Group Buy - Diamine Music Collection

[enolafeltpen]

Would anybody be interested in joining me for a group buy of the Diamine Music Collection (and the Flowers set if there is enough interest)?

 

My initial sums show that it would cost £8.54 plus P&P per person. For your money you would receive 10 x 3ml inks in individual, labelled 5ml vials and one empty bottle from the collection.

 

FYI

 

Ink set - £60.00

Pipettes - £0.88

Vials - £24.50

Total £85.38

 

I need 9 people willing to play to make this viable.

 

Thank you

 

Karen

 

Edit: typo

Edited October 29, 2013 by enolafeltpen

[migo984]

Great idea. I'll join in Karen

 

Marie

[Renfield]

Karen

 

Glad someone has done this. Doing something like this for the FP community is a good feeling.

 

I have been running the UK Ink Sample Group for the last 10 months (Just a couple of months left before the year is over)

 

 

 

 

Just a couple of thoughts based on what I learned running the scheme..... (I am no expert though!)

 

 

It might be an idea to open it to more people if you can as it will reduce the overall costs.

 

15 people would still get 2ml and reduce the overall costs. 20 people would get 1.5ml (at least 2 fills of most pens)

 

I think you might be able to keep your costs down if you did a Music/Flower combo.

 

My reasoning....

 

If you have 20 people, with 20 vial each, that is 400 vials. When I was ordering vials, I ordered from a medical supplies company and got 1500 vials for about £110, which works out around £37 per 500.

 

 

As for postage, within the UK, you should be able to send 10 vials for a 2nd class large stamp (69p), jiffy bags can be bought cheaply and in bulk from Ebay, although you may only need 10-20, where I needed 200+ (19 packages a month for 12 months)

 

Just some thoughts....

 

 

[enolafeltpen]

Fantastic Marie.

 

Renfield thank you for your very helpful suggestions. I've suggested 10 participants in order to allow the sharing of the bottles too. I will look into bulk buying vials and see if I can get the cost down a bit though, thank you.

[Renfield]

Fantastic Marie.

 

Renfield thank you for your very helpful suggestions. I've suggested 10 participants in order to allow the sharing of the bottles too. I will look into bulk buying vials and see if I can get the cost down a bit though, thank you.

 

 

If its a double whammy with Flower/Music, you will have 20 bottles for 20 people

[I like mango cheesecake]

how would you accommodate for international postage for those not located in UK??

[enolafeltpen]

how would you accommodate for international postage for those not located in UK??

I would charge postage at cost. If you are interested I can investigate how much it would be to ship to you?

[StrawberryJam]

You may want to get in touch with fionafish who recently coordinated an ink buy for the Akkerman inks. She was shipping to both the US and the UK and can probably give you an estimate of the shipping costs.

Edited October 30, 2013 by StrawberryJam