[Noisebridge-discuss] Club Matte for Noisebridge

[Shannon Lee]

I think we should have a vending machine with a traditional
put-money-in-and-pay-like-a-grownup setup, but also a big red button labeled
"leech" -- you hit the button, and a soda comes out, and a big sign lights
up that says, "Dickhead."

--S

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  > 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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Shannon Lee
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