From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Dec 09 11:07:30 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:07:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PQlpy-0005JA-6q; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:07:30 -0800 Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:07:30 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Cc: Matt Arnold Subject: [llg-board] Re: I are *dumb*. Message-ID: <20101209190730.GF27025@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org, Matt Arnold References: <20101209180933.GC27025@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 746 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 Yeah, that was when we had better options, i.e. your awesomeness. :) That's no longer an option, and I'm very happy to eat the cost. Hell, we can calculate it back in to the book cost. -Robin On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:24:05AM -0800, Matt Arnold wrote: > I am overwhelmingly in favor. The only reason we weren't doing it > already is that I knew how averse this group is to losing so much > money to shipping them to a new fulfiller. We went to a lot of > trouble to drive them out to me to avoid such costs. > > But if you're willing to accept the cost, I'll happily ship books > to Amazon. > > -Matt > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Robin Lee Powell > wrote: > > > > 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/ > > > > -- 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/