On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:08:00AM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- "Thomas R. Koll" tomk32@gmx.de wrote:
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 05:01:00AM +0200, Erik Moeller wrote: For the WikiReaders I'm currently setting up a webshop. I'm still working at it, implementing a multi-seller function. The idea is that everybody can sell printings, CD/DVDs or merchandise stuff on the site. For the sellers the biggest advantage is the central marekt and for the customer cheaper shipping is a big advantage (I neither live in CafePress country nor do I have a credit card).
Sounds neat. The fact that CafePress only accepts US dollars and is only in English is a big drawback. On top of that, they are pretty darn expensive.
Maybe it's a good time to start discussions about an official Wikimedia shop. Comments?
I don't know since that would require us to have storage space, a distribution system, a secure server to handle credit cards, and a staff to fill and send out orders and deal with problems. Unfortunately CafePress has very little competition and what little does exist has many of the same problems CafePress does.
Damn, we're building the biggest encycopedia in the world. We can do such a little shop ourself.
Except a few we could have external sellers in our shop, for me storage is no problem or costs, the 1000 WikiReaders won't take much space anyways. I hope that the devs can setup a secure server, can they? Here in Germany credit cards are quite unpopular, bank transfer is still number one and if I have to print another 1k copies of the WikiReader they might be sent out on bill/account and not on advanced payment.
ciao, tom