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
