Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
pg> * Key chains with coins (Euro-sized) which can be used in pg> supermarked trolleys and such. They will cost about as much as pg> the T-shirts, but they are of a high quality - engraved metal, pg> not printed plastic - see pg> http://adele.gerwinski.de/~peter/coin-20010522/ .
Is there a demand for this? How many peoople would like to have such an item?
I don't know, that's why I asked on this list.
Even though it helps that Peter will finance the first investment needed to get things started, we really need to find a good way to deal with this on a resonably big scale, I think.
Well - give me 100 kEuro, then I will do the same on a really big scale. ;-)
But anyway I think that this can finance itself and grow.
The FSF Europe needs to maintain a permanent supply of all items to be able to supply them for tradeshows and conferences... the central point for this will be the office in Essen.
Also we should make it easier for people to simply order small quantities of the FSF(E) merchandise. A perfect solution would be an online form where people simply enter what they want and have it delivered by mail.
Of course this requires dealing with the money transfers and packaging.
Er ... I have experience with all this and just offered to do it for cost price. Of course, competent help is always welcome.
So there are essentially two problems that need to be solved:
a) We need a place that can print reasonably large quantities of t-shirts with a good quality (I think it is important they are as good as the U.S. ones) and deliver them to Essen.
My offer implied that I would use my connections to get everything produced in Essen.
b) We need to set up a good way to make it easy for people to get the things outside of tradeshows. Is there anyone here who has experience with such things and/or would be able to help?
IMHO the only reasonable way to do that is to sell the items in larger quantities to dealers. I have some contacts, e.g. to LinuxLand. Anyone else who has more contacts?
Peter