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Re: LDraw CD-ROM Project
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 4 Feb 2000 22:55:54 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Look, my point is just this: before 1800 is shelled out, make sure that
> you have some reasonable expectation of recovering all or most of it.
> I'll gladly put up a hundred bucks to make this happen, with no
> expectation of getting anything other than one CD back, but only if the
> homework is done. Again, 650 CDs is a large number for a community this
> size to absorb.
How do you suggest going about determining how many people will buy the CD?
BTW - the Jessiman family requested 50 copies already at cost. :)
> As to the price, do NOT set it so that if you sell 600, you break even.
> Set it so that if you sell 100, or 150, you break even. Way less risk
> that way. No one is saying that you need to be out to make a profit. Non
> profit organizations often charge more than cost for a particular thing,
> in order to build up funds so that they are not stumping for donations
> in order to get the NEXT project off the ground. That does NOT mean that
> they are making a profit, per se, it means that they are managing their
> funds wisely.
Another good idea I didn't think of. Me also being banking/finance
illiterate, would this go into a savings account? Mutual funds even, so we
can earn more?
> The PC club I ran for 3 years had a fund of many thousands in the bank
> which it used to bankroll activities without worrying about where the up
> front money was going to come from or whether each activity exactly
> covered its costs.
Solid advice, I hear you here.
> Collecting in advance is a good idea. Make it hassle free for both
> parties and require that people pay by X, that is the lowest labor way
> to transfer money at this point.
Are you suggesting collecting before pressing the CDs, then mailing them all
at once?
My main idea for a use for this CD would be to include it for .datFest
registration, so there needs to be enough to have for whoever registers as
well.
BTW - does ANYONE have contacts at a college in the Boston area besides MIT
and Harvard? A college campus would be a great place to have .datFest, and
help is really needed on this....
-Tim
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| (...) Well, that's a good question. There isn't much of anything that better determines who will buy it than asking people to pay for it up front, which is what I was suggesting be done with an X account. That way you don't have checks to worry (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Which is why I suggested it. Look, my point is just this: before 1800 is shelled out, make sure that you have some reasonable expectation of recovering all or most of it. I'll gladly put up a hundred bucks to make this happen, with no (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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