YuviSense: Codin Kid

Thanks for those who ChippedIn, and please ChipIn to help me buy the Canon PowerShot S2 IS

January 7, 2007 | 12:15 pm

I woke up today morning, only to find that my request for donations had garnered it’s initial target of $250! Thanks guys! And, thanks Rob, who donated the $250 off his Casino winnings(A great way to spend them, I guess)! Also, thanks for some fine advice.

I spent the whole day salivating over reviews of the Canon Powershot S2 IS. I think I read about 8 reviews of it around, the best being this one at DCRP. I think I’ve hit the sweet spot, with Image stablization, long range Zoom, excellent battery life, a pro-esque boastable look, Sound Recording, decent Video, and some more freaky features. I’m salivating over it:D

But, there’s a problem: I set the limit to yesterday’s fundraiser at $250, ‘coz that was the price listed at CNET. My (extremely limited) past experiences have shown me that the price at the local store is actually lower than the price listed, so I set the target at $250.

But, today, checking prices on eBay.in, the most accurate reflection of Indian Prices, showed around 20k Rupees, which translates to roughly $450. And, checking the prices at the local shop gave me something around 19k, which is still around the same mark:( Hopefully, this is a mistake I won’t make again…

But, why Shop locally, when there’s Amazon? It’s because Amazon doesn’t ship to India. Not just Amazon, but every freakin online shop out there doesn’t ship to India. Yikes! Just ignore an emerging market with more people getting online everyday. What an awesome business strategy:D

So, I started another ChipIn, this time to raise $400. I plan to use this money to:

Buy my Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Buy a voice recorder for my upcoming podcasts
Payback my cousin Sudar, who paid for the YuviSense.net Domain and the Hosting. Thanks!
The Rest, I’ll buy things to give to the Village Kids at the NSS camp I’m going to. It’s a pretty underdeveloped village: I think they have a total of 20 Cellphones, in a village of 500 Families.

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[...] We did see a couple interesting events and reviews

ChipIn News» Blog Archive » Kids and ChipIn | January 8, 2007 | 4:55 am

[…] We did see a couple interesting events and reviews from kids Pretty cool that such a wide variety of people are finding our product useful. This week is going to be crucial milestone for ChipIn. I can not wait! […]

I have a fifteen year old daughter and it is

deannie | January 8, 2007 | 5:01 am

I have a fifteen year old daughter and it is not easy being 15 in this life! I admire that you have spent time learning useful skills and have a gift for blogging. I hope that once you get your camera you post lots of good photos as well!

I encourage you on the course you are on!

Maybe I should try it, too? Maybe it's a new trend:

Timo Heuer | January 8, 2007 | 6:53 am

Maybe I should try it, too?
Maybe it’s a new trend: Make your own fundraising :P… Fundraising 2.0

Good stuff Yuvi... I kinda kicked off a trend then? Among

David Wilkinson | January 8, 2007 | 6:38 pm

Good stuff Yuvi… I kinda kicked off a trend then?

Among us kiddy dudes at any rate. I know some guy from b5media who’s planning to use ChipIn to afford a Gall Bladder Operation. Life is so mad.

Funny you should mention Fundraising 2.0 Timo, it’s the phrase I used at Profy to describe ChipIn.

So now people donate money because someone wants to have

just-a-speck | January 9, 2007 | 12:24 am

So now people donate money because someone wants to have a Canon PowerShot?

@Deannie: Thanks a lot! Yep, planning to post loads of

yuvipanda | January 9, 2007 | 1:46 pm

@Deannie: Thanks a lot! Yep, planning to post loads of photos once I get the cam…

Precisely. It's a great way to save up for stuff. =D Oh

David Wilkinson | January 9, 2007 | 4:14 pm

Precisely.

It’s a great way to save up for stuff. =D

Oh Yuvi… I do owe you. I’ll wait till my Dad gets back from Germany though. =D

Isn't this a way of begging! I guess you should

AB | January 9, 2007 | 5:49 pm

Isn’t this a way of begging!
I guess you should stop this and start posting about useful stuffs which you were initially started off doing well. Now you have moved to the way of making some money by these sorts of cheap tricks!

This is definitely online begging! Are you going to donate

NoName | January 15, 2007 | 5:40 am

This is definitely online begging! Are you going to donate the S3 IS to that village after this camp? No right? Then how on earth can you justify this as a novel reason for inviting donations? You are good at tech and a sincere suggestion is to stick to it.