: I have seen the silicone bracelets as well as the magnets on people's cars lately and thought about the IJA selling them. The bottom line is that we probably won't make much or any money on them, but it would raise awareness of juggling and that's a good thing. In the long run it might bring us more members and that makes it worthwhile. : As Don mentioned, our problem is storage, shipping and labor. It costs us a minimum of $3 to ship and handle any item. That makes your $1 bracelet at least $4 in cost to us. If we could sell them for $5 or more, they'd be ok. I disagree that for $5 they would be OK, unless we could actually sell thousands of them, which I seriously doubt. If we sold 200 of them at $5 each, that would be about a $200 profit -- less any setup charge for making them. Each sale would require 5 or 10 minutes of someone's time to process and ship. Let's say only 6 minutes or 1/10 of an hour each, though that's probably low. Multiply times 200 items and you get 20 hours of labor for the IJA to make maybe $200. That's $10/hr, a bit above minimum wage. So the IJA would have a few extra dollars, and some volunteer(s) would have done a lot of work. $200 isn't going to make a lot of difference to the IJA. And we're not going to go into business selling 100 different items like this in order to make $20,000. I don't think we should be in the trinket business. The former staff tried this at times, selling IJA pins, watches, ties, etc. No one knows the sales figures for those items, but most of them sat in inventory for years, and I bet they didn't help the IJA's bottom line significantly nor did they increase the number of jugglers or members. There might be a popular item from time to time, such as the Mickey Mouse juggling tie. But unless you do some marketing research or have great intuition about what will sell, it's a gamble to sell an item like this. And even if you winthe gamble with the bracelet, I argue that the winnings will be paltry for the work involved. (The Rastelli watch was not a big seller and ended up mostly being given away to volunteers, which was nice. I imagine it lost money. I got one as a volunteer and still have it, but I don't have any idea were it is, so other than having a potential collectible item, I didn't really get any value out of it except the knowledge that my work was appreciated, which is why we give gifts to volunteers each year.) Martin