On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:43:16 -0700 (PDT)
Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote:

> > > I don't know what fund raising ideas we can use.
> > Selling shirts and coffee cups requires serious overhead and
> > personnel. Yet sometimes I wonder what we could do to keep
> > Trinity moving at a nice speed.
> > 
> > There are websites that are already setup, that make it
> > relatively easy to sell stuff for you (like zazzle)
> > 
> > here is the Arch Linux zazzle page:
> > www.zazzle.com/archlinux*
> 
> Fascinating. How to handle the overhead of ordering supplies, maintaining inventory, etc.? That requires people.

In Zazzle's case, they do it for you--essentially, they print on demand and
then drop-ship the item directly to the person who's ordered it.  You-the-designer
set the price point, Zazzle takes a fixed cut in return for its services, and you
get whatever's left over.  In other words, you effectively pay a bit more to get the 
thing printed in return for them handling the supply, shipping, inventory etc.
hassles for you.