questions for steve regarding group purchases

[Michele Renda]

For openmok there is no difference, except than to pay x9 more payment fee.

I think if someone steal some money to some person, the damage of OM 
image will cost a lot more !

Lally Singh wrote:
> So what you really want is for the OM store to give a 10% discount.
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> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Michele Renda <michele.renda at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>  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:
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>>> 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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