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Corey Shields wrote: |
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> On Friday 27 May 2005 08:29 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>>And the other question: Do we trust Cafepress to do a good job (and |
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>>commit to >=6 months), or do we want to give them a short trial? |
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> However, we can drop the CP store anytime we want... no time commitment. We |
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> can purchase a year of the premium store and then shut it down 3 months |
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> later, but we would be out of the premium fees. |
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Right -- I meant a monetary commitment, not a contractual obligation. |
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> Let me give some details on the way I setup the store wrt profit margins: |
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> Clothing is a straight $5 markup |
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> CD's will be $5 markup as well (this will match the price that Daniel had on |
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> his store) |
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> Everything else (schwag) is 20% markup, since some of the stuff, like |
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> stickers, is a little much to ask a $5 markup on. |
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I'd be quite interested to learn how other open-source groups do similar |
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things. |
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In particular, I could see a percentage markup on a per-category level |
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instead of straight numbers: e.g., CD's are 100%, everything else is |
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20%. If we arranged it so the cheaper clothes still came out to roughly |
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$5, then we could check the price on the more expensive ones to see |
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whether the final price remained reasonable. |
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> In my opinion, what makes this the best solution overall is that it's pretty |
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> much hands-off. We don't have to worry about the orders, the money handling, |
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> shipping, inventory, etc. They even have a 30 day money back guarantee, so |
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> if the shirt does suck it can be returned. I've looked around for another |
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> outsourcer that does this kind of thing with CDs and merchandise both and |
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> have not found anyone. |
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Indeed; on the downside, this could make doing anything else quite |
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difficult if we're dissatisfied with Cafepress. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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