ToffeeWeb - Season 2007-08

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JJB/Everton

What's happening with JJB and Everton?? I took my Everton top to JJB to put a name and number on. They refused saying: 'we don't print names on Everton kits anymore and we don't stock Everton kits anymore'. But they still print names on all the other kits. Living in the North East it's hard to get hold of Everton merchandise. The only shop that used to do them up here have stopped. This is one area where the club is loosing out. I looked around in the shop they had plenty of Liverpool, Man Utd, Celtic, Rangers and few others hanging on the walls and plenty of it. I'm dissapointed to say the least. Wyness needs to improve the marketing side of things.
Shaka Islam, Newcastle Posted 16/08/2007 at 12:58:08

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Steve Claringbold
1 Posted 16/08/2007 at 15:04:02

I don’t know why they told you that, as far as I’m aware JJB still have a distribution contract with Everton.

Dave Sheedy
2 Posted 16/08/2007 at 15:14:37

JJB do still stock Everton and they do print on the shirts.If a store does not have any they can order one for you just ask the manager of the store. If you get no joy from the manager I would suggest letting JJB know as I’m sure they would be dissaponted that you didn’t get a shirt.

Tony Bell
3 Posted 16/08/2007 at 15:26:56

I wrote an article about JJB’s inability to sell Everton shirts last week.

I walked into a Chorley JJB Outlet last week and i had to ask the assistant where the Everton shirts were. There were less Everton shirts than Newcastle. Needless to say there were racks and racks of the so called "Big Four

They did however add a name and number (Yobo 4) to my new shirt for £5. Still i asked the manager why they weren’t in the front window or at least on the racks as you enter the shop, instead of stuffed away in the corner. He just shrugged and claimed he had no idea of JJB’s affiliation with Everton.

davegleaves
4 Posted 16/08/2007 at 15:27:04

Shaka

Same all over the world mate, EFC are missing out everywhere. I walked into a shop in Perth WA load of the usual Red shite everywhere along with Chelsea MU even West Ham and Citeh. I asked about an Everton shirt and they said Oh I can order it in what country is tht from ? says it all.

Kieran Doyle
5 Posted 16/08/2007 at 15:35:33

Right, we all need to raise Evertons profile round the world. Lets all starting wearing our Everton tops to work!

Roy coyne
6 Posted 16/08/2007 at 15:44:08

What we really need is people at the club that know all about marketing not the load of idiots doing the job(badly)now

pattazzuri
7 Posted 16/08/2007 at 15:37:32

Just to add to this thread I have been looking for a cotton t-shirt with perhaps some graffiti efc or other something on the it. I cannot wear polyester as I am allergic. Its just impossible to get anything suitable. When I ask the manager in our local Everton shop he just shrugs his shoulders and says thats the way things are. Have tried sending an e-mail to the Megastore but got no reply. I have since spent the money I had on other Items. I wonder how much money Everton are missing out on

Tom Emanuel
8 Posted 16/08/2007 at 15:53:53

It seems to be the case all over the place. I live in Oxford and we have about 3 JJB’s. I looked in all of them for some Everton gear and all I found was last years shirt in the sale section! Allthough I’m not a big fan of the fact we seem to bring out shirts every week, the whole point in doing it is so we can sell them. That can’t happen if we can’t find them!

Matt
9 Posted 16/08/2007 at 16:08:51

The selection of Everton shirts in the JJB @ the traford centre is a joke, they stock about 20. But they are tucked out of view from when you walk in, and about 15ft in the air so you have to ask a shop attendant to get one down for you.

Joe Rourke
10 Posted 16/08/2007 at 16:08:06

I tried to buy directly from the club megastore online a while back to ’cut out the middle man’ only to find it was going to cost me £15 (mailing costs for one jersey) for the privillage...I didn’t bother on that occasion...maybe someother time if I’m getting a few items it might make more financial sense...

Andy Callan
11 Posted 16/08/2007 at 16:22:57

If you ever need a lift the game lad, give me a shout. I live in North Shields - I have a season ticket.

David Barks
12 Posted 16/08/2007 at 16:31:16

My advice to you would be to call and write JJB instead of posting on toffeeweb. JJB is a business, not exactly in their financial interest to not provide things you want to pay for. Let them know what store this happened in, who the manager was, and ask them to let you know the result. I’m sure they would have something to say about a manager refusing to provide a service that you wanted to give their company money for.

Shaka
13 Posted 16/08/2007 at 16:46:42

Andy Callan i live South Shields. might give you shout some day if i can find the time to go down.

N Todd
14 Posted 16/08/2007 at 16:48:29

May I suggest making Everton FC aware of these failures to stock merchandise, enough groans will surely have the club look into the issue

Shaka
15 Posted 16/08/2007 at 16:52:47

JJB in South Shields had loads of Everton kits on display few weeks ago. Including loads of kiddies ones. Walked in today and there wasn’t any on display. Either loads of Evertonians in the North East hiding some where. Or like they say they’ve stopped stocking them.

Andy Callan
16 Posted 16/08/2007 at 16:57:29

Shaka, How are we gunna get in touch - I ain’t puttin’ my mobile number on here like....!!!!!!

Shaka
17 Posted 16/08/2007 at 16:59:06

Andy, I’ll do it through email. Before i can go long distance i gotta get my health sorted. It’s one of the reason i haven’t been able to get to Goodison in the last couple of years.

raoul duke
18 Posted 16/08/2007 at 16:59:42

You’d even struggle to find a shirt in Manchester’s JJBs.. Manchester! Our closest major city.

It’s beyond a joke.

