Allan it is athletic. Most people, perhaps yourself usually goes online or to a store to purchase them. Maybe you buy 15 or 20 correct? You actually do not buy them directly from a manufacturer (like on the east coast or china) but you probably buy them from someone who then makes the order. This person either gets a direct shipment from the manufacturer to you or they have an inventory on hand to put whatever emblems or decals you want and then sends them. This is just my presumption.
The timing of starting or stopping it is not the problem. Learning the business and being able to project costs and operating expenses is the challenge. You cannot do that without investigating your supply chain. It doesn’t matter when you do that, in the middle of a recession or not. Yet if you do not do it correctly you will lose no matter how great a deal you get from purchasing the business from somebody.
