Some questions have come up regarding how the TCLUG Store is set up. This message is intended to inform the group on how things are set up. The TCLUG store is set up through cafepress.com. What this does is allows us to design our merchandise but not actually have it made or outlay any money until an item is ordered. CafePress then manufactures the item, bills who bought it, and ships it out. There is a minimum price that cafepress requires on each item. This is known as the base price and is what they want to cover their materials cost and profit. The store owner is free to charge more for the items, in which case the extra profit goes into an account until a threshold is reached, then a check is sent at the end of the month to the store owner (reported to the IRS as income, of course). The free stores at cafepress allow for one design of each item type. In other words, you can have one white t-shirt, one grey t-shirt, one oval sticker, one retangular sticker, one hat, etc. In order to have more than one design in a product type, the store must be "upgraded" to a premium store (read, pay them money for the extras). Premium stores also have an expanded product line available with certain seasonal and special items. Youalso have much more control over the layout and design of the site itself and get priority listing in their directory. Now to the meat of the TCLUG store. The owner is me, Andy Moore. I felt the premium store was worth the initial outlay of money to get the ability to have more than one design. As a result I have a small upcharge on the merchandise there; $0.51-$1.01 per item. The extra penny is just 'cause I like round dollars and their base prices are all $*.99. Money made goes right back to pay for the premium site which cost $60 for the year. Once the cost of the premium site is covered I can do a couple of things. I can reduce the cost of the items to their base price for the remainder of the year, allowing items to be bought "at cost". I could pocket all that extra cash for my greedy little capitalistic self (I've already had my hand slapped on this one 8-) ). I can use the extra made to purchase equipment for installfests (switches anyone?) or for getting things like business cards, letterhead, etc. Or I can just dump it in the TCLUG fund for when people don't pay enough at beer meetings. lol Let me know what ya'll feel would be best or if you have any other ideas. I would like this thing to belong to the LUG and not be mine alone. And as such, I'm open to new artwork, ideas, designs, etc. And just so you know, here's the current sales figures. Prospective Product Qty Commission Rect Stckr 3 1.53 Wht T-shirt 2 1.01 Ovl Stckr 2 1.02 Bmpr Stckr 2 1.02 Lrg Mug 1 1.01 Ash Gry T-shirt 1 1.01 Golf Shirt 1 1.01 Totals 12 $7.61 If anybody has any more questions, fire... er, shoot... I mean, Ask! -- The Wandering Dru <dru at druswanderings.net> http://druswanderings.net <-- Things 'n' Such _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list