Re: [AGA-Contest] Anyone want to run this year's contest?

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

If I may add a bit to Erik's remark re donated harware. As a practical matter, 
the only thing we can do with donated products is get them shipped to the 
convention and then auction them off, usually at a terrifically steep discount, 
which makes their donated value rather insigificant. As a practical matter, any 
donated items are not going to be mailed or shipped by the AGA to anyone 
because of the cost and because, when the time comes, AGA will be very hard 
pressed to find anyone that wants to handle the logistics -- and then there are 
the compalints that the package didn't arrive or arrived damaged, or the 
delivery company required a signature and no one was home, etc. The amount of 
follow-up can be significant -- more than any can be provided by any volunteer.

The big exception here is all the plants that a certain company has graciously 
donated to each of the last several conventions; those are not only valuable to 
us but critical to the success of the convention auction.

But giving us hardware turns out to be like giving us buckets of sand.

sh

----- Original Message ----
From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
To: AGA Aquascaping Contest Planning <aga-contest@thekrib.com>
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 11:26:27 PM
Subject: Re: [AGA-Contest] Anyone want to run this year's contest?

Please no donations if possible.  That was nothing but a headache.  And 
hopefully we'll be hitting the manufacturers up for a spring 2010 convention.

  - Erik

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Phil Edwards wrote:

> Bailin,
>  
> Are you looking for sponsors for the contest only or sponsors/donations 
> for something else as
> well?
>  
> ~Phil

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