bother buying any

jefft

demetrios said:

The problem TSURT had was short staff. Nobody wants to work these days. I do hope 10club management can fix that for next tour. Offer up show poster / shirt / sticker / button combos for those who have tickets to the show. 

They should fire tsurt.  Hire someone else who puts out quality stuff.

cincybearcat

elvistheking44 said:

How many of those people in line, that didn’t get the poster or city specific items they wanted walked away without buying anything at all? Zero. Now ask yourself, if those items weren’t available at the shows because of a presale how much of that other merchandise would be sold?  

You could always package it all together, shirt, poster, sticker, pins and whatever and raise the cost.

id rather pay $100 for the poster alone than wait in those lines 

HailHailVitalogy

Yes. But realistically it could be a nightmare for their website, and trying to do it for only ticket holders could be tough if it’s through the 10c site. Through Ticketmaster there could be another page to check which merch you wanted, but fuck TM

demetrios

cincybearcat said:

elvistheking44 said:

How many of those people in line, that didn’t get the poster or city specific items they wanted walked away without buying anything at all? Zero. Now ask yourself, if those items weren’t available at the shows because of a presale how much of that other merchandise would be sold?  

You could always package it all together, shirt, poster, sticker, pins and whatever and raise the cost.

id rather pay $100 for the poster alone than wait in those lines 

Like so .. 

https://shop.pearljam.com/collections/featured/products/2022-pearl-jam-sacramento-show-bundle

I bought both cancelled Sacramento & Las Vegas bundles. The shipping boxes were fantastic. And I didn't have to pay any custom fees. 

This can be done for their next tour. They just need someone at 10Club / TSURT that can make this possible. 

drakeheuer14

I just want them to bring some fun creativity back. Everything besides the stickers and posters (questionable) are very boring & reserved lately. 

CROJAM95

drakeheuer14 said:

I just want them to bring some fun creativity back. Everything besides the stickers and posters (questionable) are very boring & reserved lately. 

Cookie cutter is the word that pops in my head. It’s like they chose a model for the shirts years ago & just rolled with it

problem is… it’s not a good model

riot act era Tees were cool & prior

Get_Right

The current model works for them.  Fixed amount of inventory probably makes it easier to manage and sell with less financial risk. With pre-orders the business model changes from sales to order fulfillment. 

Tim Simmons

Chrrie said:

Dave Matthews Band sends an email the day of to everyone in the fan club who has tickets for that show to buy a poster, event shirt, or poster + shirt bundle that will be shipped a week later. They still have early outdoor merch and it’s still packed with people who want more than what’s offered online. It’s a great model, and one I wish PJ would consider. 

DMB literally built one of the largest concert merch companies in the world (Musictoday) they have the infrastructure to do that. PJ has a warehouse with a handful of employees. People get pissed when it takes a couple of weeks to get records shipped. The amount of conniption fits that would happen to send out posters/tees and stickers for a 20 date tour would be staggering. 

the current system may not be working for fans and that sucks, but it works for the 10c and the band and it doesn't seem to be harming demand for anything PJ.

Sarava

Think of the Las Vegas or Sacramento bundles they sold us due to the cancelled shows. Imagine poor Santos having to do 8,000 of those bundles for every show. It just doesn't seem realistic. 

And honestly, they probably would be concerned that demand would wane due to easy availability. People tend to want things more when they feel like it's a scarce item.

Sarava

But speaking of show shirts. While the quality of shirts seems a little less (thin shirts), the designs are knocking it out of the park on this tour. Was it 2016 when we had those awful 4 eye shirts? Yuck! Now they're 2 sided and for the most part, great designs for most shows.

Hankj25

Should be pretty easy to do a 10C drop where you get a code after your show to order a poster and show shirt at retail price.  

jdopj

I agree. Let us pre-order the shirt/poster

Kevinman

They’ve done it before(poster), and it was great.  If it’s(presale) for Fan Club only, I don’t think they lose any business as far as merch goes.  If anything they might have a better idea of how many posters to print.  I think last time they did it I had to commit to purchase blind, before seeing poster, and it was still worth it.  No poster to carry through the show.
Shirt/poster/ticket bundle would be awesome.

Hankj25

Even if my poster arrived 2-3 weeks after the show, I’d be fine with it.  The merch line wait times are complete BS.  Open up a second or third trailer, or simply allow this stuff to be sold to 10C members as part of the purchase of a ticket.  Again, I’ll pay for it, I don’t want it free or at a discount.  I also think for a band that hates scalping, they’d do what they could to keep the price of their collectibles down.  

apirk72

Lets be honest fans also don't want to keep the price of collectables down, people aren't buying multiples of everything because they want to hook people up, they want it to be valuable.

The pre ordering would be great from a fans perspective but would suck for the band so I don't know why they'd do it.  It would be way more work, they'd have to deal with complaints about posters(just read any poster thread), returns based on sizes becasue no one knows what size to get anymore because shirt sizes are all over the place.  It would be a mess for them.

OceansJenny

We don’t need more people signing up for 10c and lowering our odds for tickets so they can also get merch to flip. 

BSully

I think changing it up too much is too much to ask, just put all the merch inside for ticket holders only, then the next day open a merch tent for non-ticket holders to buy whatever is left.

Problem solved???