From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sun Apr 25 16:30:16 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:30:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1O6BHD-0007Lw-Gl for llg-board@lojban.org; Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:30:15 -0700 Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:30:15 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: [matt.mattarn@gmail.com: Re: [eric_4001@hotmail.com: lojban]] Message-ID: <20100425233015.GA20112@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <20100425193936.GW20112@digitalkingdom.org> <20100425195124.GZ3000@nvg.org> <4BD4C9CB.2090105@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BD4C9CB.2090105@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 666 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 07:01:31PM -0400, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > >On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:39:36PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > >>Matt is *deeply* poor; he's actually using food stamps to eat at > >>this point. I move we give him $5 per CLL he ships, and $3 per > >>*shipment* on other items he might ship (which is currently > >>nothing, but who knows?). > > > > > >Can we do that without making him an employee? > > I think we can do so, if we pay him as an order fulfillment > contractor and we are passing the costs along to customers as a > "shipping charge". > > The $3 shipment fee seems reasonable, looking at what bookstores > charge for shipping, and should be built into whatever shipping > charge we assign to such orders. The $5 is probably a bit high to > justify if we don't explicitly do so. > > I suggest as an alternative, that Robin determine the number of > CLLs shipped this year, and give Matt the $1 he asks, for all > books since the beginning of the year. For domestic book orders > by postal mail, we probably have that much slop covered in the > existing charges, though probably not on UPS and international > orders. > > Then, when the updated online CLL is made available (which I > presume will not be long), we lower the price of CLL as we had > already planned to, by $14 (to $25) and increase the shipping > charge by $4 or $5 to all destinations (Matt should have a better > idea on how well the existing charge is covering what he spends > without any payment to him), and increase Matt's fee to $5 per > book. I agree with all that, except that I say we make the price changes immediately. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/