edit: This post is invalidated for now. See explanation in the next post, and the updated final cost listing here.Ok folks, I've been over all the numbers and finalized everything. Here's where we ended up:
Set Name | Units ordered | Final price |
CCnG | 66 | $18 |
Cherry replica | 104 | $13.50 |
RA red | 114 | $14 |
RA grey | 46 | $21 |
RA white | 60 | $18 |
As you can see, I've rounded up the costs to make round numbers. This is to help cover a few extra sets of each in case of damage, mail loss, etc.
The only set in a real profitable buy-up situation is the RA grey set, which is near a large price break at 50 units. So I'm ordering 50 of them and using some of the savings to help with extras of the other sets. The rest of the savings is being used to reduce the price of the RA grey set, even though we didn't actually make it to 50 units. So instead of the production cost of $25.92 per set, I am charging $21 per set.
We ended up with 74 geekhack orders, plus an as-yet undetermined number of orders from kbdmania (need to get the number from Taeyoung still). This puts the materials fee (covering shipping from SP to me, the Cherry Fn legend, and shipping supplies), in the $1-$1.50 range, per order.
As per usual, Paypal seller fees will also be added to each order. I believe we may also need to add a small amount to cover currency conversion since Taeyoung is doing the collection with his South Korean Paypal account. Not sure about this yet.
I'll be working with Taeyoung to get the final details straightened out. Continue to expect invoices real soon now.