Beer Budget CD Release Strategy as an Alternative to The Way It's Normally Done

["Rainer Straschill" <moinsound@googlemail.com>]

Rick said (about handmade CDs):
"Anyway,   This keeps my cost down to well under a dollar per unit. If
I do sell a CD then I am making $9 - $14 profit PER CD depending on
who buys it."

Really, Rick? By my calculation, that would mean that your hourly rate
while doing this is -$1.1 ;). Seriously, by my calculation, counting
in equipment use (ink etc.) but not equipment depreciation and things
like electrical power etc., you can come out slightly below the kunaki
price (at something like $1.35) - however NOT counting in any
logistics processes (actually going out and buying stuff and thus
wasting gas, or ordering it by mail and thus having to pay for
that...), and, more importantly, no manual labour.

So basically, if you do not value your own spare time at all (or even
give it a negative value), then that can be ok, if, on the other hand,
you value your spare time a great deal (like Krispen), then by all
means don't make your CDs yourself! It does not pay off.

            Rainer

(an interesting topic: how much worth is your spare time? A business
administrator would say it's the net hourly rate he earns when doing
work - which could vary from zero (or strictly speaking, a negative
value) for someone on the dole to something well in the three-figure
range for e.g. Krispen, making the outsourcing more valuable to him
then to you because his time is so much more expensive than yours. An
economist would actually ask "how much is it worth to the person in
question?". This could vary greatly from the figures we got before,
because while you, although not a big earner, have a lot to do in your
spare time, could actually value that more than a highly successful
lawyer who spends his spare time sitting in his multi-million dollar
house and being bored).