[Noisebridge-discuss] paying for Club Mate, and other drinks

[Naomi Most]

This may not be the most hackerly topic, but I'm interested in running
beverage sales numbers analysis to find out how price points affect the
bottom line in an honor-based system.

There's kind of a black magic to price points, wherein (for example) the
same item priced at $2.00 and at $2.25 in the same franchise of shops will
overall sell roughly 30% better in the shop where it's priced at $2.25.

I'm going to guess that an analysis of honor-based environments in
comparison to traditional sales environments will show, "it's different."

--Naomi



On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Hi Folks,
>
>
> At the end of July me and a few other Noisebridge members paid for 800
> bottles of Club Mate for Noisebridge -- as a fund raiser.
>
>
> It seems that the Club Mate are very popular!  Only 200-some of them are
> left.
>
>
> Thing is, though, we haven't even collected half the money we (me and the
> other NB members) spent for the 800 bottles of Club Mate.  And there's only
> 200-some of them left.  Doing just a little bit of math:  if everyone pays
> the required $4 for the remaining 200-some bottles that they drink, then we
> still won't nearly enough to pay me and the other NB members back for the
> expense we laid out.
>
>
> Please:  if you drink any Mate, then pay at least $4 for it.  We (me and
> some other NB members) paid $3.31 per bottle for this stuff (mostly
> shipping).  It would be nice to get at least a majority of this back so we
> don't lose so much.
>
>
> Up until this, we've about tripled our money for other beverages at
> Noisebridge.  I was hoping that Noisebridge would make aobut 70¢ per bottle
> on the Club Mate.  I guess we failed at that.
>
>
> Mitch.
>
>
>
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