Buyer's Club

The items in the fridge and on the shelf in the Buyer's Club (508 Soda) are available for graduate students, but THEY ARE NOT FREE. The CSGSA has supplied the initial funding for these items, but from this point on this system must be self supporting. There is an element of trust here -- please do not take items if you have not set up an account, and please do not take items without deducting them from your account. If the money coming in is not sufficient to cover the items being taken, the buyers' club will be discontinued.

Accounts

Money for all purchases is deducted from pre-paid accounts. Contact a member of the lounge committee to create a new account. Creating an account simply involves giving some money and choosing a password.

Buying an Item

Once you have an account, you are free to take any item from the fridge or the shelf, as long as you deduct the item from your account using the software on the PC in the lounge. Please deduct the item that you are actually taking, even if there are multiple items for the same price, as the database is used for inventory control.

After taking a beverage from the fridge, please replace it with the same or a similar item to ensure that we always have an ample supply of cold drinks. Also, feel free to transfer drinks from the shelf to the fridge if you notice that the fridge is running low.

If you have suggestions for additional items that you would like purchased, feel free to contact any member of the lounge committee.

Adding Money to your Account

When your balance becomes low, please go see a member of the lounge committee in person to add more funds. They will only accept cash.

You may also add money to your Buyer's Club account using PayPal. Click here to find out how. PayPal does charge a small fee to for this service (which will be deducted from your deposit) and you will need an existing PayPal account. Using this feature, you can add money using your credit card or bank account.

Lounge Software

Please keep the lounge software running on the lounge PC at all times, and please keep the lounge PC on and logged in to the lounge user account. If this software is ever not running for some reason, you can restart it by running ~/bin/lounge_user. If the lounge user on the lounge PC (communism.cs) is not logged in for some reason, contact a member of the lounge committee.

If you find any bugs or problems with this software, please report them to a member of the lounge committee.

A note on passwords: Your password for this software is stored encrypted, and it is never sent over the network in the clear. Nevertheless, we advise against using the same password here as for your login.