Fleamarket

[Laszlo KREKACS]

Hi,

This idea is floating in my head since a long time,
and I would rather push it out, to have some feedback from you guys.

Over the years there have been many prototype batches, leftovers,
and other products accumulated.

So I would like to sell it for a minimal costs, some open questions remains:

1. How to sell it without hurting normal sales?

Ie. if I sell leftover hyena v1 for lets say 1EUR/piece,
then others may get an impression,
that the normal version should be priced equally low.

Basically from the hyenas I have many leftovers. Between v1 and v2
alone I had 28 prototypes.
I had an almost good v2 batch manufactured 300 of it, and scraped
because it had a tendency to break off a tooth.
(ie. was oversharpened). But if someone uses it carefully with a long
period of time of break-in, then it is trouble-free.
One of my machine still use one of it without problem (but if
overstressed, it may break the teeth instead of biting of the
filament).

The point is, these leftover things are maybe working. Maybe not.

2. Warranty

It is known from the start it may be not working. How should be the
warranty handled?

3. Free give-away

I'm not a real fan of free give-away, it is never appreciated.
I mean it is treated always that way: a throw-away item.
I tried it in the past. I even gave away complete batches.
Never heard back anything about it.

The day before the hyenas, normal M8 hobbed bolt, if I recall
correctly I gave away more then 100 of it free.
No word from them 'till date.

The other option is just keep it as souvenir (and I do keep many of my
prototypes organized).

So what do you guys think about it?

Best,
Laszlo

[nop head]

Seems like the ideal things for auction on eBay with a starting price so you don't make a loss on postage.

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[Ian Lewis]

I think you could keep at least one of everything... Sort of a development profile...

Ian

Please forgive typos, sent from my iPhone

[Carl]

Split them into little 'Prototype Lucky Bags' each filed with a random mix of components for a reasonable set price - Personally, I would love to get a bag of random parts to test and play with! :-)

[Bryan Boettcher]

I like the idea of a "Clearance" section of the store.  For US shoppers anyway (I don't know how this applies across the pond) some of our stores have a concept of clearance where they put items they're trying to get rid of on substantial discount in a separate area.  The idea is generally no returns, and first come first serve.  When they're gone, remove the section.

There's also "scratch & dent".  These are items that are normally for sale, but something isn't perfect about them.  As an example the m8 with m3 grubscrew, if somehow the tapped hole wasn't centered -- this is a scratch & dent item now.  Most people would care its not perfect, some wouldn't.  Scratch and dent generally carry no warranty and are sold at about half price as well.

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Carl <cpra...@gmail.com> wrote:

Split them into little 'Prototype Lucky Bags' each filed with a random mix of components for a reasonable set price - Personally, I would love to get a bag of random parts to test and play with! :-)

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[Kyle Kenney]

I love the idea of buying cheap parts, shitty or not, because they're cheap. I think if you marked the parts as non refundable and clearly label them as defect, you wont having issues selling them off or them some how eating into your sales or dropping prices of other parts.

[manu]

+1 for the "prototype lucky bag". I love the idea.

2013/8/25 Kyle Kenney <dudl...@gmail.com>