[Noisebridge-discuss] Club Mate?

[Mitch Altman]

> From: ieatlint at tehinterweb.com
> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:25:33 -0700
> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Club Mate?
> 
> > 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


 

Up until this round of drinks, we have, on average, since the beginning of Noisebridge, tripled our drink money -- i.e., the total amount we've taken in divided the total amount we've spent, has been very close to 3.

 

 

I was thinking that we'd store the 800 bottles elsewhere besides NB.  There are probably people that can store a few cases a piece?

 

 

After sending out that email that Jeffrey responded to, I checked more emails, and saw one from Emmanuel saying he needed an answer very soon.  So, I told him to go ahead and send us the pallet of Mate, not as an official NB expense, but as a let's-get-together-and-kick-in-what-we-can-for-those-interested kind of project.  So, for anyone interested in loaning money to NB (with the caveat that there is some chance that we may not all get paid back 100% of our loans -- though it seems likely to me that we will make more than our investment back, with the returns going to NB), please add your name and loan amount to the NB wiki page for this project:

 

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Club_Mate

 

 

To be totally clear:  this is NOT an official Noisebridge expense.  It is a project that will proceed with loans from individuals.  Everyone pledging a loan will likely get paid back 100%, but if enough Mate gets drunk without people paying, it is possible that we will not be paid back all 100%.

 

 

Best,

 

Mitch.

 

 

 
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