questions for steve regarding group purchases

[Lally Singh]

So what you really want is for the OM store to give a 10% discount.

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Michele Renda <michele.renda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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H. Lally Singh
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
Virginia Tech