Hardline Media move into the Merch game.

Hi, this is Hardline Media sending you some information about merchandise for your band. Hardline Media is a touring and merchandising company based in Sydney that services all Australia and New Zealand. Originally started as a touring/promotions business we have now moved into merchandising as a main focal point for the business. Why?? Well being part of band management personally and then getting into the touring/promotion side of things, we found that to get decent merchandise manufactured proved to be very difficult. It is easy to ring any merchandise/t-shirt printing company and get a quote, but if your not in the "inner circle" amongst these businesses they will over charge you and give you zero customer service. Think about it, if a manufacturing plant/merchandiser has within a month, got a Pink, Metallica, Slayer, Missy Higgins, Powderfinger, Megadeth and Fleetwood Mac tour, with merch counts numbering in the tens of thousands, are they really going to care about a garage band from Wagga, a metal band from Melbourne, a year 10 school band from Adelaide or a garage band from Perth, who are all ordering only 50 shirts or 100 badges, the answer is no, you are ther last thing on their radar, and for this, you get charged a premium price, and zero customer service. As we were previously in this situation, this really annoyed us, so we decided to do something about it. And that is to offer bands from all genres, age groups and demographic, top customer service and top prices. We are here to fill this market that shoud be nurtered instead of ignored.

So if you are a band, you want some merch done, whether it be shirts, longsleeves, girly tops, or badges, stickers, bottle openers, or beach towels, shot glasses or g-strings, anything you want, we can get, and can beat the prices and give you the service.

We are musicians, we are fans, we are also business people that want to cater for this market, that being you. It can take years to save up $5 000 to $10 000 to do an album, but in the meantime you can get your name out there for a fraction of the price through merch, plus make money from selling it!!

If there is anything you may want, send us back an email of what you may be after. What kind of merch, quantities etc, and we can give you a price and you can shop around and take if it from there.

The last run of merch we did was the entire Australian and New Zealand tour for Paul Dianno, the ex singer of Iron Maiden, for him we did shirts, girly's, longsleeves, badges, stickers, beer coolers, even a backdrop if your after one, so if any of this interests you, please drop us a line and we can help you out

Also if you are a band or record label/distributor that needs help in distribution, please drop as a line as well, as we can help you out with distribution

cheers

The Hardline Media team

dougkillrazer@yahoo.com
 
I've contacted them a few times. I guess you'd say I'm wasting their time. Keep wanting to get merch for the band, then never having the money to actually invest in some, so it all dies... they are quick to respond though.