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[Daniel Clem <clem11388@xxxxxxxxx>]

I deleted the more relevant mail already, so sorry for being out of order. But we have a GSM phone and account from a pay as you go company called "Tracfone”. Is this Sim card compatible with?? If so I will definitely pledge one I have 830 saved.

"Omar B." <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Nice, thx for recording the data and the graph.
>did you get any data on individuals who may had purchased multiple
>times consecutively? , how many each individual got ?
>I Think indiegogo only lets you select one perk even if you add more
>cash to the amount.
>So it wouldn't be a surprise if some made multiple purchases
>consecutively.
>Anyway this will be a crucial week, hope their double edge and other
>perks get mass acceptance.
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>From: coder543@xxxxxxxxx
>Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:41:00 -0500
>Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)
>To: estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx
>CC: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>Actually, this will probably help. This is the amount of funding the
>project had received over time. The data was sampled at a rate of once
>every 90 seconds. You can clearly see the moment when the $600 phone
>option ran out. Calculating the trend line for the second half of the
>graph indicates that the campaign will raise about $20,000,000 total
>over the full period of the campaign, which is not enough. I believe
>that this is the reason Canonical introduced the Double Edge option a
>few minutes ago, which might boost sales by a little bit more.
>Hopefully this clarifies my point. There lines are very smooth. If a
>company bought 100 units all at once, there would be a visible blip on
>the graph, in my opinion. That would be $60,000 in pledges all at once,
>which would break the monotony of the graph.
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>On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
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>I'm not saying companies couldn't buy from the indiegogo deal. I'm just
>saying the companies with the money to buy from this fundraiser
>wouldn't be able to move fast enough to have gotten in on the 1st day
>of sales. Companies move slowly for the most part, and I was watching
>the sales figures carefully. I've even plotted them on a graph over
>time as the data has come in, starting at about $1.5million dollars in
>sales. I should've started the data collection earlier, but I stupidly
>didn't think to. I watched the number from the start though, even
>though they weren't being recorded. The rates were constant. There was
>no bulk purchase done by any one company. If you would like to review
>my numbers, I can send you the spreadsheet.
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>On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
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>>Stores and resellers were not purchasing from indiegogo yesterday.
>There might have been one or two, but that's simply not what happened.
>This whole campaign is all about individuals buying these phones. I
>don't want to see this campaign fail anymore than you do. People will
>either buy them at $830, or they won't.
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>yes... sure.
>I didn't see anywhere that said limited one per client.
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>Or that you shouldn't get involved with business reasons in mind and
>get a bunch of them.
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>There's nothing to lose at the moment, which makes it even better. In
>fact anyone can come in and buy most of the 35k remaining, I don't
>think its prohibited.
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>I believe even companies got into the discounted 600 tier and took
>their share and is why you see 0 in the enterprise tier. Why would you
>as a company pay 80/160k when you can pay 60/120k right there (Big
>discount in one go), is a no brainer, they wouldn't survive as
>companies by being dumb about $, specially on this economy.
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>    Josh
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