The year before last, I with the help of my friends in the Massachusetts LoCo team put together a project which pre-funded the creation of the Ubuntu Aluminium Case Badges. It was a fairly good experience, we had 19,000 made at a cost of 19¢ each and I learned a great deal about what it takes to operate a physical business with logistics and dealing with the emails asking for singles.
So LoCo teams are running out again, I has plans on doing a similar project, where everyone would get together and fund a large shipment. But ZaReason were rightfully getting impatient with me, I was trying to sort out some of the back end tools (which non businesses don’t have set up normally) and so decided to get them made themselves.
I asked if they could make them available for sale on their website,
ZaReason Website
These are in strips of 11 for $5, this comes to 2.2 times the price that our public service price came to. Though that’s not a surprise, these ones have a better protective layer than the first batch and handling, shipping and plenty of other factors come into play when your dealing with physical goods of a small valuation. Now everyone who needed just a couple can get their hands on them. Thanks goes out to Earl at ZaReason for sorting this out.
If there are still groups (LoCos, other businesses) that want hundreds, we can always persist in a Group Buy effort again and get a better price. But it depends on demand. Email Me.