Price of the Freerunner published?

[Sean Moss-Pultz]

Jonathan Spooner wrote:
> I would of thought in the EU you'd need a supplier who is big enough to 
> bring over GTA02s by the container-load, not in 10s.  Its the only way 
> to keep the price down everywhere else.

We will have our own hub in the EU. Neos will move directly from our 
factory to that hub.

   Sean



> Jon
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> steve wrote:
>> Thanks Sean,
>>
>>   Let me just give the community an overview of what we want to do 
>> with sales, distributors, and partners moving forward.
>>
>> First and foremost we want to keep sales and marketing in Openmoko as 
>> LEAN as humanly possible so we put maximum effort into engineering. 
>> So, in the same way the engineering departments rely on the community 
>> of developers, sales and marketing will rely on a community of resellers.
>> I could build a big sales and marketing organization. I refuse to do 
>> this. I don't think it serves Openmoko or the community. I would 
>> rather have people in the community support the brand, build the 
>> brand, extend the sales channel and make some money for their effort 
>> and risk. For me it's simple: Hire a guy or empower the community? I 
>> choose the latter.   
>> So, we are working toward a system of discounts for people who buy say 
>> 10 phones or 50 phones,  and we are trying to create an opportunity 
>> for them so they can make money on their belief: their belief that 
>> FreeRunner will be a great product. Sean and I think that this belief 
>> should be rewarded and encouraged. So, we will do this.
>>
>> Buying 10 phones, for example, will be as easy as buying 1 phone. And 
>> there will be a discount.
>> Steve
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org 
>> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Sean 
>> Moss-Pultz
>> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 3:09 AM
>> To: List for Openmoko community discussion
>> Subject: Re: Price of the Freerunner published?
>>
>> ramsesoriginal wrote:
>>  
>>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano
>>> <monto84 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Christian Beier ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>> Am Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:48:10 +0100
>>>>>         
>>>>  > schrieb "Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido at fluido.as>:
>>>>  >
>>>>  >
>>>>  >> What we Europeans would need is a FIC subsidiary somewhere here,
>>>>  >>
>>>>  > As I read FIC has some branch in Czech or Slovakia. Thing is: If you
>>>>  > ship a container €70 is definitely not the price per device.
>>>>  > You can help: motivate enough penguin people to buy a new phone and
>>>>  > maybe some one will risk such order.
>>>>  >
>>>>  > If FIC could ship them to Czech (or Slovakia) with their in house
>>>>  > post it might be easier to get a good price.
>>>>  >
>>>>  > Let's hope.
>>>>  > Christian
>>>>  >
>>>>  This is what i'd like to do with my LUG and some other people near me,
>>>>  take the name, make only one order of 10 Neos and then give the phones
>>>>  to the people. Obviously the price will not be lowered a lot, but the
>>>>  shipping costs are usually divided so in total it will cost less to
>>>>  everyone. We always do the same with thinkgeek things or some CDs 
>>>> or DVDs.
>>>>
>>>>  Just my 0.2€cent :D
>>>>
>>>>  Pietro
>>>>
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>>> The same also holds true if (and here comes the crazy part: correct me
>>> if it's illegal) someone want's to buy a bunch of Freerunners (let's
>>> say 10), customize them (with custom themes, programs, settings, maybe
>>> even pre-filled data, some additional hardware, case mods, and much
>>> more), and resell them, either to privates that want given features,
>>> or to firms as a working phone, or for some specific application (for
>>> example skiers, with custom software and theme).
>>> Doing so would also allow to grow a family of hacks around the
>>> openmoko (a version with a webcam? with build-in batteries? with r/c
>>> sender incorporated? with wooden case?).
>>> Just my two €-cents
>>>     
>>
>> There is nothing crazy about this idea. In fact, this is exactly what 
>> we're planning for ;-)
>>
>> Details will come later from Steve or Harry.
>>
>> Sean
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