Hi all interested in the US container adventure,
I feel like I need to explain some of my moves here. First of all I am happy and excited that we are going to try to do this (most probably). The word excited is no blah here, as is proven by the amount of posts in this thread ;-) Please bear with me, if I am a bit confusing sometimes.
That said, I want this to be a venture of all of us, not just me. Sure, I could buy your grails in the US and try to make some money of you, at least in theory, but to be honest I wouldn't even have the funds to do so. I also don't think that this is the right way to do it.
I never quite got why no one from over here is doing the container thing. Well, the main reason might be that organizing the whole thing is not possible if you are not there. The second being that it is expensive, but to be honest, I think the first reason is the whole problem.
We don't have this problem. John is taking care of it - for free!
We do have another problem though. That's to do with how John makes his money in a deal like this. He sells games at NON KLOV prices. Not as high as some of the really crazy people out there (like a TARG for $1500 lol), but high nevertheless.
To make the deal work for John, we will have to buy expensive games from him. John, on the other hand, knows that buying all games from him isn't working for us. That's why he accepts games from other sources in the deal too. We can even store them at his facility!
Some of you stated they would rather buy all the stuff from John directly. I for myself am especially keen on buying stuff somewhere else (like klov). I believe a mix of both options will be best and John seems to think so too, as he pointed this out to me in the first place.
Sooooooooooooo. There are three options to get games into that damn container.
1 --- Buy from John. Easy and expensive.
2 --- Let me make deals for you with other sellers and pay me a €50 fee for every game that ends up in the container.
3 --- Go to Klov, Craigs List or your friends and order stuff yourself and get it shipped to John's. For, hmm, free.
Number 2 is meant to point something out here. John is making much more then €50 in every game he sells you. Me for myself I am after certain games I want like crazy anyway and even have a job ;-) So why don't you look for your grails yourself?
That said you don't need to. If you prefer option 1 or 2, well so be it.
Why did I choose some simple project management tool instead putting this in a forum thread and an spread sheet? Because I think that the possibilities of this deal are not covered by forum and spread sheet. And also because this would make one person doing it all.
I do believe in flexibility and transparency. I also believe that anyone should be able to choose the options most suitable to them. And this in turn means, that some real-time project management tool is the weapon of choice :-))))
I am serious regarding the €50 fee.
Please let me know if you are fine with all this.
Thanks,
Thomas
PS: Do you guys get mails regarding posts in the "news ticker" project of asana? If not please "follow" that stupid project, as I am posting possible deals there first. Kay?
