Discuss the process of getting your t-shirt line into brick and mortar stores and selling offline. Topics include industry tradeshows, events, line sheets, sales reps and other retailing tips and advice.
We are looking for a company to work with in late August for a music festival. Due to Tax and border laws, we need to sell the shirts to a Washington Company and have them resell them at the event.
Unless someone can tell me how else to do this within the rules.
Is this a secret? What are the oddities with marketing in Washington state? When things are done with my wife, I plan on trying out the west coast and this information would help me decide what to do.I kinda like Oregon too if anyone knows the ruls and regulations I should know about there as well as California.
Is this a secret? What are the oddities with marketing in Washington state? When things are done with my wife, I plan on trying out the west coast and this information would help me decide what to do.I kinda like Oregon too if anyone knows the ruls and regulations I should know about there as well as California.
I believe the OP's issue was more or less not having an American based business (they're in Canada) so they cannot sell directly at the event. Typically at events if you're an out of state business, you fill out a form with your federal tax ID (here's where the OP's issue comes in) and collect and pay sales tax to the city/state at their rate upon completion of the event. Oftentimes the prices are rounded and you back the tax out so that you don't have to deal with all kinds of change.
Haven't heard of any special rules/regs for Oregon and Washington, except I know you can't pump your own gas in Oregon! California does require a garment decorator's license from what I gathered on other threads here. Probably best to check with the local municipality before you make a move though!
Event in Washington 
