Why do you take responsibility for postal losses? That seems super bad luck. You're running a business right not a socialist theocracy.
Just put a note on the checkout that says uninsured postal delivery: £4 recorded, insured delivery: £10 or whatever. On May 18, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Andy Allan wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Gregory <nomoregra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> For people who can't manage downloading a file, Andy provides a nice service >> of posting garmin maps on an SD card. http://shop.opencyclemap.org/ I don't >> know if he gets a tiny profit margin or not, but the prices are good just >> for blank SD cards! > > Thanks. I make a small "profit" on each sale, after everyone else > takes their cut (paypal fees, shipping, and so on). But "profit" on > each sale of SD cards is eaten up entirely by the combination of > monthly site running costs, postal losses (grr) and other overheads. > I'll need a lot more sales before I can fund the rest of opencyclemap > with income from the shop, and I laugh when I think of what my hourly > rate works out as! > > The situation is even worse for the OSM surveyors jackets, where the > margin is so small (under a pound) that a single lost item would take > me around another 20 sales just to make back. So far I've sold three, > and the first one of those (to a certain someone you might know) > actually worked out at a materials loss (of 17p), not counting monthly > overheads. But it's great promotion for OSM, helps raise money for > OSMF, and I think these things are important. > > So if anyone is wondering, the little shop that I have is > time-consuming and barely breaks even, but it's good fun to run and > has many happy customers, and that's really why I do it. > > Cheers, > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Yours &c. Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk