From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Dec 09 10:09:34 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:09:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PQkvu-0007c1-4D; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:09:34 -0800 Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:09:34 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Cc: Matt Arnold Subject: [llg-board] I are *dumb*. Message-ID: <20101209180933.GC27025@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org, Matt Arnold MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 744 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 So, those of you who use Amazon regularily get to join me in feeling dumb; the rest of you are off the hook. You know how Amazon stuff from non-Amazon sellers sometimes has the "Fulfilled by Amazon" thing? Yeah? Stop and think about it. *There* ya go. Now you know how I felt this morning. -_- The process: 1. Buy some 30-up letter size labels. 2. Print out a bunch of them from the PDF? from Amazon. 3. Stick them on the books. 4. Ship them to Amazon. 5. Profit! It's apparently $0.13 per item per month for storage (assuming my estimate of dimensions and weight is close to correct), $1.80 per book for the actual picking, packing, and shipping. I say we send 3/4 of the remaining books. Now, there are a few issues here: 1. It's a bunch of (one-time!) work for Bob. 2. No more fulfillment money for Matt. 3. It's going to cost a fair bit to ship the books to Amazon. I think it's a fantastic idea, I'm horrified I didn't think of it ages ago, and we should start *RIGHT NOW*. I so move. Any objections? (in particular from Bob and/or Matt?) -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/