Re: Price point plus sales to individuals

2009-02-28 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: Okay, so those of you who are keen on there being a way for individuals to buy XOs at $2xx dollars should place a volume order, set up a web site, and start raking in the dough. Earth Treasury has wanted to do that for more

Re: Price point plus sales to individuals

2009-02-28 Thread Edward Cherlin
2009/2/18 Robert D. Fadel fa...@laptop.org: On Feb 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM, John Watlington wrote: I don't see how a non-profit can do this, as requires financing at risk, and staffing for uncertain demand.    Let me know when you have the capital. Absolutely true and I'm not sure the capital

Re: Price point plus sales to individuals

2009-02-19 Thread Robert D. Fadel
On Feb 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM, John Watlington wrote: I don't see how a non-profit can do this, as requires financing at risk, and staffing for uncertain demand.Let me know when you have the capital. Absolutely true and I'm not sure the capital would be enough. Its difficult to imagine OLPC

Re: Price point plus sales to individuals

2009-02-19 Thread david
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Robert D. Fadel wrote: On Feb 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM, John Watlington wrote: I don't see how a non-profit can do this, as requires financing at risk, and staffing for uncertain demand.Let me know when you have the capital. Absolutely true and I'm not sure the capital

Re: Price point plus sales to individuals

2009-02-18 Thread Mitch Bradley
Okay, so those of you who are keen on there being a way for individuals to buy XOs at $2xx dollars should place a volume order, set up a web site, and start raking in the dough. Obviously you guys know something about making a few bucks per machine that has eluded the OLPC organization, so go

Re: Price point plus sales to individuals

2009-02-18 Thread quozl
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:37:34PM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: Okay, so those of you who are keen on there being a way for individuals to buy XOs at $2xx dollars should place a volume order, set up a web site, and start raking in the dough. +1 (I'm not volunteering to do that, but the point

Re: Price point plus sales to individuals

2009-02-18 Thread John Watlington
On Feb 18, 2009, at 9:37 PM, Mitch Bradley wrote: Okay, so those of you who are keen on there being a way for individuals to buy XOs at $2xx dollars should place a volume order, set up a web site, and start raking in the dough. +1 I don't see how a non-profit can do this, as requires

Re: Price point plus sales to individuals

2009-02-18 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Okay, so those of you who are keen on there being a way for individuals to buy XOs at $2xx dollars should place a volume order, set up a web site, and start raking in the dough. Obviously you guys know something about making a few bucks per machine that has eluded the OLPC organization, so

Re: Price point plus sales to individuals

2009-02-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:24 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: +1 I don't see how a non-profit can do this, as requires financing at risk, and staffing for uncertain demand.Let me know when you have the capital. The factory requires cash or irrevocable letter of credit for the

Re: Price point plus sales to individuals

2009-02-18 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Okay, so those of you who are keen on there being a way for individuals to buy XOs at $2xx dollars should place a volume order, set up a web site, and start raking in the dough. Obviously you guys know something about making a few bucks per machine that has eluded the OLPC organization, so