Comments on: SitePoint Bushfire Appeal Wrap-up

By: W

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:08:05 +0000

Just wondering if you’ve looked at the sales volume during this period and compared it with your average sales volume (for the month before this and probably 6 months before this). If you also included a well constructed survey for buyers of this sale, it may help (to some extent) to know:
1. If people would’ve bought as many items as they did (meaning, would they have spent the same amount of money or would they have spent more?) if there was absolutely no discount but all proceeds went to the relief efforts.
2. If people feel they’d buy more books if they were priced lesser than what they’re now.

If you’ve done any analysis as mentioned above, please do post it as a separate article (and tweet it please – I follow Sitepoint tweets but not the website or RSS regularly).

Thanks! :)

By: banago

banago — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:37:05 +0000

That is a great sum. Well done SitePoint!

By: RussellB

RussellB — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:12:28 +0000

I missed that offer – drat

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:21:47 +0000

Nice work, chaps.

By: Teraflops

Teraflops — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:06:35 +0000

Well Done !! My hat off to all those that contributed !

By: NetNerd85

NetNerd85 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:16:21 +0000

Sweet, good to see Sitepoint still call Australia home ;)

By: armchaircritic

armchaircritic — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:57:12 +0000

Well done guys. Nice write up too. :)

By: Matthew Bibby

Matthew Bibby — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:54:57 +0000

Amazing, well done! Black Saturday changed things for everyone, especially those directly impacted by the fires.

On so many occasions peoples generosity bought tears to my eyes . . (I was involved in one of the Red Cross bushfire appeal call centres) . . . people donating furnished houses, the young boy who donated the $300 he had saved up for a laptop and the man who maxed out his $50,000 credit card with a single donation saying “Well what else am I meant to do with this AMEX?”

I put together a thank you message for all who helped that I would like to share with you: http://www.matthewbibby.com/blog/black-saturday/

Matt.

By: Sojan80

Sojan80 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:46:44 +0000

Great job! You do realize though now you have set a precedent and next time you’ll want to set your goal for AU$500,000.00 and so on. Perhaps you might even consider making this an annual event?? What do you say?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:49:58 +0000

According to the calculator that roughly works out to be 10525 bundles sold. That’s a lot of people putting their hands up for the cause. Well done everyone. Well done SitePoint!