From: Luiz Petroni (lpetroni_at_compassoarte.com.br)
Date: Mon Sep 27 2004 - 17:45:29 PDT
Hi gang,
I would like to use Dan's post to present my proposal:
I've been thinking in producing some items like these (caps, cases,
stands, acrilic, etc and things like that) and would like to know about
the opinion of the community.
Is there any interest in this kind of items?
I contacted some local manufacturers in the past, we discussed
prodution costs and some ideas for caps, cases and stands; I received
some quotations but then stop at this point.
If there is enough interest, my idea is to produce these items and set
a fixed price+plus shipping worldwide. I would setup a Newton related
web store and would like to work with the following pricing structure:
production costs + shipping & handling + profit + ntkl donation = final
price.
Did not setup any values yet and I believe that they will certainly
vary from item to item.
The general idea is:
Profit: will help me return the time spent with all duties related with
the research for the best partners, contacts, materials, handling,
designs, samples costs, etc.
NTKL donation: would help to encourage members to buy the itens and
also will help the community.
I'm in Brazil and with 3:1 rate between Real & US Dollars I believe I
can end up with a reasonable & fair price if I do a good negotiation
with my partners and if there is enough people interested.
Of course I need to further evaluate the costs before we can start.
I placed an draft idea for a cap here:
http://www.compassoarte.com.br/newton/bonenewt.jpg (99kB)
http://www.compassoarte.com.br/newton/bonenewtsmall.jpg (17kB)
Of course I'm open to any suggestions if we decided to go ahead.
The idea is to use the community's feedback in order to create itemd
tailored to its necessity instead of trying to adapt an item.
Would very much appreciate to hear from you.
Thanks
--lpetroni
Vaguely Radio wrote:
>>> Okay, this is a weird request. I've checked eBay and come up with
> nothin'. Anyone know where I could get a baseball cap with the Newton
> or Apple logo on it (Newton preferred of course)? I checked
> www.redlightrunner.com but found nothing of interest.
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