<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>FOB (Freight on Board) means that the responsibility for customs fees, shipping charges, etc. belongs to the buyer. XOs directly purchased from OLPC historically had similar terms.<br><br></div><div>The shipping calculator on that listing can give you a rough idea of what it would cost to get to you in the US (around $500-$1000 uninsured).<br></div><div><br></div></div>Personally I think it is a waste of funds and time given that someone will have to go through all 172 XOs to verify their functionality, determine which 10-year-old batteries still can hold a charge, make repairs, etc. It would primarily be of interest to projects which already get donated XO-1s and could salvage parts of necessary, but not necessarily at the $4k price point.<br><br></div><div></div><div>Reselling the laptops as usable also would incur a bit of liability that the recycler (selling as-is) is not willing to take. About the only good thing is that this recycler does not appear to be shipping from Massachusetts, where one recycler was selling pre-release parts even after being told they were not usable by anyone else.<br></div><div><br><br></div>While we seem to have discovered Sugar Labs has money this year, Sugar Labs is not a bank for everyone's little pet project. *Before* we spend any significant portion of funds beyond the significant amount already allocated for stipends & translation, I would like to see proof that Sugar Labs can fund raise most of the money already spent back.<br><br></div>The only valid way I could see doing this would be to ask the recycler if they would be willing to just donate the laptops to the SFC (or another 501(c)3 registered XO-using nonprofit) and take the profit as a tax writeoff. But *before* this gets done, it really needs to be discussed by Sugar Labs' board {NOT people begging the recycler to do so via individual actions - if anything that would encourage them to raise their expected price}.<br><br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Sean DALY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdaly.be@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdaly.be@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>they mean loading dock i.e. where you send the truck<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">Sean<br><br></font></span></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Sam Parkinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sam.parkinson3@gmail.com" target="_blank">sam.parkinson3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dave, I don't frequent EBay listings, but it says:<div><br></div><div>> <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,verdana;font-size:13.300000190734863px">Customer is responsible for arrangement of freight trucking pickup and insurance from our dock</span></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, verdana" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, verdana" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13px">Is that referring to the charging docks or the palette of laptops?</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, verdana" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, verdana" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13px">Obviously this is a small detail that doesn't effect the discussion, but it would probably change the figures a bit.</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, verdana" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, verdana" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13px">Thanks,</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, verdana" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13px">Sam<br></span></font><span><br>On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>> wrote:<br> </span><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap">Hi <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Qty-172-OLPC-One-Laptop-Per-Child-XO-1-w-7-5-TFT-256MB-RAM-1024KB-ROM-/262478690514" target="_blank">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Qty-172-OLPC-One-Laptop-Per-Child-XO-1-w-7-5-TFT-256MB-RAM-1024KB-ROM-/262478690514</a> I propose that Sugar Labs buy these, image them with the 0.110 release, and sale them to raise funds; individual units regularly clear $100 each, so this will raise around $13,000 <div>-- </div>Cheers Dave _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a></div></blockquote></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div> </div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div>