Why not hire someone to just do sales, and when the coop is open for sales---it's just open for sales and vice versa with programs----then you open up your volunteers to do what they want to do ( helping people learn) and you still make profit, creating thereby a substainable business/non-profit numberMoBo
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Geoffrey B vous.je@gmail.com wrote:
create a bike share group with all your charities. Get with your riders and know them, grow your community cycling scene.
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Bike City bikecityrecyclery@gmail.comwrote:
We had the same problem. We worked 18hr days to build bikes that rusted on campus. We raised our prices, built better bikes, and started selling fenders, baskets and tubes. There was much internal debate that it would make us a "real shop" but this move in fact covered our rent and funded program expansion.
Don't be afraid of the "real shop" syndrome. If you can diversify your rent strategy beyond bike sales and build working programs, who cares how you did it?
Joshua bike city recyclery fayetteville, ar
On 1/19/09, Ryan Guzy ryanguzy@gmail.com wrote:
We have check sheets that go with each bike, as they work on the bike
they
check off what they've done and also record the date that they last
worked
on the bike. This helps the customer with an outline of what still needs
to
be done and shows the next volunteer what has been worked on already. We have a policy that if the bike isn't worked on for 60 days we'll make
the
bike available to other people. To facilitate this we usually only take money for the bike at the end of a build. --Ryan Bike Saviours, Tempe, AZ
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Mark Rehder mark@drumbent.com
wrote:
On 19-Jan-09, at 12:40 AM, Ryan Guzy wrote:
We started, and continue with the concept not to fix bikes for sale.
Instead people come in, pick a bike and we teach them how to fix it
up.
We then sell it to them at a reasonable price when it's done. It's nice because the person learns something and also has something invested in the
bike.
On the flip side, bikes take longer to get done and you'll need a good
sized
group of volunteers, sometimes almost one volunteer per person.
--Ryan Bike Saviours, Tempe, AZ
How do you keep track of all the bikes-in-progress? If someone doesn't complete theirs in one shift does it just sit taking up space waiting
for
them to return someday?
I take it the groups here that are not worried about selling bikes pay their rent and expenses (if applicable) in some other ways...
Mark re-Cycles Bicycle Co-op http://re-cycles.ca
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