How Should We Celebrate Tiki Central's 20th Anniversary? - General Tiki

M MadDogMike Grand Member (8 years) The Anvil of the Sun Joined: Mar 30, 2008 Posts: 11111	M MadDogMike Posted posted on Thu, Oct 10, 2019 1:58 PM I did a little catch up on the thread today and have a couple comments Tucson Tiki Jeff was asking if I have some control over TC. I don't. My main role is to help people with passwords, keep out SPAM, and try to have people remain civil to each other. I don't have much power beyond that. Thank you Swizzle for that FaceBook poll. I realize that some of the people on FaceBook are those who have left TC but there is also some overlap. I think most of the people who participated in the poll are like-minded to those here and I think it's a valid tool to gauge interest. There isn't a good way to create a poll on TC but there are several web sites to make one and post a link here. That would be a great thing to do in the very near future, I think we need to have reasonable price estimate on each item so that people can make an informed decision. There have been comments about people making a profit off of this merchandise. If we order pins or stickers or whatever, there will be profit built in. I would just as soon that a reasonable amount of profit goes to a TC member instead of someone outside of our community, I think Hanford would agree with that in his permission to use the logo. Funding is going to be the biggest problem that I see. Take swizzles for example. 50 people at $50 each would give them each 200 swizzles and not leave any for someone who only wanted 10 or 20. Does this make idea sense? You sell 50 shares at $50 each to make the $2500 production costs. You sell swizzles in packs of 10 or 25 at slightly more that cost. At the end of a pre-determined sales period, each of the share holders gets 2% (1/50th) of the proceeds and 2% of unsold swizzles. At worst, that are committed to $50 and 200 swizzles. A more reasonable expectation is that they get $25 back and 100 swizzles or $33 back and 60 swizzles (approximate math) I sense some frustration that we don't have a leader and cohesive plan. Hamo had a great idea but I think he's pretty busy right now. I am willing to help organize but like most of us, I have some time constraints too. I think this will require multiple people, all of whom will have a part.

I did a little catch up on the thread today and have a couple comments

Tucson Tiki Jeff was asking if I have some control over TC. I don't. My main role is to help people with passwords, keep out SPAM, and try to have people remain civil to each other. I don't have much power beyond that.

Thank you Swizzle for that FaceBook poll. I realize that some of the people on FaceBook are those who have left TC but there is also some overlap. I think most of the people who participated in the poll are like-minded to those here and I think it's a valid tool to gauge interest. There isn't a good way to create a poll on TC but there are several web sites to make one and post a link here. That would be a great thing to do in the very near future, I think we need to have reasonable price estimate on each item so that people can make an informed decision.

There have been comments about people making a profit off of this merchandise. If we order pins or stickers or whatever, there will be profit built in. I would just as soon that a reasonable amount of profit goes to a TC member instead of someone outside of our community, I think Hanford would agree with that in his permission to use the logo.

Funding is going to be the biggest problem that I see. Take swizzles for example. 50 people at $50 each would give them each 200 swizzles and not leave any for someone who only wanted 10 or 20. Does this make idea sense? You sell 50 shares at $50 each to make the $2500 production costs. You sell swizzles in packs of 10 or 25 at slightly more that cost. At the end of a pre-determined sales period, each of the share holders gets 2% (1/50th) of the proceeds and 2% of unsold swizzles. At worst, that are committed to $50 and 200 swizzles. A more reasonable expectation is that they get $25 back and 100 swizzles or $33 back and 60 swizzles (approximate math)

I sense some frustration that we don't have a leader and cohesive plan. Hamo had a great idea but I think he's pretty busy right now. I am willing to help organize but like most of us, I have some time constraints too. I think this will require multiple people, all of whom will have a part.

Post #797949 by MadDogMike on Thu, Oct 10, 2019 1:58 PM