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| TwinsBobbleheads.com founder Richard (Photo May 2008) |
TwinsBobbleheads.com co-founder Jeremy eating up the profits! |
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View of the field at
Miller Park, Milwaukee |
Big screen at U.S. Cellular Field,
Chicago |
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These are pictures from trips we took to see the Twins play in Milwaukee, Chicago and Kansas City. These trips were partially financed by TwinsBobbleheads.com profits. Thanks to all of our great customers for your continued support of TwinsBobbleheads.com! |
View of the
fountains at Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City |
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About Us
We love our Minnesota Twins and have been season ticket holders for several years now. However, we are not collectors of Twins merchandise, so we originally sold our stadium giveaways on e-bay. While e-bay is a great place to buy and sell, we thought we could do a better job of displaying and describing our items on our own web site. We try to keep our prices comparable to e-bay (including the shipping you have to pay on e-bay), and you don't have to wait 3 or 7 or 10 days to see if you have won the bid. We think these pluses to our customers make the work of running our own web site well worth it.
The idea for TwinsBobbleheads.com was mine (Richard), but my son-in-law Jeremy enthusiastically endorsed the idea. We thought about several names for our site, but most good names are already taken, so we finally settled on TwinsBobbleheads.com. I designed and built the site including all of the photography (except for the Gallery page), and Jeremy and I, and sometimes other members of the family, attend games to get the items you see listed on our site. Our goal whether selling on e-bay or our own site is to make enough money to buy two cheap seat season tickets for the following season. Thanks to all our great customers, we have succeeded in doing that for several years now. Thank you from Richard and Jeremy, TwinsBobbleheads.com!
We believe our items are priced fairly. Our prices are usually comparable to the low to medium bids on e-bay. Please remember all of our prices include shipping. While it may at first appear that we are making a huge profit on the items we sell, especially since we get them for free as stadium giveaways, that is not really the case. Here is an example of an actual sale on TwinsBobbleheads.com. This example assumes we get 2 bobbleheads as SGAs. If we get less, the profit is less because the cost of gas and parking remain a constant. If we get more the profit is also less because we have to buy more tickets at $8-11 each. The chart below also does not take into account the 45 minutes to 1 hour of our time standing in line to get the item.
| Sale price of Puckett Bobblehead | $33.80 |
| Postage | $4.80 |
| Pay Pal Fee | $1.34 |
| Season Ticket Cost | $3.08 (per bobblehead) |
| Parking | $2.50 (per bobblehead) |
| Gas | $1.50 (per bobblehead) |
| Profit | $20.58 |
So as you can see, it cost us $13.22 to obtain and ship this bobblehead, and this sale was before the increase in postage rates. The profit was $20.58, which we are happy with.
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