[Eg-oversight-board] Amazon and Zazzle

[Rogan Hamby]

Postscript: this is for discussion.  If everyone is happy with it I will
proceed with gathering input.  Creation of the actual links will require
Conservancy action I imagine.


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at gmail.com> wrote:

> BTW, I think if we're going to have a store section (and we're moving that
> way) it should include a section for the Evergreen in Action book. We have
> info for ordering it in the documentation part of the wiki now.
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EqtEBc8frLawB00d3bBoRkxU6Cc_g-Tqz-RAk_JYeBg/viewform
>
> This is the link for the very, very simple google form for folks to
> nominate items for the Evergreen store.  After submitting the form you can
> see what others have already put there.  I will veto clearly inappropriate
> items ... I will leave it up to the various imaginations online as to what
> clearly inappropriate to means but as everyone here has seen the Internet
> and what anonymity sometimes brings it shouldn't be too hard.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Sounds great.  I'm going to go ahead and get together a list of items we
>> could highlight and try to have some mechanism for folks to submit their
>> own ideas.  Probably a google form.
>>
>> I do have answers to some of the Zazzle questions the community had.
>>
>> 1) Are their products ethically sourced?  This isn't a yes/no answer.
>>  They solicit goods from a variety of ethical and non-ethical sources but
>> when you are setting up your store you can select that items only be used
>> that are Made in the USA and therefore ethically sourced.  It means you
>> give up some of the cheapest price options but I think we would want to use
>> that.  I don't want a US centric focus here but they don't have a
>> "ethically sourced" option without a geographic bias.
>>
>> 2) Do they provide volume discounts?  Yes.  For example, screen printing
>> apparel discounts are as follows (they vary for item type):
>>
>> 1-12 shirts 0%
>> 13-25 shirts 20% off
>> 26-50 shirts 30% off
>> 51-100 shirts 40% off
>> 101+ shirts 50% off
>>
>> 3) Do they allow multiple designs of the same item type (for example,
>> multiple shirt designs) and the answer is yes.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Did we ever find out if it was acceptable to setup an Amazon referrer
>>>>> link that was open or if we would be restricted to only linking to specific
>>>>> Evergreen relevant items?  If it turns out to be the later I will start an
>>>>> effort to gather input about items we can list.  And maybe we should do
>>>>> that anyway to list items of special interest even if we can do the open
>>>>> link.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've asked the question again.  Even if a generic link would
>>>> acceptable, I do think that identifying specific books would be useful
>>>> regardless.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've heard back.  A generic link is acceptable, using wording like
>>> 'Please consider following this link when making purchases at Amazon.com'.
>>>  The language would have to be clear to not ask or encourage folks to shop
>>> at Amazon, however.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Galen
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>>
>>
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