Re: New "product" for AGA promotion or sale?

[krombhol@teclink.net (Paul Krombholz)]

>Khew Sin Sun <khewss@singnet.com.sg> and partners in Singapore are
>producing a CD version of an aquarium magazine. The premier issue of
>the CD  will come out next week (the master's with their CD
>duplicators now). It will include one of my articles on Red algae.
>
>I have  seen a draft product and it looks good. He wondered if we we could
>offer this CD to members of AGA at
>a discounted rate. They're suggesting a retail of US$9.95 per copy. He
>suggests that some
>other ways of working at this could also be areas where AGA could give away
>complimentary copies to its new subscribers.They will sell the product to
>us for "something like a 50% off
>SRP for AGA (that's about US$5 per CD)" However, he then says that this
>would be at an order of up to 500 copies (minimum of 300). I replied by
>saying that I will pass this on to the decision making body of AGA. I
>already indicated that we might not be able to use 300 at one time.
>
>Y'all can discuss this and then the aga rep can respond directly to Khew.
>
>Let's see--- $5.00 times 300 equals $1,500.00.  That sounds like a
>significant chunk of the AGA budget.  What would be the chances of getting
>it back?  Could we sell very many of them at $9.95?  Just what is this
>aquarium magazine about?  Is there much about aquarium plants in it?
>Unless this aquarium magazine is really dynamite, I don't think we would
>recoup very much of the cost.

Just a few random, negative, thoughts----



Paul Krombholz, in central Mississippi, expecting a 50 degree temperature
drop from a high of 84 today to a predicted low of 34 overnight.