I have attended two conventions in the last year and neither had any Tees or golf style shirts with the convention logo or character on it. Is this something that most magi simple don't want? I personally like to get a shirt when I attend a special show or convention in another city and just wondered if others here are the forum are the same way. Or do you simple not like to "advertise" that you are a magician or have attended a magic convention?

I've never particularly understood that either. I haven't been to SCAM for a few years, but the last time I went we had t-shirts available. I'm fairly sure there are more magicians than rugby players in the US and I have yet to go to a rugby tournament (7's or 15's) that t-shirts weren't available.

Probably because we are so busy spending all our money on new magic tricks. Some have a pin you can buy, but ur right, seldom see things like T-shirts.

Greetings Guys;
maybe I can offer a reason why you do not see t-shirts at magic conventions.
I run a three day entertainers convention each year, magic, clowning, juggling, balloon sculpting, vent, a little bit of everything.
The first year that I started this, I had canvas bags printed up, high quality, first class job all the way. Everyone attending the convention was given one free (the cost was calculated into the expenses of the convention).
That left me with about 130 to sell. Since everyone loved the bags, I thought for sure that they would buy a second one for themselves, gifts, whatever. So I offered the bags at $5.00 each (that was 15 cents more than they cost to have printed) Guess how many sold?.......2.
In the following conventions, we used them as door prizes, and packed them with odds and ends for centerpieces, until all are gone, except for the 10 that I bought for myself and family.
Now how does this relate to t-shirts? Previously another convention that I attended had printed up t-shirts in large & extra large and offerred the shirts for $10 each (Their cost was $8.50) They sold 7. They also used them as door prizes and giveaways for early registrants until they were gone.
Now this is just my opinion, but I do not think that magicians are interested in t-shirts. Just about every convention that I have seen do shirts, sells almost none to maybe 5% of the print. It is exactly the opposite when I attend a Horror convention, the younger kids today grab the shirts up before they go to any other dealer in the main room. It may be that particular crowd, I do not know, but that is just my two cents for what it is worth.
All the Best
Marty

Good question...just personally, I rarely wear t-shirts and agreeing with photius, I'd rather spend my money on new magic tricks or lecture notes...now, it would be cool if a t-shirt were included with the registration, but I digress...

Photius: I think you may have hit the nail on the head... and you probably saved me a $1200 investment. I was thinking about being a vendor for a convention and was thinking to sell the shirts for $15-20. But you can get some new "magic" for that price and that is what the convention is all about.

Thanks everyone for your insight.

Magic-dabra

At the beginning of last summer I sent all of the T-shirts that I haven't worn for a couple of years to the goodwill, there were from 50 to 70 T-shirts with writing on them in that trash bag. I wear brightly colored T-shirts all the time, but not the ones with writing on them.

T-shirts used to be a very hot item, people would stand outside of rock concerts making a killing on T-shirts with logos on them, but THAT WAS 40 YEARS AGO.

I believe that a high quality Polo style short sleeve shirt with strong fabric + sharp logo of the convention sold at a high price will help a bit...

As for round neck t-shirt, I am sorry to say that participants of convention simply do not in a that age group to wear that ... base on body size, age and style... etc.