Hopefully it will be the kind of perk that will attract people who are already active in the projects to become members. As to selling at above cost, the Foundation wasn't too keen on that - worried that we would develop into some kind of commercial arm of the Foundation, which is not really their idea of the role of chapters.
Andrew
----- "Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
From: "Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, 13 September, 2009 23:12:46 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Merchandising
2009/9/13 Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com:
We've received approval from the Wikimedia Foundation to produce merchandising with Wikimedia trademarks and copyrighted logos on it for sale to our members - anything from mugs and mouse-mats to cufflinks and ties. The plan is to sell them at cost price to members only.
Cost price? What is the point of that? Merchandising is a great way of making money. I don't think the existence of members-only merchandise is going to get many extra people to sign up. I would be happy to pay a little extra for my WMUK t-shirts.
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2009/9/13 Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com:
Hopefully it will be the kind of perk that will attract people who are already active in the projects to become members. As to selling at above cost, the Foundation wasn't too keen on that - worried that we would develop into some kind of commercial arm of the Foundation, which is not really their idea of the role of chapters.
Did you point out that selling merchandise is a very common way for charities to raise funds?
At 23:40 +0100 13/9/09, Andrew Turvey wrote:
Hopefully it will be the kind of perk that will attract people who are already active in the projects to become members. As to selling at above cost, the Foundation wasn't too keen on that - worried that we would develop into some kind of commercial arm of the Foundation, which is not really their idea of the role of chapters.
Andrew
Run that by me, one more time?
Why then seek to gain a tax advantage?
Gordo
The main monetary benefits of charity status are being able to reclaim Gift Aid on donations and reduced rates on expenses like room hire and paypal fees. These are far larger than any profit on T-shirt sales would ever be.
Andrew
On Sep 14, 9:34 am, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:
At 23:40 +0100 13/9/09, Andrew Turvey wrote:
Hopefully it will be the kind of perk that will attract people who are already active in the projects to become members. As to selling at above cost, the Foundation wasn't too keen on that - worried that we would develop into some kind of commercial arm of the Foundation, which is not really their idea of the role of chapters.
Andrew
Run that by me, one more time?
Why then seek to gain a tax advantage?
Gordo
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