Reuse

Standing Reuse Committee

Mission: To look at and improve processes to get more hardware given away or sold

Programs: Freekbox, storebox, grantbox production, build, laptops, testing maintenance and development; retail sales, eBay sales; printer refurbishing and sales; locate, evaluation, and put oddball hardware into reuse; wholesale or bulk sales of to-be-recycled parts.

Email: reuse at freegeek.org

NOTE: The Reuse committee has been divide into a Sales committee and a Production committee.

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Budgeted Expenses

(Your actual expense budget goes here, along with explanatory notes, for example notes indicating which months expenses are expected to happen in,.)

Please indicate a bit more about the types of purchases that you predict will be made (since that may move them to a different line item in the budget).

Production

• Build - $20.00
• laptop - $35.00
• Other -
• Printers - $10.00

Sales

• Online and external sales - $20
• Online sales fees - $ 120
• Other -
• Refunds - $75-100
• Shipping - $120
• Wholesale - $20

Nonrecurring expenses

• CGL is requesting a one time budget item of $150.00 for construction costs. (We may be able to take this out of the improvements budget)

Related Items

(This is for notes that indicate expenses that affect your committee but are actually classified under a different committee.)

• We may be tapping into the tools budget a little heaver than normal in the first quarter of 2008 as we set up individual tool boxes for laptops and the various prebuilds
• voltometers cost about $12 per quarter (action:tools?)
• check online sales fees, which should have dropped when we registered as a nonprofit a couple months ago

Income Guesstimates

Current budget looks like this for one month:

• Online $1,700.00
• Retail $25,000.00
• Shipping reimbursement $250.00
• Wholesale $4,000.00

TOTAL $30,950

Dave's guess is it should be more like this:

• Online $2,200.00 (serge consulted)
• Retail $28,000.00
• Shipping reimbursement $250.00
• Wholesale $3,000.00

TOTAL $35,250