I think spare parts are things that should be available via the distributors.<br><br>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)<br>
2. How many: see importance (1.) for relative numbers<br>3. Bigger stocks for distributors, no direct selling in small numbers<br>4. Make it cheap :P<br>5. Same as (3.)<br><br>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.<br>
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.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:00 AM, steve <<a href="mailto:steve@openmoko.com">steve@openmoko.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I thought about spare parts a while back. The Issue is this.<br>
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1. WHAT do I stock ( which parts)<br>
2. How Many do I stock?<br>
3. How do I sell them to you?<br>
4. What will it cost?<br>
5. how do you get them?<br>
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I suppose I could Offer component kits for sale. That would be the quickest<br>
thing for me to do. Sell the whole bag of parts; fix it your self.<br>
or build a business around this service.<br>
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Let me think about it. Throw rotten fruit at this idea if you like.<br>
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Subject: Price of the Freerunner spare parts<br>
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Am So 23. März 2008 schrieb Sean Moss-Pultz:<br>
> We will have our own hub in the EU. Neos will move directly from our<br>
> factory to that hub.<br>
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What's about availability and pricing of spare parts like LCM, battery,<br>
housing?<br>
Will there be any repair service?<br>
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cheers<br>
jOERG<br>
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