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