From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
Cc: | "Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum" <ads(at)pgug(dot)de>, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com>, pgeu-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Merchandising, merchandising.. on the postgresql.eu site |
Date: | 2009-11-12 14:43:49 |
Message-ID: | 9837222c0911120643w57f55cf1v1c45a0e639c480a0@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:55, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <ads(at)pgug(dot)de> wrote:
>
>> Hmm, so we are stuck to their inventory? What about plush elephants?
>> What about a new mug design? What about shirts for the kids? ;-)
>>
>> We should at least be able to supply some items.
>
> From what I've seen, we either have all the stock provided for us, or
> none of it. So if we wanted to have someone else handle all the
> logistics etc for supplying T-shirts online *and* sell plushys, we'd
> need two shop fronts.
Do they have APIs so we could do a frontend and use them for just
parts of it? Or do they require the hwole thing to be there? I can
totally understand that they don't let us sell other things through
their site, but they might allow our site to use theirs or something?
> My view is that that is impractical, and that we should use a full
> service site for our online merchandise, and keep the special/custom
> stuff for sale at conferences etc. It's not perfect, but it seems like
> a good compromise to me.
+1.
We really *can't* deal with the logistics. There is no way in we have
the manpower to do that. And if we did, it can be better spent on
something else.
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Magnus Hagander
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