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Topic: Want Coin? Find me cheap, quality ingredients & packaging! (Read 3563 times)

donator
Activity: 1218
Merit: 1015
Bump, ran into this topic in my browser history.

Total rewards expected to be paid: 9.6 to 13.6 coins + 4-20 coins per 3 months.

@Kluge: At the time of this topic a 1 BTC fee for each recurring purchase was agreed upon (and a  ~3 month period was expected). Am I right in assuming you haven't bought any more ingredients?
Yep, we scrapped the idea and don't even have the counterspace to go forward with it since moving. Shipping prices made it unrealistic without large individual orders and there's practically no local market in the middle of a forest. If I can't snag a permanent full-time job within a couple more weeks and don't have any encouraging news on a side-venture I'm enthusiastic about, I might get desperate enough to go back through some of these ideas... still have almost all of the packaging supplies, just missing almonds and VPS service to use for listing, though BitMit wasn't nearly as big back then - so I guess I'd just need almonds. Actually... that reminds me that I still owe someone a batch of granola.
legendary
Activity: 2324
Merit: 1125
Bump, ran into this topic in my browser history.

Total rewards expected to be paid: 9.6 to 13.6 coins + 4-20 coins per 3 months.

@Kluge: At the time of this topic a 1 BTC fee for each recurring purchase was agreed upon (and a  ~3 month period was expected). Am I right in assuming you haven't bought any more ingredients?
legendary
Activity: 3318
Merit: 2008
First Exclusion Ever
Interested in having a package designed? I have done work for an international toy company and can make you a beautiful, functional, and low production cost design ready to send to the printers. I can also do logo design. FYI - you can get free shipping boxes of various sizes from USPS, shipped to your door if you use priority mail shipping. Some cost as low as $5 to ship in the US. PM and I will send you a link.

Ingredient: Sunflower Seeds
$/lb (with shipping & all additional fees/taxes): $1.99LB
Minimum Lbs. Purchased for Price: 50 ( I know this is more than you wanted but not much, and I think it might be the only way to meet your price point)
Grown within 100 miles of 49283 (Yes/No): No
Producing/Distributing Organization: Honeyville Farms
Link to quoted price & product: http://store.honeyvillegrain.com/sunflowerseeds50lb.aspx

My payment address: 17hDRgCto2FkzgVBSG3e2MmbVcziX6Pr71
donator
Activity: 1218
Merit: 1015
Ah no time left to wait for the responses of the businesses I mailed Smiley

Still, thanks for the prize Kluge, I hope the ingredients help you in your work (and you continue to use my supplier Tongue).

You can send the reward to: 14ZPpzmzD3rc9UUcN97metVa3bn571Fxoj
Paid.

If they do get back with you later and it's a better deal than what was found, post in this thread and I'll give you the payments for the "future use" prize when I order again.

Cheers!
donator
Activity: 1218
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Contest has ended.

Payments:
{PAID!} checkstatus (1EndfedSryGUZK9sPrdvxHntYzv2EBexGA) - 2BTC (1BTC for winning + 1BTC bonus for eliminating need for additional bags.
{NEED ADDRESS TO PAY!} wachtwood - 1BTC (1BTC for winning)
donator
Activity: 1218
Merit: 1015
About the Sunflower: Unsalted, Salted, Raw?
Roasted preferred. No preference otherwise - it's easy to adjust for.
newbie
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About the Sunflower: Unsalted, Salted, Raw?
donator
Activity: 1218
Merit: 1015
Bump. Contest ends on the 4th.
donator
Activity: 1218
Merit: 1015
mmmm, I know very little about almonds so I figured that was the right category Tongue

About the free shipping: I might have misread that as I clicked shipping on the bottom of the page (under useful information) and links to this page http://www.justalmonds.com/articles.asp?ID=57 . I thought this meant all products were shipped free but I guess I was wrong.

Without the free shipping however (if the shipping costs $60), I still beat the maximum price (albeit barely):

150 lbs * $3.79 = 568.5
Shipping           = 60
Total               = 628.5

So price per lbs would be $4.19/lbs including shipping. So maybe change my entry to that?

I can investigate further later.
Alright, I'll contact them, too, to make sure there is no free shipping on $99+ orders. They say the product needs some specific icon near it to get the free shipping, but that icon doesn't seem to be on any of their products, so Idunno. Maybe it was something they discontinued and never bothered updating.

It's still a reasonable deal. I was paying ~$5/lb before. Thanks!  Smiley
legendary
Activity: 2324
Merit: 1125
mmmm, I know very little about almonds so I figured that was the right category Tongue

About the free shipping: I might have misread that as I clicked shipping on the bottom of the page (under useful information) and links to this page http://www.justalmonds.com/articles.asp?ID=57 . I thought this meant all products were shipped free but I guess I was wrong.

Without the free shipping however (if the shipping costs $60), I still beat the maximum price (albeit barely):

150 lbs * $3.79 = 568.5
Shipping           = 60
Total               = 628.5

So price per lbs would be $4.19/lbs including shipping. So maybe change my entry to that?

