Re: AGA CONTEST - Digest V1 #167

["Jim Capelle" <JCapelle@email.msn.com>]

Howdy again;  On prizes and awards:  I've entered a few contest and got many
ribbons and plaques.  I never gotten stuff from dealers except as door
prize.  I do like getting the ribbons and awards, that I later can show to
friends or just put on my two walls(for now).  On some of the door prizes I
have gotten in the past, I have given some of them back or just gave away to
another person present, because I would never use that product.  I would
enter knowing that I would get a ribbon or something like that, but to get
something that I may never use???   I have gone to auctions where they have
packaged a group of stuff with something that I wanted, I still have a
freezer full of fish foods that I may get around to feeding someday.  To me
products are nice at auctions and door prizes.  Just my two cents.   JiM C.

>
>AGA CONTEST - Digest     Tuesday, August 17 1999     Volume 01 : Number 167
>
>>    Prizes and awards
>Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:56:27 -0500
>From: "James Purchase" <jpurch@interlog.com>
>Subject: Prizes and awards
>
>The issue of prizes and awards depend upon a number of factors:
>
>1. If the AGA is willing to act as a sponsor of the event or not.....
>2. If the AGA wishes to shell out bucks to actually buy prizes....
>3. "Awards" (read as "certificates") would be cheaper than actual
>merchandise, if the AGA was required to buy them..
>4. If we decided to or are forced to levy "entrance fees" we had better
give
>careful thought to having at least _some_ nice prizes to attract people's
>attention and make it worth their while.... (in _my_ opinion anyway...)
>5. Karen has already stated that the AGA has good relations with the
>"industry" I know a few people in major companies as well. It might be very
>possible, once this is approved as an official AGA event, to approach
>companies within the hobby and ask for donations of prizes, gift
>certificates, eitc. I have been involved with a number of charity events
>here in Toronto over the years where we have gone to local businesses and
>asked for such "donations". You might have to ask 5 businesses for every
one
>"hit" but a lot depends on how you ask and whom you target.
>
>If we approached companies like Dupla (looking for fertilizers/laterite),
>Tropica (looking for fertilizer), Seachem (looking for fertilizer or
>flourite or test kits), LaMotte (test kits), Hach (test kits again), Tetra
>(pretty much anything), Rolf Hagen (power filters), Eheim (canister filter
>would be _real_ nice), That Fish Place and Pet Warehouse (gift
>certificates), etc., etc., etc.... the list could go on for days..... we
>could end up with some nice prizes.... especially if we agree to give the
>companies involved a "plug" on the web-site....
>
>Personally, I think that if "Honorable Mention" awards are given out by the
>Judges, these need be nothing more than a "certificate" which can be done
up
>in a DTP program and printed out on demand. If we really wanted to get
>expansive, things like that can be mounted and laminated (small ones cost
>one group I was involved with last year under $20.00 each and they looked
>_really_ nice).
>
>The number of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes will of course depend upon the
>number of categories we divide the entries into. Best of Show would
probably
>merit a nice prize.
>
>People's Choice might also merit something, or it could get a certificate.
>
>Regardless, this can't really be finalized until the AGA MC gets involved
>and let us know what they think of the whole thing but we should have
>several options to present to them in the proposal.
>
>But what do people think????
>
>James Purchase
>Toronto
>
>



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