Talk:Our market

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Our intention is that the laptop belong to the child even after they leave school.

But this would make the laptop easier to steal in the long run. 68.163.239.61 10:22, 25 July 2006 (EDT)

Avoiding resale to developed countries

Comment on: "Considering that there are many people in the developed world who want one of these, are you worried that recipients of the laptop will re-sell them?"

IKEA seems to have a very simple tactic to avoid their plastic bags being stolen from the markets: Inside the market you can get yellow bags to carry your shopping items. At the point of sale however you can buy a blue bag which you then take home -- yellow bags are never sold and stay inside the market. Thus if you see someone with a yellow IKEA bag you know he or she must have stolen it. Transferring this idea: Put undetachable visible marks onto the 100$-laptops for developing countries and other marks on those that go out to the devoloped world. A notebook that you cannot use in public without being immediately recognized as the bad guy who has taken it away from those in need will not be very attractive.