Yea, there's all kinds of ways that people use every day to transact with others who they've no way of meeting or even calling on the phone. If you are concerned, then maybe the price to fix the concern is to just order the phone individually.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Flemming Richter Mikkelsen Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:24 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Joachim Steiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi michele > > Michele Renda wrote: >> For openmok there is no difference, except than to pay x9 more payment fee. > > i beg to differ. the whole handling would make the gain of readily > packaging 10-packs and ship these en bloc to one dest. vanish. > so larry is right. thats like requesting 10% generic discount > > the whole point of it is: we are no escrow company, we are no bank, we > are not paypal. > we build the free and open mobile phone. > and we want to focus on that. I agree with Joachim. And one tips on how to solve this with payment. The person ordering the 10-pack could make a simple contract for payment & delivery of the phone. Then people could pay and as long as they can prove they payed, it would be up to the hub person to prove he sent the phone. The contract must include payment & shipping details. I will make a group order and have this kind of contract with some, because I do not have enough cash to order 22 phones ++. I think OM should just provide the 10-pack deal or the single phone deal. If people do not trust each other, then they order a single phone and get no quantum discount. This is not OM's problem. Please let OM do their job with developing the phone. They are not a shipping&insurance company. -- Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Join the FSF as an Associate Member at: <URL:http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=5774> Free your mind - Open(moko) your phone _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community