Sell T-Shirt Online in Malaysia?
Filed in: E-commerce Solution, Make Money Online, Malaysia — May 14th, 2005
Early this month, we read a report about Selling T-Shirts Is Big Business on Web. Aizuddin Danian also higlighted it in Making a fortune on the ‘Net. Will it works for Malaysian?
Darren has some tips on selling T-shirt on a blog(contributed by chris).
- Do not use Cafepress
- Be creative
- Find good printer*. Order in bulk to save cost.
- Don’t be afraid to set an aggressive price point.
*One that prints, not the one on your table.
Printing
I haven’t try Cafepress before, don’t know about the quality. It is free and easy to setup, you can start selling your very own shirt in few minutes. But, it is not cheap. Your reader need to pay USD$19(RM72.20) for a white tee. 
Personally, I think the reasonable price for online T-shirt is around RM25 to RM35. There are quite a number of Malaysia companies do custom T-shirt printing. However, they mostly print in bulk. The more you print, the cheaper is the cost. Therefore, unlike Cafepress, you need to know how many order first before you print.
Of course, you can print in small amount, but the cost is high. It will cost more than RM40 for single custom shirt, as far as I know.
Shipping
Beside printing, you will need to do the shipping(if not using Cafepress). According to POS Malaysia, here are the shipping rate within Malaysia (assume the package weight is 1KG)
- Normal mail(Parcel): RM2.50
- Pos Ekspres: RM7.00(box size: 340mm x 250mm x 25mm)
- PosLaju(Merchandise): RM10.50 to RM35 (Depends zones, refer the rate chart for detail)
Payment Method
I believe you don’t have a online payment gateway. The cheapest(Free!) and fastest payment method for Malaysian will be online banking. Major banks have the online banking services, you need to register separately though.
If you want to accept online credit card payment, you can register a online credit card payment processing service, like 2CheckOut and PayPal.
2Checkout is more for serious business. It cost one-time-fee USD$49 to setup. It has complete system to handle your sales. The rate is 5.5% commission plus a $0.45 charge on each total sale.
On the other hand, PayPal is free registeration. Cost per transaction is 2.9% + $0.30 USD. PayPal also provide some merchan tools. But, the major problem about PayPal for Malaysian and some other countries is that we CANNOT withdraw money from PayPal account. You need to find somebody to buy your PayPal money and bank into your local bank account. There are a few guys I know doing it at a <3.8 exchange rate.
Does it sell?
Technical problem of selling online T-shirt can be solved, the problem is how is your website readers response?
Big site like Project Petaling Street is getting less than 40 pre-order of Official PPS T-shirt.
Thought:
Will you buy a Tech Gadgets Blog T-shirt? I probably need to get someone to design the T-shirt if I gonna to sell it.
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May 14th, 2005 at 10:09 pm
‘Tech Gadgets Blog T-shirt’? How about the logo I’ve created for your site before? Can uh?
May 15th, 2005 at 2:28 am
@Chee Aun: the logo you designed is nice. For t-shirt that sells, I think the design need to be unique and do not advertise for the website. This is not free t-shirt that used for advertising.
Some geek or tech design is nice.
June 7th, 2005 at 3:01 pm
Check out this tshirt company
http://www.bizandry.com
got showroom in times square kl
and can send via courier.
price not bad and kewl design & service.
Bye.
November 12th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Hi,
Do you know any good t-shirt printing company in malaysia?
November 13th, 2006 at 1:21 am
@pling: how “good” is good?
March 26th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
do u know any tshirt manufacturers? preferably someone who has low minimum orders (
April 6th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
you can try blincblinc.com or hahamall.com.my
May 3rd, 2007 at 4:42 pm
got a question will it be okay to sell a t-shirt with graphic of logo of some movies/shows?
example a t-shirt with spierman’s spider logo on it??
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
@binderZ: I think we cannot print copyrighted logo on t-shirt.
June 3rd, 2007 at 2:40 pm
[...] across an interesting article about setting up your online custom t-shirt printing business over at LiewCF Sell Blog T shirt in Malaysia which dated back to 2005. Pretty old but interesting [...]
April 20th, 2008 at 5:24 am
I dont think doing in bulk is a good idea - it will make the seller invest in something uncertain. Another problem - that is sizing. That can leave one with a lot of stock.
If can find a custom t-shirt manufacturer, that will be better. Work with that manufacturer closely.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:35 am
i’ve done this before and sell it for only RM25, i ve got a very good response but the it is very hard to get the good quality t shirt in malaysia……