No more Mozilla Coffee

Posted by Kelson on Sun, 09/26/2004 - 10:06Personal

Remember Mozilla Coffee? In the first month they offered it, RJ Tarpley’s Coffee raised $400 for the Mozilla Foundation by donating a percentage of the profits.

My wife and I ordered it a couple of times, and it was actually pretty good. I even picked up a Mozilla Coffee Mug at one point.

Alas, the website (formerly www.rjtarpleys.com) has vanished. There isn’t even a whois record anymore. I don’t know if the company went out of business or just shut down their web operations.

All I know is that Mozilla Coffee is no more. That, and I seem to have a collector’s-item mug.


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Mozilla Coffee
Submitted by Ron Tarpley on Thu, 12/15/2005 - 16:14.

Hey Kelson,

I just happened to stumble across this entry today.  You are right, I did shut down the Coffee biz and Mozilla Coffee with it.  It was and still is an awesome idea.  My problem was order fullfillment.  The roaster thought he could have a program in place to fullfill orders (packaging, labels, shipping, etc.)  When that fell through, I ended up doing this in my garage at midnight and 5:00 am while trying to maintain my real job, be a husband, and a father!  I held on for as long as I could because the coffee is awesome and folks like part of the profit going to The Foundation.  I will explore this again with my roaster (they are expanding successfully in the South) and the great folks at Mozilla.  Who knows, if this can be done better this time I think it could be huge.  Combining Mozilla (Firefox) and Coffee......what could be better?

Ron Tarpley 

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