Help Cheap thumb drives in bulk?

[Damini]

I'm doing an event in May along with 200 or so other people and we've been told we need to buy thumb drives to hand out with press releases on them. Trouble is the prices look a bit bum puckering when you need to buy 30 or so on the punt that someone might want to run a feature on you. Most likely they will become handbag debris, and I begrudge forking out too much for that.

Since I'm sure a disproportionate number of you work in tech, can you recommend somewhere to buy them from? I'm happy to club in with other people at the event to bring the numbers up and the price down, so I'll be looking at buying anywhere between 30 and 300? It just needs to hold some word documents and a few pictures. Damned if I know why I can't just give them a url and host all the info there but meh.

 

[TdC]

Hi Damster! Just looking at some stuff that you could use and I spotted http://www.flashbay.co.uk/ they do all kinds of USB cards/sticks/whatnot, even to the point of being able to print things on them (ie you could get a card usb stick with a fuggler image printed on it or something. The NL site looks promising, and tbh it can't hurt to email them for a quote or something?

 

[DaGaffer]

Alibaba is the usual place for this kind of thing. USB drive for about US$1-2 (depending on order size). Does seem a bit old fashioned though. Can't you just stick a QR code up to a web page?

 

[Raven]

We use these, they are excellent. (Not sure if we get them from the same place!)

http://www.flashbay.co.uk/products/wafer-usb-card

 

[TdC]

indeed Gaff has the right of it. Make a fuggler holding a QR code card with the url of your site encoded. fight the power!

 

[MYstIC G]

Alibaba is the usual place for this kind of thing. USB drive for about US$1-2 (depending on order size). Does seem a bit old fashioned though. Can't you just stick a QR code up to a web page?

Yeah, this. Business cards with a QR logo to a file host or website has to be the way forward. Plus if you find the right file host/website you can get metrics on who has actually downloaded the damn thing, etc.