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Re: [LUG] This caught my eye in ASDA

 

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:19 PM, John Williams <subbass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Its a tiny USB flash drive, and they really are small, they are also
> flipping cheap in Asda.
>
> http://bit.ly/aF0En
>
> Some better photo's of it on here:
> http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/665745/verbatim-8gb-usb-flash-drive-store-
>
>
> The 2GB ones were only £2.50 in Asda, and I do recall the Paignton end
> of things was looking into fund raising and it crossed my mind that a
> few of those, with Lucid preinstalled and even room for 1GB storage area
> or so, might be of interest to interested parties at the meetings, if
> you get folks coming by like I get the impression do.
>
> If we get interest at the Holsworthy end and there isn't a problem doing
> it I would be happy to get some and configure them.
>
> I can imagine that folks might be tempted to go off with one for just a
> few pounds and at worst they have a cheap USB card and at best we would
> have a new users.
>
> Charging £3.50 or £4 or whatever isn't unreasonable is it, money ofc
> towards LUG funds, though I have no idea in these things what that
> actually means ;)
>
> Anyways, it was just a thought.
>

Good plan :-)
roly

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