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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins.daniel@×××××.com>
To: Corey Shields <cshields@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-trustees] new store..
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 20:48:49
Message-Id: 226689f105051213483b16853a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-trustees] new store.. by Corey Shields
1 Hi Corey,
2
3 I think that cafepress could work. That way you don't need to have
4 someone taking time out of their day to fulfill orders, etc. which in
5 our experience the current store was unable to financially support.
6 But I think cafepress is a good fit for the current volume of orders.
7 You could probably pull in between $500 and $1000 a month,
8 particularly if you are also selling CDs through cafepress.
9
10 Regards,
11
12 Daniel
13
14 On 5/12/05, Corey Shields <cshields@g.o> wrote:
15 > So, I'll bring up this topic again, now that Daniel has set a date to close
16 > the store..
17 >
18 > Do we want to go ahead with Cafepress? Their CD prices are a hair under $5,
19 > so if we sold at daniel's price of $10 we could profit quite a bit.. Looking
20 > at the sales of 2004.3 x86 cd's alone from the store last year, we would
21 > profit $7,500...
22 >
23 > Thoughts? I've got an e-mail into them about quantity and what all they can
24 > handle (thinking of release times)..
25 >
26 > -C
27 >
28 > --
29 > Corey Shields
30 > Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team and Devrel Team
31 > Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
32 > http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields
33 >
34 >
35 >
36
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Re: [gentoo-trustees] new store.. Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>