[clug] Re: [oztivo] RE: bulk order

[Jonathan Ricketson]

I found out from Peter Vogel the following:

 > contacted "Jeremy White" <Jeremy at poweron.com> at Poweron.
 > The deal was US$70 per tivo plus US$925 shipping.  30 to 356 units 
per > shipment. Cost me another $A1000 for clearance, gst etc.

So assuming there are some other costs involved, and I am not sure what 
you pay gst on, possibly just the US sale price, then if we get 60 or so 
orders together, then we should be able to do it for less than $150.

Any thoughts?

Jonathan

Michael Still wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Charlie Franklin wrote:
> 
> 
>>The one I am looking at running will be for Phillips series 1 diskless. 
>>About $A180. I hope to announce details in the next few days.
>>
>>They will come in airfreight, so once the order goes in, it should only 
>>be a week or so.
>>
>>The difficult bit will be getting the full number of 36 people 
>>together, so that may take some time.
> 
> 
> There has been a _lot_ of interest expressed on the CLUG list (cc'ed here) 
> about some sort of arrangement like this. Perhaps if you reply to this 
> message with a firm pricing (US dollars would be fine if that is easier), 
> and a timeframe (when do you need money?) then we can arrange a show of 
> hands...
> 
> I am happy to collect money for you in Canberra and forward it on to you 
> if that reduces your workload.
> 
> Perhaps a bulk purchase of network cards / PAL tuners at the same time 
> would be sensible?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mikal
>