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On Friday 27 May 2005 08:29 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > So the cost difference is negligible, and the question becomes: Do you |
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> > want the new trustees to be a part of this decision now? |
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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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We don't have to commit to anything with them (part of the beauty of it). |
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As for the quality, that has been a concern for a few people who have been |
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unhappy with CP.. I have a shirt from the old Gentoo store that I bought |
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over 2 years ago. I still wear it. The logo is a bit faded, but about the |
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same as any t-shirt I bought from the mall around that same time period.. |
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CP has a "Value shirt" option that is a lower quality shirt, I don't know for |
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sure but this may have been what was used for the shirts that some people |
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complain about. I didn't select this for our store. |
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The store has historically been mostly CD sales, so I think that should be a |
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higher priority as far as picking a "permanent" solution. AFAIAC, so far CP |
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seems to be perfect for our needs. |
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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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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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So far, there have been orders made for 3 "golf" shirts (polos), 5 T-shirts |
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(logos on both sides), 2 mugs, and a sticker. The markup from this equals |
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the $47.70 mentioned earlier. |
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As I've estimated before, previous Gentoo releases have had cd sales upwards |
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of 1500-2000 copies. CP mentioned they have no problem carrying a heavy load |
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of orders, so come time for the next release this should work out well if we |
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decide to keep it. |
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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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Cheers! |
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-C |
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Corey Shields |
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Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team and Devrel Team |
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Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields |
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