[Grassroots-l] Can OLPC distribution be run as a business

[Edward Cherlin]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org> wrote:
> I'm not positive if one could be stoppled from reselling XO's for profit.
> The US Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the right of the consumer to
> resell a product.  But there is a line in the Terms and Conditions that
> talks about resale:
>
> From the Give Many section of:
> http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/terms-and-conditions.php
>
> 3. XO laptops are available only for private home and educational uses. No
> XO laptops will be supplied for resale.

I have been talking mostly about aggregating orders from non-profits
for educational use, rather than warehousing for resale to whomever.

> While OLPC couldn't stop you from reselling them, it seems unlikely that
> OLPC would be interested in selling to you if your intent were to resell.
> I'm not *sure* of this is the case, so you should email givemany at laptop.org
> anyway to find out the answer directly.

When I talked with Brightstar and OLPC, including that address, I
never got the same answer twice. I won't believe anything I see from
them short of a signed contract.

> Also, the prices for GiveMany have gone up since the number that was quoted:
>
> Give 100+:  $310 per laptop
>
> Give 1000+:  $260 per laptop
>
> Give 10,000+:  $210 per laptop

Those prices make more sense than what was posted before.

> Unfortunately, that's all that I know.  Email the above and find out for
> sure.
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:25 AM, LASKE, Lionel (C2S) <LLASKE at c2s.fr> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I would love to work with you on this. The problem is that the current
>> >> terms are cash in advance and wait months for delivery, with no date
>> >> given until two months after receipt of your order. Current terms are
>> >>
>> >> 100 @ $299: $29,900
>> >> 1,000 @ $249: $249,00
>> >> 10,000 @ $199: $1,990,000
>> >>
>> >
>> > As far as I know, the current term and conditions from Brightstar (the
>> > provider for the GiveMany program) forbid buying XO and resell it. So, It's
>> > not possible to do business on it.
>>
>> Is that published anywhere? Where did you hear it? They didn't say any
>> such thing when I asked them in January.
>>
>> >        Lionel.
>> >
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