On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> But let's take the high number, 10.00.
>
> Assuming we order 250, that is ~ 2500.00 (shipping etc..). The item is
> then reusable for years... with a little blue elephant and URL. It also
> becomes a talking piece, "What's that on your pen drive?". Versus a CD
> which will likely be loaded once (if we are lucky) and then thrown away.
>
> On the cursory review of companies that do this I am seeing prices for a
> 128MB model for anywhere from 6.50 to 4.60. The real question will be
> what does it cost to pre-load it. Let me see if I can get some better
> numbers for that. However even if it cost 2.00 to pre-load it (which I
> highly doubt) we are still talking about a resuable item.
>
> And of course, it can be used to drive donations :)
I just requested a quote from these guys: http://www.cfgear.com/about.html
I like the drive donations idea. No problems with sizes or gender :)
-selena
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