Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

[Dennis]

Re: Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

K and M this has been discussed before this should answer an questions

http://coffeesnobs.com.au/YaBB.pl?num=1176366153/1#1

Andrew

PS i missed out on some of what i wanted as well damn work with no internet.... so they say anyway but i think they do!!

lol Andrew - do you think I may have learnt something from that?

[richy_4000]

Re: Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

Nahhhh, If there were beans aplenty it would take all the fun out of it ;D

Feels like a Sergio Leone film. You can just hear those Ernio Morricone scores as it draws closer to 9pm.

[Ray_C]

Re: Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

I also like the total excitment thing as well..... I guess its not for the faint hearted and you need to be keen enough to be early, as they say "the early bird gets the worm"....... quite frankly I absolutely love my coffee.

Ray.

[Coffee_Kid]

Re: Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

It must be super hard work getting a shovel and filling bags after bags with beans and following each order with stickers to stick on each! I would imagine if Andy increases the amount of greans hell be shoveling his hands off, hes already shoveling over couple tons of beans!
But great work your doing! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

[lucinda]

Re: Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

I also missed out on getting a bean I wanted extra of - not enough $$$ in the kitty this week, so I was restricted to just a minimum buy of one bean only.

I do already have a stockpile of other stuff so I am not too worried.


If you do not like the peru, use it to experiment with roasting/ blending etc etc.

[Ray_C]

Re: Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

My dog likes it.......... I dont much......... Ray.

[Dennis]

Re: Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

Am off to bed to dream of beans and willy wonka

Thanks for a great beanbay Andy - Ill have the front end loader waiting for the delivery :

[Ray_C]

Re: Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

Cant sleep, too excited about the beans I bought, itchy fingers, high blood pressure, heart pulpertations, adrenaline through the roof... alas must get up reasonably early tomorrow,(woops today) dont know how Im going to do it, just too excited....

Thanks again guys...... you rock!

Ray.

[Ray_C]

Re: Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

Would you believe there is still 80 kgs of green beans in bean bay 3 1/2 hours later......

[poddy66]

Re: Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

Hello Andy,
Managed to get 12.5kg Yemen but was only charged 22.50 per 2.5kg, how much extra do I need to pay? Just a bit confused!!!
Steven (poddy66)

[Sarg]

Re: Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

Hey Dennis,

Sorry mate I wasnt trying to piont you out or anything if I could have deleted your name I would have, I had just remembered reading that thread sorry to drag it up again :-[ .

Thought others might find it as informative as I did on how it all works (apart from the ribbing of the most frivolent ((correct word?)) poster here )

Andrew

[Ray_C]

Re: Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

AAAARRRGGGHHHHH

Yes the Yemen is wrong.
I know why its wrong but not sure how to fix it at the moment....

The 2.5kg of Yemen should have been $56.25 not $22.50

I could just pack 1kg lots but then the frieght is also wrong.

AAAARRRGGGHHHHH

There was a mistake with the price......... Ray.

[Javaphile]

Re: Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

Hello Andy,
Managed to get 12.5kg Yemen but was only charged 22.50 per 2.5kg, how much extra do I need to pay? Just a bit confused!!!
Steven (poddy66)

As the basic unit of order was 2.5kg and as the Yemen Oops is based on that quantity youd have to order 5 units of the Yemen Oops in the Bean Bay/Other Stuff/Yemen Oops.


Java "Hhhmmm....Coffee!" phile

[Ray_C]

Re: Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

ATTN YEMEN BUYERS

We had a rather large oops in the pricing on the Yemen beans in this BeanBay.
$22.50/kg should have translated to $56.25 for 2.5kg

I wasn’t sure how best to fix it when a clever CS’r (gavinc) suggested that we post an item with zero shipping and a value of $33.75.

So we have!

http://beanbay.coffeesnobs.com.au/ViewProduct.aspx?ID=139

Please purchase one of these to square the invoice.

If you overbought or no longer want (some or all of) the Yemen in your order then please let me know via email and I’ll sort it out.

Sorry for the trouble.

Andy.

:-[

For those that already found and paid for the Yemen Oops, thanks!


8-)

[Andy]

Re: Next BeanBay - Wednesday June 27th - 9pm AEST

BeanBay and CoffeeSnobs is a lot of fun for all of us.  We all have a hobby and a passion that we can share, learn and improve together in the magic of cyberspace.

Sometimes little groups of us get together face to face and after the initial “you don’t look like I imagined” reaction we all have a common discussion topic… COFFEE.

Fatboy said at one of the early CS get-togethers something to the effect of “I love these meetings, I can ramble-on about coffee all day and people don’t try and back away from me with eyes glazed-over”

I’m sure we can all understand that sentiment and have many friends and family that are now too scared to offer us a coffee when we drop-in.

From my personal perspective it is a huge amount of work, time and outlay but I also benefit by getting great coffee for myself and access to great beans for the Snobbery.  Heck, with a “CS Brown sales force” the size of our  CS  membership my hobby roastery might even pay the bills one day so I’m more than happy to keep shoveling green beans.

CoffeeSnobs is a very positive experience for most people and I always feel disappointed when I read that someone “missed out”.  We don’t do it on purpose and we constantly chop ‘n change each month to try and get the right balance of volume and outlay.  On the whole we are close to right (even if it doesn’t feel that way to those that missed out).

I intentionally bought double the amount of decaf this month because it cupped so good (for a decaf anyway!) but I honestly expected that we would carry half of it over to next month at least.  I was wrong.  The demand was higher than anticipated and with any luck we can get some more soon.

The PNG really flew.  We didn’t have any indication that it was going to go so fast and I have already emailed the broker requesting some more of this lot for the next BeanBay (if they have any left).  

The tea was a gamble really.  We knew it was an awesome quality tea and a fraction of the street price but sometimes at the end of BeanBay I have a pile of tea to store or give away.  It looked like we could have offered twice the amount of this but sadly it was the only carton available of this grade.

Most of the other beans sold fast but we still had fair quantities available after the initial dust cloud settled.

Rest assured that we will continue to tweak the volume to minimise the “I missed out posts” but to be fair, I think we are pretty close to the mark.  There is still 80kg of excellent quality beans available and (in fact those two blend REALLY nicely together) and I’m sure who ever buys them won’t feel that they missed-out.

Hi Andy, grabbed a Yemen Oops.  Thanks for all of your effort in keeping the coffee flowing.  Record number of CSers and it looked like BeanBay barely broke a sweat, well done geekrocket.

Three cheers for Geekrocket!

Yes Gavinc, Geekrocket has done a fantastic job on BeanBay V2.0.  

Although if we were running the old version the beans would have lasted for a few days while people sat and looked at blank screens and error messages.  

I cannot imagine trying to do this without excellent software (frontend and backend) to keep track of the orders, payments, shipping etc etc.  In fact the original version of CoffeeSnobs using the YABB poll method fell into a hair-pulling-screaming-heap at about 240kg.  

Tonight we chewed through 940kg of beans and 20kg of tea and although most of us got some fantastic beans the feelgood highlight over the evening is that FairCrack managed to raise a massive $510.00

A great effort from our little corner of the Internet that we fondly call "CoffeeSnobs"


Most of all... Enjoy!