From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Dec 09 13:15:33 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:15:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PQnpt-0003cQ-LF for llg-board@lojban.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:15:33 -0800 Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:15:33 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: I are *dumb*. Message-ID: <20101209211533.GQ27025@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <20101209180933.GC27025@digitalkingdom.org> <4D0144F9.8040207@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D0144F9.8040207@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 752 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 Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 04:07:05PM -0500, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > I suggest we send no more than a years supply at a time. > > Let's say that is 50 books. That is already $6.50 a month, or $80 > a year. If I sent them 200 books, we are paying them $240 per > year for storage of books that they won't be fulfilling. My numbers were wrong; it's $0.05/unit/month. > I'd be happy to send them one box at a time (that is typically > around 20 books), if I have a way of knowing when they have, say, > less than half a dozen left, so it is time to send more. Yep, there's a view for that. > That isn't nearly as onerous, as trying to keep up with "get em > out this week or start getting complaints". *nodnod* > >3. It's going to cost a fair bit to ship the books to Amazon. > > Yes it would. Another reason to do so over time. > > And remember that we are still getting PayPal orders. I'm going to discourage that as much as possible. > >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?) > > See above for my alternate suggestion. I don't cosider the details of how many books we send terribly relevant to the motion, which was just "let's send amazon some books". :) Why don't you call me today and I'll walk you through how to get the labels from Amazon? Go to https://sellercentral.amazon.com/myi/search/ItemSummary.amzn?ref_=im_invmgr_smap_home and I'll give you username/password info. -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/