Dec 29, 2004 11:16
I ordered 15 mini baskets and 2 traveler baskets from innova today and spent about $400 counting shipping. I've pre-sold about six of the mini baskets for slightly over cost to club members. Then I got a call to do some part-time work. The client offered to buy one of the travelers and one of the minis for retail and he paid me $100 + dinner for the work I did while he was waiting. Then he showed me a cool micro basket he bought at Worlds that has like $5 worth of hardware store parts but can easily soak up $20 in funny money. Plus, they can be made into cool trophies. He offered to loan it to K2 for back engineering purposes.
The part-time work and retail sale will pay for over 1/2 of what I spent, and if the Traveller turns ut to be hot, I'll sell some more.