what happened to the whole verve contract/sponsership/giveusfree****/deal thing that we had going on with them. besides that random case we got to try it all out, we aint seen jack. did it fall through, or does it start next year, or are we all going to get like 4 cases a piece soon??
ryan
until this gets solved, im still drinking 3 rockstars a day.
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Glad you ask. They seemed to have a problem producing a contract that actually said how much product they would give the team. Everytime I ask for a contract to give to the university, they would give me a contract that only stated what we would give to Verve. The lawyer for LU would never give his okay, and after several trys I quit asking Verve.
Bottomline, the deal smelled funny. It sounded to good to be true and then they had problems putting it in writing. Verve is in everything right now. I would never say anything bad about them (especially in a public forum], but lets see how this "promotion" works out down the road for those involved.
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interesting. I'm not going to claim to have any idea what kind of deal you all may have been working, but I do know I tried to deal with them also. I am the pricing coordinator for a company that owns a bunch of gas stations. Hearing they sponsor bowling, I figured I would see about putting it in our stores. The guy I talked to got all kinds of excited, sent me samples amazingly fast, even hinted at sponsorship (hahaha, he obviously had no idea just how "good" I am). Anyway, once specifics came, minimum order was 144 cases at $60 a case, product was not guaranteed and it doesn't exactly have long shelf life time, and they said I couldn't sell it for under $3.00 a can. Now who in rural Missouri and in this economy would pay $3+ (at that cost, I'd have had to price them at $3.49) for the same size thing sitting next to a $2.19 Red Bull? And yes, its healthier, but my customer demographic wouldn't care in the slightest about that.
I wish them all the best, as I would any sponsor of bowling, but its a different kind of company. My suspicion is they're going to want you to go sell it in order for whatever sponsorship they may kick back to you.
**feel free to remove this post if anyone feels it may be seen and negatively affect your prospective deal.
