Thrift Store Agenda

Thrift Store & Sales Meeting 11/10/10

Facilitator: Sergio Garcia Scribe: Michael Millar

Present: Ian, Paco, Michael M., Sergio, eBeth, Santiago

Note: Leah couldn't make it. Also, there wasn't enough time to go over the old commits so they are a carryover from the previous meeting.

Old Commits:

1. Paco will email technocrats to get a new eyes login. IP + - waiting for a response from technocrats
2. Sergio will join drop box.
3. All of us will figure out what we want to keep for the museum. IP +
4. Francisco and Sergio will make a Store box in Mac Land. IP
5. Ian COMMITS to send an email to receiving to communicate the policy on software and make sure the policy on the wiki is current.
6. Paco COMMITS to look at sales trends and get back to us.
7. Leah COMMITS to looking into the new intern.
8. Ian COMMITS to letting receiving know that we no longer want internal card readers without cables.
9. Ian COMMITS to cleaning the safari policy page up and finalizing it.
10. Leah COMMITS to talking to Ebeth and Santiago about selling laptop parts on ebay.
11. Leah COMMITS to talking to tech support to find out the simple problems that maybe we can help people know how to solve during the actual computer sale. Also Leah will find out how the manual is working for people if at all.
12. Leah COMMITS to email schedule at to have the sales meeting added to next week.

Discussion (General business):

1. Other gizmo testing: (digital cameras, pdas, external optical drives, etc) it seems that there has been a high failure rate in tested gizmos recently. Suggested that there should be a return box for these items. Would advise that customer return labels be attached to each returned item to more easily troubleshoot. As of this time, it is unclear what the parameters for gizmo testing are. Advised that there be some guidance and monitoring on data wiping for said devices. Primary issue is creating a system for testing special devices in the long term.
2. Report on cell phone sales to our new recycling vendor Wireless Alliance: there is currently no one to test phones. Suggested that all fancy phones (Blackberry etc.) be sent to online sales to be sold as is.
3. Sampling Ram & CPU sales on eBay and in the store: Deciding what to do with various pieces of online sales items that we have a surplus of. Discussion on range of prices for CPUs and RAM based on previous sales as well as criteria to price especially valuable scraptops. Suggested that we sell processors no slower than 2.4 or 2.5 Ghz. Suggested that we no longer supply 128Mb of RAM sticks.
4. HTML page with store request of gizmos from advanced testing - carry over.
5. KILLED - We got a best of Portland Award!
6. What should we do in Sales Committee meetings? Some of us are new to this: Talk about that in the halls unless we have time for it next week.
7. Adding a Scraptop-As-Is (Mac) category to sales as per Michael W's email: Sergio will e-mail technocrats.

New Commits:

1. Sergio COMMITS to putting new limits on processor testing to the production comittee.
2. Store will begin a collection bin for returned gizmos.
3. Sergio COMMITS to checking in on the processes for wiping Other Gizmos' data.