On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au> wrote:
On 06/02/13 08:58, Matthew Cengia wrote:
The biggest reduction will likely be shipping costs, which are non-trivial usually IIRC.
How could you reduce "Free shipping" any further? (Which is how much the shipping cost when I ordered a couple of RPIs late last year)
There are two ways that shipping could be "free". One is that the post office decides not to charge for the parcel and the other is that the cost of postage is included in the unit price. AFAIK "free shipping" always means the latter. Therefore any bulk purchase scheme that results in lower per-item payments to the post office gives the potential for discounts on the purchase price without reducing the per-item profit to the seller. But really anyone who isn't interested in purchasing a Raspberry Pi can just do nothing in response to this issue. Anyone who wants to purchase one can email me off-list and maybe get a discount, but if it turns out to not be possible to get a discount then it still costs nothing to send an email so there's no loss. If this deal doesn't end up working out then the only cost to random members of LUV will be that of forcing people to read a discussion with theories about postal prices. In terms of promoting computer education the relevane issue is that it's always the case that discounts get people interested in buying. If some people who had no previous plans to buy a Raspberry Pi get one and learn things because of a LUV deal then that will be a good thing. If people who planned to buy one just save some money through reduced postage costs then that's a good thing too. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/