[Jayhawk-chapter] nuts sales info

Sun Aug 15 03:00:52 UTC 2010

Hi folks,
as promised, I am now posting the info I received from around the 
country RE nuts sales.  mostly it is positive.  there are a couple of 
small warnings.
read below.
jc

>Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:26:20 -0500
>To: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>From: "James H. \"Jim\" Canaday M.A. N6YR" <n6yr at sunflower.com>
>Subject: RE: nuts sales offlist
>
>thank you very much Veronica!
>your info is very helpful!
>jc
>
>At 11:14 AM 7/19/2010, you wrote:
>>Jim, I'm sorry it took me so long to get back to you.  Since I wasn't the
>>one purchasing the pistachios I had to find the info for you.  You can find
>>the answers below:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>our chapter, the Jayhawk Chapter  of Kansas is considering doing nuts
>>sales for fundraising.
>>
>>we have some questions:
>>did you get your nuts prepackaged? Yes they come prepackaged.
>>Which company was your supplier? Heart of the Desert in Alamogordo, New
>>Mexico
>>did your sales earn a lot of money for the chapter? No, not a lot, but this
>>fund raiser is very popular, both at home and for National.   We probably
>>only make 45% more than what we paid for them.
>>were you satisfied with the supplier? We are very happy with our supplier.
>>did you hit any problems in doing the actual sale? Only the first year we
>>sold them at National, the hotel wasn't happy with us as there were shells
>>left here and there.  This is why we started putting each packet into a
>>sandwich baggie, including a napkin or wet wipe.
>>
>>were you able to sell all the nuts you  brought in for chapter sales? Yes,
>>we never have any left, infact we always have people wanting more and more.
>>
>>if you have done nuts sales for a long time, do you notice any
>>trends?  that is, for example are  nuts sales more difficult than before?
>>Not really, the only time we had trouble selling them was a couple of years
>>ago when so many nuts were affected with ecoli.  Not that our pistachios
>>were affected, but the public didn't want to take any chances.
>>
>>and, how effective was this as a fundraiser overall? in other words,
>>did you earn enough money to make the effort worthwhile? It is worthwhile,
>>we've been selling these pistachios for many years.  Our pistachios are
>>covered with red chile or green chile and garlic.
>>We sell them for $3 a bag, but we have nevr paid shipping costs.  Someone
>>who lives in the southern part of the state always picks them up.  We've
>>thought many times, if we had to have them shipped we'd have to charge a
>>little more.
>>
>>
>>
>>thank you very much!  I sincerely appreciate your experience and your
>>comments!
>>jc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>At 05:36 PM 7/14/2010, you wrote:
>> >I'm sorry to reply to this so late, but my family and I have been traveling
>> >across Colorado, South Dakota and Wyoming.
>> >As for the nut sales, here in NM we have had fantastic luck selling our red
>> >and green chile pistachios.  We take the packet of nuts and place it
>> >directly into a sandwich baggie and add a napkin.  We tell everyone the bag
>> >is for the shells and the napkin to clean the fingers.
>> >Veronica
>> >
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: chapter-presidents-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> >[mailto:chapter-presidents-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of James H. "Jim"
>> >Canaday M.A. N6YR
>> >Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 3:38 PM
>> >To: NFB Chapter Presidents discussion list
>> >Subject: [Chapter-presidents] nuts sales
>> >
>> >I have heard from April and Robert.
>> >anybody else have experience with recent nuts sales for chapter
>>fundraisers?
>> >I'll write you offlist.
>> >
>> >thanks.
>> >jc
>> >
>> >
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