[aclug-L] Re: Garage Sale (was: Re: Case Modes?)

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:54:21AM -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
> Maybe $3.50 per disk, with $10 for the whole set of 3.
> If it gets more than 3 disks then possibly $12 for the set of 4.
> 
> The distribution at Comp-USA is 59.95 (I think) so it will be much less 
> than the distro. I could print some labels ahead of time for the CDs so 
> they would look a little more professional.
> 
> Time involved is getting to be very little as well,  5 - 10 minutes per 
> CD including burning and applying label. Maybe less with the 32X CDRs 
> now available. (it takes me about 5 min to burn 640mb at 16X)

The time involved doesn't really involve the burn time.  It requires just as
much human intervention time to burn on a 2x CD-R as it does on a 16x CD-R. 
I don't think the cost of the faster media is usually worth it for this sort
of thing.



> 
> 
> 
> Dale W Hodge wrote:
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> >>Behalf Of amccadden
> >>
> >>
> >>An addemdum to the memo about the Saturday Sale.  Red Hat 7.3 now comes
> >>on 3 CD's.  Various people have made the comment that $5 for each CD,
> >>that is $15 for Red Hat 7.3 is too much.  Sounds cheap for an OS that
> >>doesn't crash very often.  How about $10 for the set?  Any other
> >>comments?  ~Anne
> > 
> > 
> > It looks like none of the dists are likely to be less than two disks from
> > here on.  When Debian 3.0 releases, it will be on 6 CD's with 2 required for
> > a 'basic' install.
> > 
> > So the question becomes what do we charge for something other than a 3 disk
> > set? Price them at $3.50 a disk and round to the next dollar?  Like
> > $3.50->$4, $7, $10.50->$11, $14, $17.50->$18, $21, etc?  Or $4, $7, $10,
> > $14, $18, $20?  This is something we need to think about. The sets don't
> > cost us much in materials, but the time involved in preparing them has to be
> > worth something.
> > 
> > --dwh
> > 
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