Rawhide Kid #15
Rawhide Kid #17
Rawhide Kid #19
Ringo Kid Western #11
We had three new people contribute to the "cause" (Thanks Mal32 & his Italian friends!), which gave us a bigger budget. There are now 10 people who have contributed.
I mentioned bidding on the Rawhide Kid 15 and people seemed open to it, so I bid and won one yesterday. The total was $40, so the project right now has spent $241 of its $300 "budget".
I'll leave the floor open, as it were, for people to suggest a) what to buy with the leftover money and b) start thinking ahead to the next project.
I believe RK17 has been distributed to everyone, but if you did not get it, get in touch with me ASAP and I can give you either a Megaupload link or share it with you in the one of the hubs.
As mentioned before, it will be publicly shared once I sell the original on eBay. I got sidelined with a nasty bug on Sunday, but I hope to get it listed on Tues.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Project #1: Rawhide Kid
The first project will be:
Rawhide Kid #17
Rawhide Kid #19
Ringo Kid Western #11
The cost of these three books including shipping was $201 (RK17, $133; RK19, $60; RKW11, $8). (The Ringo Kid Western was added into it because it could ship for free with the Rawhide Kid 19.) I have already bought and paid for these books.
There are currently 7 participants in this round. I will not post handles of participants unless people agree it's OK.
Everyone's share will be $30. This is adding $1 which Paypal will deduct from your payment to me.
You can paypal the money to me via the email address found in my profile on the right.
I will post comments to keep people updated on the status. Feel free to post your own comments, questions, etc.
Rawhide Kid #17
Rawhide Kid #19
Ringo Kid Western #11
The cost of these three books including shipping was $201 (RK17, $133; RK19, $60; RKW11, $8). (The Ringo Kid Western was added into it because it could ship for free with the Rawhide Kid 19.) I have already bought and paid for these books.
There are currently 7 participants in this round. I will not post handles of participants unless people agree it's OK.
Everyone's share will be $30. This is adding $1 which Paypal will deduct from your payment to me.
You can paypal the money to me via the email address found in my profile on the right.
I will post comments to keep people updated on the status. Feel free to post your own comments, questions, etc.
Ground Rules
The ground rules for the project:
We'll come to an agreement on what book or books we're going to buy and at what price, and I will buy it.
The donation for each participant will be determined by dividing the cost by the number of participants, but if that number is too high for someone they should donate an amount they feel comfortable losing.
I say losing because when we're done I will resell the book on Ebay. The money after selling fees will be split among all the participants. In most cases, because the nature of flipping on ebay, I expect to end up selling the book for less than we paid. (For myself, I usually consider a 30% loss acceptable; YMMV.) What we're trying to do is amortize that loss among several people so that we can buy pricier books without someone taking a $100 hit, etc.
After the sale, your share of the money can either be refunded to you or rolled into the next project. No one has to sign up for every project, so if you want in on one book but not the next, refunding your money is no problem-- just let me know.
As far as the scanning itself, I think what will happen is I will do a raw scan of the books, and the editing can be distributed among anyone interested. I'll probably make the raws available via DC++ to interested parties.
The only thing I would suggest is that we not distribute the finished scan to anyone outside of this group until the book has been sold and shipped. Why buy the cow when the milk is free, and all that...
Hopefully this will run smoothly and we can get a lot of stuff scanned and distributed!
We'll come to an agreement on what book or books we're going to buy and at what price, and I will buy it.
The donation for each participant will be determined by dividing the cost by the number of participants, but if that number is too high for someone they should donate an amount they feel comfortable losing.
I say losing because when we're done I will resell the book on Ebay. The money after selling fees will be split among all the participants. In most cases, because the nature of flipping on ebay, I expect to end up selling the book for less than we paid. (For myself, I usually consider a 30% loss acceptable; YMMV.) What we're trying to do is amortize that loss among several people so that we can buy pricier books without someone taking a $100 hit, etc.
After the sale, your share of the money can either be refunded to you or rolled into the next project. No one has to sign up for every project, so if you want in on one book but not the next, refunding your money is no problem-- just let me know.
As far as the scanning itself, I think what will happen is I will do a raw scan of the books, and the editing can be distributed among anyone interested. I'll probably make the raws available via DC++ to interested parties.
The only thing I would suggest is that we not distribute the finished scan to anyone outside of this group until the book has been sold and shipped. Why buy the cow when the milk is free, and all that...
Hopefully this will run smoothly and we can get a lot of stuff scanned and distributed!
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