2009/9/15 Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net>: > Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Daniel Bolgheroni <m...@dbolgheroni.eng.br>wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Nick Holland wrote: >>> >>> > Thanks to those that contribute money and buy CDs. >>> >>> I would like to buy CDs, but in Brazil these kind of products have a >>> high tax fee applied when they hit the harbour. For a $50 CD, I'll >>> probably pay almost $almost $70 to someone I don't want to "contribute". >>> This doesn't include the shipment cost (~$30 I suspect). >>> >>> I don't have a Paypal account (yet). If it's worth to trust him, I don't >>> know, but I much prefer to donate $50 (although they will deduct 3.9% in >>> my case, but at least OpenBSD doesn't have the CD cost) than to pay >>> almost the triple to government, shipment, etc. Don't care if I don't >>> get the CDs. >>> >>> Is it possible to OpenBSD to make profit for the project selling books >>> or manuals? I don't know the costs or if it's worth (like CDs are better >>> for the project than T-shirts, mugs, etc.). It's tax free here, and I >>> think: if it's free here, maybe it's somewhere else. > > Books and manuals are more like t-shirts and mugs than CDs -- relatively > high cost, relatively bulky, more variety to inventory. B They also have > an added problem of being in a competitive market -- if you want an OpenBSD > t-shirt, you will be buying it from OpenBSD. B If you want a book that covers > OpenBSD, you can buy it from OpenBSD, or you can buy it at the corner book > store and have it tonight, or at BigOnlineBookStore for a substantial > discount off list price and special deals with the shipping companies. > I'm not sure what the margin on books is, but if you try to price against > BigOnlineBookStore.com, I suspect your margin goes pretty close to zero. > >> I have the same concerns as well (i mean the shipping. F, i'll support the >> project - but not the shipping?). I did get the disc set, though, but.. it >> would be nice to be able to "check out" knowing how much i'm supposed to be >> paying for shipping. > > Don't get me wrong, pure cash donations work nicely to keep the lights on. > Well...briefly. B Based on some numbers Theo showed me after my earlier note, > cash donations from the US and Europe are..uhmm... how do I put this...PATHETIC! > We are talking the equiv. of less than 10 CDs each. B Canadians are doing a lot > better, relatively speaking, but as of Sept 8 (BEFORE I posted my note) all cash > donations barely put a dent in the cost of a mini-hackathon. > > Theo tells me you guys have responded to my note, and thanks to those that did! > but there's still a lot of financial slacking goin' on... > > Nick. > >
One cd set from Italy! :) -- Matteo Filippetto
