[Gta04-owner] gta04-owner at goldelico.com

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi Ed,

Am 14.12.2011 um 09:53 schrieb Ed Kapitein:

> Hi Nikolaus,
> 
> There might be an alternative way to get the money together for the GTA04 
> project.
> Could you start selling vouchers?
> A voucher would cost 100 euro and would be valid for a year.
> A voucher would give you a 100 euro discount if you buy a GTA04.
> 
> This could lower the bar for quiet a few people to get involved and would give 
> you some extra funds to keep this project going.
> 
> I'll give some examples on how this might work out:
> 
> - Just 1 person (me) is buying a voucher
>  no production will start and i will get my 100 euro back.
> 
> - over 2000 people buy a voucher. 
>  Production can start and people can buy GTAs and redeem their vouchers.
>  if all devices are sold, the people with still vallid vouchers can get there 
> money back.
> 
>  if not all devices are sold, people will loose their 100 euro after a year 
> and you can sell the remaining GTA04 at any price, they are already payed for.
> (and compenstate the voucher holders at ratio)
> 
> Think of the vouchers as a kind of micro credit
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcredit)
> 
> For me, and perhaps quiet a few people, spending near 500 euro's for a phone 
> while i still have a good working GTA02, is not justifiable.
> But "lending" a 100 euro towards this project, with little change of loosing 
> the money seems like  a change worth taking for those with warm feelings about 
> the openphone concept.
> 
> Do you think this can work?

That is a very interesting proposal! And I think we can still add that to the
already ongoing group tour offer. This is in fact already sort of a voucher system.
If someone does a pre-order he gets an advance payment receipt to claim a
potential refund. But it is abut the total price and bound to the subscription
deadline.

But yes, we could also sell additional vouchers not bound to the group tour
and if we collect enough money through both approaches combined, we
can also start production and deliver in the sequence the (final) orders
did come in.

One issue I have to check is if there is some legal ruling if and when a
voucher that is not redeemed can be declared void as you proposed.

Nikolaus