[Noisebridge-discuss] Club Mate shipment

[Mitch Altman]

Is there still interest in getting Club Mate shipped to us?  If $2 per bottle is really what we can get it at (landed at Noisebridge) if we buy a container-full, then we can make a lot of money selling them for $4 per bottle, and make lots of people very happy in the process.

 

 

Mitch.

 

 

 

 

--------------------------
 
> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 14:57:48 -0700
> From: 0x31337 at gmail.com
> To: crypto.rpw at gmail.com
> CC: sean at cheesebikini.com; noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Re: Club Mate shipment
> 
> FYI, Emmanuel said he could get us a pallet for ~$2k (800 bottles),
> does this seem inline with the pricing you guys have been looking at?
> How many bottles would we have to buy to get better pricing?
> 
> -David
> 
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
> <crypto.rpw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi David, dear Noisebridgers,
> >
> > a) there are two types of ISO 668 freight containers: the so-called
> > TEU (twenty feet equivalent unit) and the FEU (forty feet equivalent
> > unit) variant. The TEU variant measures 20ft x 8ft x 8.5ft (L x W x H)
> > and may load up to 21.75 tons, the FEU variant is twice as long and
> > may load up to 26.7 tons. A problem is that the container height is
> > not standardized, sometimes it can be as low as 1.3m, the maximum is
> > 2.6m.
> >
> > b) one bottle of Club Mate (there are two variants, the 0.5l bottle
> > and the 0.33l bottle, I'll be assuming the larger variant for the
> > moment) weighs approximately 904 grams. Thus far I was not able to
> > convince Loscher to fill the Mate into lighter PET bottles.
> >
> > c) I have not actually seen the pallets, but the dimension of a pallet
> > should be approximately the same as for a crate of Club Mate. This is
> > 40cm x 30cm x 30cm.
> >
> > c) Let's assume an overhead of 25kg per pallet.
> >
> > Assuming the above, we are more constrained by volume than by the
> > weight if the container is half-height and the other way round if we
> > have 2.6m height in the container. We can pack 14-16 pallets per TEU
> > if we assume half-height and at most 28 if it is full height (because
> > of weight). This also means that going FEU is pointless.
> >
> > Hence a TEU will fit at least 11200 bottles but may hold up to 22400
> > if we're lucky. I reckon 11k bottles should be more than enough for
> > the first run, though. Assuming the fixed cost of USD 2900 we're
> > getting a fixed-cost transportation overhead of USD 0.29 per bottle if
> > we fill the container with 14 pallets.
> >
> > Thoughts, orders?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > RPW
> >
> > --
> > Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
> > CryptoLUX / Laboratory of Algorithmics and Computer Security, FSTC
> > University of Luxembourg
> > phone: +352-466645654
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list
> Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/attachments/20090610/38cf6e4d/attachment-0002.html>