[Open_electroporator] low cost bacterial non-salty electroporator proposal

[John Griessen]

On 06/19/2016 11:59 AM, Kermit Henson wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for the invitation to the mailing list, I've been reading some posts and it seems you got everything undercontrol. I want
> to support  with your project.
>
> On the google groups you said 125USD and in the doc it says 250USD. Which is the cost?


The target selling price is $125.  To get early versions + upgrade rights, the price is $250,
so if not wanting to try things out sooner, just waiting is fine.  If you like the idea of what I am doing,
and want to send me some tip money, please buy a machine at $250 and I'll work hard for you, and
make sure you're happy -- even to the point of refunding half and sending you a rev1.0 + better plastics later when that is all 
available.  Right now, the extra $$ will help keep me going a little longer without
interruption after the 4 weeks is up that is prepaid now.

I'm solvent, and backed by my wife, and we have income from a rental unit that makes our
fixed expenses less, but we live in the city with city costs.  I was attempting to turn an art
sculpture hobby into a business that failed in 2004 and still not fully relaunched into the
middle class again yet, so I need to divert to income generating activity whenever earning less than $2000 per month.

So when the prepays run out, I will be working on my web sites and self promotion for gigs again,
and a sliver of time on the electroporator, especially asking for kit sales.  I'll also work
on a radio sensor network project in that case.

So if you'd like to contribute some money, I am all for it, and any time before July 15th will
give a boost of extending the uninterrupted time I spend on electroporator design/test/cost-reduce/refine.
I do not have any international payment method set up other than paypal so far.  If you have a US bank account, I have a Dwolla 
account which offers free money transfers by ACH system in the US.  See 
http://help.dwolla.com/customer/portal/articles/1767695-dwolla-direct for how to use it with the minimum of sign up effort.

I just ran across this for international: a new paypal company offering free transactions up to $50k worth.
I could use that for my startup needs, then switch to whatever is best a year or two from now, wow!
It's an easy button without the usual easy button price tag...


Cards and digital wallets

2.9% + $.30 per transaction (waived fees until after your first $50K in card processing.)

     An additional 1% fee applies to transactions presented outside of your home currency
     A flat $15 fee is assessed for chargebacks
     Fees are returned for fully-refunded transactions
     Discounted rate of 2.2% + $.30 for eligible nonprofits (not valid with our $50K promotion)
     Discounted rates and interchange plus pricing are available for business processing over $80K per month


Paypal    Your rates are predetermined by PayPal, but generally 2.9% + $.30 per transaction;

Bitcoin -- No processing fees on the first $1M of transaction volume. After that, a fee of 1% will apply. A $.15 fee applies to 
each batch disbursement to your bank account.

So if you wanted to pay me via braintreepayments.com with a credit or bank debit card, (not your paypal account), there would just 
be a 1% currency exchange fee from Espana to the US.

Thanks Alvaro,

John Griessen