Price of the Freerunner spare parts

[thomasg]

I think spare parts are things that should be available via the
distributors.

1. What: there are some parts everybody needs to replace or restock at some
point: battery (very important), stylus (not really important),
front/back-cover (moderately important), headsets, pouches, cables/chargers
(reasonably important)
2. How many: see importance (1.) for relative numbers
3. Bigger stocks for distributors, no direct selling in small numbers
4. Make it cheap :P
5. Same as (3.)

I guess there are many people who need at least spare batteries and some
who'd like to have extra pouches (me! :), so this are things that should be
offered to the customers. The effort and prices can be reasonable by only
selling larger numbers.
Additional spare parts like displays, antennas and so on could be available
in smaller number at the local hubs, so resellers can get it for their
customers if really needed.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:00 AM, steve <steve at openmoko.com> wrote:

> I thought about spare parts a while back. The Issue is this.
>
> 1. WHAT do I stock ( which parts)
> 2. How Many do I stock?
> 3. How do I sell them to you?
> 4. What will it cost?
> 5. how do you get them?
>
> I suppose I could Offer component kits for sale. That would be the
> quickest
> thing for me to do. Sell the whole bag of parts; fix it your self.
> or build a business around this service.
>
>
> Let me think about it. Throw rotten fruit at this idea if you like.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of joerg
> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 8:44 AM
> To: sean at openmoko.com; List for Openmoko community discussion
> Subject: Price of the Freerunner spare parts
>
> Am So  23. März 2008 schrieb Sean Moss-Pultz:
> > We will have our own hub in the EU. Neos will move directly from our
> > factory to that hub.
>
> What's about availability and pricing of spare parts like LCM, battery,
> housing?
> Will there be any repair service?
>
> cheers
> jOERG
>
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