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    • November 17, 2017 at 1:15 pm #240910
      Harry Lake avatarHarry Lake
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      With Christmas approaching, and with it the news of all sorts of CAS goodies, why can’t I find a CAS tie on the menu? Surely there must be other CAS oldies who still wear ties? Gavin, we demand, could we have an answer please?

      Harry Lake

    • November 19, 2017 at 11:23 am #241390
      Gavin Pretor-Pinney avatarGavin Pretor-Pinney
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      Harry,

      Thanks for this suggestion. It is a nice idea. Our only hesitation is with the economics. You have to get a lot of ties produced to make the economical, and I don’t know if there are going to be quite enough tie-wearing members to want to buy them. Maybe we should do a survey in a newsletter…

      Thanks for suggesting it!

    • November 19, 2017 at 8:55 pm #241465
      Agnes Peignen avatarAgnes Peignen
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      In the meantime, you can buy a nice cloud tue on eBay (sorry I only have the french link) https://www.ebay.fr/i/112605751034?chn=ps&dispItem=1

       

      • November 19, 2017 at 11:38 pm #241496
        Harry Lake avatarHarry Lake
        Participant

        A very nice tie indeed – thank you Agnes. I’ve now tracked this down:

        https://www.ebay.nl/sch/m.html?_odkw=&_ssn=ties-by-frederick-thomas&hash=item1a37d4b3d6%3Ag%3AsJwAAOSws6ZZ5gA9&item=112605836246&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=clouds&_sacat=0

        It seems curiously difficult to find out how to contact an eBay seller directly, but after reading this – ‘We have a huge range of ties suitable for all formal occasions, weddings, office wear etc and also can create custom ranges of ties for schools, football teams, rugby teams etc.’ – on their eBay webpage I have contacted Frederick Thomas asking for information, in particular re minimum numbers, qualities (silk, polyester etc.) etc. Please note I have not mentioned the CAS or indeed any other club, society etc. I am myself interested in having a small number of ties made. In the case of the CAS, and if purely for purposes of argument we assume CAS membership is half women and half men, and if we then for convenience’ sake assume that ten per cent of the men sometimes wear ties, on the basis of 43708 members (the current figure according to the home page), if we round that down to 40k, I calculate 10% of 20k men is 2k men. If we halve that to be on the ‘safe’ side, we have a thousand potential buyers. Surely an initial order for five hundred would be an achievable trial run? OK, a hundred then? Maybe a subscription system would be an idea. I’m on a watch collectors forum that has a new watch made every year on that basis, following a consultation on possible designs.

        Sorry to go on so long…

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