From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/8490 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dubach1@husc.harvard.edu (Joev Dubach) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Slight shirt delay Date: 25 Oct 1996 10:50:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: dubach1@husc.harvard.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148642 12410 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:17:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:17:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 22385 invoked from smtpd); 25 Oct 1996 15:24:38 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by deanna.miranova.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 1996 15:24:37 -0000 Original-Received: from husc.harvard.edu (root@husc.harvard.edu [140.247.30.45]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:50:42 +0200 Original-Received: from fas.harvard.edu by husc.harvard.edu with SMTP id KAA29135 Original-Received: by fas.harvard.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/16Sep96-0158AM) id AA12173; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:50:38 -0400 Original-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 25 Oct 1996 11:23:41 +0100 Original-Lines: 46 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.25/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8490 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8490 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > I think I'll take 2 for myself, or should I take 3? Which gives us 40 > shirts, which is twice as many as I had imagined, and which means that > I make lots and lots and lots of money. (Well, not quite, but I > didn't mean to make any money whatsoever off of this; I just wanted a > shirt or two. :-) Feels all wrong.) Well, if it feels too all wrong, you could always put the cash difference between "okay" and "all wrong" in the shirt packages. :) I think I have a better idea below, though. > Anyways -- at 50 shirts, the price per shirt falls off 20 NOK, which > means that 45 shirts costs as much as 50 shirts. So, uhm, should I > print 50 shirts instead? Printing the final 10 shirts will add NOK400 > to the total price, which is a piffling NOK40 (USD6) per shirt. And I > could just keep them all myself. :-) Or flog them off on the black > market. Well, if I do print the last 10 shirts, I can't charge less > than what y'all have paid for your copies; that would be unfair. So > I'm all bewildered as to what to do. I'll never become a proper > money-grubbing capitalist by vacillitating like this... Drats! Here's what you do: Print fifty shirts, and offer the unappropriated ones on gnu.emacs.gnus as a special limited offer for those not on ding-list but who want a piece of history anyway. Same price, all black (since that's apparently the most popular color) and mainly (or maybe even all) XL, depending on the size distribution experienced so far. Then, put all the money from this second offering aside, and use it to subsidize the next ding-list Gnus merchandise offer. > Perhaps I should just print 40 shirts anyway. Makes life much > simpler. The last ten are so cheap, how can you not print them? What a bargain! :) I suppose all this hypothesizing might be obviated by late orders anyway. Joev "There may be trouble ahead, but while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance, let's face the music and dance." -- Irving Berlin