[Noisebridge-discuss] Club Mate?

[Christie Dudley]

I'm afraid I'd have to agree with Jeffrey on at least one point.  We
definitely do NOT have space to store anything at the space right now.
 I have stopped coming by, as per suggestions at the last meeting
until such time as we can find enough room for all the things we have
and people too.  It's kind of astonishing for me that our leaders are
telling us we can shoehorn even more stuff in there when we don't even
have space for our members, especially a *full* palate of soda.

Christie

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 Disrupting paradigms since 1967



On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Jeffrey Malone<ieatlint at tehinterweb.com> wrote:
>> We can certainly afford the money at this point, especially assuming that
>> we'll make the money back from sales.
>
> I'm sorry to say that that assumption is unfounded.  Our returns from
> drink sales are below the suggested donation amounts.  I purchased
> approx $373 of drinks and similar from Costco in late June, and have
> been skimming the donations tin to recover the amount.  At the moment,
> with almost all of it gone, I am still $26 short.  In the end, there
> will definitely be left over money to either donate to Noisebridge or
> help to cycle for another Costco run, but FAR less than what should
> have been collected.
> This is an old item that has been silent for a long while, and we've
> kinda ignored it because we were recovering our costs for it.. just
> not making any notable amounts of money as we had intended.
>
> I would truly fear how much would actually be recovered for a drink we
> tried to sell at $4/bottle.  Additionally, we've side-stepped the
> sellers permit issue by simply paying taxes and CRV on the soda at
> Costco, and keeping it vague as to whether Noisebridge owns the drinks
> or the person who went out and got them.  With an 800 bottle shipment
> that Noisebridge officially purchased, we'd definitely need to look
> into sales tax, CRV and the sellers permit to do this.
>
> Also, where would we store 800 bottles?
>
>
> Without these concerns being addressed, I see Noisebridge's official
> participation in purchasing a pallet as a bad idea.  It could result
> in a loss of money, and unwanted attention from state and local
> agencies.
> Note that I'm not against it all in principle, and would like to work
> out a way where it would be practical... but especially if there is a
> short amount of time where we have to give 2600 our decision, people
> would need to move very quickly to get a consensus on it.
>
> Jeffrey
>
> btw, those interested in what I bought and how much it cost from
> Costco can refer to the receipt in the cabinet where the collection
> tin is.  It's on the shelf right above the tin, to the left of
> glasses.  Each time I've removed money from the tin, I've noted the
> amounts.  The purchase also included a couple other things like toilet
> paper... everything on the receipt was for Noisebridge.
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