Shaka
19 Posted 16/08/2007 at 17:02:18

Raoul Duke, It’s the same everywhere. Went to Huddersfield a few weeks ago and there wasn’t one in sight. All the sports shops where surrounded with the top four shite.

Andy Callan
20 Posted 16/08/2007 at 17:07:10

Use bigpunisher77@hotmail.com mate. Let me know if you need a lift - same goes for anyone else living in the North East. Cheers...

simon
21 Posted 16/08/2007 at 17:01:12

im not that clued up on marketing but think that selling shirts and other merchandise in outlets such as jjb loses the club money because these shops want a cut of the profits were our own shop we dont. (the everton way}

Shaka
22 Posted 16/08/2007 at 17:12:51

Andy Callan,Big thanx.

Mike Mulhall
23 Posted 16/08/2007 at 17:23:03

I reckon he went to jd sports by accident!

Peter Singer
24 Posted 16/08/2007 at 17:46:42

I popped in a Watford JJB when we were playing there in February. Nothing, even on a matchday.

Mike Oates
25 Posted 16/08/2007 at 17:48:06

I live on South Coast and have 3-4 JJB’s to use - Southampton & Brighton .They stock Everton kit but not as well displayed as Top 4 and Newcastle - BECAUSE - we dont like it BUT they sell far more of them than Everton . I can understand Top 4 but how come Newcastle always out-do us - one team in one city ?

PL PL
26 Posted 16/08/2007 at 18:28:52

Maybe he supported Spurs and he was just jealous! Got Van Der Meydet on the back of my shirt last week!!

Pretty expensive but well it!

Karl Jones
27 Posted 16/08/2007 at 19:43:00

The Saturday after the Champions league final, I asked JJB Liverpool if they had any AC Milan shirts in stock as they had numerous Euro clubs including Inter Milan & Juventus, so I was quite curious. I was told they dont have any call for them and as such dont stock them...co-incidence that. At the time, our "retail partner" was selling our shirts from the far righthand corner behind just about everyone else.
It seems that the Liverpool shop and others must be run by partisan "rednoses". They can just materialise out of just about anywhere these days!

Bhang
28 Posted 16/08/2007 at 21:11:47

I ordered a shirt for my lady’s birthday at the end of June direct off of the club website as I live in NZ. Best part of 30 quid postage. 2 days later I got a mail off of a lady at JJB saying they couldn’t post it as I hadn’t given them a postcode. Wrote back and explained I lived in a very small town and didn’t have a postcode and could they send it immediately. After three weeks it still hadn’t arrived (already post b’day by now), so I wrote back to enquire if for 30 quid I could have expected airmail delivery. Received a reply that as I had not given them a postcode my order was still sat in the warehouse. Again stated that there was no postcode and asked for immediate dispatch. Received a reply that she was looking into it all. By this time it was really post post b’day and I had had to fork out for another pressie anyway. So I wrote and asked to cancel the order stating disatisfaction. The very next day the order turned up. Seems somebody in the warehouse showed some initiative and sent it. The lady annoying me still thought it was sat there gathering dust. MUPPET!!!!

Mark
29 Posted 16/08/2007 at 21:25:40

Lad get yourself down to sports soccer! You can get the full everton kit with Mikky’s name and number, some donnay tennis socks and dunlop treads and get home with change from a fiver!

Mark
30 Posted 16/08/2007 at 21:29:44

Hey Shaka, and Andy I live in Newcastle too, West End. Beers for the toon and mackem games??? And I meant what I said about sports soccer. Get down to the metro centre lad!

Bung
31 Posted 16/08/2007 at 22:19:53

Mark, Andy, Shaka - Weve got to sort the ale out if we cant travel down - I live in gateshead and have down for a while. Ive got quite a few geordie mates but you cant beat sitting amongst your own when watchin the blue boys

Ann Adlington
32 Posted 16/08/2007 at 23:21:23

Mark, I know what you’re saying, but the point is that JJB are supposed to be our retail partner. Outsourcing was supposed to bring us untold wealth and improve revenue streams. Anybody else heard of managed decline?

Paddy Connors
33 Posted 17/08/2007 at 07:40:29

Shaka - Are you really going to accept a 250 mile lift off a stranger going by the name Big Punisher77?? I dont reckon you’ll be able to enjoy the old blue plastic seat when you get there mate. Bring out the gimp!!

Shaka
34 Posted 17/08/2007 at 10:20:54

Paddy, I prob won’t be going to Goodison for a while yet. Don’t worry i won’t be getting punished by anyone.

Mark Stone
35 Posted 17/08/2007 at 16:54:27

Fuck me Paddy you just pushed Newcastle out 70 miles east into the North Sea!

Kieran Doyle
36 Posted 17/08/2007 at 17:06:11

Is anyone finding the new tops tight in the arms and chest? And no I havent put on weight! I have always fitted a L nicely but the ones I ordered on Net from EFC are pretty tight! Think I will have to swap for an XL!

Paddy Connors
37 Posted 17/08/2007 at 18:55:04

Mark - the "Big Punisher" always goes the long way - you of all people must remember that! By the way Kieran - you have put on weight. Just accept it. Get a lift off Big Punisher he’ll help you work it off.

Brian Waring
38 Posted 17/08/2007 at 19:12:51

Paddy,cheers mate.I have just spat a mouthful of coke all over the computer!!!!Your first response to Shaka about big punisher.Fucking hilirious mate.I,ve just shown my bird and she is still laughing her head off downstairs.

D
39 Posted 17/08/2007 at 21:36:06

Brian , your lass can laugh ’down stairs’ jesus, she sounds talented, what else can she do with it? no wonder you married her, where did you meet? in a Thai strip joint!