questions for steve regarding group purchases

[Michele Renda]

My Idea was this:

Openmoko can manage all the orders and to receive the payments: they can 
build a sites, that collect the orders, and with an option to indicate 
to which Sales Group to receive (Update in real time with the number of 
allocated phones).

The person that is available to receive the phones has the work only to 
receive and to fix a Saturday or a Sunday an appointament to a place.

In this way:

1. Is more easy to run with the money, not with 10 openmoko
2. If a person can not to continue to  be the "hub", before the 
expedition, Openmoko can simply to change the spedition address
3. The situation will be more trasparent
4. There will not be a problem if a person don't want more a phone.


The cost of all this is only a web application and x 10 transaction fees 
(that on 399 $ I hope are not too much)

This is my idea

Robin Paulson wrote:
> steve, what methods are being considered by openmoko for group purchasing?
>
> most of us do now know the other members of a group and would like
> some security that the group organised is not able to run off with the
> money - are openmoko willing to engage in purchases via escrow agents?
> or is it a case of 'sort it our amongst yourselves, all we want is a c
> card number or paypal account'? if the latter is the case, is there
> anything/anyone openmoko or anyone else here can recommend for making
> sure things go smoothly?
>
> thanks
>
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