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Re:Postme.me - idea to sales in 3 days by lucaspiller on Thursday October 20, 2011 @01:15PM (#3135782)
Good job, I'm impressed! I have a couple of questions regarding the business model though:

Charging $2, after PayPal have taken their fees you get ~$1.60. International shipping via USPS for a postcard over to here (UK) is $0.98. That means you have ~$0.60 to make the cards and make a profit - it isn't much. Would you mind sharing how much it costs you to have the cards printed?

This leads me onto my next question, you cards are unique right (a message and address on the back), so how do you get this past the printers? I understand most do bulk discounts, but isn't this for identical prints?

P.S. I also ordered a card :)

Re:Postme.me - idea to sales in 3 days by Swizec on Friday October 21, 2011 @08:42AM (#3139447)
Turns out shipping with the slovenian post office is cheaper, only costs $0.61 internationally. And I might be able to arrange some sort of bulk discount eventually.

The printing is kind of cool, since it's digital you can do bulk discounts on large quantities of unique things.

Re:Postme.me - idea to sales in 3 days by thefreehunter on Thursday October 20, 2011 @06:23PM (#3137386)
This is Web 2.0, profits are uncool :)