[Lugcomms] OpenCDs for SFD, installfests and other events

[Donna Benjamin]

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 22:34 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 at 09:26, Donna Benjamin <donna at mel8ourne.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > If we were to arrange a bulk job of Open CDs - how many would you want?
> >
> > The price gets cheaper and cheaper the more you do... so it might be
> > worth getting a whole heap done and posting them around the country.
> >
> > I've got a quote for less than $0.50 per disc, pressed, printed and in a
> > sleeve - but that's for 10s of 1000's.
> >
> > Doing them in lots of 1000 - 5000 tends to cost around $0.70
> >
> > - Donna
> 
> For the Education Expo, I obtained a quote from a company here in Sydney, 
> Media Movers. The price was $650 for 1000 discs - pressed, colour printed, 
> inserted into a clear plastic sleeve and delivered in the Sydney area. I 
> could negotiate having a printed cardboard sleeve. Delivery fees are standard 
> courier rates, but I think we can arrange something there as well.

Yeah - that's about right - $715 GST inc.

> They are keen to take up my suggestion of a proper business relationship, 
> which should make things easier for us in the future as we won't need to go 
> shopping around and experimenting with new vendors.

Agreed it is good to find a supplier and stick with them.
I deal with MultipliCD in Melbourne - and got a quote from them for
thousands of CDs to be attached to the front of Teacher magazine - a
national mag distributed free to teachers in schools - in the lead up to
software freedom day. But that's a BIG investment.

Here's their quote:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Brendan Byrne at MultipliCD <brendan at duplication.com.au>
To: Donna Benjamin <donna at cc.com.au>
Subject: Fw: Quote Please
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:38:14 +1100

Hi Donna

Here is your quote for 12cm CDs offset printed in 4 colours plus white and 
replicated and inserted into a PVC sleeve as follows:

6 To 7 week turn around.
For 30,000 ,40,000 and 50,000 of the CD in a sleeve the price would be 
charged @$0.29 per unit plus GST.

12 to 14 working days turn around.
30,000 CDs in sleeves would be charged @$0.36 per unit plus GST.
40,000 CDs in sleeves would be charged @$0.35 per unit plus GST.
50,000 CDs in sleeves would be charged @$0.34 per unit plus GST.

Please call if you have any other questions.

This quote includes all artwork and film costs,all assembly costs and 
delivery to 1 point Melbourne or Sydney metro.

kind regards
Brendan Byrne
MultipliCD
PH 03 9827 6588

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