I can investigate further later.
donator
Activity: 1218
Merit: 1015
Ingredient: Almonds, whole + broken
$2.74/lb free shipping on orders >$99
Minimum Lbs. Purchased for Price: 50
Grown within 100 miles of 49283 (Yes/No): No, ships from the Central Valley of California
Producing/Distributing Organization: Just Almonds Inc.
Link to quoted price & product: [Company] [Product]
Hmmm I didn't realize "Whole & Broken" was its own grading category with "up to .2% foreign material in any order including but not limited to shell pieces, rocks, or twig material."

If you can find the free shipping code (I don't see it mentioned on their site, and shipping costs $60 using their estimator at checkout), these @ $3.79 a very fair price: http://www.justalmonds.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Nonpareil_Supreme_23-25
legendary
Activity: 2324
Merit: 1125
Ingredient: Almonds, whole + broken
$2.74/lb free shipping on orders >$99
Minimum Lbs. Purchased for Price: 50
Grown within 100 miles of 49283 (Yes/No): No, ships from the Central Valley of California
Producing/Distributing Organization: Just Almonds Inc.
Link to quoted price & product: [Company] [Product]
donator
Activity: 1218
Merit: 1015
Ingredient: Sunflower Seeds
$/lb (with shipping & all additional fees/taxes): $2.31 shipped
Minimum Lbs. Purchased for Price: 12
Grown within 100 miles of 49283 (Yes/No): No.
Producing/Distributing Organization: Bergin Nut Company
Link to quoted price & product: http://www.amazon.com/Bergin-Nut-Company-Sunflower-16-Ounce/dp/B001EQ4NWK/ref=sr_1_21?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1332920670&sr=1-21

(contacting company directly for bulk price on almonds, sunflower & pumpkin seeds.)
donator
Activity: 1218
Merit: 1015
Ingredient: Pumpkin Seeds
$/lb (with shipping & all additional fees/taxes): $3.36 shipped
Minimum Lbs. Purchased for Price: 20
Grown within 100 miles of 49283 (Yes/No): No.
Producing/Distributing Organization: Regal Gourmet Snacks Company
Link to quoted price & product: http://www.nutstop.com/pumpkin-kernels-pepitas-roasted-salted.html
donator
Activity: 1218
Merit: 1015
Ingredient: EMP04Z 3lb/5lb Standup Packaging Bags
Size: 7.625" x 11.75" x 4" / Dry volume 16oz/500g, Liquid Volume 48oz
$/lb (with shipping & all additional fees/taxes): $.3936/each without shipping
Minimum Purchased: 1000/Case (500/Case for clear-clear)
Grown within 100 miles of 49283 (Yes/No): No, ships from Atlanta, Georgia
Producing/Distributing Organization: Sorbent Systems, IMPAK corporation
Link to quoted price & product: http://www.sorbentsystems.com/standupbags_order.html
Bag holding 1 lb = 108 sq. in. (6*9*2)
Suggested bag to hold 3 or 5 lb = 358.375 sq. in (7.625*11.75*4).

Don't see it holding 5lbs. Should be able to hold 3lb easily, given extra room, could make 5lb bags pointless, since I should be able to fill three bags @ 3.34lbs each. EMP04Z, 2 cases, = $/case of $343.60 /1000 = $.3436/bag. Shipping = $70.44

Total = $757.64 for 2k. 757.64/2000=.37882/bag shipped, below target price.


Good! Thanks! This entry invalidates my request for 5lb bags, unless someone can find a much better deal. Buying just one type would save a lot up-front.

If someone's doing boxes, please keep these bags in mind.
full member
Activity: 196
Merit: 100
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Ingredient: EMP04Z 3lb/5lb Standup Packaging Bags
Size: 7.625" x 11.75" x 4" / Dry volume 16oz/500g, Liquid Volume 48oz
$/lb (with shipping & all additional fees/taxes): $.3936/each without shipping
Minimum Purchased: 1000/Case (500/Case for clear-clear)
Grown within 100 miles of 49283 (Yes/No): No, ships from Atlanta, Georgia
Producing/Distributing Organization: Sorbent Systems, IMPAK corporation
Link to quoted price & product: http://www.sorbentsystems.com/standupbags_order.html
donator
Activity: 1218
Merit: 1015
Ingredient: Honey
$/lb (with shipping & all additional fees/taxes): $2.25 local pickup
Minimum Lbs. Purchased for Price: 60
Grown within 100 miles of 49283 (Yes/No): Yes. Only 40 miles away.
Producing/Distributing Organization: Craig's Hilltop Honey
Link to quoted price & product: Email
donator
Activity: 1218
Merit: 1015
Ingredient: Honey
$/lb (with shipping & all additional fees/taxes): $3 local pickup
Minimum Lbs. Purchased for Price: 60
Grown within 100 miles of 49283 (Yes/No): No, but close. ~130m away
Producing/Distributing Organization: Honeyflow Farm
Link to quoted price & product: http://www.honeyflowfarm.com/qs30/products.php?detail=1&pid=57
legendary
Activity: 980
Merit: 1000
I will go to my local honey farm and get some prices Smiley
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