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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
Am Dienstag, den 06.08.2013, 17:47 +0200 schrieb Ruald Andreae:
> I FULLY understand the fact that the cost of the phone is high and
> that's the point. But did you read the rest of the email where I state
> the costs is too high for most and justified the lower cost with perks
> and better marketing which would have made up the rest of the cost and
> perhaps actually make it a viable reality?
> 
> Kinda worries me that all you took from my mail was one point and
> regurgitating the same thing everyone else has said but did not look
> or comment at how it actually COULD have worked with my suggestions.
> 
> It's not going to get funded, we must accept that and look at why it
> didn't succeed.
> 
> I did some calculations and with enough people donating for the perks
> I laid out at $700 it's actually plausible. I am not even being overly
> optimistic in my sums. 
thats the point, giving all of them away for $700 means you need to make
more than 4mio with the extra perks (700 * 40000 devices = 28mio) plus
you have to compensate for the $100 difference for the devices that got
out to early adopters on the two first days. you cant sell the phone
cheaper than the production costs are unless you have a massive
compensation in place already. while i belive your smaller perks would
gain good money into the campaign i dont think it would be enough to
compensate for such a price drop (note you would also have to re-fund
all the people of the 720, 750, 775 and 780 perks if you drop the price
across the board so we would lose a million or more again)

ciao
	oli

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