[OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Thu May 20 21:34:12 BST 2010


Why do you take responsibility for postal losses? That seems super bad luck. You're running a business right not a socialist theocracy.

Just put a note on the checkout that says

uninsured postal delivery: £4
recorded, insured delivery: £10

or whatever.


On May 18, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Andy Allan wrote:

> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Gregory <nomoregrapes at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> For people who can't manage downloading a file, Andy provides a nice service
>> of posting garmin maps on an SD card. http://shop.opencyclemap.org/ I don't
>> know if he gets a tiny profit margin or not, but the prices are good just
>> for blank SD cards!
> 
> Thanks. I make a small "profit" on each sale, after everyone else
> takes their cut (paypal fees, shipping, and so on). But "profit" on
> each sale of SD cards is eaten up entirely by the combination of
> monthly site running costs, postal losses (grr) and other overheads.
> I'll need a lot more sales before I can fund the rest of opencyclemap
> with income from the shop, and I laugh when I think of what my hourly
> rate works out as!
> 
> The situation is even worse for the OSM surveyors jackets, where the
> margin is so small (under a pound) that a single lost item would take
> me around another 20 sales just to make back. So far I've sold three,
> and the first one of those (to a certain someone you might know)
> actually worked out at a materials loss (of 17p), not counting monthly
> overheads. But it's great promotion for OSM, helps raise money for
> OSMF, and I think these things are important.
> 
> So if anyone is wondering, the little shop that I have is
> time-consuming and barely breaks even, but it's good fun to run and
> has many happy customers, and that's really why I do it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 
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Yours &c.

Steve





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