[Noisebridge-discuss] Club Matte for Noisebridge

[Mitch Altman]

> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:36:37 -0700
> From: j at hug.gs
> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Club Matte for Noisebridge
> 
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 03:37:11AM -0700, Dr. Jesus wrote: 
> > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 02:28:32AM -0700, Christie Dudley wrote: 
> > > To be clear, there is no soda that has ever been brought into noisebridge
> > > that only cost us $0.25. I suspect that people were balking at the $2.00
> > > asking price, assuming $1.75 of that was profit for the space, which is
> > > unfortunate. We simply can't get it much below regular retail, which I
> > > think confused the issue. I haven't had time or energy to go through and
> > > count what's left and what the take has been. Preliminary counts were not
> > > good.
> > > 
> > > It sounds like the club mate at the rates Mitch is quoting are about the
> > > same as what we were getting for the red bull at costco. I'm thinking it
> > > might not be a bad idea to check around more to perhaps find better pricing
> > > on what we bring in, if we decide to get more. It's nice to have, but I
> > > don't think it's worth the hassle of trying to stay on top of people who
> > > continue to use the rest of us.
> > > 
> > > (Although I'm hearing different stories on "official"-ness from different
> > > people - reports from 2600 that they're it differ from what people have
> > > understood from the bottler. This makes me a little uneasy.)
> > 
> > I just called my Coca-Cola distributor to get pricing ("thank you for
> > calling Coca-Cola, have a classic day!") and I'll get some more data
> > on Monday or Tuesday when the sales reps are in the office. If I
> > remember right, it's about $0.33 per 12 oz can if you buy about $300
> > of it at a time.
> 
> It's about $0.41 per 12 oz can delivered if we buy a few hundred bucks
> worth at a time. I'm getting more specific pricing tomorrow.
> 
> They also have a program where you get a free vending machine,
> delivery, service, and product. We would keep either 15% or 20% of
> the sales depending on whether it's cans or bottles respectively. I
> said that we might not want to have their vending machine at first,
> because it would end up getting electronics grafted onto it no matter
> how good the locks are...
> 
> I also confirmed that CCE (one of the biggest if not the biggest soft
> drink distributors in the country) is not already a distributor for
> CM.


 

Dr. Jesus -- you probably missed the past discussions and comments about vending machines.  There's people at Noisebridge who have promised various things if a vending machine ever appeared in our space.  Might be worth it just to see.  (But probably not.)

 

 

Thanks for checking into bulk pricing!  This could raise us a bunch of money, and supply us with geeky fluids.

 

 

Mitch.

 

 
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